It took me years to integrate into london from my home town in the midlands, and I could not live anywhere else because I feel the country is just too limited. The biggest problem with the provinces are the people, they are so provincial, so I guess Alicia should fit in quite readily. My eldest daughter who has been living near her university in epsom, came back to live in london with a great sigh of relief, saying she will never leave london again. The town of epsom, a predominantly white middle class enclave is dull and limited. The advantages of things like employment, the arts, the wide variety of things happening in london makes it unique, and when I lived in Birmingham our second city, it only felt like a big Derby (my home town) never could it be considered to be a small london. Have a nice dull extremely limited life Alicia, you obviously deserve it.