Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]hm.... 90%? I dunno. Once you are north of Watford it improves but there are still some staggeringly easy towns to get beaten up in. Gainsborough and Newark to mention but two. Where I did my growing up, round there. I stick by what I said about Ontario: the general level of human pleasantness is much higher than I experienced in England, especially the southeast. There are nice people everywhere and it is true that folks respond to how you treat them: that is probably why things work around here because there's some form of virtuous circle going on. I don't buy Steve LeH's idea that people are culturally uniform in terms of their person-to-person pleasantness. By 'courtesy' we generally mean interpersonal niceness among strangers. That certainly differs from place to place. English people in the Southeast don't habitually strike up conversations in bus-stops. In Manchester, they often do. Londoners, when they get to know you a little, will invite you to their home. They do this much more easily than, say, New Yorkers or Angelinos who will invite you out to a bar. These are all manifest generalizations, but there is truth in there too. On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 05:52 PM, Simon Lamb wrote: > Just as well not all English people live in London, England then! > However, > 90% of the UK is exactly as you describe Canada. - -- John Brownlow pictures: http://www.pinkheadedbug.com warblog: http://www.unintended-consequences.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html