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”When we imagine where in the world we’d be happiest, we’re often prompted to imagine places filled with people; a cozy home with family, a party with friends, a busy office or bar, well-lit streets teaming with cheerful faces…
But defining happy places in these terms misses out what can be the deep appeal of far less publicised and distinguished sorts of environment: locations that are starkly downbeat, empty, melancholic, architecturally compromised and isolated – but where we nevertheless experience a deep pull, coming to feel, perhaps, that we belong here far more than in the gaiety, elegance and colour of familiar vistas.”
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