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I like canada. It is like a very big and more liberal sweden. There is a lot of good laws and stuff and the people seem to be good people in general. I could see myself living there for a year or two studying or something. So Canadians , whats it like living there ? What is cheap and what is expensive ? What sucks and what is really great ? Do i have to learn a little french ? |
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Vancouver is probly the best city here, and its really expensive. Honeslty, stay out of any city that isn't called vancouver or montreal. French isn't really necessary unless you live in one of the french speaking areas. Those are all out in central canada, the main one being quebec, and then random other communities and towns outside of quebec. Actually, there are quite a few nice cities here. You just have to watch out, cause there are a lot of boring ones. |
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i have heard that winnipeg is a frozen shithole, so dont go there. I like snow + woods though.. that's the first thing coming to my mind when thinking about Canada |
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Stay away from the east cost, unless its Halifax. I heard Manitoba kicks ass (It doesnt). New Brunswick (my terr'try) sucks ass. Montreal is awesome. Loads of strip clubs, loads of good music, loads of everything. You'll probably even blow a load or too. Toronto is awesome as well. It is the most multicultural city on earth so if you get hungry, you can get any sort of cuisine imagineable. Except for extra-terrestrial cuisine becuase, lets face it, its just not tasty |
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Hey dont be dissin asian food! foo |
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Ok so the big cities like Vancouver , Toronto and Montreal is the best places to go then. Canada should have been a part of europe. Some evil king moved it above america thousands of years ago and no one has done anything about it yet. |
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Montreal is great. I love it here. From our chainsmoking poets to our fast and cheap Chinese restaurants, there's something for everyone. |
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Toronto is a festering hellhole, a multicultural experiment gone terribly awry, it is good to visit, bad to live in Montreal, I have been told, is quite nice Rural northwestern ontario is the nicest place i've lived thus far |
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Vancouver is great, although there is no real pub culture. |
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Asians aren't extra-terrestrials! |
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Because there's only whities up there? Done any huntin' lately? |
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In Toronto and Ottawa you can be arrested for complaining about the 10 o'clock curfew. You are allowed to have one beer a month on the second Sunday of the month and you have to drink it warm while watching a tape loop of Don Cherry. FACT |
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Canada would be great if it wasn't for all the Canadians. Guns, weed, socialized health care- but christ they are all white-soul-less bastards. |
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haha |
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I love it when americans show their true colors. Makes events like 9/11 enjoyable to watch. |
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oooh that's gonna touch a nerve..... |
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oooh that's gonna touch a nerve..... |
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wow... harsh |
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haha... damn evil king... seriously though i agree with all the above statements... i don't mind my city too too much cause it has a really huge gorgeous river valley running straight through the center of it, but it's a bit too far north to get a lot of interesting shows and whatnot... i will definitely be moving outta here in the next year or so... it's looking more and more like its gonna be Montreal... |
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Now that was really uncalled for. It's not like I made a derrogatory reference about your queen. There is a Queen of Canada, right? |
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There was for a few days but then he went home to Washington. |
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kinkardine |
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that was close.... |
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I'm Canadian and someday I wish I'll stop being it. I don't hate the country, it's just that it's too different. Canadians are too different then us in Québec, we have no need for them as they have no need for us. I wish I will be able to live in a country made for me and my people where we can make all of our own decisions, in Québec. |
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not that i want to get into a big argument with you... as i can totally respect your opinion either way... i think there are plenty of regional groups within Canada that are "too different" from one another... Canada is not a homogeneous nation in any sense of the word and i think that is precisely what makes it cool... we don't have the sort of fixed roots and value systems to prevent us from moving forward when it makes sense for us to do so... maybe you don't think you need Canada and we don't need Quebec but the moment things changed i'm not sure it would seem that way anymore... |
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Unfortunatly the biggest problem with the seperation of Quebec is that it can not support itself financialy. |
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fishing, and it's not all whities either... |
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whatever you do, don;t come to saskatchewan. boring as fuck. |
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Yeah... they all want to make their laws and govern themselves, but they don't want to take responsibility for their own financial state. They want to recieve the same ammount of money back from taxes, without being an official member of canada. Personally, I want to deny my canadian citizenship and move elsewhere. I don't smoke pot, I am not gay, and I am not a criminal, so all the areas that canada seems liberal in do not apply to me. |
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That was awesome... |
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its not even a real country |
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..quebec can totally support itself financially, they are actually doing incredibly well as of late. i think vancouver and montreal are the best cities... i live in vancouver but i think montreal is better for citylife. |
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It's okay you know, what makes Canada great for many people is the fact that it's made of everything. Well that's good for them, you know. Those are the people that gladly accept us in Québec as part of the multi-culturalism, as opposed to those who hate us. Sure fine I'm okay with that. We're 30% of the population, all in 1 single province speaking a totally different language, having a completely disconnected culture from the one in the "Rest-of-Canada" (which itself is anyway just a copy of what's in the USofA), a completely independant star system you know, with media power and all, a specific border where when you cross it, you know you've entered in Québec. Everything is different there. And the different thing also, is that we simply don't want to share it like you guys do. We just want to govern ourselves. That's just what we want. To say we couldn't support ourselves, is truly naive in the way "internationalism" is going on these days. There are more and more countries created, microcosm of the entire earth. We just don't go with the North American ideology as much as you guys do in the Rest-of-Canada. I mean, 99% of us don't watch Canadian shows, we watch our own Quebec channels and our own production and our own music and our own cinema and our own media stars and our own architecture and our own history and our own etc.... |
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Oh and to the guy that privately said stupid stuff about France and so... that's just again, stupid. We're as dissiocated to the country of France as a Texans is, to England. And why would I quit North America? It is my bloody right to live here. My fathers step in a boat to come here, like anybody in America. It was the land of the free to us also. Just colder. Tehehe. |
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yeah... and its still canada... |
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VANCOUVER is the dopest place ever. you just need to make friends quick so you can share the cost of living. |
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otherwise they ship you to Qubek staight away... |
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i kind of want to live in canada, but the cold would really get to me. here in america there is a consesus or something that canadians are dumb or something. or at least they are the butt of many jokes. that's just silly. have you ever watched kids in the hall? i mean, come on. |
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id like to go there and meet terrence and philip |
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i don't think the ideology is all that different... i don't share the ideology with the other "99% of north america"... Canada is not just a copy of America... i'm learning French as best i can... i regret that it took me this long, but that is the fault of my forefathers and no fault of my own... not to say that places such as Montreal aren't good by themselves, but it is the cultural mecca that it is precisely because it is a convergence point of MULTIPLE cultures and not just quebecois culture... |
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Quebec is Mycenaean and Montreal is Minoan. |
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I wonder why ymenard has an avatar from an American movie and not one from a good pur laine Quebecois movie. |
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blah, stupid quebec... all it does is whine whine whine!! |
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St. John's is the place to be... seriously, no doubt! |
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in somes ways I do want quebec to separate... so that I can watch them come crawling back to us on their hands and knees after they learn they can't survive on their own... there is a group of people in Newfoundland that want's to separate from Canada as well... Newfoundland has gotten a pretty shitty deal in our Canadian history... but I think it's a damn stupid idea for us to separate, because we'd never survive as our own country... and I feel the same way about quebec... |
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I moved to Canada when I was 15, and my intial attitude toward Quebec was just to echo dumbly the sort of sentiment I heard by anglophones in Toronto (where I lived) that the french are "whiny" (nonsense) "eccentric" (maybe, but wonderfully so) etc. Nowadays I think Quebec is the de facto culture capital of Canada, and much as I would be very sad to see Quebec separate, I think, privately, if I were a Quebecois, I'd probably support it. Maybe it's the advantage of speaking a different language, but Quebec was able to resist the massive influence of the neighbor to the south and construct an island of solidarity in North America. Quebec has a tangible sense of community that just doesn't exist in the rest of Canada. Don't get me wrong: I love Vancouver to pieces, and I think Toronto (the city everyone loves to hate) is great.. but Quebec is just something else altogether. I applied to the Explore! Program (6 weeks government-paid french immersion education) for this summer and I hope I can pick some up.. I really want to live in Montreal as a biligual (well, tri-lingual) Canadian sometime. I like Montreal a lot, but I think if you don't speak French you are just a long-term tourist.. |
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The_Funkmaster, that is an absolute stupid anglophone myth.. Quebec does enjoy disporportionate Federal government funding, but I think they'd do very well on their own economically.. The only thing I dislike about Quebec is the narrow, fanatic, Catholic mentality you still find in the smaller towns and rural areas.. but that too is gradually dissipating. |
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actually, every region of canada is different from the rest, due to the sprinkling of population density separated by nothingness for hours it is certainly not all like the usa, save toronto, which is like a canadian emulation of new york with a larger immigrant population montreal is toronto for artists all of the artsy people I know moved to montreal except me.. because I do not leech my living off of the social system ;) |
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