Isn't London the most awesome city?

It also means that a large percent of the population, have a poor quality of life, cities arent the same when you go on holiday to them, and have to go to school/work/live in them.

A large proportion in London have poor quality of life too...i don't personally see how this 'diversity', ie having a council estate with feral, violent youth, druggies and the like at the end of the road whenever you're in a moderately prosperous area, which is basically how London seems to be, is a good thing I'd rather all the good stuff was lumped together en masse, as it seems to be in Paris

Yeah, we should really make all the poor people in London move away from the rich people and put them in ghettos. It's not fair that the rich have to see council estates blighting their skyline.

Good idea Seriously though, don't see why people are too PC about that..
once you start having to go past nice pikey youth who throw stuff at you and intimidate women, knock people off their bikes etc, which was what my sis' friends had to contend with in Islington, then will they be championing 'diversity'?

Err, very few poor people are like that.

London? you have to be joking.. My favourites are Dubai and Florida. They're much better than London

Dubai is a beautiful city

Well not given what I've heard. I'd imagine a lot of people, and I'm not talking about decent, moderately poor people, but people on the worst sink estates, are like that, especially the young ones

um, dubai is tiny in comparison to London... and Florida's a state

Its a large city... Beats London anytime.

So you've based your entire opinion based on a bit of hearsay? I live in a deprived area and 90% of the people I know (whatever their background) are respectful, 'normal' citizens making the most of their lives. Most of the rest of the people I know who are lazy and disrespectful happen to be from comfortable backgrounds - probably because they don't know how good they've got it. Obviously I don't think all rich people are lazy and disrespectful, nor that all poor people have wonderful characters. Meeting people from other backgrounds - whether financial, racial, sexual orientation, whatever - can only be a good thing as it (and this may sound cliche, but it is true) gives us different perspectives on the world.

Anyway, assuming your conclusion that "financially poor = a poor character", is it right that these people should be excluded from the rest of society even more so than they are already? A social problem doesn't go away if you just displace it.

Listen , I'm not by any means saying 'financially poor = a poor character' for the majority, but there are some sink areas whih get the worst people in a concentrated area, people who're a menace, even if they are a minority. I doubt you'd find kids knockin women off their bikes when they live in a posh suburb of Oxford or Cambridge