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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 jen729w »

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…

Perfect. This is what struck us when we moved from Melbourne to Canberra. In both cities we live/d in the inner-city hipster suburb: Fitzroy, Braddon.

In Fitzroy, any semblance of a sheep is at the least an hour away. It takes that long until you even feel like you're on the outskirts of suburbia. Leaving the city is a drag; so you don’t.*

In Braddon, we can ride our bikes for 15 minutes and see grazing cows. 15 minutes in a car and you're in rolling hills. It's magnificent.

(*Which, to be fair, I didn’t really want to most of the time. That’s why I chose to live in Fitzroy! But then you get older -- 48 now -- and things change.)

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Post by seabass-labrax »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #53
noneeeed wrote: post #52

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I live in Bath, so quite a bit smaller than Bristol, but I really apprecaite the fact that we can be in the city centre in half an hour, or in the countryside in 15 minutes. If I didn't live in Bath I'd probably live in Bristol, it's a great city. And I absolutely agree that it's kind of the perfect size for a metropolitan area. I think a lot of London is saved by having so many parks, and so many large parks and com…

I like Bristol but the traffic is so bad. It desperately needs a tram system. Bath is nice though, my son lives there and we love visiting.

Trams would be lovely, but buses would be a start! Apparently, there was once to be a new high-frequency service with six buses an hour between Bedminster and the Centre, but the residents launched a successful petition to stop the plans on the grounds that the buses would 'cause more traffic'. Twenty years on, it appears as if there are once more efforts afoot to improve the transport situation:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn082k4v8zxo

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Post by bryanlarsen »

drewzero1 wrote: post #114
themaninthedark wrote: post #107

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>"time to moose" of about 5 miles and a "time to theatre" of about 1/2 a mile. Unit of measure error: unit specified it time, unit supplied is distance :P

Not sure how it is in Ottawa but here in the US Midwest distances are frequently measured in units of time. I might say I'm an hour from Green Bay or two hours from Madison, though I don't remember the actual mileage. That said, it usually only applies to distances over 20 minutes (between 7 and 25 miles, depending on speed limits).

That practice is pretty widespread in Canada. Ever since metrification nobody is really sure whether the person they're talking to is more comfortable with miles or kilometres. So they just use time.

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Post by glompers »

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?

Granted this photosphere [1, best on desktop, not mobile browsers] is not the view you would have whilst walking around, but it does evidence some sheep-accessible urban environs

[1] https://www.bristol.ac.uk/virtual-tour/#s=pano26

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Post by Aeolun »

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 think my hometown has a “time to sheep” rating of like 30 seconds. Possibly up to as much as 4 or 5 minutes if you pick your starting spot perfectly.

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Post by pyrale »

dylan604 wrote: post #115
thaumasiotes wrote: post #112

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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.

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Post by MrsPeaches »

Xophmeister wrote: post #63

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

> But you can't go in and have a look, they don't take walk-ins, only pre-booked groups and very occasional public events, the last of which was cancelled.

This has a very Douglas Adam’s feel.

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