Downtown: IS everything waiting for you?

[Owain Taggart]

Speaking about trains makes me long for the days we'd get several trains a week through here. I miss it. Nowadays, we're lucky if we get one passenger train per week, which is sad when you realize it used to be a big hub for the lumber and nickel industries. So, yeah, one train a week, and it doesn't even go in the direction I need. So, if I want to go to Ottawa using the train, I can't do that.

 

[Gaith]

There's a decent amount of nightlife in downtown SF, but the real action is in the Mission.

 

[Pingfah]

If "everything" is some Pastie shops and a shit load of pubs, then yeah.

 

[RJDiogenes]

"Pastie Shops?" Do you have to go across the street for your G-strings and down the block for your fishnets?

 

[Canadave]

^ Britishism alert: a "pass-ty" is a meat-fill pastry, and very different from the North American "paste-y."

 

[Miss Chicken]

Australians eat pasties as well. I don't like them, I much prefer the Australian meat pie.

 

[nevermore]

"Downtown" Baltimore is a place I generally avoid, not because there's nothing there, but because the Inner Harbor area (what is generally referred to as "downtown") is a giant, overgrown, amusement park for tourists. What little there is of interest to a resident is generally crawling with out-of-towners, so it's to be avoided. Now, when talking about "downtown" as simply the central neighborhoods of Mount Vernon/Midtown, Fells Point, Federal Hill, Little Italy, Harbor East, Canton etc., all of which are generally within walking distance or accessible by a free bus and/or water taxi, then yes, everything IS in fact, waiting for you.

Not that we don't have boarded up stores and houses between those places, and to the East and West, of course. I mean, it IS Baltimore...

 

[Pingfah]

Australians eat pasties as well. I don't like them, I much prefer the Australian meat pie.

That's probably because you're not very good at making the pasties.

If you were doing it right, i'm sure you'd prefer them

 

[RJDiogenes]

^ Britishism alert: a "pass-ty" is a meat-fill pastry, and very different from the North American "paste-y."

Ah, I see.

I'm just a little disappointed.

 

[Pingfah]

^ They make them with custard in them too, perhaps that will mitigate your disappointment?

In fact, some people used to eat pasties which had meat and veg at one end, and dessert at the other.

 

[Colonel Green]

^ They make them with custard in them too, perhaps that will mitigate your disappointment?

In fact, some people used to eat pasties which had meat and veg at one end, and dessert at the other.

And people make fun of English food?!

 

[Pingfah]

Eminently practical when down a mine all day, I would say. Although they are not considered canon in Cornwall.

 

[RJDiogenes]

In fact, some people used to eat pasties which had meat and veg at one end, and dessert at the other.

I think I read that in an Asimov novel once.