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The Victorians Were Right!

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Though not everyone could afford to do this, the basic idea they had was a good one. Anyone who had had an illness or a mentally tough time (E.g. trauma through war or whatever tough time they needed to recover from) would take time out and spend a few weeks or months in a cottage by the sea to recover from whatever they needed to recover from before they launched themselves back into life. 

Now I know that it was only the wealthier ones who could afford this, and Britain was not so populated so there were more coastal areas that fewer people lived where one could get peace and quiet, but the idea of having that stress free alone time to recharge and be totally care free was a good one. They knew it was needed and was good, and I am writing this to share how much it is still needed today! 

A great many ailments and conditions both physically and mentally simply need rest and a recharge in a place to make one happy!

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  • One of the things I struggle with the most about Britain is how much nature has been pillaged here. The seaside towns are often better because you can't do anything to the sea and beaches. Places like the Lake District and Snowdonia National Park are very nice, arguably even more uplifting than seaside places. Although some of the seaside towns in Snowdonia are more or less perfect, but for the fact that they're a bit poor and isolated, places like Porthmadog and Criccieth. 

    I've stayed in London a few times and I wanted to like it and bits of it I do but it's just too frenetic. The same with Manchester. I definitely see it has lots of good points but it's too industrialised and built up for me. I think large cities and towns should be redesigned. Demolish a lot of the semi-detached houses, build more parks and build more terraced houses with garden squares similar to London. In a country of high population like Britain it's hard to have both suburbia and greenery unless you count people's gardens which in my opinion are dull and just a tedium to maintain, I think parks are better.

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  • One of the things I struggle with the most about Britain is how much nature has been pillaged here. The seaside towns are often better because you can't do anything to the sea and beaches. Places like the Lake District and Snowdonia National Park are very nice, arguably even more uplifting than seaside places. Although some of the seaside towns in Snowdonia are more or less perfect, but for the fact that they're a bit poor and isolated, places like Porthmadog and Criccieth. 

    I've stayed in London a few times and I wanted to like it and bits of it I do but it's just too frenetic. The same with Manchester. I definitely see it has lots of good points but it's too industrialised and built up for me. I think large cities and towns should be redesigned. Demolish a lot of the semi-detached houses, build more parks and build more terraced houses with garden squares similar to London. In a country of high population like Britain it's hard to have both suburbia and greenery unless you count people's gardens which in my opinion are dull and just a tedium to maintain, I think parks are better.

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  • in reply to Roswell

    manchesters a dump, the entire north west is. 
    i live in wigan myself, and if i say the place is a dump all the dumb locals without any critical thinking skills would defend it as if its a glorious golden nice resort... but yet they hate it too and dream of living somewhere nice like spain. so they agree with me that its a dump but yet take offence when you point it out, i dont understand when people are like that haha