Question: What's better, London or New York?Gervais: New York come from behind to do something to me. You know, there’s things that give you a funny feeling. It gives you a little feeling, a lovely feeling all over. And New York does that to me. Just the skyline when I’m just approaching. New York’s remarkable. There’s a pride about it. London is the same. And London has been my favorite city for, you know, 40 years and I still love it. And I think I probably always live in London, maybe. But I, you know, I’m lucky I have the best of both worlds. I come between the 2. But the fascinating about New York is… I mean, everything’s iconic about it to me. As I say, my sort of Mecca is… is the entertainment industry in America. So I’m in New York and I’m going… That’s where Tootsie goes into… That’s where Donkey and… You know, that’s where the Muppets… And I love that. I love that feeling. But it’s more… I’ve never been so welcomed as a foreigner. And I think that’s… It’s almost what it was built on… I don’t… How does that… How was that tangible? How can I city be that? I mean, obviously, it’s the people. And the other thing about New Yorkers is that… There’s thing around the people are proud to where they were born. And it’s sort of weird, really. You have no choice in that. But New Yorkers are proud of where they live. And it makes more sense ‘cause they chose it. And I’m sort of proud of New York. It feels right. It feels good. It feels… It feels like it’s a good place. I mean, morally good. Which is weird ‘cause it’s sort of… it’s built on finance and hard-nosed business in that but from that, has come a sort of… It’s a philanthropic feeling about New York. I don’t know. And so, about the buildings and the… I love it. I love it. I can’t put my finger on it, I don’t know why. It feels… It feels good.
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Ray Lamb on March 23, 2009, 3:29 PM
Well this is an interesting topic. I like both cities. Each one has it’s own uniqueness to it. When you think about a first thing comes to mind when you think about each city for New York you’d probably think Empire State Building and for London you’d probably think Big Ben. New York does have that iconic feel to it and to me London has that sense of English pride and that historical feel to it because when you walk down the streets of London you are walking through history. From Trafalgar Square down the Strand to St. Paul’s Cathedral and then to the Tower of London, it’s truly a fantastic experience. Honestly I think if I had the choice to pick which city to live in, I would pick London.
Eve Luppert on June 8, 2009, 7:30 PM
When I first moved to New York from the Northwest, a born and bred New Yorker said to me “The only reason I wish I wasn’t born here is that I’ll never have that excitement of coming to New York for the first time.”
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