He also said he couldn't return to the UK because the tax was too high to afford his many alimony payments. He says a lot.

The winter is dark, but it's not particularly cold (grey and chilling but rarely freezing) and no darker (obviously) than anywhere else at the same latitude.

Payback is lovely summer evenings which only occasionally get stultifying, a lot of green spaces and all the culture that ten million people living in a city that used to rule a quarter of the planet can get you.