[Magdalen] Music memories

[Jay Weigel]

Well, there's also the *other* Birmingham here, which is in Alabama. It has
a quite different reputation.

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:
>
> On 23/12/2014 20:27, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>
>> It was interesting dealing with the Birmingham stereotype when I was on
>> college and then when I applied for my first job in Flint, because I was
>> totally unaware that it even existed. My dad was military, and I had spent
>> high school in Germany. My parents had bought the house in B'ham when I was
>> in Junior high, and that was what allowed me in-state tuition. But I
>> learned in college and later that people made certain assumptions about me,
>> and I started saying, "Well, my parents live in Birmingham..."
>>
>
> One of the delights of this international list is the use of place names
> that have a different connotation this side of the pond. Birmingham over
> here has an accent that is fairly impenetrable. Cranbrook is a rather
> desirable area of Kent.
>
> Roger
>