I am amazed by Stroud Green

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• Ian

  October 2009 edited 5:16PM

  @MatthewF. Welcome. Before you overdo it - just to let you know I can be a bit grumpy at times. Not often mind, but it's there.

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• staplejack

  October 2009 edited 5:16PM

  I've only lived in a couple of places but its better than Croydon.

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• The ginger monkey

  October 2009 edited 5:16PM

  Wow. High Praise. @matthewf - you're clearly a well-travelled individual. Glad you've chosen to lay your hat here, as Paul Young would have sung.

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• Firenze

  October 2009 edited 5:16PM

  I've lived in Camden, Finchley Road, Fitzrovia, Docklands, Kilburn, Highgate, Walthamstow and others ... the moment I moved into Stroud Green, it felt like home.

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• commissar17

  November 2009 edited 5:16PM

  Hi, staplejack.
  
  I've lived in Stroud Green for 15 years now, having previously been a resident of France, Portugal, Mexico and the US. I love the place but, let's face it, even Wells, Nevada (dried-up river bed, one shop, no bars, population 213 when I passed through) is better than Croydon!

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• tosscat

  November 2009 edited 5:16PM

  Croydon has lots going for it - I miss it sometimes.

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• David

  November 2009 edited 5:16PM

  I only went to Croydon once. I bought a Roland drum machine from a vicar at his church. The locals had broken in and stolen the bands drums and guitars. So he decided to sell the rest and quit the spiritual music route. I imagine he went back to kumbaya, acapella style.

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• SgEnquirer

  November 2009 edited 5:16PM

  Im currently in Croydon (near crystal palace but still borough of croydon) and Im glad to be moving back to SG! I miss it soooo much it's where I grew up.
  I've kinda gone full circle though as I started off on ferme pk rd then we moved to florence rd then I moved to SGR and now Im moving back to a flat off Ossian Rd!! My parents moved to Hornsey but my dad misses SGR more then my mum lol.

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• wisteria53

  November 2009 edited 5:16PM

  Croydon for me = Lunar House and the Home Office.... spent a hideous 8 hours to get my visa changed when I got married and it put me off Croydon forever. I♥N4.

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• bennyfromtheblok

  November 2009 edited 5:16PM

  "Welcome to Croydon - home of Nestle"
  
  So says the sign at the train station. What kind of claim to fame is that?
  
  Nestle's social irresponsibility is so well documented that I'm staggered that they approved the sign. It made me want to leave, until I saw a tram!

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• SgEnquirer

  November 2009 edited 5:16PM

  Ah the trams :)

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• tosscat

  November 2009 edited 5:16PM

  Except during summer when they're like greenhouses.

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• Simon.Redmile

  November 2009 edited 5:16PM

  I moved to Stroud Green from Stroud, Gloucestershire.
  
  Home from home you might say.

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• Billy Bookcase

  November 2009 edited 5:16PM

  So, when are we going to start our own currency and become a transition town?

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• sg_mike

  November 2009 edited 5:16PM

  Let's move straight to border control ...

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• Alison13

  November 2009 edited 5:16PM

  That involves defining the borders, and we've been there before...

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• wisteria53

  November 2009 edited 5:16PM

  interesting previous conversations found through the search facility: [one here](http://www.stroudgreen.org/discussion/1347/stroud-green-neighbourhood-day-this-saturday/) and [another here](http://www.stroudgreen.org/discussion/620/stroud-green-borders/) and [one more here](http://www.stroudgreen.org/discussion/390/stroud-green-border/)

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• tosscat

  November 2009 edited 5:16PM

  Well done wisteria53, a lesson to us all.

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• wisteria53

  November 2009 edited 5:16PM

  It's all thanks to your example, tosscat - I was determined to learn how to do this [markdown](http://www.stroudgreen.org/discussion/642/making-links-and-images/) stuff.

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• tosscat

  November 2009 edited 5:16PM

  And look how you used the search function.

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• Bernie

  November 2009 edited 5:16PM

  I have a stroudgreen.org CSE (I can do markdown after 3 failed attempts and then looking up how). Can tosscat outline the O and A level pass requirements? Is that clever search thing O Level?

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• sahara_dessert

  December 2009 edited 5:16PM

  @# wisteria53 how do you do those little quirky 'teenage speak hearty things?' Don't seem to have them on my plain old keyboard

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• Alex

  December 2009 edited 5:16PM

  [I ♥ Google](http://chexed.com/ComputerTips/asciicodes.php) when researching stuff like this!

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• nesta

  January 2010 edited 5:16PM

  @ Alex - how do you make the little hearts? as in I "heart" N4? I would so "heart" to know....

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• tosscat

  January 2010 edited 5:16PM

  Alt - '3' on your numeric keypad only.

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• nesta

  January 2010 edited 5:16PM

  i ♥ u tosscat ☺ thanks

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• wisteria53

  January 2010 edited 5:16PM

  @sahara_dessert I had posted quite a few of them on the [Making Links and Images](http://www.stroudgreen.org/discussion/642/making-links-and-images) page as well for easy cut/paste: ♪ ♩ ♬ ♫ ♭ ♮ ♯ ◊ ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦ ☺ ☻ ☼ ♀ ♂ ○ ● ◘ ◙ Sorry for not replying in December; it gets busy around Christmas!

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• taff bach

  January 2010 edited 5:16PM

  Oi, Wisteria53......did you know Sahara means big desert?

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• wisteria53

  January 2010 edited 5:16PM

  and dessert is what you eat after meals. So sahara_dessert means big desert sweets?

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• Slabber

  January 2010 edited 5:16PM

  Is the reference to colourful people in the first post a bit racist?

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