Too many shootings, stabbings, and many stupid people not taking the vaccine. And don’t make excuses for them under the “vaccine hesitancy” label.
People are rude and impolite: if you let another car driver past, or wait for them, they never raise their hand in thanks. Whereas Oxfordshire, Nottinghamshire, et al, everyone thanks back.
Beer is terrible and flat - even the award winning Camra pubs like the Harp (just off Trafalgar Square).
On the positive side:
Museums ; gallery’s; restaurants; parks are world class. Churches also.
I love cycling through Hyde Park, down the Mall, past parliament square, and along Victoria Embankment alongside the Thames to Tower Hill and the Merchant seaman memorial opposite the Tower of London.
The Wren and Hawksmoor churches in the City of London are stunning and beautiful - I love cycling past and sitting in St James Garlickhythe
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James_Garlickhythe
It’s worth spending a day to visit all of the Wren/Hawksmoor churches: balm for the soul as they are so beautiful.
Segregated cycle super highways are brilliant - best in Britain- and hats off to Boris for building so many of them when Mayor. The one along Victoria Embankment is a gem with wholly segregated lanes and even traffic lights: bliss.
Mixed bag: when it’s bad, like knife crime, it’s utterly abysmal. When it’s good, it’s superb.
Raleigh Randonneur 708 (Magura hydraulic brakes); Blue Raleigh Randonneur 708 dynamo; Pearson Compass 631 tourer; Dawes One Down 631 dynamo winter bike;Raleigh Travelogue 708 tourer dynamo; Kona Sutra; Trek 920 disc Sram Force.
