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I absolutely agree about finding your own personal London, and it's for that which I love it most of all. It lends itself to a certain personal anonymity that for some makes it 'cold' but for me makes it quite liberating. I love the fact that I can share the city with people I'll likely never meet or even see.
I've always thought that the best writers on the city have been those that've managed to capture its duality of 'the crowd' and 'the individual', where you are able to find privacy not in spite of its hordes, but because of them.
I've never found that in a city like NY (a place I love, but for very different reasons). There I've found that people connect as an antidote to its bustle. In London, people seem to use that bustle to disappear into their own solitude, in a most interesting way.
For this reason, and without wanting to sound too pretentious, I've always felt that London has a very definite psychological stamp on its populace, that I've yet to find elsewhere.
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