text: Running away from London?
  
  What are you prattling on about?
  
  The population of London doubled about every 50 years from 1600 to 1900, and that was in spite of an occasional plague here and there.
  
  Hardly a city victimized by people fleeing, as you pretend.
  
  And by the way, during the period you name, it was the Dutch, the Irish and the Germans who emigrated to New York in numbers hundreds of times higher than folks from London.
  
  Do you enjoy typing ignorant prattle? Are you kind of like Donald Trump, you make up alternate facts as you go along?