Hide your cigarettes, sodas and styrofoam, London, because it looks like budding Brit Bloomberg's going to be spending more time having sugar-free tea and crumpets with you once he abdicates his New York throne. Hizzoner, who's already got a $20 million apartment in the city's fancy Cadogan Square, has been building a new home for his company in Great Britain's capital.
Bloomberg's apparently a big fan of London. He's been hobnobbing with and educating local leaders at meetings and parties over the past few years (“I didn’t know what trans fats were,” Mayor of London Boris Johnson told the Times. “I thought it had something to do with transsexuals, obese transsexuals, or something.”), once got a cool t-shirt as a souvenir, and fell madly in love/lust with British actress Honeysuckle Weeks, until he tragically found out she smoked. Unfortunately, all that mayoring he's had to do has kept him from spending as much time in London as he'd like.
But now that his seemingly-eternal third term is almost up, he's readying his company's new headquarters, which is appropriately named "Bloomberg Place" and will function as Bloomberg's international hub. And of course, his London monument is anything but subtle—locals have apparently dubbed the heaquarters' construction zone as "a bulky, impenetrable mass." But on the bright side, there will be bicycles!
So will we soon lose our mayor to soggier pastures across the pond? He's certainly got plenty of comfort sweaters to keep himself warm when it's damp, and as a subway pro, he'll find the Tube a breeze. But the British better watch out, because if Bloomberg does relocate, he'll be bringing his highbrow New York tastes with him: a night at Prince Charles' Scottish palace, for instance, wasn't up to his usual standards and he told an aide he "won't be staying there again." Only the best for our King, after all.
