Bill is an astute and funny man, but that hardly describes the whole city eh?
go on then- where were you last in MK

Cant have been...far too many roundabouts. Spent many hours as a learner driver negotiating them, and the only people I ever saw were at the bus stops (trying to escape I imagine).

so it was you in the wrong lane in north row! pah!!

you're from round here then?

I worked there for a fortnight in about May of 2004. I stayed in a Abyss/Novotel/Sofitel/SomethingElseLooksTheSame and drove to an office outside of which were parking meters that didn't start until eight am so, at eight, we all had to get up from our desks and troop to feed the meter. The hotel and office looked like Plano/Richardson/Mississauga/anywhereUS but the parking spots were small and I had to pay. Everyone in the office had been supplied by the Indian outsourcer for my client and I ran into a chap I'd worked with in Cincinnati where he'd been on an H1B working for another MNC that denies outsourcing.

Were that not close enough to Bryson's description, I arrived at LHR early in the morning and drove to MK. Of course, the room wasn't ready so I drove to the parking lot of a mall (not at all American that) and tried to sleep in the car parking lot. Alas the rental car (Jaguar X Type) had a motion detector alarm so when I fell asleep and rolled over sirens went off. Awoken by this I blundered into the mall in search of a restroom/bog and found a sale of film memorabilia featuring someone called Lou Ferrigno signing pictures of himself. He's not even a zee lister in the US so Bryson again sprang to mind.

I think Bryson has MK spot on but his Appalachian Trail book is a better one.

i shouldn't laugh but! i will, poor you!
those memorabilis shows usually have lower than z listers here to, but one time they had william shatner --- wow,
still not much reason to rank MK along with luton

He's a big star in Canada, Mr. Shatner (any Canadian who's been on American TV is a big star) they play Common People and Lucy in the Sky constantly on the radio.

You didn't ask how long it's been since I visited Luton, that's decades, so I can't compare Luton and MK, only MK and places in the US or the GTA.

Only a little bit. I lived in Sharnbrook (N of Bedford) for a while as a teen, My parents now live in Pavenham, and my Grandparents lived in Woburn Sands, so MK was often visited, and often struck me as pretty soulless.

i went to school in bedford, lived in bromham,
MK is ok, compare it to bedford with "history" and i know where i would prefer to live

yes- think of an american you like an they turn out to be canadian
Bill advertises all bran here- does he there too?

er before, you compared brampton to luton and to mk only brampton is dirtier, hence the link between luton and MK,

Ah. I likened Brampton by first hand knowledge to Luton by reputation.

Shatner advertises something involving having huge amounts of money but I don't remember the product, lottery tickets maybe, I know it's something we already don't buy as seeing him didn't cause me to make note never to buy one.

Georgetown is very nice, only about a 15 minute drive to Brampton. It's surrounded by countryside, but handy for Highway 401, for travelling further afield to Mississauga and Toronto.

It's not very built up, there's plenty of shops, recreation facilities and a nice small Main Street.

You could check out the real estate on www.mls.ca and the newer houses on www.newinhomes.com.

someone called Lou Ferrigno signing pictures of himself. - Tremendous, the original 70's Hulk !!