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carstout

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    Comment #47553966

    In the UK and I assume elsewhere they do at least at the major sites. There is the onsite housing, leisure facilities and in some cases schools. Lakenheath has a couple onsite serv…

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    Comment #47058535

    No more so than anywhere else. The primary reason was Oxbridge blocked the attempts at forming universities elsewhere and the early centralisation of state authority aided them in …

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    Comment #46289030

    Most of the pubs are owned by the PubCos Back in the past it was mostly brewery owned with 6 big brewers owning most of them. So a law got passed in the 90s which limited the brewe…

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    Comment #45921731

    Having used the UK rail service both public and private the "better service" is optimistic. The too poor to afford a car is more associated with buses. You need to be rather fortun…

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    Comment #44535079

    Unfortunately the "its rare" isnt true. it is more common now than it was back in the horizon days. It also isnt necessarily expensive since you can apply for costs with the defaul…

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    Comment #44534821

    Historically it wasnt a bad thing since it was an add on to an existing shop. The general idea being that I would come in to pick up my pension/tv licence or various other things t…