Whichever way you look at it, living in the inner city leaves you wanting more - and as congestion gets worse, the greater the want becomes! A five mile journey to work can take well over an hour, with the same daunting prospect at the end of the working day; just right for short tempers, and high blood pressure. The further prospect of artificial light and the "rat-race" mentality within the workplace just further exasperate an already poor situation, and the continual pressure of acheiving targets will only grind you down further.

Now mix that with strikes, etc. and you have a very person-unfriendly location!

Life in "the big town" has other hidden drawbacks, too! You lose your identity! With so many people milling back and forth, you become just another face in a sea of others. God help you if you're down on your luck - you are on your own. With parking being such a problem, it's getting impractical to own a car; similarly, public transport lacks the functionality it once had, which creates a further problem for those that travel.

This having been said, most areas of employment now require their employees to travel huge distances to working areas around the country. All good and well, but this all takes time, and time is money - not a good cost effective move, evidently. More localised workgroups would spend less time travelling, and more time working. This would benefit all travellers and the country as a whole - less congestion on already snarled up roads, more work for less expenditure, and far less fuel and associated products for the automotive industry being wasted needlessly!

This is borne witness to by the amount of people that incessantly hurtle up and down the motorways to job locations in the far reaches of England - crazy, but okay by their bosses! One wonders if the company is a publicly owned one? Salespersons speeding back and forth to and from meetings are also equally guilty of wasting both time and resources in their cars - when web-cam internet links can conclude business with far less cost and time from the office or home!

Other spin offs would be in the form of more local employment, with higher wages and a greater profit margin for the astute companies that followed these dictates. Why it isn't so defeats me - or is it an ill conception that I have of the whole affair?

But I diverge from the subject, somewhat! The accepted "norm" is trying to chase your own tail - a fruitless pursuit!

If such is the case that life in the city is so good, why are people moving out of the inner cities to a far more relaxed surrounding of the countryside and staying there? There can be no doubt about it, living in the city does far more than annoy you - it drives you country crazy!

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