On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Armin Steinhoff wrote: > Adriaan Renting wrote: > >>>>> "Wade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/24/05 2:31 pm >>> >> >> http://www.slate.com/id/2124561/entry/2124562/ Nice little series by >> Seth Stevenson for Americans daydreaming about emigration. Somewhere, >> anywhere ... maybe Amsterdam? I've never been to the Netherlands >> myself, but it sounds very civilized. > > What a joke ... Amsterdam is 'civilized' since several hundreds of years > :)
Indeed. Perhaps we should rename it Old New York to reinforce the point :). But yes, the Netherlands is a highly civilised country - up there with Denmark and Canada, and above the UK, France or Germany, IMNERHO. I'm not going to bother comparing it to the US! tom -- This should be on ox.boring, shouldn't it? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
