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Being There: Fiona Maharg-Bravo reports on life in a city that never sits down to a meal until it has to ...  read more »

Our series on life as an expat reaches Latvia. Surprised to find himself living there, Robert Cottrell is even more surprised to find it beguiling ...   read more »

The city presents an anonymous face to the world. When he was posted there by The Economist, Jon Fasman faced some tricky negotiations. But life in Atlanta has been a happy surprise ...   read more »

The cotton mills are now smart flats and the money is in football, but the air of protest lives on. As the BBC ships 2,300 staff there and the biennial festival looms, Tanya Aldred sketches real life in a city of character ...  read more »

Even when you live there, Updike said, it still glitters from afar. Tom Shone on real life in a city that has aspiration built into its very architecture ...  read more »

It has been many things: glamorous, decadent, war-torn, split in half, and now poor but sexy. Jonathan Rosenthal, an Economist correspondent in Berlin, describes his life there ...  read more »

There’s Old Delhi, New Delhi—and future Delhi, which is likely to overshadow both. Simon Cox captures life as an expat in a fascinating city ...  read more »

It’s firmly on the tourist circuit, yet visiting is very different from living there. John Hooper has come to see it as a city of many layers, where nothing can be taken for granted ...  read more »

In the abstract the city tends to make people grumpy, but for David Rennie, who lives there, the reality is an abundance of small pleasures that add up to a charming whole ...  read more »

It’s small, bitterly cold in winter, and far from beautiful – but also a likeable, even lovable city. Tim Rostron moved there from London a decade ago and hasn’t looked back ...  read more »