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Where on earth did you live in the UK? :confused:

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The North. Must be. Somewhere past Aylesbury.

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:D What I will say is that the stories of grafitti, garbage and gangs on every corner are just that - stories. Some of the rougher parts of the cities were erm...rough...just like they always have been and always will be. Just like here, except I came back to BC to find my so-called "exclusive" area had been vandalized over the weekend, tagged and park equipment destroyed, with several drug related arrests.:( My eldest teenager had to be forced onto the plane back to Canada at Heathrow. If I had somewhere I could have safely left her in the UK to continue with her education, she would still be there.

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Ya.... think Wembley transposed to the north but less multicultural - the real Engurland with all the grit-n-spit and associated nastiness and the dark underbelly of the lingering puking you-staring-at-my-pint/woman/tattoos/dog multi-generational chav massiv, the stinking post-industrial decline, call centre jobs for the willing, UB40 for the malingering and the unwilling.

Rich.

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Surely somewhere back there in yo Euro-ghetto is still safe ? Must be.

Purley-St-Newts or Little Pissington on the Hares or Upper Swiddlingcotes or suchlike quaint named village out in the shires where the dustbins still get emptied by chirpy whistling chaps with red cheeks and a cheeky walk and ladies that lunch go to the WI for a nice cup of tea and a demonstration of safe-sex practices by a pair of Romanian dominatreux who also bake a mean fruit fancy :confused:

Rich.

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Rockall.

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Thought we'd off-loaded that place to Iceland years ago, my mistake. Anyway I live in the Canadian version of desolate and boring already. Wouldn't do to duplicate now would it? Rich, please put away your Carry On Up the <insert thing/place> DVD's. I have to wonder what happened to you back home sometimes. Do keep it civil old chap.

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Don't you live in a Canadian equivalent of Upper Swiddlingcotes though (I don't actually know as I haven't heard of Kelowna outside this board but you give that impression). If that's the case you may as well compare Virginia Water and Cabbagetown; none of these places is usefully representative.

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No old boy it's strictly a Whistler-meets-Napa Valley-with-a-tad-of-Boulder-Colorado-and-lil-ol-Alabammy-white-clapperboard-churches-and-a-touch-of-the-Vegas-Strip-and-a-dash-of-Reno-with-a-dripping-of-Palm-Springs scene. Upper Swiddlingcotes it most definitely isn't, maybe apart from the curtain twitching and Lawn Nazi elements.

Rich.

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Boulder? How so? Do you drink mead?

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Sounds like Austria. As a wise man once said: "Austria's a beautiful place; problem is that it's full of f*****g Austrians".

Similar things could be said of France. And Horsham.

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Handome rugged chaps with Oakleys perched atop head wearing rustic wollen jumpers holding fair haired babies in their possum-bags. :confused:

Perfectly-toothed professional couples in matching fleeces (poss colour variance) with Peruvian hand knitted headwear, who take their 2 weeks vacation to go do voluntary work with Andean goat herders.

Rich.

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ROTFPMSLOL!

:thumbsup::lol:
You deserver a :beer:or :beer::beer:

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Horsham full of Austrians ? Terrible business. All those lederhosen ruining the high street ambience. At least suitable targets are available for the chav massiv. Beats kicking ESL students to a pulp innit.

Rich.

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The YAL's step-sister lives in the Republic of Boulder, she's married to a "wilderness therapist" and they have one of those lesbian cars which they run on bio-diesel. Their well's shot because of the ground water pollution from all the development and the casual dumping in land fills but they keep on drinking the water anyway because having paid US$600,000 for a shed they can't afford new plumbing. They make and drink mead.

I'm not sure which aspect of this is like Kelowna but I've even less sure what the reference to Reno is intended to convey. Reno has divorce, hookers and gambling, does Kelowna have a lot of street level prostitution and one armed bandits?