Greenhill

Too many Stop signs.

grumpyhaggis

Ah! I missed that one!

dbd33

I assume you mean that the customers looked a bit Asiany rather than that they were certainly Vietnamese, nonetheless I don't doubt that there's a Vietnamese restaurant in Halifax. There's rather a good Indian restaurant in Cut 'n Shoot Texas. Still, neither Halifax nor Cut 'n Shoot is going to win a prize for multiculturalism anywhen soon. There's nothing wrong with living in a place stuck in the 1950s, many people would say that's the whole case for Canada, but it's silly to pretend that such places offer the diversity and big city pleasures of, say, Boston or Detroit.

BristolUK

I don't think anyone is. The comments have simply been saying it's not totally absent in the way it's being suggested.

Beaverquest

that's a new abbreviation for the list ; MFIL

clynnog

Care to enlighten us as to the 'diversity and big city pleasures' of Daytrois. My experiences of the 313 are that it is a rat hole of the highest order, the ultimate doughnut city (hollow in the core).

dormy

The lack of electricity, running water and those new fangled motor vehicle things is a bit of a pain. Just trying to sell the beaver skins to the locals is so tiresome in the winter. Roll on the 21st century maybe they will bring some tools to make life more bearable then

Souvenir

Nova Scotia can hardly be called multicultural. 97% of the population is of European origin.

mcdavis

Not sure about now, but a few years ago the roads were shocking - more potholes than tarmac.

Souvenir

Try coming to Quebec, mate. Some of the potholes we have come spring can swallow a bus.

On the major highways (401 and 417) it is possible to tell when you've crossed from Ontario to Quebec, even with your eyes shut.

dbd33

Oh yes, I think that's fair. I'm only saying it offers more cultural diversity than NS; Black Americans, Arab Americans, White Americans.

screene

I would narrow it down rather more than being 'a bit Asiany'. These people if not Vietnamese were certainly Cambodians or maybe from Laos - most definately not Chinese, Pakistanis or Indians, for example.

I think it would be rather bad form to ask for ID in order to validate my enjoyment of the food, in much the same way that when I go for an 'Indian' in England I don't enquire as to whether the chef is in fact a Bangladeshi.

Now, for those of us who enjoy a kebab the picture is rather less rosy. The 'donair' sold in NS is a very poor substitute for a doner kebab, being small and made from beef and lacking chilli sauce. And, in case dbd33 is wondering, I think that the people who sell them in NS tend to be from North Africa rather than Turkey or Greece.

Then again, the opportunities to drink real ale in NS are pretty much non-existant so why would one want to buy a kebab?

dbd33

They're mostly sold by Cypriots in London aren't they? There's a shwarma place by our office in Toronto run by Turkish Cypriots, alas the product is unimpressive, so they might as well be Germans.

triumphguy

To summarise: come to Calgary - a 100,000 Nova Scotians can't be wrong!

grumpyhaggis

With the dip in the price of oil, it appears that many of them are coming back to NS, tail between legs.