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Discussion: Your opinion of Canada?
Member Since: 8/17/2013
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the country my fave comes from
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Member Since: 8/31/2013
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I feel like it's kind of an irrelevant country & I hear Canadians just basically do what they're told. I don't have any burning desire to visit there. Seems kind of bland or something.
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Member Since: 2/20/2012
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Originally posted by new evolution
Everytime I go to Square One I'm the only white person there and I only see brown and black people. At least if you go to a mall in Toronto you'll see a balanced variety of all races. That's real multiculturalism
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Not true! Maybe if you stay in walmart, but if you walk around the mall it's a good mix of everyone and about 50% of people are white. Maybe you're thinking of Bramalea City Centre???
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Originally posted by Ascension
Bitterly cold I despise all weather that involves temperatures below 70 degrees, so for that reason alone I could never live there, but, it's so, so very beautiful. Really friendly people, too.
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Come visit in the summer. But beware or the excessive heat especially in big cities. I think the west coast is cooler though, but Toronto areas you can die sometimes in the summer. I knew some people visiting from California and they couldn't stand the heat.
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Member Since: 8/10/2012
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Originally posted by Raphy23
Not true! Maybe if you stay in walmart, but if you walk around the mall it's a good mix of everyone and about 50% of people are white. Maybe you're thinking of Bramalea City Centre???
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Nope, I've never even been to Bramalea. I go to Square One pretty often since it's the only good mall in Oakville's vicinity. That whole downtown core of Mississauga is flawless actually, sometimes I envy people there
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Member Since: 2/20/2012
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Originally posted by new evolution
Nope, I've never even been to Bramalea. I go to Square One pretty often since it's the only good mall in Oakville's vicinity. That whole downtown core of Mississauga is flawless actually, sometimes I envy people there
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I want to live downtown Mississauga in a skyscraper one day!
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Member Since: 5/22/2011
Posts: 21,227
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Originally posted by Haburo
I feel like it's kind of an irrelevant country & I hear Canadians just basically do what they're told. I don't have any burning desire to visit there. Seems kind of bland or something.
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The ignorance.
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Member Since: 7/15/2012
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Originally posted by Haburo
I feel like it's kind of an irrelevant country & I hear Canadians just basically do what they're told. I don't have any burning desire to visit there. Seems kind of bland or something.
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bye
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Member Since: 6/23/2012
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The only true stereotype in here that I've seen is that we say sorry all the time.
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Member Since: 2/6/2012
Posts: 29,767
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Cultural suburb of the USA.
(Don't mean that negatively. More pointing out that I get less culture shock when I visit Canada than when I visit Texas or New York.)
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Member Since: 3/11/2012
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Member Since: 9/10/2012
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Square One is way whiter than Bramalea City Centre. On that note, BCC >>>>>>>>>> Sq1, I hung out with some people from Michigan (from Detroit) and they were scandalized by the fact that I live in such a "multicultural area" where they were frightened because "arabs walk around with swords in public". I laughed really hard. It's not normal for them to see such things, so I understand their confusion.
Also - what's up with these "omg snooow, **** Canada, USA ftw" posts! I would NOT want to live in parts of the US right now. I am hearing about snowfall after snowfall in the US (especially about poor South Dakota & Wyoming) and we have yet to have snowfall in any major Canadian city this season. The majority of the Canadian population lives closer to the southern tips of Canada. Even though we do technically get more snow than you guys due to our size and proximity to the arctic, we probably get LESS snow in our most populated areas than you do. Snow is probably less of a problem for us simply use to our geography. It helps having a minuscule population... like they're saying Western New York might see a foot of snow in the next few days.. sooo close to where I am in Toronto, yet we have no snow in the forecast, just some rain (from the same storm). Wayyy overestimating our Canadian winters. You guys are getting it bad and it's so early in the season, I think we just had our first few flakes of snow recently in Alberta, and they're probably already gone. I haven't seen a proper white Christmas in a long time, and I've lived in Canada all my life. Buuttt we watch a lot of American news, and I'm forever jealous of some of the states that get so much snow. We have places in Canada that barely get any snow come winter too!
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Member Since: 7/3/2011
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It's one of my top 5 countries. I'd live there if I didn't hate the cold.
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Member Since: 12/10/2010
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The Empress's mother nation
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Member Since: 4/17/2011
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Degrassi is everything.
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Member Since: 2/20/2012
Posts: 14,955
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Originally posted by missy
Square One is way whiter than Bramalea City Centre. On that note, BCC >>>>>>>>>> Sq1, I hung out with some people from Michigan (from Detroit) and they were scandalized by the fact that I live in such a "multicultural area" where they were frightened because "arabs walk around with swords in public". I laughed really hard. It's not normal for them to see such things, so I understand their confusion.
Also - what's up with these "omg snooow, **** Canada, USA ftw" posts! I would NOT want to live in parts of the US right now. I am hearing about snowfall after snowfall in the US (especially about poor South Dakota & Wyoming) and we have yet to have snowfall in any major Canadian city this season. The majority of the Canadian population lives closer to the southern tips of Canada. Even though we do technically get more snow than you guys due to our size and proximity to the arctic, we probably get LESS snow in our most populated areas than you do. Snow is probably less of a problem for us simply use to our geography. It helps having a minuscule population... like they're saying Western New York might see a foot of snow in the next few days.. sooo close to where I am in Toronto, yet we have no snow in the forecast, just some rain (from the same storm). Wayyy overestimating our Canadian winters. You guys are getting it bad and it's so early in the season, I think we just had our first few flakes of snow recently in Alberta, and they're probably already gone. I haven't seen a proper white Christmas in a long time, and I've lived in Canada all my life. Buuttt we watch a lot of American news, and I'm forever jealous of some of the states that get so much snow. We have places in Canada that barely get any snow come winter too!
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There hasn't been a white Christmas for like 10 years where I live in Canada.
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Member Since: 8/10/2012
Posts: 1,700
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Originally posted by missy
Square One is way whiter than Bramalea City Centre. On that note, BCC >>>>>>>>>> Sq1, I hung out with some people from Michigan (from Detroit) and they were scandalized by the fact that I live in such a "multicultural area" where they were frightened because "arabs walk around with swords in public". I laughed really hard. It's not normal for them to see such things, so I understand their confusion.
Also - what's up with these "omg snooow, **** Canada, USA ftw" posts! I would NOT want to live in parts of the US right now. I am hearing about snowfall after snowfall in the US (especially about poor South Dakota & Wyoming) and we have yet to have snowfall in any major Canadian city this season. The majority of the Canadian population lives closer to the southern tips of Canada. Even though we do technically get more snow than you guys due to our size and proximity to the arctic, we probably get LESS snow in our most populated areas than you do. Snow is probably less of a problem for us simply use to our geography. It helps having a minuscule population... like they're saying Western New York might see a foot of snow in the next few days.. sooo close to where I am in Toronto, yet we have no snow in the forecast, just some rain (from the same storm). Wayyy overestimating our Canadian winters. You guys are getting it bad and it's so early in the season, I think we just had our first few flakes of snow recently in Alberta, and they're probably already gone. I haven't seen a proper white Christmas in a long time, and I've lived in Canada all my life. Buuttt we watch a lot of American news, and I'm forever jealous of some of the states that get so much snow. We have places in Canada that barely get any snow come winter too!
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To be fair we have more cold weather in Toronto than other big cities around the world, including in America. I should NOT be seeing frost on windshields and rooftops in mid-end October
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Tame Impala comes from Canada
EDIT: Oop, they're Australian.
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Member Since: 8/13/2012
Posts: 32,832
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Originally posted by missy
Square One is way whiter than Bramalea City Centre. On that note, BCC >>>>>>>>>> Sq1, I hung out with some people from Michigan (from Detroit) and they were scandalized by the fact that I live in such a "multicultural area" where they were frightened because "arabs walk around with swords in public". I laughed really hard. It's not normal for them to see such things, so I understand their confusion.
Also - what's up with these "omg snooow, **** Canada, USA ftw" posts! I would NOT want to live in parts of the US right now. I am hearing about snowfall after snowfall in the US (especially about poor South Dakota & Wyoming) and we have yet to have snowfall in any major Canadian city this season. The majority of the Canadian population lives closer to the southern tips of Canada. Even though we do technically get more snow than you guys due to our size and proximity to the arctic, we probably get LESS snow in our most populated areas than you do. Snow is probably less of a problem for us simply use to our geography. It helps having a minuscule population... like they're saying Western New York might see a foot of snow in the next few days.. sooo close to where I am in Toronto, yet we have no snow in the forecast, just some rain (from the same storm). Wayyy overestimating our Canadian winters. You guys are getting it bad and it's so early in the season, I think we just had our first few flakes of snow recently in Alberta, and they're probably already gone. I haven't seen a proper white Christmas in a long time, and I've lived in Canada all my life. Buuttt we watch a lot of American news, and I'm forever jealous of some of the states that get so much snow. We have places in Canada that barely get any snow come winter too!
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You must live in Toronto or Vancouver because chilli, this spring it snowed in May and the snow cover did not melt until June
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Member Since: 10/1/2008
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Known as one of the best place to live in the world..safe, quiet, cold..great landscapes, great music artists lol
Maybe a lil bit boring?
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Member Since: 3/27/2012
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I'm not bothered by the cold weather. I actually like that in Canada you can have such extremes in weather. In the winter you're so cold and your life changes course where suddenly most of your activities are exclusively indoors, you do cosier things, you maybe reflect more, get more things accomplished, but then summer it can be SO hot that all you want to do is sit in a pool, and your life goes more to a relaxed and carefree vibe, you see more people, you're outside as much as possible. I like that the weather changes makes you appreciate different aspects of your life, as opposed to it just being always hot let's say and never exciting. Because in Canada the summer is a big deal.
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