A Londoner’s Anti-Home
Why I Left My Hometown Just Before Its Olympic Moment and Came Back to Los Angeles
Russell Crowe once said he would move to Los Angeles on three conditions: if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there were a bubonic plague in England, and if the continent of Africa disappeared because of a Martian attack. When my English friends ask me why I love L.A., I reel off that quote. “But I thought you liked it there,” they say.
I do, a lot.
But L.A. is America’s most complicated and polarizing city, and I feel the best way to articulate my attachment …
