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I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.

— Roger Daltrey

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I've been at the very bottom of poverty, and it's not so bad. It's even kind of interesting. You can live there with a certain amount of style.

— Carolyn See

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

— Anthony Trollope

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

— Annie Lennox

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

— Jacqueline Bisset

At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.

— Hugh Grant

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

— Ed Westwick

Huge numbers of people in London depend on their cars. Fuel duty is becoming a big factor in people's cost of living. I believe in trying to ease these burdens.

— Boris Johnson

Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.

— Hari Kunzru

Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there.

— Rebecca Loos

✗Opposing Perspectives

I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.

— Olivia Colman