>>302887Fine, better than that even. There are probably areas you'd be best off avoiding, but welcome to basically any urban centre on Earth. It's got jobs, things to do and great transport links. Much of the UK cannot claim this.
According to Wikipedia Ed Sheeran moved to London himself at 17, but that's basically a pipedream for a teenager from the sticks these days. Landlords like Sheeran are probably the biggest problem the city has, because they price out people and businesses and those who remain are having incredible levels of wealth extracted from them in rent, wealth that would be better spent in almost any other way. Rent seeking is massively harmful to the UK economy as a whole.
I have no idea how Ed Sheeran thinks he knows what it's like to walk around London as a lay person, given he's been mega famous for basically his whole adult life.