It's literally just that much of Britain in the autumn, winter, even spring and summer can be grey, wet and depressing and the environment (or the streets like this where most live who aren't rich) isn't exactly a great place to improve your mental health.
All there is to it really.
To be honest maybe I got it a bit wrong, I think look at the photo below, that's more representative of this place - I actually think looking back I probably misjudged the joke, I think it was almost a joke of a joke, saying about the bottom photo looking so bad yet in this kind of weather and lighting it almost does look alright.
Ngl as someone who lives in California I love days like this and they genuinely do improve my mental health, sunny days give me migraines and sap my energy
Also an issue is, in the winter especially the weather is like this and it goes pitch black so early on and is pitch black when you wake up, you have very few hours of actual daylight and even then it's covered in clouds.
But the grass is always greener - we had a ridiculous summer where I was for the first time begging for some of this kind of weather, purely because of how stupidly hot and humid it was - and again, in the summer, we have very few hours of night time and the sun rises very early and sets very late.
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u/misterblobbysgrandma 1d ago edited 11h ago
As a Brit I can explain this.
It's literally just that much of Britain in the autumn, winter, even spring and summer can be grey, wet and depressing and the environment (or the streets like this where most live who aren't rich) isn't exactly a great place to improve your mental health.
All there is to it really.