What Are You Doing Right Now? (259 Viewers)

[JuveJay]

It's because the gf lives here so I guess it was just natural, and it's not far from London. What is normal England

I haven't been outside at all since I have to isolate for 10 days so it doesn't even feel like I'm in a different country.

Don't get me wrong, WGC is a nice place, but as one of the "garden cities", which were basically a social experiment from the early 20th century, it's quite a bit different to a normal English city in how it is laid out. So don't imagine that most of England is like that. One of the best things about this country is the countryside itself and country living, so you get a more suburban taste of that there, but without the character.

I've only been a couple of times but it is quite small, and has a reputation for being mostly a commuter town and not a lot to do there. But as you're only an hour from the city it doesn't really matter. There are many worse places you could have ended up.

 

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[DAiDEViL]

Don't get me wrong, WGC is a nice place, but as one of the "garden cities", which were basically a social experiment from the early 20th century, it's quite a bit different to a normal English city in how it is laid out.

Like in Simon Pegg's Hot Fuzz?

 

[Dostoevsky]

Don't get me wrong, WGC is a nice place, but as one of the "garden cities", which were basically a social experiment from the early 20th century, it's quite a bit different to a normal English city in how it is laid out. So don't imagine that most of England is like that. One of the best things about this country is the countryside itself and country living, so you get a more suburban taste of that there, but without the character.

I've only been a couple of times but it is quite small, and has a reputation for being mostly a commuter town and not a lot to do there. But as you're only an hour from the city it doesn't really matter. There are many worse places you could have ended up.

Can you tell more about country life in England? I'm curious about the impact of globalization and modern life on it. Are people moving (massively) from a country side to towns? I'm obviously talking about villages but I don't know what % of it is still alive and settled.

 

[JuveJay]

Like in Simon Pegg's Hot Fuzz?

Not really. Wells is in a group of historical cities (Anglo-Saxon, Norman or medieval) which haven't grown over time, or have even reduced in size. Wells looks like any number of small towns you see dotted around the country. When I say regular cities I mean ones with populations over 100,000 with a city centre, international population, some nicer and some poorer neighbourhoods, like you see anywhere in the world.

 

[JuveJay]

Can you tell more about country life in England? I'm curious about the impact of globalization and modern life on it. Are people moving (massively) from a country side to towns? I'm obviously talking about villages but I don't know what % of it is still alive and settled.

That's a difficult question to answer without giving a lot of detail.

Traditionally you see more older people living in the country (or by the sea) and that hasn't changed a massive amount, those are still the places people like to retire to. But you also see younger people moving into villages with the help of housing schemes and affordable accommodation, so the average age has come down. You see more people interested in this way of living in the country, who have had enough of the city slog, start up businesses farming more exotic crops, animals and products, even British wine has done really well in recent years. With more people working from home you will see these things become more diverse and competitive over time. Also fairly large immigration from eastern Europe has happened to certain smaller towns and villages, but this will decrease now the UK has left the EU.

The numbers of people living in urbans areas has steadily increased over the past 50 years and I doubt that will change if you think how quickly urbanisation happens. At the moment it's around 11 or 12%.

 

[Dostoevsky]

That's a difficult question to answer without giving a lot of detail.

Traditionally you see more older people living in the country (or by the sea) and that hasn't changed a massive amount, those are still the places people like to retire to. But you also see younger people moving into villages with the help of housing schemes and affordable accommodation, so the average age has come down. You see more people interested in this way of living in the country, who have had enough of the city slog, start up businesses farming more exotic crops, animals and products, even British wine has done really well in recent years. With more people working from home you will see these things become more diverse and competitive over time. Also fairly large immigration from eastern Europe has happened to certain smaller towns and villages, but this will decrease now the UK has left the EU.

The numbers of people living in urbans areas has steadily increased over the past 50 years and I doubt that will change if you think how quickly urbanisation happens. At the moment it's around 11 or 12%.

That's great to hear and I'm kinda surprised too. It's great to see young people moving outside of cities and starting farms or some kind of business, it's a huge potential imo.

I suppose infrastructure is a lot better over there, though. Here we have huge issues with villages and smaller cities, it's really scary and crazy. Literally majority is leaving. Villages are disappearing, if there's somebody staying it's 70+ folks. Young people left and some villages are totally abandoned. Young people are moving massively to bigger cities and over here it's 2-3 cities while Belgrade takes the biggest chunk of them. So it's not just villages getting abandoned but smaller cities too.

I thought corona would change some times but if corona disappears I doubt we'll see many changes.

 

[Fab Fragment]

I love the English fish & chips. Wish we could have something similar here in the U.S.
Long John Silver is not nearly good enough.

 

[X Æ A-12]

Pulled chicken with ham, salami, bacon, dijon mustard, cream cheese, cheddar cheese, swiss cheese and olives

 

[Martin]

You know that I know that I cannot disclose that detail

of course, of course

blink once for yes, twice for no

 

[swag]

I love the English fish & chips. Wish we could have something similar here in the U.S.
Long John Silver is not nearly good enough.

Ask some Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal. They showed the English how to do it.

Pulled chicken with ham, salami, bacon, dijon mustard, cream cheese, cheddar cheese, swiss cheese and olives

The new KFC Hurl Bowls?

 

[ALC]

I love the English fish & chips. Wish we could have something similar here in the U.S.
Long John Silver is not nearly good enough.

ive seen plenty of places that do fish and chips pretty decent.

mainly pubs, not a lot of fast food type of joints to be fair

 

[Enron]

I love the English fish & chips. Wish we could have something similar here in the U.S.
Long John Silver is not nearly good enough.

ive had some pretty good fish and chips in the states, generally in places like nyc and philly

 

[Bjerknes]

Pulled chicken with ham, salami, bacon, dijon mustard, cream cheese, cheddar cheese, swiss cheese and olives

WTF is that dross.

 

[X Æ A-12]

WTF is that dross.

A kodiak keto bowl. There is a restaurant nearby.

Think Chipotle but keto.

Doesn't look appetizing in that picture but trust me, its amazing

 

[Fab Fragment]

Driving lessons for my daughter are quite stressful for me. What is it with women kind and lack of spatial orientation? She's already curbed the car a couple of times.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

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[Bianconero_Aus]

@Osman don't know if you still checking out sammy the bulls youtube channel, but this last video is fucking amazing, check it out when you are alone somewhere quiet

Damnnnnnn

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[X Æ A-12]

Love his videos. Seen all of them.

 

[IliveForJuve]

Driving lessons for my daughter are quite stressful for me. What is it with women kind and lack of spatial orientation? She's already curbed the car a couple of times.

Dw, soon enough she'll become a maniac behind the wheel.

My sister drives like a Nascar redneck.

 

[Osman]

@Osman don't know if you still checking out sammy the bulls youtube channel, but this last video is fucking amazing, check it out when you are alone somewhere quiet

I watched 4 or more clips in his channel since you recommended him to me (that don king story still special lol), digging in on this one now over lunch.