[omurphyevans]

It's not saying that. It's pointing our how London is very much the emblem of a modern, integrated, multicultural city, and this is bound to change.

It doesn't say it'll fall into the sea. It wonders how such a city might change, most likely in directions opposed to its current identity.

[muninn_]

Why is that considered "fall" then?

[barrkel]

The idea I had of London as a place I could live for decades when I first moved here: that's starting to fade away. That's the fall. And it's not just me; it's lots of other EU citizens.

[muninn_]

Yea but that doesn't mean London "will fall".

[Arizhel]

Stop being so literal. Rome is still there, and has been for 2000+ years. It just isn't a terribly important city any more, globally; London will be similar.

[muninn_]

I'm not being literal. London will continue to be an important global city. There won't be any "fall".

[Arizhel]

I'm sure the Romans thought that too, and the Athenians before them, and the Babylonians before that.

[usrusr]

London is the idea that a city can have and respect both a past with all its cultural heritage merits/baggage/identity as well as a future as a globalized hotspot. The corporeal hope that you don't have to give up one to have the other. If post-Brexit London turns out to fail on the globalization side of that balancing act, that hope takes a hit not just for Londoners but for everyone who values both sides.

It's the hope that is feared to fall, not the bricks and stones.