Canada... What's it like?

[dolgoruky]

I know that this is a kind of general question, but how do you Canadian folks find life in Canada? I mean, day to day living.

The reason I ask is that I'm a Brit currently looking for a country to settle in as I need to find a neutral country to live in as Mrs Dolgoruky is not British and my son is somwhere in between, nationality-wise. We've had problems settling in our respective countries (and believe me, we've tried) so a third option seems the most appropriate.

Thanks for any answers!

[nine23]

1. What's it like? Well, for one thing, everybody's asleep.

It's the middle of the night on this side of the pond. Suggestion: try starting this thread in the Country: Canada section when people are awake. Threads tend to "stick" around longer there and generate more numerous and well thought-out responses.

Good luck. Myself, while I'm posting from Vancouver, it's 2:00am, and I'm tired and rather...no, seriously - inebriated from a day at the beach...I'd be happy to help tommorrow in the Canada section. Cheers.

[sasquatch]

2. There are rivers that flow with good beer in Canada

And beutifal Canadian women walk araound in the nude to protest against and resist The Bush Crime Family in America.
:loveya:
I don't know, but I know it can't be all that bad.

[nine23]

3. Funny you should mention nude Canadian women.

I spent the day today at Wreck Beach, the fabulously wacky nude beach on the West Side of the city (Vancouver). Lot's of nekked women, but I'm afraid "The Bush Crime Family in America" wasn't paramount on anybody's mind (at least temporarily). It was more like playing frisbee, nekked wind-surfing, and selling organic pina coladas in true nekked entrepreneurial beach spirit.

And yes, they taste much better when served up by a beach hippy chick with no clothes on...

[achtung_circus]

4. Currently, It's like this:

<http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/city/pages/on-143_metric_e.html>

I'll agree with the Country: Canda section selction thingy. See you there.

[sasquatch]

5. Kick

:kick:

[LynneSin]

6. If you don't lock your front door there's a chance Michael Moore will...

..break-in

Seriously - watch Bowling for Columbine

[ghostsofgiants]

9. LynneSin wins the thread

[One_Life_To_Give]

7. Daffodils beneath the sun

Cheer up says the Robin for your Love has just begun.
Canada in Spring. Canada in Love.

[enigmatic]

8. I moved here 4 years ago from the US

And I've fallen head-over-heels, madly in love w/ Canada, whereas before it was just a blind crush.

It's not perfect, but I doubt if I'd ever move back to the US, even if my wife and I were to ever break-up.

About the only things I have a problem w/ are not being able to buy beer at a 7-11 or bgrocery store, and Don Cherry. Other than that...

[ghostsofgiants]

10. Yes, Don Cherry is an issue that needs to be dealt with

And with the quickness.

[enigmatic]

12. I actually ate at a Don Cherry's Restuarant last year

We have one in town; man, I thought Hooters had horrible food..

[WeRQ4U]

11. The police ride horses there.

They love hockey. They all have mullets. They eat disgusting foods like "pickled mini onions" or "mustard sweet pickles". They speak french in this one little part, for no apparent reason whatsoever. DId I mention hockey?

Oh yeah, they spawned such experiments as Celine Dion, Bryan Adams, the Barenaked Ladies, and Alanis Morrisette.

[u4ic]

13. You can get these here:

How could it not be heaven? :shrug:

[sasquatch]

15. I used to raise Angus cattle as a kid

[enigmatic]

16. Coffee Crisps are gooooooooood...

Good eatin'..

[u4ic]

21. There is a website

originating in the US petitioning Nestle to bring Coffee Crisp to the States.

Those poor Murkins are deprived!!!

[GreenPartyVoter]

22. Hubby would sign that

[u4ic]

24. Here ya go

http://coffeecrisp.org/

I don't think I could live without Coffee Crisps. :scared:

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. Me, I like those little Ah Caramel cakes

[SmileyBoy]

14. There's methamphetamine coffee from Tim Horton's.

And you can buy about 2 dozen creme-filled doughnut holes there for about 2 bucks.

Oh man...

[ghostsofgiants]

20. Exardon me, but...

Your avatar is a thing of brilliance to an old denominator, like me.

[terrya]

17. Friendly people.

I have not met one single unfriendly Canadian. Not one. :-)

[formerrepuke]

18. Be careful: they all have beady eyes and floppy heads!

[Donkeyboy75]

19. Banff is cool.

[Lisa]

23. some parts of Canada are kind of like England ...

Here I am, on the West Coast, surrounded by people with British accents, getting rained on.

(Actually the weather in Victoria is a bit drier and sunnier than in, say, Vancouver -- but there are a lot of British expatriates here, and the temperatures are moderate due to the maritime influence, so there are some similarities in the weather.)

Real British people will likely be a bit embarrassed by the pseudo-English act put on by the locals to fleece the tourists (tea and crumpets at the Empress, for example). But the double-decker buses are real.