I escaped London in 1997 because it was hard to raise capital.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.
It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.
When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
I left London in 1992, but I'm there 3-4 times a year, and love visiting.
I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
I grew up in Essex, and all my life I wanted to live in London - now I do. I feel very privileged to be able to live here.
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.
One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.