Member123

I haven't read the survey yet so I stand corrected if Saskatchewan is mentioned as a decent place to live. Having just returned from my reccie, imho it should be on the top ten. The country has its own unique beauty/friendly people even in Regina/outside of Regina there is virtually no crime -people still leave their doors unlocked!/absoulutely no traffic problems/roads good/Regina airport is a breeze to find and to transit through/cost of living cheap/house prices still very reasonable/some towns the cost of lots is dirt cheap/weather extremes not too bad.
Saskatchewan seems to be overlooked even by tourist companies and it is very unfair.

dbd33

Dear oh dear, CTV airs the most awful nonsense. Of course if there is one murder in a small town the murder rate for that small town that year is very high. Overall though rural places are safer than urban ones, I'd think it's only drug related crime that's more common in small towns than large ones.

Member123

Yes dbd33 we also found this to be true in Saskatchewan. Although the difference of some kids smoking pot in Rouleau and the likes of 14 year old kids hooked on cocaine which they buy in our local high school is not the same for us. The worst thing is thats how it started 15 years ago here too so perhaps the problems will get worse.

dbd33

What drugs do the kids do in Saskatchewan? Obviously they have weed but what serious drugs, did they have oxycontin there or only meth?

steve666

What? So all of a sudden you're a chemist? (Said in a jewish tone with with hands outstretched and shoulders hunched up, like what Shylock did).

dbd33

I should be a chemist? Me? How should I be a chemist? With what I should pay for chemisting lessons?

steve666

You should pay with a pound of your flesh already. Oh boy what am I to do with him God?

dbd33

You think I can lose flesh? Out here, in the cold, I should do without? It's not enough my own flesh and blood ignore me all morning but I should freeze too? On dank luftmensch.

Member123

dbd - I have no idea - not into drugs meself so dont know anything about them, thank God.

Souvenir

Tobago is predominantly black. Trinidad is a real mix. African, Indian sub-continent, Chinese, Portuguese, Brit, you name it.

It's not always easy to guess someone's ethnicity from their name (although people with Scottish surnames will like as not be black).

Canuck Fan

On a serious note, is Oxycontin the latest recreational drug. A friend of a freiend over there took about 4 of them as a one off apparently because they were temporarily upset or depressed. But I thought they were strong pain killers?

dbd33

Granted. I worked with a Chinese Jamaican called Joan Ho who married a Greek guy and took his name, I'm not sure that their children would be able to guess their own ethnicity. In the same place there was a white Jamaican called Smith. Still, someone in the GTA with Singh in his name is probably not a Jamaican citizen.

dbd33

It's not though. It's a traditional recreational drug in the east, "hillbilly heroin", while in the west the equivalent was crystal meth. Meth has moved steadily east while oxycontin has fallen out of fashion somewhat (I think they made it harder to reformat for a high). I wondered about Saskatchewan as I don't know if it's east or west in terms of drug fashions.

Canuck Fan

Ok, i'll be straight-up, it was my canadian boyfriend who took them (I was too embarrassed to say), he subsequently stayed out all night during my last short vacation over there in Vanc and said he couldn't come back til morning due to the high. I'd never heard of the pills before & didn't realise they are equivalent to heroin (Wow!) Well, i'm actually happy and relieved that i'll be calling it a day on our 2 yr relationship when I see him week after next.

dbd33

It's serious shit and a big problem in the east :

http://www.health.gov.nl.ca/health/p...contininterim/

I don't know that it's worse than meth though. At least with oxycontin there would be less impurities.