During the Medieval, Serfs were tied to the land they tilled. Not allowed to wander far away.....without the express permission of the Lord of the Manor. You must stay in your little cottage and do your work. Failure or refusal to be brainwashed by the Church was strongly discouraged.

The Black Death pandemic did away with that as Labour became scarce and wages needed to be competitive. Which indirectly fed into the Peasant's Revolt.

The Covid pandemic has enslaved us again. ID cards, vaccination certs, the BBC licence fee. 15 minute Cities.

Edited by PalazioVecchio (22 Feb 2023 12.59pm)

inár n-aonar i Anerley, uimhir a haon londain theas

Surely, Canaries fit the bill, low crime, low cost of living, subsidized by the EU, free healthcare if over 67, great weather, 75% of travel between two spanish places, if resident, heaven

Does anyone know the way? Did we hear someone say?
(We just haven't got a clue what to do!)
Does anyone know the way? There's got to be a way, to Blockbuster

if i was to retire to 'a place in the sun', i would defo try to avoid drunken hooligan brits. So Benidorm is a no no. Whereas some Southern City or town, at least 100 miles inland from the sea ? maybe.

so maybe Zagreb, Sofia, Toulouse or Salamanca. Who cares if its cold in January. The rest of the year is nice and the cost of living is cheap. And no drunken brits puking and fighting in the streets.

any other retirement-cities that Eagles would recommend ?

Edited by PalazioVecchio (22 Feb 2023 1.16pm)

inár n-aonar i Anerley, uimhir a haon londain theas

Benni is a lot better than it used to be, one of our HOLer's lives far end of Levante Beach. 10k further along coast towards Alicante is a place called El Campello, its mainly a 'Spanish' resort, but, there it a thriving British ex-pats community(i know this). You just need to do your homework.

The Child Has Grown,
The Dream Is Gone, And,
I Have Become,
Comfortably Numb. . . .
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POG,
this film gave rise to the term ' to do a Logans' in the 70s/80s
which was a runner from the curry house.
A popular sport with young men in late teens, early 20s (with some risk of a wack if caught) at the time.

Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.

From what I understand this is simply a glorified planning initiative.

'Plan your city around making sure all necessary amenities are within a 15-minute walk'

Translation, make peoples lives easier and ensure it's less about luck or status as to whether you have access to essential and beneficial amenities.

Personally I think it's more of a planning concept, i.e. have hubs within cities so most of the time you're 15-20 mins walk away from the essentials.

However, I don't think this is particularly cost effective to retrofit. Planning a new city or town, fine. Makes sense.

Weirdly people have taken it to mean dystopian fenced off quarantine zones, guarded by the military and where you need to show ID to leave and enter. Riiight

'A 15-minute city does not confine us to our neighbourhoods or restrict our ability to travel. If your city adopts a 15-minute city approach, it simply means that it will become more possible and pleasant to meet more of your day-to-day needs, like buying groceries, within a short walk or bike ride from home if you want to. It means creating the conditions for local businesses, that rely on local custom, to thrive. Millions of people in cities around the world already live like this, and always have done; others are forced to travel to meet basic needs. Being able to do more close to home does not change to your freedom to travel further whenever you would like to.'

Sounds good to me, as long as the area in question is easy to develop according to that approach. Needs to be applied to suitable candidate areas only to avoid massive waste on consultancy fees and ballooning budgets.

oh contrare, said the rabid giraffe whilst brandishing his throbbing member of reason, and twas ever thus.

Did you know? 98% of people are morons.