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'Very deep poverty': Exposing the UK's hidden shame
(www.abc.net.au)
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If you remove 1/4 of the populations jobs the uk is poor. No shit.
Places like australia and the us really cant understand what having almost all a nation within daily travel distance of a single city means.
What does it mean?
Moving to the UK from Canada was a trip. People at work losing their mind when I say my wife and I are driving to Edinburgh from London in a oner, meanwhile the time/distance from my perspective is a reasonable expectation for a weekend camping trip.
London to Edinburgh is a 7-8 hour drive, right? If you’re going over the weekend then surely you’d be spending most of your time driving there or back again?
Genuinely not trying to be combative, I just struggle to understand how you justify that as reasonable.
Economy of scale is way different. The entirety of the UK fits into British Columbia almost 4 times.... https://www.comparea.org/GBR+CA_BC
I'd happily leave work at noon on Friday, get to my camp site at 8 or 9pm. Do camping stuff Saturday, wake up hung over Sunday and be home for 8 or 9pm and be fine for Monday morning. Works better if you've got someone to switch out driving every few hours.
The thing is, you’d easily be on a beach on the med having your first cocktail in less than that.
Thing is, in under 4 hours....you can't even get out of Canada!
Kinda a bit of flight path shenanigans, Vancouver to London Heathrow is around 10 hours, but that's over the top. Edinburgh to Toronto is around 7 hours.
London to Vancouver
Edinburgh to Toronto.
Wild. My best friend lives on the west coast of Ireland. It's a 3.5 hour drive and I consider that a massive trek.
I mean, in a way it is. But sometimes 3.5hrs doesn't even get you from London's ring road in the east straight through to the west side of the ring road. Bit different if you're able to do 70mph(or the Canadian limit of 110kmph, so like....68ish?) the whole time.
Yeah it's mostly motorway for me so I'd be averaging somewhere over 80 kph for the journey as a whole. Upper limit here is 120kph but I'm rarely arsed going that fast tbh. The last bit is country roads so slow enough.
Yeah, the slowest part of my last camping trip back home was getting out of Vancouver, and then the bit at the end up an old logging road.
Yes people who travel that far for work use the train or fly.
But i understand why a canadian would drive ;)
Yeah, if I was living in one and working in the other then I'd fly or take the train obviously. No way I'm doing that drive daily, that's insane. But for a few days trip, no sweat.