If you moved to Canada, what would be one thing you would miss??

One thing that's unique to the United States that you would miss if you moved to Canada??

For me, it would be college athletics. I just could not get excited for Canadian college sports, because there's only like 30 colleges in Canada that have sports. I would miss the NCAA Basketball Tournament, Division I-AA Football, athletics from my own college, etc.

I really like the CFL though, and I could really get excited about that. (GO BOMBERS!!!) I could also get all the Vikings football games on satellite, so that wouldn't be a problem.

I'm still planning on living in Canada when I get my degree, but I have to admit, that is one big thing I would miss.

Is there ANY ONE thing that's unique to the USA that you would miss if you moved to Canada??

If you have DirecTV over here and sign up for the Sports Pack, you can get over 30 college football games every Saturday during football season, from DI-A games all the way down to D-III games. I don't think you could get that in Canada.

We get all the same telepacks you do

FSN is the American version of Rogers Sportsnet in Canada except it covers around 15 regions instead of just four.

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Maybe it's where I'm from, but baseball is kind of inherent in me. We regularly go to different cities around the Midwest to see the Cardinals play. There's something about the bantering between rivaling fans, the smell of the ballpark, the wonderful summery background. I love it.

I've lived in Texas all my life, much of it along the border where winter is usually on a Tuesday.

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i'm in northern new mexico at 7,500'. we have four distinct seasons, including snow, but the sun keeps it warm. i've lived in northern new england, and this is much warmer than there, even though both are considered zone 5 for gardening.

the days down here are longer, too, in winter. i do NOT like when it gets dark at 3:30, and will never move farther north again because of that.

from SoCal

Maybe Mexican food and margaritas on Friday night?

This was before the NFL returned to Baltimore. They played at Memorial Stadium. My dad was so excited a football team was in Baltimore he bought season tickets. I used to go up there all the time with him.
My father would have turned 62 last week. He died in 1998. He never saw the Ravens win the Superbowl, which would have been one of the happiest days of his life. I remember my mother telling me how he went into a month long funk when the Baltimore Colts lost the Superbowl to, the Jets I think.
I miss the hell out of him. Thank you CFL for giving Baltimore a team. Those were the last games I went to with my dad.

I lived in Maryland at the time. I remember feeling sad when I heard Baltimore was getting an NFL team because I knew it was the end for the CFL Colts. I enjoyed watching them. I like the Canadian rules.

I'd miss maple syrup, salmon, and HOCKEY..

:o Oh wait...

:smoke: What was the question again?

I can say I missed anything from the U.S.

I remember coming back to the states through Logan International Airport and thought to myself how fucked things are here compared to Canada.

Wish I could live out my life there!

...we really do need a good kosher deli here--the kind that's closed on Saturday!

Other than that, there ain't much to wish for!

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I will not George Bush make me hate my country. There is so much I would miss, not only my family and friends, but all kinds of little things.
Not that I don't like Canada. It is the only foreign country I have ever been to, and I have always had a delightful time there, even in Quebec where the people are a bit hostile.

So. Cal. has a lot of it.

As Forrest Gump said, "And that's all I have to say about that."

and in Vancouver during the summer is a fireworks competition...

O Canada...

the May 2 - 4!

I won't call it a fight becaus eit was more like me getting punhced and saying "fuck it, I'm out" and leaving, haha. Yes, I'm a wuss.

and the only person that I missed was my Mom. Moving back here from there, though, I missed...and still do miss...Tim Horton's coffee-there is NONE better, the Hamilton Tiger Cats, and Gilmour's Restaurant.

There are some nice whine aspects that would disappear if I actually left the country.

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yup

and this is and educated/experienced opinion

I lived in San Diego for 14 months, 79 - 80

Black's Beach, just below Glider Point - what a place for hand - gliders' eh? :evilgrin:

actually I luved all the beaches in CA

BEAUTY sunsets too . . .

clothing optional

there's a reason God created mumus, the Lacoste shirt, and pants that go all the way up to your armpits, you know.

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I'm just playin, you guys know that! :P

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We got lots of material up here to modify that to "Murikkka Bashing"

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I'm an equal basher. :7

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You get to complain about the weather, and the hairdo on the CBC's lead anchor guy, and (speaking of the CBC) why all the best shows get their timeslots switched around for no particular reason ...

Squirrels in the attic! Raccoons in the garbage cans!

And, of course, all those obnoxious American tourists driving north with skis on top of their cars -- why don't they know any better?

It's a good way of getting a cushy job writing editorials for the National Post.

Have been going into a corner store/supermarket and buying beer, and......actually, that's the only thing I can think of right now..

Well, that, Canadian Beer, and Tim Hortons...

Sorry Honey!:)

My income after taxes would go down by at least 50%.

I love this state. :( :( :( :( :(

We should secede. Really.

If that happens, then my state should secede too, just because all of our nuclear weapons would keep him in check.:evilgrin:

:D

So you'll probably break even.

I don't know why I'm Metric System-phobic. It can be mastered. It'd be fairly easy to figure out that my shivering is caused by the fact that it's 2 degrees Celcius outside -- in April! Brrrr. :scared:

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Abd Canadian Bacon is light years better than what you get in the US..

It's called Back Bacon in Canada...

Ain't nothing better than the Peameal Back Bacon Sandwiches at the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto....

I can feel my arteries hardening just thinking about em!

I don't like our war machines or our ghetto scenes either, but let's face it, the conflicts between blacks and whites, rich and poor, conservatives and liberals, Northerners and Southerners, et. al., have allowed us to produce much more influential books, movies, TV, and music than the Canadians. I do love "The Deptford Trilogy" by Robertson Davies and "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" by Mordecai Richler is one of my favorite novels, but neither of those authors were stylistic innovators on the level of Hemingway or Faulkner. Name a style of music that originated in Canada. We gave the world jazz, the blues, rock and roll, country music, R&B and rap. The quality of life is better there, but there are drawbacks to even a perfect society. As Harry Lime noted in "The Third Man," Switzerland had 500 years of peace, and came up with the cuckoo clock. Italy had the Borgias, and came up with the Renaissance. That's why I love America. For all our faults -- and we have many, which are constantly pointed out by more orderly but less creative societies -- this is where the action is.


And before you flame me by pointing out there are 10 times as many of us as you, consider what the Irish have accomplished.

That's it.
I like Canada. I think I would like living there.

If I could relocate all my friends and family with me, I'd be heading up there pronto.

Oh wait, you meant GOOD things I'd be missing...

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OK... All the palm trees in my yard... and the lemon tree, lime tree and Giant Birds of Paradise...

1) College and high school sports (Maybe our Canadian friends have this, but they don't take it nearly as seriously as we do)
2) County Fairs (not sure if they have these in Canada or not)

definitely Slurpees

is the Slurpees consumption capital of Canada. Go figure.

Don't fool me. Other than Vancouver,they don't know what warm weather is up there.
Their idea of a warm day is when I wear a cloth coat instead of Down.

year round, then where I am- South Wisconsin.

I know some guys up in Vancouver who complain about taking too much warm clothing with them on a bike ride when I'm scraping ice off the windshield down here.

But I'll bet I couldn't afford to live some place nice like that...

and the lack of mass transit

and thirty-seven crap food chains on every corner.

I'm totally fucking pissed off that none of the Canadian TV stations are carrying the new version of "Kojak". x(

Although this comes third on the list behind family/friends and college hoops (specifically the Bucknell appeasers).