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Where is London's most central sheep?

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Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by foldr »

cesaref wrote: post #17
gadders wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's Charing Cross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing_Cross#:~:text=Since%20... .

There's also the confusion as to whether people mean 'Greater London' or 'The City of London'. For the centre of the City, i've generally thought that Leadenhall Market is the centre, given it is built on the original Roman Forum. For non-Londoners, the city was originally a walled city, and lies to the east end of what is now considered greater london. It's these days synonymous with the financial industry. There ar…

There aren’t any special laws for the City of London (except any local byelaws). The City is administered in its own unique way, but English law applies just like anywhere else in England.

https://www.quora.com/Does-the-City-of-London-as-it-is-defin...

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Post by gambiting »

rantallion wrote: post #47
gambiting wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was going to say, I'm sure Desmond Dene has sheep there.

If you mean Jesmond Dene, there's a petting zoo with a few small beasts and birds. I know they have a couple of breeds of goat but I don't recall seeing any sheep on my last visit (within the last month).

Ha, yes thank you autocorrect. And they had sheep when I last visited couple years ago, maybe they got rid of them now.

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Post by NoMoreNicksLeft »

steerpike wrote: post #3

When my wife and I lived in Bristol we developed a metric designed to measure how enjoyable a city was to live in that we called "time to sheep". Basically it's a measure of how long you have to travel from the center of the city before you're in the English countryside surrounded by sheep and the best cities have a low (but not too low) "time to sheep" metric. It helped explain one of the reasons we loved living in…

I like your metric. I aim to get my time-to-sheep number down below 60 seconds. But if you mean "within a car driving down the road's distance to sheep", then I aim to get it to 0.

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Post by skipants »

steerpike wrote: post #3

When my wife and I lived in Bristol we developed a metric designed to measure how enjoyable a city was to live in that we called "time to sheep". Basically it's a measure of how long you have to travel from the center of the city before you're in the English countryside surrounded by sheep and the best cities have a low (but not too low) "time to sheep" metric. It helped explain one of the reasons we loved living in…

That's amazing. Now I want to see how relevant a "time to cow" metric is to Canadian cities.

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Post by barrkel »

steerpike wrote: post #3

When my wife and I lived in Bristol we developed a metric designed to measure how enjoyable a city was to live in that we called "time to sheep". Basically it's a measure of how long you have to travel from the center of the city before you're in the English countryside surrounded by sheep and the best cities have a low (but not too low) "time to sheep" metric. It helped explain one of the reasons we loved living in…

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.

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Post by jfk13 »

wheybags wrote: post #9
steerpike wrote: post #3

When my wife and I lived in Bristol we developed a metric designed to measure how enjoyable a city was to live in that we called "time to sheep". Basically it's a measure of how long you have to travel from the center of the city before you're in the English countryside surrounded by sheep and the best cities have a low (but not too low) "time to sheep" metric. It helped explain one of the reasons we loved living in…

My metric for when you've left the city is "have I passed a field of potatoes"

How large does the field have to be? I grow some in my back garden...does that count as zero, then?

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Post by baxtr »

barrkel wrote: post #76
steerpike wrote: post #3

When my wife and I lived in Bristol we developed a metric designed to measure how enjoyable a city was to live in that we called "time to sheep". Basically it's a measure of how long you have to travel from the center of the city before you're in the English countryside surrounded by sheep and the best cities have a low (but not too low) "time to sheep" metric. It helped explain one of the reasons we loved living in…

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 small…

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

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Post by andrewaylett »

anyonecancode wrote: post #48
Quarrel wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As the parent indicated, this stuff is surprisingly standardised in London. Distance is measured from Charing Cross. The Cross is near Nelson's Column, but I would be surprised if the column was actually the central point. As others have pointed out, this leads to some weirdness, as lots assume that the City (old London & older Roman London) would be the obvious place to measure things from.

In a similar vein, for New York City the official highway distance to the city is measured from Columbus Circle [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Circle

In Edinburgh, it's the old post office building at the end of Princes Street.

Which is also where the A1, A7, and A8 meet.

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Post by shermantanktop »

barrettondricka wrote: post #64

Wouldn't that need to be the sheep with the closest distance to all the other sheeps in London?

In order to measure distance between sheep, you really should start from the center of the sheep. So let’s make the math easier by assuming a spherical sheep in a vacuum…
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