I suppose when I go there for work, it is just get off at a busy train station and get onto the tube. Leave tube station and walk down the road a bit where I can admire some grim looking flats, vape shops, and other run down looking local businesses, get into work. Finish work, repeat in reverse, get back to a small quiet town surrounded by fields and coast.
I don't really get to enjoy the best of it, but the parks are pretty nice. All the places friends have lived have not been that nice outside.