Google buys $1 billion plot of land for new central London HQ

Overall, a good location.

The office will be a stone's throw from St Pancras station, where you can hop on the Eurostar and get to Paris or Brussels in a few hours.

Getting to Old Street (aka Tech City) and Shoreditch is pretty easy by bus or tube. Same for Soho (film, media, fashion) and Covent Garden, which you could walk to in 20-30 minutes.

There are some rough old pubs in the surrounding streets, which hopefully will survive gentrification, as they do add a bit of character to the area.