Why Is The United Kingdom The Creative Center Of Everything?

Tony Ollivier
5 min readSep 12, 2019
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We are a Canadian family on a trip to the UK. As my wife and kids sleep, I’m typing this at a coffee shop in the Stockbridge area in Edinburgh. We are exploring Britain and Scotland a bit before dropping our son off for a year of college in Manchester.

Stockbridge is a cute little area filled with coffee shops, restaurants and for reasons not clear to us from…

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