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Europe at night (i.imgur.com)

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[–]catjellycat 8 points9 points  (2 children)

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I live in London and I was just thinking the other day about how far I'd have to go* to be actually alone. It's a rare thing. There is a shit ton of us in not very much space. Yet as someone else said, there's still a lot of open space. I went to a Kent county park on a Monday morning the other week and at the top of the North Downs it was just me and the husband.

*obviously not 'far' in any 'I live in a country which has different time zones' kind of way but far in a British kind of way (e.g anything over 45 minutes on a motorway)

[–]AnticitizenPrime 1 point2 points  (1 child)

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I just got back last week from a three-week trip to the UK. I rented a car and drove from London to Dover, then west to Cornwall, then Cardiff, up through Wales, then east to Edinburgh, up to Aberdeen, west again through the whiskey trail, and went camping for a few days in Glencoe (where I didn't see another human for over a day), then flew out of Glasgow.

I was really surprised to see how much green, open land there was in a place so populated. Everyone in Glasgow is stacked on top of each other in huge tenement buildings and then farmland begins right outside the city. In America all those people would be in suburbs stretching out for miles.

[–]catjellycat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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there's a map on mapporn at the moment showing the population in terms of Londons and you can see why you might not see anyone for days in certain bits of the country.