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Originally Posted by JMKeynes
Mayfair is amazing, but so are Belgravia, Chelsea, and South Ken. London is as good as it gets.
New Yorkers absurdly claim that NY is the best city in the world. That's ridiculous. It's one of them. It and London offer the more than any other cities and are the most influential, but NY's streets and architecture are shoddy compared to London. For me, therefore, London is the best by a wide margin. As these photos show, it's well-kept and gorgeous.
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Those aren’t complete neighborhoods. Belgravia is dead, and South Ken and Chelsea are predominantly residential areas.
Mayfair has human scale, beautiful architecture, parks and public squares, housing (both rowhouses and apartments), nice pubs, world class shopping, grand hotels, very pricey high end offices, the best nightlife in London (if you are a member), cultural institutions (eg, the Royal Academy of Art), galleries, foreign consulates and embassies, great restaurants, etc. All land uses except industry. The composer Handel lived in Mayfair, and so did Jimi Hendrix - next door but a couple centuries apart.
Granted it is staggeringly expensive, but that just proves its desirability.
For those that don’t know, it’s the foreground of this photo: