I had to go there to see what you mean - and I see what you mean! How very annoying.

Is this Bergen? It sounds like Bergen.

Just about everything - by the water, friendly neighbours, short walk to my favourite activity, half hour bus ride to a wonderful city.

I used to live in said city and travel to my town fairly often, and I remember walking along my street and saying, “those houses look like they’d be nice to live in”. I’ve been living in one of those houses for over 20 years now and yes, it is very nice.

Thank you for that!!! What a delight. “Hello Ladies” is my favourite bit. 😍👹😍

Hi! I’m 70, so retired and have many hobbies and interests. At the moment it’s beekeeping and coastal rowing that take up most of my time. I took up rowing after arthritis put paid to dinghy sailing, and it’s fantastic. I gave up racing this year but I sort of miss it. I keep bees with a community group, we have 15 hives on two sites. I’m also into photography, hill-walking, knitting, travel, gardening, all the old-lady stuff. And I enjoy tinkering with tech, I run a club website and a blog for a friend. What else? Baking, jam-making, DIY… I’m sure there’s something I’ve missed. Oh, I made a pond and some frogs moved in, so I guess frog-watching? Is that a thing?

I always had penpals when I was a kid. My mother had one when she was a girl too, and finally got to meet her when they were in their 60s.

I don’t mind discussing stuff with people who have different views from me, but on Reddit I would mostly type out a comment, imagine what kind of rude retort I’d get, and trash the draft. I remember some years back having a great back and forth with someone on nuclear power and actually changing my mind! But more recently it’s just “you’re wrong and dumb”, no discussion. Ugh.

I’m still very new here, but it feels like Reddit used to, and I like it.