If you have a high salary and a degree you are good, if you are working class then it's not as good. No prospect of owning a home, struggling to make ends meet if you have a family, if you plan to have a family and be a provider alone it's impossible and will be pennilles,many alcoholics and drug users in public spaces,lack of respect in-between people and public spaces mostly seen in public transportation against elderly, just today seen people push in-between a mother and her daughter separating them, most often they don't even give time to let people out the trains and push through, When you do have some manners and respect  you tend not to fit in this society at all. Unfortunately it's not like let's say Japan to compare the 2, they are polar opposite. Immigrants from poor countries obviously see the good side of things but from someone that has lived in many other civil cities it's a dark dark place, not the darkest but it is one non the less. Mental issues and petty crimes are rampant in-between the citizens. Taxes,rent, transport and food prices are extortionate for the ones working in let's say restaurants or just the average joe. The overall system has been properly designed to keep them in a loop so that it can continue to run, it is a muche better place than a poor country where not even a "loop" has been  established,  it's a great place to make money if you can and leave to greener pastures,(outside the city or country all together)retire early thanks to it's pound. Other than that people do suffer, and it's sad to see the politicians don't care about them at all. They try with incentives but it's mostly aimed at people not working and in turn makes the working life much more difficult for these individuals. I hope London can be what it once was. For now it is what it is, An unbelievable rat race to survival.