NYU in London. The student experience of a small liberal arts college. The quality and resources of a major research university.
What is it like to live and study in London for four months? It can be so many different things, depending on your choices and tastes. No city in the world is richer or more diverse than London. London is home to large Africo-Caribbean, Pakistani, Hindi, Jewish, and many other communities. England has welcomed waves of immigration from the time of the Anglo-Saxons, Romans, and Normans, to today’s East European and Somali influx. Each incoming group has contributed to the variety and excitement that makes London what it is today.
London is gay-friendly. It can be home to you, whoever you are and whatever you are like. London is home to arguably the best theatre in the world, to music, to opera, to dance. In London, there is something for everyone, no matter how exotic or conventional one’s tastes.
In the following sections, we shall try and describe some of that diversity, and also give you a taste of some of London’s local customs, and hints for thriving in this great metropolis.
