I am a confirmed Anglophile. It all started with Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte in my early pre-teen years. Since then, it’s evolved… I’ll go watch a film just because it’s a small British independent and I’ll spell color as colour (but that may be more of my high school and college French kicking in… the American spelling just looks wrong). I get most of my news from the BBC or the Guardian newspaper and I read almost exclusively non-American novelists. Also, there’s just something about the British accent and their penchant for saying words like “lovely” and “brilliant.” Still… I don’t know if I could ever live in the UK. London is still my favourite city outside of New York but whenever I talk about London I conveniently forget all the inconvenient bits. They have great theatre venues and museums, I can find a cup of tea pretty easily and it’s one of the all-time great walkable cities. BUT, the tube always crowded, half the time the escalators are broken in the tube stations, it’s easy to get lost there, and everything is so expensive. Yup... definitely can't live there. I wonder if a Brit would choose New York over London...