Go Sweden! You do realise that more people live in London than that ? Still - London is smelly, sweaty and over-crowded, and although I've never been I'm reliably informed that Sweden is none of those things. Could these facts be connected somehow I wonder?
Oh yes. There are plenty of cities that have more people than our little country.
There are parts that are smelly, occasionally it gets sweaty (like right now, for example) and a few bits of Stockholm are over-crowded. But I haven't been anywhere in this country that's been nearly as unpleasant as London (I like England, but not London).
Greater London is most often described by using the M25 as a boundary. (For those who dont know and probably care less - the M25 is the London Orbital Motorway. Its a great big car park which circles London has millions of traffic cones and delusions of being a road where traffic actually moves). I think that Greater London is supposed to have more than 10 million people but our census website died a severe death shortly after they launched it due to too many hits, so your guess is as good as mine.
I had always thought that there were more people in Sweden. Australia recently passed twenty million and Sweden was often used by policy makers as model country of similar size...
I've heard that we have quite similar population structures, with most of the people stuck in a few areas and large bits of very nearly uninhabited land between them.
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You do realise that more people live in London than that ?
Still - London is smelly, sweaty and over-crowded, and although I've never been I'm reliably informed that Sweden is none of those things.
Could these facts be connected somehow I wonder?
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There are parts that are smelly, occasionally it gets sweaty (like right now, for example) and a few bits of Stockholm are over-crowded. But I haven't been anywhere in this country that's been nearly as unpleasant as London (I like England, but not London).
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Oh wait - crap I already do.
Someone remind me why ?
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Only five million in Scotland, still...
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(For those who dont know and probably care less - the M25 is the London Orbital Motorway. Its a great big car park which circles London has millions of traffic cones and delusions of being a road where traffic actually moves). I think that Greater London is supposed to have more than 10 million people but our census website died a severe death shortly after they launched it due to too many hits, so your guess is as good as mine.
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