Britain has suffered from suburbia ever since about 1850 (I think Britain invented it), and the public transport system around the major cities serves it quite well. Ever seen the map of railways around London? Or the bus routes? Even 30 miles out from the centre there is a railway station either within walking distance or a short car drive or cycle ride. I worked in central London for 20 years (while living 30 miles outside) and only drove to work twice in that time - that was to fetch home an old office chair and a bookcase. You have to be mad to drive into central London if you don't need to.

In fact, housing has tended to grow up around the railway lines - "Metroland" to the north-west of London is the best known example of this.

Sounds like another USA viewpoint, like most here. I have had different jobs in different parts of London and they all remained within reach of public transport from where I lived. A 40 minute public transport trip around the London area during the working day would be a 90 minute trip by car.

Sorry, I'm a bit slow. What is an advertisement for what?

Nice troll.

Sounds like there is more than your email address at stake here.

Why? Do you assume that once we pick up we will obey everything the scammer asks for? That might be advice I give to my elderly mother, but we are not all or senile yet. Once you have got as far as checking the caller number you might as well pick up, and if it is an Indian accent telling you there are "hackers in your windows" (or even without the Indian accent), you can enjoy telling them to fuck off. I always do it.

In any case, you must live an uneventful life. In mine there are all sorts of reasons for picking up an unknown call, and not even for business reasons. For example last week I had workmen coming to do a roof repair. The driver could not find me so they phoned for directions - from a mobile number previously unknown to me of course.

Why do you think that would end it? If I get a call from someone claiming to be from my bank, what is the point of knowing the calling number when I don't know my bank phone number off the top of my head anyway.

More simply, if I pick up to a caller with an Indian accent telling me to transfer all my money to some other "safe" account "because there are hackers in my windows", I don't know about you but I don't need to check his phone number to know it's bullshit.

They will be powerless to stop these too.

That is not why they do it. They do it as a way of saying "Fuck you" to pedestrians.

If a bigger car can get into a smaller spot with no overhang, what is the problem?

That is not what I have observed.