MarylandNed

Er...doesn't the same apply to you? And others on this thread? I've actually lived in both cities and I still visit both regularly.

JonboyE

Being in Kilburn and not being drunk enough kind of misses the point.

My lasting memory is that every night, just before closing time, someone would come round the pub with a bucket asking for a donation for the boys. It could have been for the bhoys instead, but I though it best not to ask and just to chuck in a pound.

Alan2005

Face lift.... behind the facade.

Alan2005

Ok then, given the information in the OP, would you recommend they move or not?

ultrarunner

On a lighter note, the walk from Kilburn onto Oxford street is a nice one during the week and even better on weekends

MarylandNed

I don't know the OP. Much depends on attitude - i.e. how much she really wants to move to Canada, how determined she is to make it work when there are bumps in the road. If she really wants to experience living and working in another country and why. I think a recce visit is a must.

Personally speaking, I would do it. And I did do it although my circumstances were certainly different. No two people are going to be in the exact same situation.

However, she said the process is a "hassle". Now that may be true but if that's what is uppermost in her mind, that could be a sign that the required attitude and determination isn't really there. So that makes me doubt it's the right move for the OP. That advice is of course based on my perception of the info given and probably worth what she paid for it.

Londonuck

Im having flash backs to the National

dbd33

Pots and kettles are referenced in a saying, used in London and, to a lesser extent in Toronto. The saying, in full, is "that's the pot calling the kettle black" it implies that someone making an accusation is him or herself guilty of the offense suggested; if that person is the pot then the pot is as black as the kettle. (Black here is used in a perjorative sense though not one making reference to skin colour).

Thus, when you arrived and suggested that people commenting weren't living simultaneously in London and Toronto and I made reference to the rattling of pots and kettles I was advancing the view that you were in the same position, figuratively and geographically, as those you criticized. Sorry that wasn't clear.

MarylandNed

Ah now I see where you're wrong. You see I never actually claimed that either city was the best in the world or that either city was better than the other. Personally I might prefer one over the other but I certainly wouldn't be able to state that on someone else's behalf - which is what I actually was commenting on (NOT whether people commenting were living in London or Toronto). Glad I could clear that up for you.

ultrarunner

Hmmmmm...alright then

Shard

Ah...facade...facelift...now I geddit.

I think it's a great project all the same, keep the elegance of Regent Street but upgrade the buildings on it. It's what makes cities like London so interesting, you never know what grandeur is behind the next door.

dbd33

I'm afraid you've rather muddled it more. However, let's move on.

"Personally speaking, I would do it." you said a couple of posts back.

Am I correct in interpreting that as meaning that in the OP's position you would move from London to Toronto?

ultrarunner

Favourite store on Regent street today and not 1880, this one?

Shard

Nice lights. Too bad the inside of the store is still c.1970...

Jingsamichty

I used to live about 50 paces from where that photographer was standing. Happy days. Well remember the buckets going round, and the boys selling An Phoblacht.

Edit: The Kilburn one, not the Regent Street one.