Truro

Truro is Cornwall's only city, which is a bit like being the tallest building in a bungalow estate. It has a cathedral that looks medieval and isn't, a shopping centre that looks like it was dropped in by helicopter, and a river that periodically reminds everyone it was here first. What it actually is, under the county-town uniform, is the place the rest of Cornwall drives to when something needs doing properly: the hospital, the courts, the schools, the suits. Nobody moves here for the romance, and nobody who lives here pretends otherwise.