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A friend of mine at a city brokers with a rooftop garden told me that one of the traders released some rabbits there. You could sit on the trading floor and look up and see them stretched out on the glass atrium roof sunbathing.
Finding the most central rabbit would be quite the task!
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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…
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…
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"
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…
A better metric imho would be time to a wild animal. I'd go with distance to a wild bear, or anything else that could threaten a human. That is where wilderness starts imho. For London, that measurement is likely hundreds of miles. In much of north america, it is probably be less than one. I've been to the English countryside. It is more city park than open country.
But ~200 bears do live in Gatineau Park, a 140 square mile piece of fairly untouched nature that starts 5 miles from downtown Ottawa, Canada.
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When I was in Bristol, the smell of burned weed was frequent. More frequent than other cities, I think.
Bristol has the highest traces of cocaine in its sewage. https://www.itv.com/news/2019-03-14/which-uk-city-tops-list-...
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…
Your metric of how enjoyable a city is to live in is based on how long it takes to leave that city? The logical endpoint of that is moving to the countryside where the TTS = 0, which is very easy to achieve. Begs the question, why are you even living in a city at all?!
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.
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.
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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.