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How is it like living and working in Southampton, UK versus Bath, UK?

First, let me just correct something. You' ve written Suton . This might be confused with Sutton in Greater London. What you actually should have written is Soton, which is a common abbreviation for Southampton. I actually know where the University of Southampton is and I used to work for the University of Bath. The University of Southampton is located to the north of the city in what seems to me to be a largely residential area . Like the University of Bath, it's a modern university established after the Second World War. Both universities have very good reputations. Southampton is a much larger city than Bath, represented by roughly 2.5 parliamentary constituencies to Bath's 1 constituency. Both cities have good rail connections but driving in Southampton is much easier than it is in Bath. Bath has two problems with its roads. The first is that many are narrow and the other is that it lies on many routes to Bristol, so, if it can't or doesn't make sense to use t...

In the bathroom with Armani

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ARMANI’S bath suite is configured like an island where all the essential elements for real toilet ‘tasks’ and those for bathroom pleasure are zoned into modular areas. This package is a smart way to market a bathroom when you know your clientele can afford a good amount of space. It is, in a way, the lazy and foolproof alternative of having to meticulously design and construct your own bathroom. Photo by Roca No one can argue that when one speaks of simplicity and elegance in the world of global fashion, Giorgio Armani is one of the first to come to mind.  Through many years of fashion revolutions, he still adheres to largely structured and tailored lines, masculine colors, mostly basic “noncolors,” and unpretentious yet cleverly constructed forms .  Although fashion trends and styles evolve and change over time, the core values of Armani’s design have remain unaltered. In collaboration with Roca, the Spanish sanitary ware company , the house of Armani designs a bathroom system that in...