you do, you don't

Just to clarify. I work in the City. Which is not the same as working in the city. There may be other cities that are called the City, but I don't know about them. In this instance, the City referred to is London. London is not, as it is popularly imagined to be, synonymous with the West End. The Queen does not live in London, Oxford Street is not in London, Soho, Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, the Eye, Nelson's Column and Hyde Park. None of these are in London. The sprawling suburbs aren't in London, nor are the run-down estates, the corner shops; London is an ancient and quite small city on the north bank of the river Thames, built by the Romans, possibly on a pre-Roman settlement, and inhabited almost continually since about 60 AD, except for a couple of hundred years when it was probably deserted just after the Roman Empire fell. I don't know why I feel the need to mention this.