I’m in Britain and I really hate the eyelashes, fillers and makeup here for young girls sometimes and the intense pressure I see everywhere to get them. Poor girlies.

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    In the UK - no screens on the windows so you can’t open it without getting a million bugs.

    UK roads aren’t built for the amount of cars, but unless you are in a large city like London you basically need to have one. Roads are often one lane, sometimes you need to back up so you don’t collide with someone.

    Overall, I think the UK is very settled on tradition and not making changes because that’s “just the way we’ve always done it”.

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      1 year ago

      I’m in the Netherlands, not the UK. But yeah, I miss bug screens. I LOVE our giant windows. But giant windows means SO many bugs D: why in a country that loves having windows open all the time would bug screens not be common place

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        But what sort of bugs get inside? Genuinely curious, I’m also in Europe and we never had any screens either and love opening everything. However I’m living in the deep countryside now, surrounded by cattle, and oh my goodness, so many flies! I’m ordering screens from Amazon, because I just can’t deal with another fly!

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      Whereas I moved to the US and live in a capital city which actually has no train station, wow crazy! How can public transport be so bad here! I miss the UK public transport, pavements and cycle lanes and ability to walk to the shop. Plus I live in Louisiana so I have to fight off armies of mosquitoes and trump supporters 😱

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      Lived in the UK, now France. Same thing with the roads.

      Many of these roads had things built around them long before cars. Tearing occupied down buildings just to widen roads is problematic.