Canada: Looking better and better...

[hiphopnation]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040924/wl_canada_nm/canada_gaymarriage_col_4

How embarassing that we live next to such a progressive, forward-thinking country. How is it possible that invisible borders create such different political results? Bizarre, if you ask me.

[salib]

1. Should be very pleasant in a few years

As we end up sweltering and flooded.

[Book Lover]

2. Bad link?

Sorry, but the link you provided led me to a 404 page...

[hiphopnation]

3. hmmmmm

try that. :thumbsup:

[Book Lover]

4. Many thanks!

Yes, isn't it terrible that God isn't with the program? I mean, where the hell are the thunderbolts?

[hiphopnation]

5. Between this

and their stance on marijuana, I'm surprised the whole country hasn't fallen under a plague of terrifying proportions.

[NVMojo]

6. yep, maybe us Dems

will have to have a mass exodus to Canada next year ...get out there and get those undecideds to vote for Kerry!!! It's cold in Canada!!!

[Minstrel Boy]

7. It's not that cold anymore.

Unfortunately.

Sometimes it's pleasant this way, but it reminds me of the changes all around. :(

Wasps are buzzing north of the Arctic Circle, and it's nearly October and I'm sweating in Toronto.

[hiphopnation]

8. Oh dear!

I was thinking of Vancouver. What's the weather like there, compared with Toronto?

[Minstrel Boy]

10. Vancouver's climate is rather mild.

Historically, anyway. I haven't been out there in a long time. It's winters are usually much more gentle than Central Canada's.

[Maple]

9. Yes, I had the a/c on all day in Ontario

And Canada should have a warm winter.

[SidDithers]

11. Plus, we find fun ways to keep warm

:)

Sid

[hiphopnation]

12. LOL!!

looking forwar to that.


love yer avatar, btw. :thumbsup:

[a kennedy]

15. Tee hee, that's why I'm moving to Mexico....

Hot, I'm not real good at Hot, but, really, I CAN live better HOT then here or in Canada, just because of WHAT THE H*LL IS GOING ON HERE!!! He wins again by either votes, or tricks, I'm outta here.

[Piperay]

19. I'm going to Mexico too

being in California it will be an easy move for me. I would like Canada but practically speaking it would be almost impossible.

[Codeblue]

13. Toronto

is the easiest escape for me. Every relative I have on my dad's side lives in Brampton which is right outside Toronto.

They keep begging me to come up for a visit. If I go now, it will be quite a long visit.

Plus, I could apply for citizenship in Canada because my dad is Canadian and never become a naturalized citizen of the U.S.

[ILeft]

14. Eh! Why don't ya just rub it in, eh!

I wish it were that easy for me and mine.

[NinetySix]

16. Canada is indeed lovely.

What's amazing is meeting the same sort of down-home, feet-on-the-ground, salt of the earth types as I'm used to at home, but all of whom have a remarkably progressive, circumspect view of the social contract. Around these parts, unemployment (Employment Insurance) is a necessity because of our seasonal economy, and I've never heard anyone refer to people on EI as "lazy bums who should get off their asses and find a job." Where I'm from originally (the South), people are extremely polite and would do anything for you -- if you're white. But up here (the end destination for the Underground Railroad), folks are that way no matter who you are. I'm not Canadian (although my daughter is), but Canada is my home.

But it snows too much.

[hiphopnation]

17. If you're white

so what's it like for people of color?

[Minstrel Boy]

18. According to the UN, the most multicultural city in the world is Toronto.

I'm not one to say we're living in utopia here, but we don't have the "race issue" of the US.

[Brian_Expat]

20. If you're white, you're a minority in most of the major cities

Which suits this pasty-white guy just fine.

When I lived in Toronto, I was a one-block walk from one of its THREE Chinatowns, and could get Swahili cuisine, Thai, soul food, American, you name it all within a ten minute walk from my apartment. YUM!

[RollergirlVT]

21. Nova scotia

My husband and I are considering Nova Scotia. Any NS folks at DU?