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Absolutely!! I’m originally from the UK so, living in the Bay, I joke that I used to go to pubs that are older than this entire town. It’s a joke, but it’s als
by abritinthebay 9y ago
Absolutely!! I’m originally from the UK so, living in the Bay, I joke that I used to go to pubs that are older than this entire town.
It’s a joke, but it’s also true: my high street had two pubs that had been around from the 1700s, a tourist information center that’s from the 1500s, and - in the middle of the shopping center - a ruined chapel from the 1130s.
That some places here are all excited about being founded in the 1850s took some adjusting to when I first moved. For me that was the age of my friends small houses...
- erik_seaberg 9y agoAs the saying goes, Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.
- boulos 9y ago"We've restored this building to how it looked... Fifty years ago! No, surely no. No one was alive then": https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OV2PbKpsMRk https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OV2PbKpsMRk
- abritinthebay 9y agoTo be fair to us - if you’re traveling 100 miles it’s rarely as easy as it is in the US. In the US that’s likely “sit on this one highway for about 90 minutes”. In the UK you’d have to have do a ton of road changes and work around or through several major towns and cites. It’s just lots more dense. So it’s less that it’s a “long way” - it’s more a pain in the ass to drive 100 miles most of the time.
- bitwize 9y ago"London has a lot of history -- a little TOO MUCH history." --my aunt, a flight attendant