[barrkel]

This only makes sense if you enjoy the English countryside.

I'm an Irishman. I grew up in the countryside, in the west, and spent 15 years living in London in my 20s and 30s. I can count on one hand the number of visits to the English countryside I made that weren't on the back of a motorcycle, and then, I didn't stop except for petrol.

The city is what I enjoyed, the chaos, the diversity, ambition, variety. No smaller city would be as good.

[baxtr]

Your preferred metric is "time to chaos" I guess then?

[xenocratus]

"Time to something I haven't seen or experienced in the past 3 years"

Having spent more than 5 years in small towns, London has fixed my utter boredom.

[eppp]

I have lived my entire life in a a rural area, not even a town and it seems to me that every time I go to a city it is the same as the last. Everyone has their thing I guess.

[dullcrisp]

You’re not meant to just go to a city. It’s not like the zoo.

[rafram]

Sometimes you can. Depends what you want out of it. I've only spent a very short time in London, but I live in New York, and some evenings all I need to do to be happy is walk to the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge and look at the lights and the people. Same reason I don't really need an itinerary if I head upstate - it's enough to find a random mountain, climb it, and look at the trees and lakes. Just getting to know the feeling of a place can be very special.

[eppp]

I am not sure what you mean by that. Do cities not want people to visit them? You can't travel through a city unless you commit to live there for a while?

[dullcrisp]

I’m saying that if you want to enjoy a city you should find things that you enjoy to do there. If you just show up it’s not surprising that you’ll be unimpressed.

[pyrale]

Time to cow dung, the higher the better obviously.

[thaumasiotes]

That's also a problem with sheep, you know.

[dylan604]

But do you mark off a field into squares and then place bets on which square the dung will be freshly found for sheep?

[pyrale]

This. Cow-bound Monte-Carlo analysis is already supported by a thriving community.

[baxtr]

Jokes-only-HN-people-will-understand.

[walthamstow]

time to chicken shop

[j4coh]

Time to sidewalk puke

[xenocratus]

Yes, obviously no small town has sidewalk puke, surely not in England!

[recursive]

Ok, and how long does it take to get there? That's time-to-sidewalk-puke.