If you leave the city, do you lose yourself?

Many of us came to the city to 'find' ourselves. So what happens when you decide it no longer suits who you have become...

I moved to London because I wanted to escape being ‘me’. Me before London was fuzzy and unformed: a mix of elder siblings’ tastes and parental expectation. I couldn’t tell you one thing I had actually chosen or enjoyed pre-1997 that wasn’t based on somebody else’s choices. I liked The Smiths because my sister liked The Smiths. I loved Jaws because my br…