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14 things we learned about London from the Time Out Index
More than 5,000 of you completed our anonymous survey to fill us in on life, love and leisure in London in 2019. Here's what we've learned about our amazing, expensive, creative, diverse city
Time Out London editors
What's up, London? That's more or less what we asked thousands of you as part of this year's Time Out Index: our huge, anonymous survey of city-dwellers all over the world. Almost 34,000 people, including 5,342 Londoners, answered our questions about eating, drinking, culture, nightlife, relationships, community, neighbourhoods, travel and the pursuit of happiness. We wanted to find out what life is like in cities today, how global city-dwellers are feeling and which are the greatest cities in 2019. And here's what we learned.
We're exclusively revealing what the Time Out Index has taught us about life in London right now. What's great and less great about the capital? Which is the happiest part of the city? Are loads of us really going vegan? How many of us (honestly) have had a stinking hangover in the last week? And is brunch now totally over, darling? Read on and you'll discover the answers, along with plenty more things you never knew you wanted to know about life in the Big Smoke.
Londoners are more likely to exercise than do anything cultural
Brunch is over (and so is street food)
South Londoners are happier than north Londoners…
…but north Londoners spend the least money on a night out
East Londoners are more stressed than west Londoners
…but west Londoners are hooked on social media and coffee
More than a third of Londoners are cutting back on eating meat…
…and we're drinking less than last year too
Good news: Londoners are 10 percent less lonely than they were last year
Even better news: we're having more sex than last year
Bad news: we're working longer hours – and it's stressing us out
We're spending less on going out (and not because London's got cheaper)
Most Londoners have experienced 'fomo'
Illustration: Ben Boothman
And different generations of Londoners are living very different lives
Now, it's time to find out how London compares to these cities
The 48 best cities in the world in 2019
What's the greatest city in the world? We asked almost 34,000 anonymous city-dwellers to find out...
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