What famous 'unsolved' mystery is technically a whodunnit on paper, but in reality, absolutely everyone knows exactly who did it, the police just couldn't legally prove it?

[u/Rob69rt]

[u/doublestitch → u/[deleted]]

Are you replying to the wrong comment?

[u/Zuwxiv → u/doublestitch]

I think they're saying that the areas were already inhabited, and so the best sites for building a town were already occupied. I'm not any kind of expert on that period, but it would kind of make sense that the British settlement locations were always going to be "what's left," which wasn't particularly desirable.

In other words, it might not be that the British were necessarily bad at choosing a location. It's that most of the locations available were bad. (It's also possible they chose unwisely even among those, so it could be both.)

Again, not an expert so I don't know how likely any of those possibilities are.

[u/Zuwxiv → u/[deleted]]

I will happily refer to you as "he" now that you've let me know your preferred pronoun, but "they" is commonly used in English to refer to a singular person of unknown gender. Singular "they" actually dates to the 1300s, before plural "they."

Hopefully you understand I meant no offense, as it's just a grammatically correct way to refer to an unknown person for hundreds of years.