How is public transport in the area? All I know is the tram that goes to IKEA.

In Romania - or Bucharest at least - we don't have them. I walked to school until age 14. Then I went to high school about 10km from home, and I commuted on normal public transport. Namely city trolley bus no. 69. Tee hee hee hee hee 69. (I heard every single possible joke.)

I lived in Bucharest, London and now Manchester.

I never lived in a place where a commute by car was super-significantly faster than by public transport. The one time I lived somewhere very suburban, car would have been an hour longer (South London zone 4 arse end of the Overground).

The opposite experience that I'm living right now -I'm a middle class person who doesn't own a car, never learned to drive, can't be arsed and honestly don't need it much - is a very urban Europe thing.

I do wonder if this is geographical rather than class-based. I heard of "I've never been in public transport other than a school bus" from Americans before, and was quite shocked. (OTOH in Romania we don't really have school buses at all).

Ooh good combination! Wanna try it now

Scared of what this will mean for CEU.

Oooh, Aethelred. Yeah. Sorry wasn't clear from your sentence what you meant. I 'd say he definitely attempted genocide, but it's debatable how effective he was at it

There is basically a point where the story becomes hard to follow because everybody's name starts with Os: Oswald, Oswiu, Oswine. A century or two later, everyone is Aethelsomething. And then after the Norman conquest we switch to the Williams.