Americans, what Canadian city would you live in... and vice versa...

As a Canadian I'd love to live in Boston or Chicago. Both appeal to me quite a bit. Like everyone I'd love to live in New York as well, so I left that out.

I've also been to Montreal. It was nice, but I wouldn't want to live there.

or Montreal.

I'm sitting here right now. The nightlife blows, though.

I got to visit for about a month back in '98. Loved every minute of it. Explored several of the islands between the mainland and VI.

I felt really at home there.

COme back, this city changes like mad.

for sure.

If the average annual temps get below 70F (21C) I'm miserable and you don't want to be around me, no matter how great the city. My past-wife came from Meaford, Ontario, but I'm not sure what her favourite city there was. Probably one of the places in BC

Now if you want to know what cities other than Houston I could live it, that would have to be Austin. It at least remains humid enough all year long for my tastes and has the ultra-hot summers I crave. But I would miss the wonderful Indian, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean restaurants and groceries here... (Houston has the second-largest Indian population in the US.) :)

I could do Vancouver, no problem, but my first choice is probably Victoria.

in August, even??

Austin is a great city, agreed. And I guess someone has to like Houston... I have family who live in The Woodlands and it reminds me of Stepford City or something.

Grew up here, can't live without it. I love the "subtropics" :)

And the Woodlands ain't Houston. It's a "planned community" built by Friendswood Development Corp (a subsidiary of Exxon.) The real Houston isn't zoned, isn't sterilized and has quite a bit of great character to it. Just visit the Montrose area sometime for a taste of what we're like here :)

And, although Vancouver isn't cold to the natives, it would be to me. Please see the temperature ranges I am comfortable with in my first post ;) I suppose I could say, too, that Houston isn't "hot" especially since I don't start sweating until it reaches the upper 80s or low 90s, depending on the humidity... I'd rather sweat than shiver any day! :P

I've been to the Montrose district. Saw my first and last peep-show there with my then b.f. The area around Rice is nice, and Houston has some good museums, agreed. However, I've lived in Miami - farther south, even- and Houston's heat is terrible in comparison - fry eggs on the sidewalk kinda heat. lung-scorcher kinda heat.

Plus, you're surrounded by fundies. And oil pumps things that look like mechanical birds hunting for worms.

But other than that, of course it's a wonderful place to be... :yoiks:

...depends on how you look at it, I guess. Houston is one of those "purple/violet" cities: half red, half blue. And if you weren't impressed, that's cool. But it's a big city, all sprawled out, lots of places to find things worth visiting and living with. Such as the Orange Show and the Art Car Parade/Museum, the miniature Forbidden City out in Katy, the Waterwall fountain at Transco/Williams Tower, the Rothco Chapel, the headless body-builder statue I used to live next to in the Heights area (no matter who drove by, they'd all slow down to look, even ambulances!)

I haven't seen an oilwell pump in ages; there are none inside the loop (Loop 610) that I am aware of. Maybe you're thinking of Stinkadeena (Pasadena), Deer Park or La Porte? There are horses kept on the powerline right-of-way behind the apartments I live at though :)

But, to itch their own. I simply do not do well with "cooler" temps. Heat is my friend, whether y'all believe me or not

but I sure do love to hate it. :)

since I don't live there, I always think of the oil pumps b/c they're everywhere when you drive in via 10, and the surface roads coming in from the east, or even on the toll road from the north.

Austin, however, is GREAT. I love that city. One of the best cities in the U.S.

But don't take I-10/71 to Austin, take 290. It's a much nicer drive, less traffic, hardly any truck traffic and you get to go through all those little towns like Giddings, Elgin and Brenham :D

The main drawback to Austin is finding decent living quarters close to town that don't cost a literal arm and leg ;)

I'm starting to apply for jobs in Canada that are in my field. I see that all the job postings for Canada note that canadian residents get priority hiring, so HEyHEY, will you green card marry me? I know we've never met, but why should that stand in the way of a good green card relationship? You're only the third person on DU I've ask to green card marry me (or did I ask you already?) so it's not like I'm a green card slut or anything. yet.

I could then start an underground railroad because I have never in my life heard so many people express a desire to leave this country.

just think about it...

they met when they came to my town to hear Will Pitt speak. Even tho I only want to marry you for your citizenship, I'm still a nice person. :)

It's a different system.. I'd basically have to vouche that I'd be taking care of you.. I believe that's how it all works.

I'm looking for a job, not a sugar daddy.

HEyHEY needs someone to keep him grounded, and you need...well...a Canadian. I can vouch for him. He's an actual Canadian.

I don't know about that keeping him grounded, tho. For all I know I might be close to old enough to be his mama and I don't ground indefinitely. Or spank. but I could work on both.

Sorry to derail the thread, but I just wanted to say that.

P.S. HEyHEY - She's not -quite- old enough to be your mama, but she's awesomely cool and pretty too.

you can derail any thread to say nice things about me. :pals:

others' opinions may vary, of course. - as far as posting, I haven't even been around DU for a couple of years, and stopped by ONE TIME and it happened to be the day that Kephra died. I got burned out with all the candidate fights. Do my best to avoid that now.

okay, so back on topic-

HEyHEY - My "usual" relationship advice does not apply.

what's your "usual" relationship advice?

No hablo ingles!

your usual relationship advice didn't apply? so what's that advice? run whenever you see a post from someone asking you to green card marry them? if so, thanks for making the exception for me.

btw, you might not think I'd be the best person to ground him if you knew about my question about whether or not you could be electrocuted if you used a blow dryer while peeing.

I know someone there.

but definitely not Edmonton, Winnipeg or Calgary, although I would love to visit them.

Maybe St. Johns

That's the one I"m most familiar with and I love it.

My priorities besides job opportunities are (1) good public transportation and walkable streets (non-driver for the past decade) (2) affordability (3) good food and cultural diversity (the two are inextricably linked in my mind.) (4) good live music/theater/arts scene (also inextricably linked with cultural diversity).

Toronto seems as good as where I live now (Chicago) in all those ways, probably even better in some.

If I had to move to the US - San Antonio

I have a bunch of friends that live in that area. :)

Real nice cabin and the locals humored me when I tried out my lameass French. I've also stayed at Banff and Calgary. I wouldn't mind living in any of those places. But I'll never be back to Canada. I got a DUI about 20 years ago and now I'm banned from the country.

...because I'd like to improve my spoken french and just simply remember so much of the written french I've already forgotten.

But if I were to live in America, I think I'd like to live in Boston. If I were to live in Canada, I would choose Vancouver. But both of these choices are necessarily limited to places I have actually visited.

I will live there someday.

That's where the boyfriend is. :-)

Plus, and this is just me, I like Toronto a lot.

Flame away, if you must.

I don't know a thing about the place, but that would make for a realy cool return address.

My family's there, and I'm actively looking for a job there.

Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver are other possibles.

And yes, I'm dead serious about leaving the States.

tho I was joking with HEyHEY above, I really am applying for jobs in Canada - anywhere in Canada, in fact, just to be able to move there. If I had gotten married one year earlier, I would have had automatic EU citizenship. but now I'm divorced so Canada is the thing - plus I'd be closer to my kids. If not Canada, then I'm looking for jobs in Oregon, WA, the NY state area near the border, Vermont, Maine... and eventually anywhere that wants to hire me once my current gig is up.

x(

Poor old Stratford, always overlooked...

:cry:

Didn't scroll and see your post.

Stratford is always #1 on my list.

:woohoo:

My Canadian half of the family still lives there.

the equivalent would be a place like louisiana or east texas in the US.

does canada have rednecks?

:7

My dad was a Newfie, born and raised in St. John! He was not a redneck!

Of course, he grew up in the 30s and 40s, and came up to Boston at that point. So maybe things have changed since then. Dunno--I only get as far as Cape Breton when I go down.

visited there when I was in high school, for a marching band contest. Nice place.

and it rhymes with a body part, thats always good for a laugh.

Sigh...

like Thunder Bay.

aA

Cdn in USA now.

Fuck winter. :P

If it's anything less than 50 degrees Fahrenheit, then I reiterate: Fuck winter.

OK, OK. I might be willing to come down to 40 or so. But anything less than that is madness.

I have friends in Montreal, and I would force myself to learn French through immersion.

I have a lot of friends in Buffalo who could pop across the border to visit Toronto, and it's a wonderful city.

:D

with the closest big city (name someone other than Canadian would know) probably Sydney. It brings back a lot of memories thinking of it.

However, having gotten familiar with Toronto now, I will choose it over Cape Breton simply because I'm first and foremost a city girl. Toronto satisfies a lot of itches with me right now.

is a quaint little place for a tea and sandwich.




:hug:

aA

Move to Cape Breton Island.

Phillip Glass, Rudy Wurlitzer (Juke Box guy), Lee Iacocca (deceased???), Paul Simon is there a lot, the guy from "Hotel"and the girl from WKRP Cincinnati got married there. She still has a place there. Jeez my memory sucks.

They speak 4 languages there on that small island - English, Acadian (Cajun French), Scottish Gaelic and Native Mi'kmaq (Indian - I hate the word)

Lived there for 6 years and just spent Xmas there.
Nobody locks their doors, in fact I don't even think they have keys. I never did

Paradise.
And the Music???? to die for

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Breton_Island

http://www.crestonbc.com/

We could nick in (permanently) to Creston any day, any time.....
or Osoyoos B.C. ..

http://www.destinationosoyoos.com/about.html

The Tikkis

and I'd hang at Jason's Gentleman's Club every day and night...

:D

RL

Where they speak F-IN French...

Vancouver or Toronto :hi:

if I didn't want to feel bad about dying. teehee.

Reminds me of what a great man, Fred G. Sanford, once said:

While explaining an episode of the soap opera "The Bold and The Beautiful":

"the doctor said he only had six months to live, but that was okay because he said his company was transferring him to Philadelphia."

nt

I have family there. Only real reason.

I'd live there in a heartbeat.

Little experience with Toronto, but I hear it's nice.

And I have never heard ONE bad word about Vancouver; I've never been there but I bet I'd like it.

Redstone

I stayed up there for a few weeks at the beginning of 1999, and really felt at home there.
And Toronto is just a 3 hr drive from there, if i needed the vibe of the 'big city'.

:)

Quebec is just beautiful and Halifax is very comfortable