That said, the UK address system is pretty well organised, even with the vagaries of house names, apartments, etc. For probably 90% of addresses in the UK, you can get away with as little as a house number and a postcode, and the mail will find its way to your door (little-known detail: every address in the UK has a unique identifier made up of the postcode and an additional 2-digit code known as the Delivery Point Suffix - this limits the number of delivery points/mailboxes in a postcode to ~80). Many software and cloud service providers out there take the Royal Mail's basic Postcode Address File (PAF) https://www.poweredbypaf.com/ and enhance it with all sorts of other data. A common enhancement is grid references to varying levels of accuracy.
Of course for personal use, Google Maps or one of its competitors does most of this now anyway.
TL:DR, it's exceedingly rare in the UK for a business to be unable to deliver an item to an address, and Royal Mail is very good at it (for all their other faults).
]]>Go to a grocery store and buy the ingredients to make your own. It will be more filling & nutritious and will cost you less.
While this is mathematically correct, it is also a (slightly extreme) example of the Sam Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness. That is to say, yes the cost of the sandwich will be more than two slices of bread, a spread of butter, a slice of cheese, ham and some tomatoes. It will specifically not though be less than the cost of a loaf of bread, a packet of butter, and a packet of cheese and ham. You can usually buy tomatoes loose, but not always at convenience stores. This is why these sorts of stores prosper so well in low income areas.
]]>British food, like a lot of other elements of the country are much a product of class - the food the wealthiest in Britain eat has always been pretty amazing (which explains why London has more Michelin starred restaurants than any other European city apart from Paris). For the proles of course, anything that can be fed to keep them working is good enough, and combined with the long impact of rationing (which started during the early part of WW2 and didn't end completely until 1954), the older generation especially tend to have under-developed palates. Pretty much anyone of working or middle class over 80 is going to be a "meat and two veg, none of that foreign muck" person.
The ongoing impact of immigration and multi-culturalism weas eroding this even in the 1980s (when Indian Chinese and Italian restaurants were already common across a lot of the UK), but have moved on considerably since then. Your average working-class Brit probably still eats worse than his Spanish or Italian (Mediterranean) equivalent, but not that much different from other Northern European countries now. Whether that will continue to be the case given the ongoing impact of Brexit on our food supplies hasn't really played out yet.
TLDR - you can get decent food in the UK now. You can get garbage too, but you can anywhere.
]]>I stopped using the back entrance to Waverley after running into a "gentleman being pleasured" by a "lady of negotiable affection" on the Scotsmen Steps on a Sunday afternoon!
]]>Wal-Mart until recently owned about the 4th largest grocer in the UK (Asda). They exited the market because they couldn't make the sorts of profits they were used to in the US. The UK grocery trade is extremely cutthroat. (Not though you'd know it as a consumer or a supplier.)
]]>Of course whether i) this would contain anything a US physician would consider meaningful and ii) you would want this sort of information available on your phone when US ICE agents can and will detain you until you unlock it for them, probably means you will not want to do this.
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I'm not sure any would-be terrorists would even be able to figure out which part of the interchange to blow up to cause actual disruption.
]]>Also as an ex-technical writer I'm pretty sure you meant to say TB and not Tb, although even TB and GB are falling out of use now amongst IT specialists in favour of the more useful TiB (Tebibyte) and GiB (Gibibyte) - the difference being the use of base 2 rather than base 10 (1TB = 10^12, 1TiB = 2^40). Honestly when we dealt in KB and MB the differences were small enough it rarely mattered, but they get bigger as we move to GB/GiB, TB/TiB and PB/PiB.
(but you probably knew all this anyway!)
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