Comment by lurk2

> The USA was never a colony of britain. The american colonies were.

This is inane.

> Then tokyo or singapore or dubai would have been even greater draws. But they are not.

This doesn’t logically follow, but even if it did, Tokyo is an attractive destination for immigrants, even with the Japanese being notoriously xenophobic. Japan is homogenous and economically prosperous, the difference is that it restricts migrants from entering. Singapore has a huge population of day laborers that live in Malaysia and commute to Singapore. The majority of Dubai’s population is comprised of foreign laborers.

> If london is a major tech center, it's because of political decisions within britain but primarily outside of britain ( the US ).

And how do those decisions get made in the absence of a cohesive society capable of making them?