Let's assume that time travel is expensive and hard to access - and thus only available to the rich, workshy types. What if it gets commoditised later on? The timetravelling equivalent of Thomas Cook starts shipping package tours back to Ye Olde Times, and shortly diversifies into some Ibiza-type hijinks for the yoof. And the unlucky recipients of these time travellers aren't going to be able to distinguish the rich first wave from the second and later waves.
Or indeed students taking a gap year in the Dark Ages.
]]>That said, both of these are also countries with much higher population densities than their neighbours (and than UK) and with a much higher disparity in living conditions to their neighbours. Maybe the solution is to educate Brits that they aren't the only ones to believe they're in their supposed situation.
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