Nothing to do with Brexit but this "London" is so different and special it's like a different country meme really triggers me.

This is actually quite offensive to me as a "provincial" type as it's usually centred around the idea that Londoners are far more diverse and cultured than the rest of us in our soul destroying little suburbs.

It's also hilarious because, whilst London is diverse, it's biggest and most visible demographic is still middle class, university educated, white British try hards with a job in financial services and zero imagination who use "moving to London" as a proxy for "being interesting".

This is why almost every suburban high street in any supposedly "desirable" London neighbourhood will have a Franco Manca, a Nandos, a GBK, a Bill's (HATE those places), 2 pubs serving "local craft beer" (that's real ale if you come from outside the M25) and overpriced Sunday dinners, about 7 cafes where all the coffee tastes of mango or citrus and an Australian guy with a beard and tatoos disdainfully serves you something with smashed avocados whilst you flick through a coffee table book of alarmingly polite British "street art" (that's graffiti to us plebs) and a street market that will sell you broken down furniture for several hundred quid a pop every other Saturday.

In short, it's full of middle class English people "escaping" their drab towns in the Home Counties and..... mostly hanging out with other people from drab towns in the Home Counties doing drab stuff. "Oblivious to the paradox of their uniform individuality" as a wise man once said. What could be more British?

The meme also lumps the entire rest of the UK in as "non London", ignoring the fact that it actually constitutes 3 entirely different countries, (4 if you count Cornwall), in 1 of which around a third of the population speaks a different language as its mother tongue. Cornwall, northern Ireland and Scotland all have their own languages too, albeit less commonly heard.

Also, all 4 of the places in which white British people are a minority are outside of London. Diversity has far more of an effect in a smaller place; try a trip to Leicester or Peterborough if you want to see somewhere that really feels "different" in the uk.