That would never happen in the UK.
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Our phone line is underground as is most of the street, they came around with machinery and dug up the entire nature strip in the process, this was a couple of years ago. The grass still hasn't grown back 100%.
If ours was done then I'm sure heaps of other places have been done, especially in urban areas. I think they do it if you are having specific problems with the phone line, basically if it needs replacing it is put underground these days.
Also underground electrical lines in some roads in the area that are in tall forest as a bushfire prevention measure.
If ours was done then I'm sure heaps of other places have been done, especially in urban areas. I think they do it if you are having specific problems with the phone line, basically if it needs replacing it is put underground these days.
Also underground electrical lines in some roads in the area that are in tall forest as a bushfire prevention measure.
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Our phone line is underground as is most of the street, they came around with machinery and dug up the entire nature strip in the process, this was a couple of years ago. The grass still hasn't grown back 100%.
If ours was done then I'm sure heaps of other places have been done, especially in urban areas. I think they do it if you are having specific problems with the phone line, basically if it needs replacing it is put underground these days.
Also underground electrical lines in some roads in the area that are in tall forest as a bushfire prevention measure.
If ours was done then I'm sure heaps of other places have been done, especially in urban areas. I think they do it if you are having specific problems with the phone line, basically if it needs replacing it is put underground these days.
Also underground electrical lines in some roads in the area that are in tall forest as a bushfire prevention measure.
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Our phone line is underground as is most of the street, they came around with machinery and dug up the entire nature strip in the process, this was a couple of years ago. The grass still hasn't grown back 100%.
If ours was done then I'm sure heaps of other places have been done, especially in urban areas. I think they do it if you are having specific problems with the phone line, basically if it needs replacing it is put underground these days.
Also underground electrical lines in some roads in the area that are in tall forest as a bushfire prevention measure.
If ours was done then I'm sure heaps of other places have been done, especially in urban areas. I think they do it if you are having specific problems with the phone line, basically if it needs replacing it is put underground these days.
Also underground electrical lines in some roads in the area that are in tall forest as a bushfire prevention measure.
If they did away with lines what would people have to dangle their old trainers on?
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Why do SOME say things like that even though it clearly isnt true ? I have read numerous comments about a particular thing that someone has experienced in a different country and they say something like 'that would never happen in the UK'. I recall someone saying how they left a bike outside the front door and how you could never do that that in the UK. It is obviously absurd but is it to make yourself feel better ? Do they honestly believe it ?
I guess now I am actually here I can see that you can in fact do all the same stuff.
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I guess now I am actually here I can see that you can in fact do all the same stuff.
Just thinking out loud
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Also, parks have free bbqs here in Aus. You couldn't do that in the UK - they'd be vandalised.
If you think that the above is incorrect - then I suspect that perhaps you don't know the UK very well at all.
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