Making fun of Canada is easy but in reality I would probably love Canada. I grew up in Michigan and Ohio, I often wish I lived in a colder climate. I really enjoy being in the Rocky mountains and hate the climate here in TX.
It depends. I knew an older couple here and he continually bitched about how our medical system sucked and had been destroyed by politicians blah, blah, blah...
Then his wife felt ill one day and was taken to hospital. The NEXT DAY she was being operated on to replace a heart valve.
He never bitched again!! (and didn't have to re-mortgage his house)
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Making fun of Canada is easy but in reality I would probably love Canada. I grew up in Michigan and Ohio, I often wish I lived in a colder climate. I really enjoy being in the Rocky mountains and hate the climate here in TX.
...cool, want to trade? I go there for the winter and you can come here...
While you may not get a bill from the hospital, do you really really think it's free? Even in Canada, there is no free lunch. But that being said...thank you for hockey.
Making fun of Canada is easy but in reality I would probably love Canada. I grew up in Michigan and Ohio, I often wish I lived in a colder climate. I really enjoy being in the Rocky mountains and hate the climate here in TX.
The older i get the more cold natured i get.. ( not having a heart helps too )
I dont even wear coats at 32 degrees.. ( well i do wear windbreakers, but that's because i like jackets, not due to the cold ). I dont close my house windows until around 20 degrees outside.
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Actually I was wishing Our folks up north would post some pictures of cool looking places around them ....
I was looking at photos on Google and thought what it would look like with real photos and not the PRO picts you always see..like the picts I pasted in my orig. post
Actually I was wishing Our folks up north would post some pictures of cool looking places around them ....
I was looking at photos on Google and thought what it would look like with real photos and not the PRO picts you always see..like the picts I pasted in my orig. post
Does your National health care include dental coverage, everyone in the pics seems to have good teeth
Yep, basic coverage. We also have insurance for the extra stuff (crowns, whitening, etc..) I'm actually on my way to the dentist on Monday... *sigh* not a fan...
I was up in the Toronto area last week for Canada's Wonderland (hit Marineland on the way back through Niagra, too). Beyond the worse-than-Chicago traffic it was pretty cool. I also went by the plant where my Charger was built:
I was up in the Toronto area last week for Canada's Wonderland (hit Marineland on the way back through Niagra, too). Beyond the worse-than-Chicago traffic it was pretty cool. I also went by the plant where my Charger was built:
NICE! I didn't know they built there...
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Suuuure. Show them pictures with lots of snow... We hardly had any snow here in August. I love the shot of the Tracker catching air off the hill! I have a Tracker that I just might try that with this winter!
What was the polar vortex like up there? Down here in St.Louis it was a long snowy cold winter.My snow plow business hasn't seen that much work since the 80s
What was the polar vortex like up there? Down here in St.Louis it was a long snowy cold winter. My snow plow business hasn't seen that much work since the 80s
I'll bet Al Gore has an answer as to what was happening.
Do Canadians call black people living there, African-Canadians?
So true... many of the people here in South Florida have never been to Africa, nor are their parents from Africa. My friend (who was originally born in Jamaica) is no more an African-American than I am a Euro-Hispanic American.
Suuuure. Show them pictures with lots of snow... We hardly had any snow here in August. I love the shot of the Tracker catching air off the hill! I have a Tracker that I just might try that with this winter!
My bad, I thought that was what he wanted...
Here are summer ones:
I have a drone so here is a picture of my neighborhood
I put this one here because you will see that even though we are two separate countries, we support are American neighbors.
Canada and the USA are very similar as you can see from the pictures. IMO, what makes Canada different is no matter who you are or where you are from, everyone will take you in and make sure you enjoy your stay. don't get me wrong, I tour the USA every year, it is incredibly beautiful and very industrialized (I love buildings, machinery and structures from the industrial era. ). It just does not feel as welcoming.... Even though me and my family would look 100% American to any other American.
There was a Canadian at Fierorama. I didn't even hear an accent. If he hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known he was Canadian.
I'm American, so have bad geography, but even I had to laugh the other day when someone referred to Oregon as being part of Canada. I have no idea where Quebec and that other place up there I see several Fiero people post from are, though.
There's no single "Canadian accent". It differs around the country, but more so in eastern areas. Canadians west of Ontario mostly sound Californian - like everyone on the TV shows out of Hollywood.
About geography, on a Canadian Border Crossing TV Show - had to laugh when an American entering Canada at a B.C. crossing tells the Canadian Customs guy he was headed for Montreal for a couple of days - which is on the OTHER side of the country.
About geography, on a Canadian Border Crossing TV Show - had to laugh when an American entering Canada at a B.C. crossing tells the Canadian Customs guy he was headed for Montreal for a couple of days - which is on the OTHER side of the country.
.......and is also a BAD idea . Last time I went to Montreal for a "few days" I stumbled back to Ontario 3 weeks later one very happy man.
I have a drone so here is a picture of my neighborhood
Canada and the USA are very similar as you can see from the pictures. IMO, what makes Canada different is no matter who you are or where you are from, everyone will take you in and make sure you enjoy your stay. don't get me wrong, I tour the USA every year, it is incredibly beautiful and very industrialized (I love buildings, machinery and structures from the industrial era. ). It just does not feel as welcoming.... Even though me and my family would look 100% American to any other American.
cheers!
There's a green one and a pink one and blue one and a yellow one and they're all made out of ticky taky and they all look just the same.
About 3 years ago there was a sitcom based in Canada called Corner Gas and it centered around a little corner gas station in a very small Canadian town. I thought it was funny, haven't been able to find it anymore though.
I wouldn't have pegged you as a Weeds fan maryjane, that's one of my favorites!
You have to remember, my age. I have no idea what you are talking about, but I remember the song from my youth--it came out some time in the very early 60s as a jab at cramped up tract housing and American post war suburbia's subdivisions. The little town I grew up in had an area that fit the description to a tee, built in a very short time period in the mid-late 50s and it was simply known then as The New Addition. It's still called that today, but it is of course, no longer new and most of the houses are in bad shape. Before this type of building took place, most homes had a fairly spacious back yard and were separated from their neighbors quite a bit.
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