Thought Disneyland was the happiest place on the planet? Well, if you live in the UK and you happen to be a woman, it’s actually Orkney – a tiny Scottish archipelago where the living is easy and every man comes with a background check. Naturally we sent one female writer to live there...
I knew I had to leave the city when one Wednesday morning, I couldn’t tie my shoes. My body was tasered at the thought of leaving my bedroom to shove my way onto another crowded tube and walk to work through a city drowning in more than 8 million people. Outside, a siren blared past, the kids in the flat above were screaming and my generally quiet street was saturated with traffic. Usually this is the white noise of my everyday life, but that day it was deafening.
This story is from the October 2016 edition of Cosmopolitan UK.
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