The Open Guide to London: the free London guide

...are bloody ghastly. Huge, soulless, lifeless enclaves of smug middle-class puffery. You have to get in your SUV and drive for about ten minutes to find a single shop. Good luck getting back, since all the streets are endless identical racks of tedium in the form of detached or semi-detached houses. Or is that just Ealing?

Then again, I live in the actual city, not a suburb, so what do I know?