Happy academic new year!
It's officially the first day of school (at least in my neck of the woods). The new students look so young. It is because they are getting younger as the years go on. That is why.
I am running tutorials this year. In Mississauga. Blech. Or:
. Thank you, barfing emoticon.
Don't get me wrong: I like running tutorials. Just not at 9 a.m. In Mississauga.
I just realized that for almost anyone who would be reading this, they have no idea where Mississauga is. Okay, here's an exercise: say that you live downtown in a city. Now, surrounding almost all North American cities are sprawling suburbs. The inhabitants of said suburbs will come in on a Friday or Saturday and overpopulate the bars and clubs and you say to your friends: "Man, I wish all those _____ people would just stay in their shitty ____ clubs." Now fill in the blanks with your respective suburbs. That is the relation Mississauga has to me.
For people in Toronto, we call the annoying suburb-dwellers who ruin the downtown core on weekends the "905ers" ("nine-oh-fivers") because they live in the 905 area code. A friend of mine living in New York says that people call their respective annoying suburbanites the "bridge and tunnel crowd". I think that pretty much any big city has their own term for the surrounding "other". Does your city have one? I'm curious to know what it is!
It's officially the first day of school (at least in my neck of the woods). The new students look so young. It is because they are getting younger as the years go on. That is why.
I am running tutorials this year. In Mississauga. Blech. Or:
. Thank you, barfing emoticon.
Don't get me wrong: I like running tutorials. Just not at 9 a.m. In Mississauga.
I just realized that for almost anyone who would be reading this, they have no idea where Mississauga is. Okay, here's an exercise: say that you live downtown in a city. Now, surrounding almost all North American cities are sprawling suburbs. The inhabitants of said suburbs will come in on a Friday or Saturday and overpopulate the bars and clubs and you say to your friends: "Man, I wish all those _____ people would just stay in their shitty ____ clubs." Now fill in the blanks with your respective suburbs. That is the relation Mississauga has to me.
For people in Toronto, we call the annoying suburb-dwellers who ruin the downtown core on weekends the "905ers" ("nine-oh-fivers") because they live in the 905 area code. A friend of mine living in New York says that people call their respective annoying suburbanites the "bridge and tunnel crowd". I think that pretty much any big city has their own term for the surrounding "other". Does your city have one? I'm curious to know what it is!
Where I used to live In Guelph it's the south end. It's this crappy cookie cutter community that's sprawling further and futher. It totally detracts from a really charming and eccletic downtown.
Where I live now is too isolated for suburbs and sprawl. It's kinda nice.