Reply to: Street parties

[Lockhouse]

Know ye of such places????

Up until recently I would have said my own road, but even that's changing now.

[shaunbhoy]

"those communities that haven't been fragmented by immigration and multiculturalism"

Know ye of such places????

[Lockhouse]

I saw the adverts for "the big lunch" but nothing happened round here...it seems the only places in England with a sense of local community tend to be poor chavvy areas.

"those communities that haven't been fragmented by immigration and multiculturalism"

[d000hg]

I saw the adverts for "the big lunch" but nothing happened round here...it seems the only places in England with a sense of local community tend to be poor chavvy areas.

[RichardCranium]

I applied : but no-one else in my street interested!

So they'll be having it without you then.

[BrilloPad]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8157842.stm

Anyone remember 77' & 81'? I didn't even know about this until today.

I remember every street having bunting, tables of food and dustbins full of punch. Sadly I can't envisage that sort of neighbourly frivolity happening in this day and age.

I applied : but no-one else in my street interested!

[bogeyman]

Thanks, much appreciated!

Without being sexist, I think it's a place and a life that mostly appeals to men.

Have dragged my wife there half-a-dozen times, and she'd rather still be in London.

I don't understand it, and it seems we are destined to live apart now that the kids have 'flown' (well they think they are about to).

[Cliphead]

Yeah, I sort of see her point. It's a damn long way from Portugal, and she's only just made a huge move.

Perhaps take her to VC for a little holiday and wander about the city. It's a very safe and relaxed city on the whole. Take her to Granville Island to experience the arty, bohemian vibe.

Take a float plane trip from the harbour around the little lakes and over the bay to Mt Olympus. Take her whale watching in the Sound. Dine her at the rotating restaurant at the to of the skyscraper whose name I can't remember.

As you can tell, I'm always recommending VC, but have yet to convince my wife and kids.

Thanks, much appreciated!

[bogeyman]

Too far from family, moved to the UK five years ago (she's Portuguese), and doesn't want to move anywhere else. I'd be off in a heartbeat but I have to honour commitments at least in the medium term. Maybe once she sees the place.

Yeah, I sort of see her point. It's a damn long way from Portugal, and she's only just made a huge move.

Perhaps take her to VC for a little holiday and wander about the city. It's a very safe and relaxed city on the whole. Take her to Granville Island to experience the arty, bohemian vibe.

Take a float plane trip from the harbour around the little lakes and over the bay to Mt Olympus. Take her whale watching in the Sound. Dine her at the rotating restaurant at the to of the skyscraper whose name I can't remember.

As you can tell, I'm always recommending VC, but have yet to convince my wife and kids.

[Cliphead]

What are her objections exactly?

Too far from family, moved to the UK five years ago (she's Portuguese), and doesn't want to move anywhere else. I'd be off in a heartbeat but I have to honour commitments at least in the medium term. Maybe once she sees the place.

[bogeyman]

Interesting you say that. The company I'm working for has been pushing for some time for me to move to Vancouver where they're setting up a new operation. Girlie doesn't want to move and Plan B requires me to be here at least for a couple of years.

Anything you could say that would help change her mind? I'm going over in September for a couple of weeks to meet up with the guys for a part work part holiday thing and get a chance to look around.

What are her objections exactly?

VC is a lot like its near neighbour Seattle, just across the US/CA border.

VC is a quite a busy city, but people are generally much friendlier than in comparable US cities.

It does have its poverty areas, drugs and high crime areas but as a 'middle-class' person working there, you would probably never encounter them.

It is very racially mixed, which you will either love or hate depending on your attitude.

It has fabulous views, parks and open spaces. Property prices are scandalous and so are most service charges (for getting your rubbish bin emptied etc.).

I particularly love Stanley Park, which is mostly not a man-made park, but the remnants of an ancient forest, where you can see trees grow through and out of other trees.

If you live in the center, all the good stuff is mostly in walking distance (I don't drive a car over there and I manage fine - you can always hire if you're going outside the city).

I love it!

[dropcliffsnotbombs]

Anything you could say that would help change her mind? I'm going over in September for a couple of weeks to meet up with the guys for a part work part holiday thing and get a chance to look around.

Grouse, Seymour, Cypress within 20 mins, Whistler in a couple of hours. What more could you ask for?

[Menelaus]

Exactly. That's why it's rather disappointing to see the likes of shaunbhoy tar the entire (massive) territory with the behaviour of people in a few remote regions. Not that those people are wrong to kill seals.

I do love Canada (and I'll be in Vancouver next year) but Nunavut is one of my favourite places of all time.

[bogeyman]

Yup. That's Labrador, Quebec and then further north into Nunavut.

Exactly. That's why it's rather disappointing to see the likes of shaunbhoy tar the entire (massive) territory with the behaviour of people in a few remote regions. Not that those people are wrong to kill seals.

[Cliphead]

Sure, but you'd have to hide in my hold baggage.

Seriously though, Canada seems like you're breathing different air than the UK or the USA - not because of climate - just the sense of relief that there is not some overweening, authoritarian state, crushing you.

Viva Vancouver

Interesting you say that. The company I'm working for has been pushing for some time for me to move to Vancouver where they're setting up a new operation. Girlie doesn't want to move and Plan B requires me to be here at least for a couple of years.

Anything you could say that would help change her mind? I'm going over in September for a couple of weeks to meet up with the guys for a part work part holiday thing and get a chance to look around.