andrel wrote:
> One of your main character faults is that you judge things that you have 
> never seen.

So unless I've visited every single city, town, village and hamlet on 
the entire face of the Earth, I'm not entitled to have an opinion?

Any specific reason why this only applies to me?

> Sure, there may be places in London that you don't want to live, but 
> there are also places that you could happily live in. London is simply 
> too big to lump it all together. Especially not if your only experience 
> is from  a casual visit to the city center.

My grandparents live in Harrow. I'm fairly sure that isn't central London.

Due to my sister moving around the place a lot, I've also spent a 
certain amount of time in a number of other parts of the country - 
Reading, Guildford, Hull, Manchester, etc. Didn't like any of them.

> I am rather sure that you have never been to Germany so your remarks 
> about that country are simply inappropriate.

There's nothing wrong with Germany. I'm sure lots of people *love* 
living there. It's just that *I* don't want to live there. I'm allowed 
an opinion aren't I?

Switzerland I've visited. (I've been "in" France, but only by sitting 
inside a moving car. That doesn't really count for much.) It's a 
pleasent enough place to visit, but I wouldn't want to have to live there.

> Aside from that, there is still that problem that you may want to live 
> somewhere but you also have to work there.

Agreed.

Still, most of the populous of MK are employed. If everybody else 
manages it, there seems no particular reason why I can't.

> ATM you are moderately not 
> unhappy not to live outside MK, but you don't want to work there.

Um... is that a triple-negative? I'm having trouble resolving exactly 
what the meaning of this sentence is.

> If you 
> move to another place where they do have an interesting and fulfilling 
> job, you may have to move.

If I move, I may have to move? Interesting tautology... But I think I 
get what you're saying.

> Totally aside: is there a nice psychiatric term for your condition. It 
> clearly is some kind of phobia, but perhaps it is so rare that it does 
> not have a name. Anyone knows?

Xenophobia? *shrugs*

Besides, technically a phobia is when you're "afraid" of something, not 
just when you "don't want" something. It's not that I'm afraid of living 
somewhere else, just that I don't particularly want to.

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