Rural living today may conjure up images of health and wholesomeness. But it wasn't always that way. The skeletons of people living in England during the Roman occupation suggest that, at that time, town-dwellers were better off. "The assumption is always that if you're living in the countryside it's healthier," says Rebecca Redfern of the Museum of London. "But we found that urban dwellers were more likely to reach old age than their rural counterparts."
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