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guslThe reason why a place like Edinburgh is socially better than a place like London:
If you live in London, you need to belong to some sort of club, or be friends with your colleagues from work. Otherwise you need to make an effort to meet new people and keep in touch with the people you meet. Unless a friendship develops rightaway (very rare), it's a big effort to meet up with people. This also creates a pressure about asking people out.
If you live in Edinburgh, you are very likely to live in the center. You're more likely to bump into the same people again and again, and it's much easier to invite someone to lunch, and to keep in touch with them even if you make no effort at all. You get to be familiar with the whole city quickly, and feel at home more easily. Edinburgh must be more like my Bucknell experience, but with a much bigger and more adult population.
Also, Edinburgh has a strong demographic filter towards highly-educated people, especially in the sciences.
This is a bit counterintuitive to me, especially if you think that London has a greater total number of interesting people.
If you live in London, you need to belong to some sort of club, or be friends with your colleagues from work. Otherwise you need to make an effort to meet new people and keep in touch with the people you meet. Unless a friendship develops rightaway (very rare), it's a big effort to meet up with people. This also creates a pressure about asking people out.
If you live in Edinburgh, you are very likely to live in the center. You're more likely to bump into the same people again and again, and it's much easier to invite someone to lunch, and to keep in touch with them even if you make no effort at all. You get to be familiar with the whole city quickly, and feel at home more easily. Edinburgh must be more like my Bucknell experience, but with a much bigger and more adult population.
Also, Edinburgh has a strong demographic filter towards highly-educated people, especially in the sciences.
This is a bit counterintuitive to me, especially if you think that London has a greater total number of interesting people.
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Date: 2005-08-01 04:22 pm (UTC)Therefore, all the observations you make in this post are what I would expect.
Tucson is considerably smaller than London. I don't know the population of Edinburgh but I'm sure it's bigger than Tucson. And in a city with less than 500,000 people, I very rarely bump into someone I know on the street.
Yesterday I had lunch at a restaurant and bumped into one of my neighbors, but the last time I bumped into her partner in public was a year ago and the last time I bumped into both of them together was two years ago. I see people I know only when making plans to meet, including belonging to an organization.