Dublin has the fifth fastest pace of life in the world, according to a study that used walking speed as its yardstick, Yahoo! News reports.
Richard Wiseman, a professor of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire who helped conduct the research, used a 1994 study of pedestrians’ speed as a comparison and found that on average city dwellers now move 10 percent faster.
“The pace of life in our major cities is now much quicker than before,” he said. “This increase in speed will affect more people than ever, because for the first time in history the majority of the world’s population are now living in urban centers.”
Wiseman is worried by the rising need for speed.
“We just have this feeling that we should be producing and active all of the time,” he said. “That is fuelled by the email, text, mobile phone culture.”
Come home and make this place poor again:
Here we are, crashing headlong into a bright new era where we’ve got all this choice and freedom and opportunity (and don’t get me wrong, this is certainly A Good Thing). But when we all become busy, successful city-dwellers, we miss out on the interactions that slow-paced country life affords us.
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