( I retired today. ) Is that when they started
calling it Metroland here?
That bloody nonsense.
No, that was
just a name made up
to please the estate agents
during the war
before Hitler's.
Catchy name
to make it sound cozy.
Cozy homes for cozy heroes…
…minutes from Baker Street
and a pension at the end of the line.
Turned it into
what it is now...
bourgeois dormitory.
Aren't you bourgeois, then?
'Course, I am.
So are you...
I shouldn't wonder.
No, I'm not staying
in Metroland.
I'm gonna live in Paris
and take pictures.
French never could run
a decent rail service.
You see, it doesn't matter
where you go.
Metroland isn't a place.
It's a state of mind.
-Metroland