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Darren New wrote:
> I grew up in an area where about 80% of the population never leaves the
> city they were born in. And by "never leaves" I don't mean "lives
> somewhere else" but literally "never leaves". They never go more than
> about 100 miles from where they live.
I note with some amusement that in my country, "100 miles" is almost
from one coast to the other. Almost. ;-)
Still, the USA is much, much bigger. Hell, even Switzerland is bigger
than the UK!
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> The actual nice thing about cities is they tend to be very easy to get
> around. I've never vacationed in a city that I've taken an automobile.
> The paris and london subways (as well as a few in the USA) are really
> all you need, if you're willing to walk two or three blocks or hop an
> occasional taxi cab to go too far towards the edge.
I would suggest that you'd be insane to try to travel around central
London by car. It's not that public transport is superb - it isn't -
it's more that the roads are an insane nightmare. (Presumably because
the road network was never really designed, it just happened. Oh, and
the vast traffic volume.)
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>> I don't know of anybody who moved just to get a job.
>
> It all depends on the sort of job. If you are looking for the kind of
> job that is needed in quantities of about 10 per 1000 people, you can
> find a job nearby. A sysop, I'm guessing, is about 1 in 10000, so that
> is reachable, but that is not really the sort of job you are looking
> for. The sort of job that you are looking for is less than 1 in 100000
> and mostly in bigger companies and universities. Hence: I don't think
> you are going to find that job in MK.
So it seems we're agreed on one thing: I need to look for a different
type of job.
(I guess really it was silly to think I could be a programmer in the
first place; the most popular programming language in the world is C,
the one language I'm very bad at.)
>> I'd actually *like* to leave my mother. She drives me crazy. It's the
>> city of MK that I enjoy and don't particularly want to leave.
>
> Think of it this way: if you have to move you might not want to leave
> that place either after a few months or years.
It's possible. But I've yet to see a city besides MK that isn't stricken
with a tangled road network that can't handle the traffic volume, and
buildings that are old and crumbling. Maybe there is such a place, but I
haven't found it yet.
>> Heh. One more thing to add to the list of problems I'm running out of
>> time to solve. :-/
>
> I assumed you were aware of that.
Well, yeah, it's not exactly news that I need a new job.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I would suggest that you'd be insane to try to travel around central
> London by car. It's not that public transport is superb - it isn't -
The subway takes you where you need to go. I've been all over london.
> it's more that the roads are an insane nightmare.
This is true in most cities that were laid out before the invention of
automobiles, including most east-coast USA cities. Except we generally have
crappy public transit too, compared to europe.
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On 29-11-2009 17:07, Darren New wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> D*mn is there a way to phrase this in an unambiguous way?
>
> "Afraid of meeting foreigners, not afraid of being a foreigner." :-)
>
You didn't think of mirrors, did you?
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I note with some amusement that in my country, "100 miles" is almost
> from one coast to the other. Almost. ;-)
>
LOL
I note with some amusement that in my country, "50 miles" *is* from one
coast to the other. :P
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Stephen
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On 29-11-2009 17:05, Darren New wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> Same for France (though they have the added problem of no speaking
>> English)
>
> I spent three or four weeks in France, at least two of which were in
> Paris itself. There was only one person I met who refused to speak
> english, and since he was behind a post office desk with my unstamped
> post cards on the table in front of him, I have to assume he was failing
> to understand me intentionally.
The French that I know have an English accent that is very hard to
understand. That may be because they tend to be older and the accent of
the generation of my mother here in the Netherlands was also on the edge
on comprehensibility (or slightly over).
How is the accent among young French persons nowadays? Anyone knows?
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Stephen wrote:
> I note with some amusement that in my country, "50 miles" *is* from one
> coast to the other. :P
In Europe, 100 miles is a long distance. In the USA, 100 years is a long
time. :-)
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andrel wrote:
> The French that I know have an English accent that is very hard to
> understand.
There is that, yes. French accents seem to hang around almost as much as
chinese accents.
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On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:47:45 +0100, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmail com>
wrote:
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> How is the accent among young French persons nowadays? Anyone knows?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taJw8mM3Og0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE9xrel-voI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7IvWopo0Mw
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FE
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