Surely. But I'm still in academia. My most recent university was in Chicago. People there are more clean cut. Few alternative looking grad students but not professors. Professors all look like standard teacher types. Clean cut.

Only knew of one other grad student with a visible tattoo on her wrist.

I had a face piercing (Monroe). She has a side nose ring. Can't think of anyone else with either.

Maybe it's just that culture at that university. Swansea was just really different to me.

Also something funny about Wales.

So here (,until the last few years) Starbucks was pretty popular, wouldn't you say,,?

Like the hip young people. The career go getters. The hipsters. All hanging around starbucks. But not in Wales.

Costa coffee was their hip coffee chain. Starbucks was like. .. idk how to phrase this without sounding shallow. But I'll try.

Rough people hung out at Starbucks.

Like. People who looked like drug addicts. Always outside chain smoking. Rough people. The 2 am Denny's crowd. You know.

Starbucks was so disliked, that small Starbucks , like the one inside a university building and one at a museum I visited, tried to hide their brand so people wouldn't know it was starbucks until you got your cup. No apron logo. No racks with cups. No logos on anything anywhere. Except the to-go cups.

I'm 100% serious.

Local people always said that Starbucks coffee was shite.

I remember taking a video of the goings on to send it to a friend to show how much they tried to hide they were a star bucks. Cause this was like peak star bucks popularity time (2017-2018).