I’ve never been to London. That feels like something I should say plainly, because I don’t want to write as if I have. I haven’t walked its streets, taken the Underground, or stepped into one of its small cafés on a quiet morning. Everything I know comes from observing, from watching, from reading and noticing over time. And yet, even from a distance, London feels completely different from any American city I’ve known. Not necessarily better. Not worse. Just different in a way that’s hard to explain, but easy to feel. There’s something about it that comes through even on a screen. Something in the way it moves, the way it looks, the way it seems to hold its past and present at the same time. It feels like a place with presence. Something steady and lived-in that you don’t often feel in the same way here. And the more I notice it, the more that difference stands out. Streets That Feel Alive One of the first things that stands out to me is how alive the streets feel. There...