I grew up in a city southern Appalachia. Only later on when I moved to California did I realize we basically lived in a forest, even in the city. I really miss it, especially the thick mass of sounds... cicadas, birds, frogs. If you stop to listen, you realize there’s just this constant background noise. The only downside is trees fall on your house.
If the spiders and creepy crawlies aren't too big sign me up. London is wall to wall grey and a touch bleak.
Where I'm from (Northern Ireland) is historically forest, but exploitation over the last 1000 years has turned it bare and mostly into agricultural land.
It's weird - Ireland is gorgeous, but at the same time when I see the rolling fields and grasslandsit makes me sad to think of the forest that used to be.
There's a tiny patch of jaw-droppingly beautiful forest on the Beara Peninsula. The last time I was there I saw sheep had gotten loose and were grazing inside it. If that continues it will be the death of it :-(.
That depends where in London you live. Hampstead Heath and Richmonds have very green areas (and are comparably easy to commute from). Western parts of the city also feel very green. Just the East is indeed very grey but that's because it was an industrial area until very recently.
And e.g. South Croydon (Purley, Kenley, Riddlesdown) or parts of Bromley.
There are large parts of the arc from South East London to South West London that have large areas with tree lined roads and woodland areas everywhere.
Interesting you mention that; I am glad there are parts of the US that are like that. I grew up in India, and even the cities have so much non-human life that I miss it incredibly in California, where I am now.
Seattle metro area is also like that. Seattle proper, not so much; but if you stand in any of the taller buildings in Redmond (e.g. Microsoft campus buildings) and look around from the top floor, you already mostly just see treetops. I live a bit further away in the foothills of the Cascade mountains - but still part of the same metro area if you go by typical commute - and we're in an outright forest; I have a trail cam in my backyard, and routinely get deer and elk and coyotes, and occasionally bears.
Ha, yes. Experienced that. In some tropical forests there can be an incredible level of noise from cicadas and other creatures, at some times of the day.
