Pretty much . It ' s a good city if you ' re a student or you ' re established in your careerjob and want a place with affordable cost of living and housing and with a modest core and all that entails . You ' ll find a lot of resentment of the city on here and elsewhere bc a lot of them are people who got stuck growing up here and for a lot of the locals it can be and iswas a pretty bleak place to be as a postHS or postuni grad trying to break out into a career . Others have covered everything else , I think . I think umellowjello ' s write up on the neighborhoods more accurate to think of them as sectors really was completely correct as someone who grew up and lives in East London , stay away from East London , there ' s absolutely nothing going on here other than slightly cheaper housing at the cost of a much bigger commute to do anything worthwhile in this city I might be biased with how deflated East London feels but it feels to me anything noteworthy happens near the DT Core , Northwest or NorthNorth London