Londoners - who are you?

Do your parents come from different countries? and were you born in another one? Did you grow up in 4th country altogether and now where do you live?

It seems from a limited survey that I have carried out with students from the banking world that many of the worlds unsettled adults are ending up in London.

Maybe it is the tolerance for cultures and languages. Or maybe it is the variety of foods and entertainment that attract you. Maybe it is the central location and hub Heathrow that allows easy connections back to past associations. Or perhaps the streets really are lined with gold - you see it all the time - the fast cars, the fancy shops, the high end fashion. Who knows for sure?


But it is having an effect on the central london community. Not the nationialism of Japan, or the nation days of New York but the growth of the diversity of restaurants and opinions.

You need a world atlas and enycyclopedia to understand the references from one end of Marylebone High Street to the other. And at the end you round the corner and come to Monocle run by a Japanese loving Canadian with strong ties to Sweden and Switzerland.

This is the new world - diverse and connected, technology enabled and caring.

Over time they will change london or london will change to accomodate them. London's moment on the world stage will come in 2012. What will the world perceive? - a London that is rooted in Britain or a London that has embraced those with no country to call their own.

The world is coming to london and that keeps it interesting
The world is coming to london and that keeps house prices high.