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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 trgn »

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…

> Bristol is just crazy beautiful city to live in

Curious, because of geography? architecture?

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by kabouseng »

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…

In Africa I suppose we have time to lion...

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by reidrac »

trgn wrote: post #91
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…

> Bristol is just crazy beautiful city to live in Curious, because of geography? architecture?

I'd like to know as well. I live in Bristol and is alright, but it may depend on which part of Bristol are we talking about ;)

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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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…

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Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by bryanlarsen »

macintux wrote: post #51
riffraff wrote: post #43

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there's presumably pizza in the smallest towns tho, I'd suggest Time To Theatre. Not because of the Theatre per se, but because "big enough to have a theatre" is probably a good proxy of "big enough to be appealing to people who enjoy something other than nature".

In Indiana, my favorite dinner theater is in a town of 500 people. For a while, someone was trying to start a theater in an even more remote spot, an unincorporated community about an hour from there with maybe a dozen homes nearby, but they finally moved it to a large town.

I think by "theater" the OP was implying professional theatre. Lots of small towns have theater, but professional theatre is a much higher bar.

In my case, my old workplace in Ottawa, Canada had a "time to moose" of about 5 miles and a "time to theatre" of about 1/2 a mile. Sadly, the professional Opera company in Ottawa went bankrupt so we only have amateur Opera now, but we do get regular professional Broadway productions so it still counts.

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by Dilettante_ »

pomian wrote: post #88
skipants wrote: post #75

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

That's an easy one. We call it "time to moose"!

That's definitely a metric you do *not* want to hit zero

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by walthamstow »

baxtr wrote: post #78
barrkel wrote: post #76

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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 small…

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

time to chicken shop

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by asjir »

jrmg wrote: post #65
Xophmeister wrote: post #63

Looks like there's an errata, already :) https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-sheepish-apolog...

Some good advice at the end of that: 1) Don't state something as fact when you haven't researched it fully. 2) Remember that when you do state something because you believe it's fact, it could be based on incomplete information. 3) If you're not 100% sure about something, best introduce at least some element of doubt. 4) Don't trust everything you read just because somebody you trust presented it as fact.

I think this was overly self-critical - what would researching fully even mean? They can have however many sheep they want hidden within one-mile distance from Trafalgar square, no-one would expect the author to scour every possible location ensuring that there is no sheep hidden lol just to make a funny post 100% sure to be true

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by walthamstow »

foldr wrote: post #71
cesaref wrote: post #17

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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...

By far my most hated misconception about London. If what people say were true, every company in the world would be based there.
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