There's a lot of people that have the wrong idea about what living in a certain place is like. Saying one lives in London could mean so many different things. I have a family member that lives in NYC and on the few times I visited her I would be kind of alarmed about what the time table was going to be just to get to another part of NYC. Things take a while when millions upon millions of people live in a certain place. I bet the queue of people to get to those Christmas lights was insane.