This is the greatest city in the world. You hear that all the time, because it's true. But it's sort of an untrue truth, for a lot of us.
I don't know where you live. If it's Dog Fenn, then knowing that Parliament's a building like nothing else, or that we've riches in the coffers that would make the rest of the world jealous, or that the scholars of New Crobuzon could outthink the bloody gods—knowing all of that doesn't do so much. You still live in Dog Fenn, or Badside, or what have you.
