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People often trot out the old cliche about not appreciating the good til you've seen the bad. For example: When you fall ill you really appreciate the first day or so you feel well again.

I have a lot of sympathy with that, I dread "The Cotswold Village Life", (I am aware there are probably some dreadful problems with drug use and house prices in the Cotswolds, but .....).

Surely it would send you insane, shiny windows, well maintained hanging baskets, regularly used and emptied litter bins, confident casual walking at every turn, the slow steady smile of the joyless. ..it would or should send you insane. But if that is all you have known maybe you don't go mad but remain in a continuous state of tedious contentment, I say would it not be kinder to turn off the life support?