Originally Posted by Jerseygirl (Post 5202707)

I'm hiring two bodyguards for my next UK trip.

Originally Posted by frrussre (Post 5204391)

I'll offer my services.
Reg. Frank R.

Originally Posted by KJ2007 (Post 5204387)

Enough.

Originally Posted by Ray (Post 5204426)

Are you all tooled up..now your in a sensible State Frank ..

Originally Posted by frrussre (Post 5204435)

Soon Ray Soon.
Reg. Frank R.

Originally Posted by Ray (Post 5204439)

need help ..just ask....

Originally Posted by angelman (Post 5204046)

Give me the cosmopolitan/mixed up/dirty/messed up unkepmt and scruffy London boroughs where you can have millionaires living next to council flats (street where I lived in London in Highbury) any day rather than the soul destroying mind numbing urbanity of the endless gated communities stretching out East of LA.

Originally Posted by lapin_windstar (Post 5204536)

Well, piss off back there then, you Islington ponce! BTW, if you want to find millionaires living next to squalor, you're more than welcome to invest in some "East Williamsburg" or Jersey City real estate ... my fee is only 5%.

Originally Posted by angelman (Post 5204046)

The great thing about the US is that cities are far more ghetoised. They keep all the different groups in their little places. All the white people can live in their nice suburban utopian gated communities and worry about the length of their grass. The hispanics can live in their areas and play music all night, party like its 1999 and have bouncy castles everytime there is a party etc. etc. There is no mixing of culture or race. Segragation rules! It's sort of voluntary apartheid. As soon as people that are different to you start to move in you all leave like the great white flight from areas south of the 10 freeway in LA. It's only in those freaky places where those freaky bohemians live like Echo Park where you actually get any sort of mixing of cultures/wealth/race etc. god forbid. Can you imagine some of those bohemian types don't even care if a stranger parks their car infront of their house. They are even prepared to walk a few metres from their house to their car. Incredible.
Of course I live in echo park and this post should be taken as ironic... yet sadly true I think.
Give me the cosmopolitan/mixed up/dirty/messed up unkepmt and scruffy London boroughs where you can have millionaires living next to council flats (street where I lived in London in Highbury) any day rather than the soul destroying mind numbing urbanity of the endless gated communities stretching out East of LA.

Originally Posted by lapin_windstar (Post 5204536)

Well, piss off back there then, you Islington ponce! BTW, if you want to find millionaires living next to squalor, you're more than welcome to invest in some "East Williamsburg" or Jersey City real estate ... my fee is only 5%.

Originally Posted by surly (Post 5204585)

Have you ever been to Southall?

Ethnicity

The majority of Southall's population is Punjabi (this includes people of Pakistani and Indian descent). There are also smaller minorities of Indian and Pakistani Sindhis, Indian Gujaratis, Sri Lankan and Indian Tamils, Pashtuns and Kashmiris from Pakistan and Biharis from India and Bangladesh.


Whatever happened to all the White people that used to live there?

Originally Posted by angelman (Post 5204046)

The great thing about the US is that cities are far more ghetoised. They keep all the different groups in their little places. All the white people can live in their nice suburban utopian gated communities and worry about the length of their grass.

Originally Posted by Bob (Post 5202993)

Given that it's all spewed bollocks, it's safe to say that the same old replies can just be searched for, because it's all horses for courses, not every city in the UK is a shit hole, not every city in the US is a safe haven either, and when has 21 drink law stopped kids being piss heads?

Originally Posted by Sally (Post 5204823)

I hate visiting people in those gated places. They take your ID away for ages and scrutinise it, have a good look at you and weigh you up, I always feel like "F**k it what am I, chopped liver? :mad:"