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This only makes sense if you enjoy the English countryside. I'm an Irishman. I grew up in the countryside, in the west, and spent 15 years living in London in
by barrkel 2y ago
This only makes sense if you enjoy the English countryside.
I'm an Irishman. I grew up in the countryside, in the west, and spent 15 years living in London in my 20s and 30s. I can count on one hand the number of visits to the English countryside I made that weren't on the back of a motorcycle, and then, I didn't stop except for petrol.
The city is what I enjoyed, the chaos, the diversity, ambition, variety. No smaller city would be as good.
- baxtr 2y agoYour preferred metric is "time to chaos" I guess then?
- walthamstow 2y agotime to chicken shop
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- pyrale 2y agoTime to cow dung, the higher the better obviously.
- thaumasiotes 2y agoThat's also a problem with sheep, you know.
- xenocratus 2y ago"Time to something I haven't seen or experienced in the past 3 years" Having spent more than 5 years in small towns, London has fixed my utter boredom.
- eppp 2y agoI have lived my entire life in a a rural area, not even a town and it seems to me that every time I go to a city it is the same as the last. Everyone has their thing I guess.
- dullcrisp 2y agoYou’re not meant to just go to a city. It’s not like the zoo.
- eppp 2y agoI am not sure what you mean by that. Do cities not want people to visit them? You can't travel through a city unless you commit to live there for a while?
- dullcrisp 2y agoI’m saying that if you want to enjoy a city you should find things that you enjoy to do there. If you just show up it’s not surprising that you’ll be unimpressed.
- baxtr 2y agoNot sure I agree. Strolling through Paris, New York stopping here and there for a coffee and cake is quite fun I’d say.
- eppp 2y agoI guess? Seems like a concert for example would be just as fun in a smaller rural venue than a gigantic urban one. I would enjoy the activity itself without regard of the location. If the city is to be impressive should it not stand on its own?
- j4coh 2y agoTime to sidewalk puke
- xenocratus 2y agoYes, obviously no small town has sidewalk puke, surely not in England!
- recursive 2y agoOk, and how long does it take to get there? That's time-to-sidewalk-puke.
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