my fellow american DUers, what do you think of canada?

i love the place

god bless canada and have a blessed day

A very dear person once likened Canada's relationship to the United States that way. I agree with that assessment.

I love Canada and its people. It's a wonderful, progressive country that we could do very well to emulate. They respect their own people, if that makes sense. National Health Care. Taking care of their own. And virtually full equality for GLBT people.

Canada is a wonderful country. I hope to live there one day. I thank my Canadian partner for being so patient with me in my ultimate move to Canada.

national health care.

wow.

i need to move to one of these "failed" countries with "socialized" medicine when i start getting older.

lord knows, i won't be viable here in the US if i get sick.

No card or anything, but curious.

We tried to immigrate there by got torpedoed by the ex: kid issues.

I lived there for a few years. Great healthcare, lousy employment situations. The people have put together a nice, working, friendly system. And at the same time, there's people there whose sole mission in life is to try and outdo Americans, and when they find out you're an American, they go out of their way to start puffing themselves up or make you feel lousy.

just as anywhere.

how's the weather?

Weather is ok now... actually a touch cool. Did you see the tornado videos?

i imagine if gulf moisture gets all the way up there combined with high pressure frontal activity, you guys must get some kick ass t-storms.

the weather where i live (about 30 miles from the gulf of mexico) can get surreal. sometimes the air gets so saturated with moisture that it almost seems like you can reach up and grab the sky because it seems like it is 10 feet above you.

don't know if that made sense.

But I do remember things were pretty bad for employment where I was at the time.

Just seemed like an odd thing to say about a country, it's basically dependant on location, economy, skill, etc. :)

I should have been more descriptive.

no big deal, eh? :P

Loreena MacKennitt and Gordon Lightfoot.

Hair dyed black and then deep red on top of it.
Way too many smokers.
Fantastic Maple syrup treats.
French that really doesn't sound like the french I grew up with.
Speedos. Horrible, horrible Speedos.
Poutine.

They drive too fast and take over Old Orchard Beach.
And those Speedos --- Oh Canada!

:P

bestest poutines.

:D

:hide:

Sorry, u4ic hasn't been around much lately, so I have to bug you!

Just because a cardboard box is renting out these days for 1000 bucks a month as living space doesn't mean a thing!:rofl:

It's probably true.

http://vega.soi.city.ac.uk/~ge549/attitude_media/photos/beaver.bmp
And a hoser friend :D

Rush and hockey. Canada gets into heaven based on those contributions to civilization!

Think about it!

fargin bastages

I hear she eats the brains of young children with maple syrup.

or mayonnaise or whatever it is you guys do there.

That's how we eat them. Baby brain poutine, that's good eatin'!

:beer: :beer: :beer:

(I don't even know what that means.)

:shrug:

Sloan and "Trailer Park Boys."

It's a nice State but no better than the other 47.

Should I go back to Free Republic Now?:evilgrin:




Forgive me I couldn't help picking on my fellow countrymen.
P.S. Have a great holiday weekend.

kidding! :-)

rai ront row raggy

For the Tug Boat Race. Nice place and very friendly people. I'd become a citizen in a heartbeat.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:

if they'd let me. :(

fiancées. :loveya:






Of course, I have to say that or the old ball-and-chain will...um.........did I just say that out loud, eh?




:hide:

:scared:

The Loony is now worth more than the Greenback.

Live rates at 2007.06.28 20:15:16 UTC

1.00 USD

=

1.05861 CAD


United States Dollars Canada Dollars
1 USD = 1.05861 CAD 1 CAD = 0.944632 USD

:thumbsup:

And I think they sound perfectly normal.
:P

may he rest in peace... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXWXe-0Wsow

He was great.

:hi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRQw_fNKnpg
Not quite as refined as his dad's singing; but it's got the same potential...

Thanks for that.

We're seriously pondering moving to Ottawa. It's close enough to my parents that we won't have to spend millions of $$$ to visit, and the s.o. won't have to learn French.

--expat canuck

just trying to determine a way to save up enough money.

this country is majorly fucked.

if you use the SC decisions handed down today as a barometer, we are gonna be back in the 1890s really quick.


i'd like to leave while it's still possible.

we are one terrorist attack away from being on lockdown in this country.

The only thing that might conceivably keep us here is if Al Gore runs. Maybe. And even then.

:scared:

P.S. We're in Texas, which makes it worse somehow, as you probably know.

ever since their rightward drift, though, i'm thinking maybe not

it's all a pipedream anyway... gotta have $$$ first

I love Canada. I've visited a couple of times over the years and hope to go again.

Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Heaven, God went missing for six days.
Eventually, Michael the archangel found him, resting on the seventh day.
He inquired of God, "Where have you been?"
God sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds,
"Look Michael, look what I've made."
Archangel Michael looked puzzled and said, "What is it?"
"It's a planet," replied God, "and I've put LIFE on it. I'm going to call it Earth and it's going to be a great place of balance."
"Balance?" inquired Michael, still confused.
God explained, pointing to different parts of Earth, "For example, Northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth while Southern Europe is going to be poor; the Middle East over there will be a hot spot. Over there I've placed a continent of white people and over there is a continent of black people," God continued, pointing to different countries. "This one will be extremely hot and arid while this one will be very cold and covered in ice."
The Archangel, impressed by Gods work, then pointed to a large land mass the top corner and asked, "What's that one?"
"Ah," said God. "That's Canada, the most glorious place on Earth. There's beautiful mountains, lakes, rivers, streams and an exquisite coast-line. The people from Canada are going to be modest, intelligent and humorous and they're going to be found traveling the world. They'll be extremely sociable, hard-working and high achieving, and they will be known throughout the world as diplomats and carriers of peace. I'm also going to give them super-human, undefeatable ice hockey players who will be admired and feared by all who come across them."
Michael gasped in wonder and admiration but then proclaimed. "What about balance, God? You said there will be BALANCE!"
God replied wisely. "Wait until you see the loud-mouth bastards I'm putting next to them."

Did you see who got the one and two slot for the NHL draft?

I would love to move there.

(And to anyone thinking about diverting Canada's or the Great Lakes' water, BACK OFF! Learn to conserve or build a desalinization plant. :P)

:D

Thinking of moving there, we'll see how it goes in 08

;-)






*South Park song

cuban cigars, Hockey, Rush and Tylenol with Codeine over the counter.. makes me want to break out in song!
"Oh! Canada. Our home and native land... "

with very nice people

We were going to try to move up, but those plans have been shelved indefinitely, until Alberta's economy softens a bit.

We just couldn't afford it right now. Especially if I can't work for a year or so. And I'm the main breadwinner.

If CanDUers only knew how much we pay for Kerr's here in Southern California
they would be amazed. :wow:



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