Damn right.

Can't argue with that =)

What ever happened to perks of the job?

I don't like breathing fake-air on planes, and they're cramped too

Sounds like a laugh, but I think the focus (of those kinds of cutbacks in general) is on precisely that issue you raise:

our surroundings are ****, and spending more money trying to escape that by using archaic and frankly also **** forms of travel, and therefore adding to why things are so utterly **** here in the first place, needs to be widely and openly acknowledged, in the vague hope that we can perhaps begin to have environments to live in that look nice, smell nice, are safe & pleasant to be about in, and - don't look like Birmingham.

I "love" (ie - HATE) the way places like Brummy try to claim they now look nicer...by getting yet more soul-less development projects, destined to be deserted in years to come also, built.

I want every built up area in the UK looking like the National Trust declared it a World Heritage Site. Everything else has to be converted to woodland or some kind of agroforestry / permaculture.

What's wrong with Birmingham?

I never been there, I'd go for a lookabout.