Saturday, April 12, 2008

How urban are you?

Most often, I use the term "urban" in an endearing, multi-cultural way. It is a positive adjective, meant to imply the cosmopolitan nature of the community to which I refer.

We're so urban that there are 10 pubs within 10 minutes walk of our house. We're so urban, there's parking for 70 across the street from us (i.e. a car park). We're so urban, we've got 10 different take-aways within 500 meters of us. We're so urban that a full supermarket is within a 2 minute walk of our front door. And, tonight, we're so urban that the closest pub has attracted a dozen police, a couple of police cars, a police van (usually used to transport many police to the scene of some significant event) and an ambulance. Indeed, we're so urban, whatever has gone on has required police tape to go up around a section of the car park. And, I believe that we're so urban that my car (which is parked in the car park across the street) is within the police tape and likely inaccessible should Ange go into labour in the next few minutes.

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