London's a damned sight easier to get an extended residence in than Tokyo. It's not, of course, very representative of the rest of the country, which is why my parents settled here... There are some interesting psycho-geographers around (http://lndn.blogspot.com/) (modulo complaints about the new Mayor) that might be worth a tread; bear in mind that the obvious bits of London that seem old, aren't that old - and go back only to the late 1600s. Except the Tudor wood front on the Vodafone shop at the bottom of Chancery Lane (http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=531151&Y=181203&A=Y&Z=1), and the pub near the Penderel's Oak Arms in Holborn that dates to 1426. (Yes, I know, American timescale, "Old? 50 years?" - but. For seriously old, you need Italy and Greece.)
New stuff? Well, they've got over their Chicago fixation (http://www.canarywharf.com/mainFrm1.asp?strSelectedArea=Estate), and they're doing curvy tall buildings (http://www.folioaerialphotography.co.uk/images/gallery/large/large_CD1363.No55.jpg), now. There's the biggest neo-Gothic cathedral EVAR in Liverpool, which is doing much Culture this year (and is reachable easily by train).
While on this side of the Atlantic, Berlin is compulsory, too, and ferries are cheap.
Best option is to be a student for a while, and then see ;-) That or marry someone. But only after being here a while. It's harder than you'd think for Americans to find work here.
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Date: 2008-06-08 06:19 am (UTC)London's a damned sight easier to get an extended residence in than Tokyo. It's not, of course, very representative of the rest of the country, which is why my parents settled here... There are some interesting psycho-geographers around (http://lndn.blogspot.com/) (modulo complaints about the new Mayor) that might be worth a tread; bear in mind that the obvious bits of London that seem old, aren't that old - and go back only to the late 1600s. Except the Tudor wood front on the Vodafone shop at the bottom of Chancery Lane (http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=531151&Y=181203&A=Y&Z=1), and the pub near the Penderel's Oak Arms in Holborn that dates to 1426. (Yes, I know, American timescale, "Old? 50 years?" - but. For seriously old, you need Italy and Greece.)
New stuff? Well, they've got over their Chicago fixation (http://www.canarywharf.com/mainFrm1.asp?strSelectedArea=Estate), and they're doing curvy tall buildings (http://www.folioaerialphotography.co.uk/images/gallery/large/large_CD1363.No55.jpg), now. There's the biggest neo-Gothic cathedral EVAR in Liverpool, which is doing much Culture this year (and is reachable easily by train).
While on this side of the Atlantic, Berlin is compulsory, too, and ferries are cheap.
Best option is to be a student for a while, and then see ;-) That or marry someone. But only after being here a while. It's harder than you'd think for Americans to find work here.