RE: On Nature and Wildlife
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I like to pretend more councils and stuff are realising that green space is actually incredibly important and will do better than tightly packed residential hell.
unfortunate in the places where this wasn't rammed through thick probably profit-driven skulls earlier and it's insanely much harder to fix
This was one of the massive points of contention when J and I were trying to buy for the second time. He basically kept the same base criteria (he only cares about the actual property itself and absolutely nothing else beyond the fence) and I didn't (I look at the house and everything within walking and 15-30min driving distance, former is my upper limit for basic stuff like grocery shopping and the latter for activities) and I also became about a billion times fussier as everything had to be an upgrade or enough things had to be a massive enough upgrade to compromise for any downsides for me to even consider thinking about moving.
Glad you got your nature fix :)
Yeah it's a massive problem, and especially in development where there's so much corruption and money laundering. People want natural spaces but the developers cheapen out in every way imaginable. Especially in the buildings, so green spaces are ignored. It doesn't help that Yerevan is in a desert environment where it's insanely dusty. And the parks are either very small or heavily neglected since the fall of the USSR; and as the city 'develops' with EU grants, they're actually making those parks worse by modernising them, where instead of them being natural green spaces like before they're more artsy overly-designed parks. I think you know what I mean there.
I do want to live in a more natural space in the future, something closer to what I had in England. I'm definitely not a city person and I don't think I ever could be. I lose my sanity quite fast if I don't get my nature fix often