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I live 3 ipod songs away from the office - but as I don't own a car, I walk pretty much everywhere!
I never had a car all the time I lived in London, it was never worth it.
So now at the grand old age of 37 I have just purchased my first car They are essential here, nothing is very close to anything else. This is a large adjustment that I need to make.
In London, if at 11:40 on a Friday night I decide I need some more wine, I can just walk 5 minutes to the nearest off licence and buy some.
Here, the nearest off licence is a 5 minute drive away, but I should not drive at all because I am not sober. Even if I was, it's not worth going anyway because the off licence shut 2 and half hours ago.
I walk into work, but it's seventy miles away. I usually arrive by wednesday mid morning, do half an hour, break for lunch, do another half hour then it's time to leave for home.
Sometimes, if there is a meeting, or if the server is down, it all seems a bit of a waste of time.
Thats nothing mate. Once I got a gig in Singapore, it took me two and a half years to walk there. By the time I got there, the spec for the job had changed so much that I had to renegotiate. When it came to signing, I realised I had forgotten my pen, so I had to go all the way back to fetch it.
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Here, the nearest off licence is a 5 minute drive away, but I should not drive at all because I am not sober. Even if I was, it's not worth going anyway because the off licence shut 2 and half hours ago.
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