GM #nostr ๐ŸŒ…๐Ÿค™โ˜•

I woke up in a part of town where I grew up this morning because it was easier to crash in town than try to get back on the boat.

I just took a wander around the streets where I spent the first 16 years of my life...and the pollution...๐Ÿคข๐Ÿคฎ

I was walking past tightly packed cars, some idling as people dropped kids off, some waiting to be able to pass in the narrow streets...and the smell is awful ๐Ÿ˜ž It's hurting my lungs just being here.

It must have been worse when I was a kid, sure, there were slightly fewer cars, but they had less filters so spewed more crap and everyone used to have an indoor fire so the chimneys would be spewing acrid black smoke up and down every one of the terraced streets I used to roam.

Long story short, I'm going back to the boat later and I can't wait to breathe that clean fresh sea air.

I'm not the biggest fan of electric cars, but the city of my birth could certainly benefit from an increase in their use. It kinda goes hand in hand with the fact this is the most densely packed city in the UK, even above The City of London (distinct from London the wider area).

If you read this far, thank you for giving your time and letting me ramble ๐Ÿ˜† I hope your day is exactly what you want and your coffee cup is always full โ˜•โ˜•โ˜•๐Ÿค™

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GM, filling up the cup now!

Good morning โ˜•

Mornin Matt. Have a great day

Cheers pal, you too ๐Ÿป

Brits and their pints in the morning. Aren't you one hour behind me? Damn you're early ๐Ÿคฃ

Charles Hugh Smith calls it the โ€œcrapificationโ€ of everything. It was different when we were young as there were less people crammed into cities. Small business worked and there were more of them. Farming worked and more people lived out of town.

The pace and scale of the change is quite mind blowing - mind you, as more people are flooding to the city I'm glad to be able to reside just outside it's reach. Crapification is a good word to describe what I'm seeing this morning ๐Ÿ˜† You're right about the small business thing too - there used to be a shop for everything around here, not any more though, they've all be converted to flats ๐Ÿ˜ž

And now everything is a big supermarket. I miss the corner store and the small shops with interesting things in them and the people that operated them.

We used to have a little supermarket owned and run by a Portuguese family and he knew all of us that came in. Now itโ€™s a chain store ๐Ÿ˜”