# Church in my neigbourhood is featured on a Tweet by a British-German-Singaporean, about atheists.

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**Created:** [May 23, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/church-in-my-neigbourhood-is-featured-on-a-tweet-by-a-british-german-singaporean-about-atheists/854359 "2020-05-23T23:02:13Z")\
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The wonders of the web.

Poking around on Pinterest for something completely different, I saw a picture of one of our neighbourhood churches, which ran a sign about kind atheists awhile ago.

I thought “Neat”. Somebody local must have tweeted it.

Nope, it’s tweeted by a British-German guy, born in Singapore, living in Finland.

> <https://twitter.com/SydesJokes/status/288005936562458624>

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Last week a national newspaper featured an article about the opening of London golf courses. There was a mandatory photo of a guy teeing off. On a beautiful course. With palm trees and even, mountains in the background!:dubious:

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**Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/church-in-my-neigbourhood-is-featured-on-a-tweet-by-a-british-german-singaporean-about-atheists/854359/4 "2020-05-24T00:38:17Z")

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New Zealand is a small country but in the last 20 years gets a lot of tourism. I used to live in a tiny unknown seaside fishing village in the colder part of the South Island of NZ, off the main road, hidden away behind a river mouth. Nothing much happens there, or has ever happened there, certainly when I lived there.

On Twitter I follow an artist I admire, who does concept art for movies and book covers and suchlike. A year ago [he posted an image](https://twitter.com/ianmcque/status/1085641662209024000) of where he was staying on holiday, and I immediately recognised it as my tiny village.

It was the weirdest thing.

He went on to say he wanted to move there, but I think that was probably just meant as a compliment. It has become a very pleasant place. Though I was desperate to leave when I was younger, now I am nostalgic and desperate to return.