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January 26, 2006

Fun With Google

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Where would we be without Google? Still using Altavista, probably. Anyway, the Little Search Engine That Could has thrown up a fascinating, but utterly pointless, exercise in urbanism.

Some places become so associated with a certain class of person or lifestyle that they become intrinsically associated. Thanks to Mr Tony Blair and his cohorts, the word Islington now conjures a whole range of desirable and undesirable overtones - polenta, The Guardian, metropolitan middle class smugness and so on.

And so, dear reader, we pose you this question. What do the following places have in common?

Strathbungo, Glasgow
... and Garnethill, Glasgow

The Cliff, Manchester
... and West Didsbury, Manchester

South Street, Philadelphia

Paddington, Sydney

The Marais, Paris

Ponsonby, Auckland

The "Golden Triangle", Norwich

Christianshavn, Copenhagen

Campo Dei Fiore, Rome

Find out after the jump ...

All those districts are the world's answer to Notting Hill, according to Google.

So, now you can tour the world without leaving west London's funkiest enclave. To paraphrase Rupert Brooke, there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever W11.


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Comments (5)

I have a friend who lives in Garnethill, Glasgow. It is nothing like Notting Hill, in fact it's not even comparable in any way.

 

Tell that to these chaps.

 

Actually, Le Marais in Paris is more like a cross between Old Compton Street and Golders Green as it is home to both gay and Jewish enclaves of the capital. Not much to do with Notting Hill, I am afraid...

 

Notting Hill is similar to South Street, Phila?????

You have got to be kidding....I have been there many times - that is not even close.

 

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