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JNugent

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"JNugent" wrote:

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A one hour journey by car can take one (easily) up to 60 miles
(probably not a lot more, unless one lives adjacent to a
motorway interchange).

You'll have to travel a fair distance from Charing Cross before
you can do anything more than 30mph and even that is pretty
ambitious as an average speed, especially considering the fact
that you'll face congestion and a lot of traffic lights. I'd be
absolutely amazed if you could travel as much as 60 miles. Even
half that seems optimistic.

Who said anything about either living or working at Charing
Cross?

For goodness sake, it's even quoted in your post (and this one).

Charing Cross is mentioned (as the centre of a particular circle
of which 15% is built-up) - but there is no mention or claim of
either *living* or *working* there.

The claim referred to Charing Cross and areas within 1 hour's commute
of it. The reply to that said 1 hour's commute of Charing Cross (the
reference to Charing Cross was left implicit

*Very* "implicit" - deeply hidden, in fact. So much so that it wasn't
mentioned.

Your reply to that was that a one hour journey by car can take a person
"(easily) up to 60 miles".

That's right. Wassamarrerwidat?

You said that in reply to a post that was
clearly talking about a one hour commute from Charing Cross.

No - the point was about how much of SE England is "built up". And my
extension of that was a response to your claim that one can only travel 30
miles in an hour in SE England (which is nonsense, isn't it?).

If you
fail to see that or the relevance of Charing Cross to all this,

As a point, it is tangential. "Charing Cross" is traditionally used as a
reference point for the centre of London - as one might have thought you
would know (but apparently not). The point made by the previous poster was
about *SE England* (not Charing Cross per se), and was not predicated upon
everyone in the reguion having to get to Charing Cross each working day.

there's nothing I can do other than recommend attending English
classes to improve your reading comprehension.

My English language and comprehension skills are not at fault.

You misinterpreted what I wrote because you didn't read it properly and
hadn't properly understood GH's point in the earlier post.