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by cameronh90 1030 days ago
Sweden has about half the population of London. I am probably within walking distance of more people than live in Sweden.
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Sweden gets loads of tourists from e.g. Germany/The Netherlands just looking for peace/quietness.

Where do English people go for that? Scotland?

Personally I go to Scotland, or sometimes Wales.

Though even within England, the population is highly concentrated in the South East, so the South West and North East have a lot of relatively sparsely populated areas.

Yeah Scotland's very much up there, its known for having some incredibly remote regions.
> Where do UK people go for that?

Brits don't want quietness. Instead they go to Germany and drink until they can't stand upright - and then continue to drink until they pass out.

Source: was a barkeeper many years ago in Munich. A group of half a dozen Manchester fans drank more in one night than what would last two days otherwise, it's absolutely insane. Australians also tend to drink a lot, but IME they tend to get rowdy when too drunk.

Maybe the brits who want quiet aren’t going to bars in Munich to seek it out? What a fucking ridiculous means to back up an equally ridiculous statement.
Does Germany not have laws restricting sale of alcohol to drunk people?
They have that in many countries but it doesn’t work. There is always someone who will sell booze to you, no matter the state you are in.