100% this.  Some people simply do not like London - they stand atop the tube station at Oxford Circus and look at the succession and repetition of massed humanity (to quote Waugh) and think, &quot;How unpleasant.&quot;  Even if you&#x27;re making a six figure salary, if you find that many people - and everything else that goes hand-in-hand with that - unpleasant, it will grind you down; that salary won&#x27;t cheer you up every time you&#x27;re having a horrible, hot, sweaty commute, or you&#x27;re staring in misery at your lack of garden, or wishing that the other tenants in your building would stop stealing your copy of The Economist.<p>I personally like London very much, but eight years of it (and now just a day every two or three weeks) was plenty for me.