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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 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.



Your preferred metric is "time to chaos" I guess then?


"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.


I 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.


You’re not meant to just go to a city. It’s not like the zoo.


Sometimes you can. Depends what you want out of it. I've only spent a very short time in London, but I live in New York, and some evenings all I need to do to be happy is walk to the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge and look at the lights and the people. Same reason I don't really need an itinerary if I head upstate - it's enough to find a random mountain, climb it, and look at the trees and lakes. Just getting to know the feeling of a place can be very special.


I 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?


I’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.


I 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?


No, that’s what I’m saying. That’s not the point of it. All the buildings aren’t just for show. They’re all functional.


Not sure I agree. Strolling through Paris, New York stopping here and there for a coffee and cake is quite fun I’d say.


Time to cow dung, the higher the better obviously.


That's also a problem with sheep, you know.


But do you mark off a field into squares and then place bets on which square the dung will be freshly found for sheep?


This. Cow-bound Monte-Carlo analysis is already supported by a thriving community.


Jokes-only-HN-people-will-understand.


time to chicken shop


Time to sidewalk puke


Yes, obviously no small town has sidewalk puke, surely not in England!


Ok, and how long does it take to get there? That's time-to-sidewalk-puke.




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