My thought

When I was 16 I really fell in love with London and I thought I should spend my life in cities with millions of inhabitants. The reason I write about it here is that I recently read the claim that creative people move to large cities, because large cities offer unexpected meetings and that breed creativity. Now, I didn’t move to such a city - my town has around 137000 inhabitants and the goal is 200 000 - but nor do I buy that claim. Those cities don’t offer unexpected meetings. Tokyo is one of the largest, if not the largest, city in the world and if one travels by Tokyo subway you will see lots of people, but you won’t meet anyone. Everyone is a stranger, sure it’s the same on the masstransit system in my home town, everyone is a stranger. What I’m saying is that a larger quantity of strangers doesn’t lead to more unexpected meetings. So that idea doesn’t make any sense to me, even if it would let me think I’m a very creative person.