" You just said you couldn’t stand Willstown,’ he objected. ‘Burketown and Croydon – well, they’re just the same.’ ‘I know,’ she said thoughtfully. ‘I’m not being very reasonable, am I? First I say I couldn’t stand living in a place like that, and then I say that you oughtn’t to think of living anywhere else.’ ‘That’s right.’ He was puzzled and distressed. ‘We’ve got to try and work it out some way to find what suits us both.’ ‘There’s only one way to do that, Joe.’ ‘What’s that?’ She smiled at him. ‘We’ll have to do something about Willstown. "

― Nevil Shute , A Town Like Alice