Quick quiz- how far are you from these?

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1. Beach
2. Airport
3. Mountains
4. Starbucks
5. Harvey Nicks

• half hour drive for beach or mountains (although there is a 'coast' 5 minutes from my house but horrible mud so doesn't deserve being called a 'beach'.
• 40 mins in two directions for two equidistant airports
• 10 mins in two directions for two equidistant starbucks
• 40 mins to the nearest HN.

and the main reason I live here: 5 mins to my work

1. Beach - 2hrs drive
2. Airport - 30 mins drive
3. Mountains - 20 min walk
4. Starbucks - 5 min walk
5. Harvey Nicks - 40 min on train

Beach about 1 hour
Airport 20mins
Mountains 90 mins
Starbucks 10 mins
Harvey Nik’s 10 mins

All times by car and no traffic

1. Beach - 5 minutes walk
2. Airport - 30 minute drive
3. Mountains - Maybe 2 hours
4. Starbucks - 40 minute drive
5. Harvey Nicks - 40 minute drive

Beach - 1-2 hours (Brighton I guess)?depending on traffic
Airport - 30 mins
Mountains - probably quicker to fly to the Alps than drive to Scotland or Wales. 2 hr flight or motorway hell?
Starbucks - 2 min walk
Harvey Nics - 5 min walk - it's all about priorities!!!

similar to brieandchilli - wonder whether we live in the same street!

Beach - 20 minute drive
Airport - 90 minute drive
Mountains - several hours
Starbucks - 30 minutes
Harvey Nicks - several hours.

Beach - 15 mins drive
Airport (small) - 1 mile, international - 1hr 30 mins drive
Mountains - hills round about, proper mountains about 1hr drive
Starbucks - 25 min walk
Harvey Nicks - 1 hr 20 mins drive/train

Beach 2 hours
Airport 40 minutes
Mountains 1 1/2 hours
Starbucks 20 minutes
Harvey Nicks 30 minutes

Beach 2 mins
Airport 45 mins
Mountains 10 mins
Starbucks 30 mins
Harvey Nicks no idea, long time!

1. Beach - 45mins
2. Airport - 50mins (for a commercial one)
3. Mountains - no idea!
4. Starbucks - 10mins
5. Harvey Nicks - 90mins

All assuming average traffic.

1. Beach 90 mins
2. Airport 30 mins
3. Mountains 1 hour
4. Starbucks 5 mins
5. Harvey Nicks 20 mins

g1itterati

That's my idea of heaven, but living in London is way out of my budget on my meagre teaching salary.

1. Beach - 20min
2. Airport -15min
3. Mountains - 15min
4. Starbucks -7min
5. Harvey Nicks -3h

1. Beach - about an hour
2. Airport - no idea, never fly anywhere :D Liverpool probably closest, an hour maybe?
3. Mountains - live on one, Berwyns just behind us :)
4. Starbucks - 30 minutes I think
5. Harvey Nicks - 4 hours from London, or are there other branches???

Way out in the sticks here, wouldn't change it for anything :)

1. Beach - 1 hr 45 mins
2. Airport - 20 mins
3. Mountains - 4 hrs+
4. Starbucks - 5 mins
5. Harvey Nicks - 45 mins

1. Beach – 1.5 hours
2. Airport – 1 – 1.5 hours
3. Mountains – 2.5 – 3 hours
4. Starbucks 30 minutes
5. Harvey Nicks - 45 minutes

All driving times
Jealous of those of you living near a beach

Beach - 90 mins
Airport - 45 mins
Mountains - I don't know. Probably 3-4 hours.
Starbucks - 15 mins
Harvey Nicks - about 90 mins according to Google Maps. Have never been there.

1. Beach - 10 minutes
2. Airport - 15 minutes
3. Mountains - 25 mins
4. Starbucks - 15 mins
5. Harvey Nicks - 130 miles so 2 hours..

It's possible to live 5 minutes walk (or maybe 10-15 minutes) from Harvey Nicks without living in London. Just live in any of the apartments in and around Leeds city centre.

On this score, Leeds, and similarly Manchester and maybe Sheffield are pretty great places to live.

OK, we're a little far from the beach, but plenty of lovely beaches accessible for a day trip, but there's 2-3 airports within an hour or so, real wilderness and the Peak District, Pennines and Yorkshire Dales within about an hour, as many coffee shops as you could ever want and all the big shops like Harvey Nicks and John Lewis as well as loads of great bars and restaurants and a good number of local and national museums too.

Beach - nearest lakeside one is about 15 mins in summer. For an ocean I'd have to drive for 12 hours.
Airport - 30 min drive. (there's an airfield about 5 mins up the road)
Mountains - there's a ski-hill about 30 mins from here. Proper mountains about 10 hour drive.
Starbucks - 15 mins.
Harvey Nicks - a trans-Atlantic flight away.

Fun game!

According to Google maps:

1. Beach - just under 100 miles (Normandy)
2. Airport - about 12 miles (Paris)
3. Mountains - about 300 miles (French alps)
4. Starbucks - 0.5 miles
5. Harvey Nicks - just over 200 miles (London)

1. Beach- about 30 minutes- less if traffic is quiet.
2. Airport- about 30 minutes - less if traffic is quiet.
3. Mountains - depends what you call a mountain but hills 20 minutes
4. Starbucks - a 5 minute walk
5. Harvey Nicks - a 15-20 minute walk.

1. Beach ..... 20 minutes drive
2. Airport.....nearest one about 90 mins drive .. is particularly useless though
3. Mountains... nearest is about an hours drive away ( other direction to airport )
4. Starbucks ...... there’s one at a service station about 10 mis drive
5. Harvey Nicks... couple of hours drive ( not the London one though )

1. Beach - about 7 hours by car, but don't have a car :)
2. Airport - 1 hour
3. Mountains - 2 hours to some decent ones
4. Starbucks - 30 mins
5. Harvey Nicks - no clue, don't actually remember what it is, or care enough to google.