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Canada...just like anywhere else really !!!
Reason for that, when you hear about things like this, then you realise its just as bad, but maybe not on the same scale as the UK. All this happened over the weekend:
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Winnip...06/617700.html http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/London...06/617557.html Tax payers money, now this sick: http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Calgar...06/617502.html |
Re: Canada...just like anywhere else really !!!
Originally Posted by squarepants
Reason for that, when you hear about things like this, then you realise its just as bad, but maybe not on the same scale as the UK. All this happened over the weekend:
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Winnip...06/617700.html http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/London...06/617557.html Tax payers money, now this sick: http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Calgar...06/617502.html |
Re: Canada...just like anywhere else really !!!
This wasn't directed to you, what is your problem, surely you are not questioning my thread?
Listen...don't know what you are selling, but am not buying. |
Re: Canada...just like anywhere else really !!!
I don't think the UK has developed the north American passion for the drive by shooting yet.. the gangs in Canada seem to be adopting their US cousin’s passion for gun crime in the bigger cities over that last few years.
I not sure yet which I detest the most, the drunk UK skinhead staggering drunk down the main street.. or the “gangsta� youths cruising as a gang half stoned in the “riced� out car down main street..with the music booming… It’s a classic case of the grass not being any greener just a different shade of green… The shitty end of the cities are just as shitty where ever you go.. and the nice bits just as nice… except here the houses are bigger :D I reckon those that leave because they don’t like the UK will be disappointed when the novelty of living in a different country wears off… we have similar problems some more some less… we’re a western country with western ideals.. we may be a little more socialist in our national politics and a little more capitalistic in our consumerism than the UK.. but all in all we work the same way the major cities have the same “Big City� mentality with all the traffic problem that go with it….yep the drivers here are worse than in the UK (at least in Toronto) and the rural sections as just as backward here if not more so than there UK counterparts |
Re: Canada...just like anywhere else really !!!
Originally Posted by squarepants
This wasn't directed to you, what is your problem, surely you are not questioning my thread?
Listen...don't know what you are selling, but am not buying. I don't have a problem except that that I wonder what your motive was in pulling these extreme articles from the paper. This is not the norm for Canada. Oh, and whatever your selling, I'm not buying (now, where did I hear that before)!!!!! |
Re: Canada...just like anywhere else really !!!
This is exactly my point, and that was the picture am painting here. I have lived in the UK, and am living here now, and I know its not as rosy as some people like to paint it ;)
Am glad you see it from my point of view, and living in Brampton, am sure you see a lot of things there, that go bump in the night :scared: I love canada, and can't stop raving about it, and the opportunities that are here, and things to do for leisure, but at the same time, its good for people to know the daily goingins on.
Originally Posted by MikeUK
I don't think the UK has developed the north American passion for the drive by shooting yet.. the gangs in Canada seem to be adopting their US cousin’s passion for gun crime in the bigger cities over that last few years.
I not sure yet which I detest the most, the drunk UK skinhead staggering drunk down the main street.. or the “gangsta� youths cruising as a gang half stoned in the “riced� out car down main street..with the music booming… It’s a classic case of the grass not being any greener just a different shade of green… The shitty end of the cities are just as shitty where ever you go.. and the nice bits just as nice… except here the houses are bigger :D I reckon those that leave because they don’t like the UK will be disappointed when the novelty of living in a different country wears off… we have similar problems some more some less… we’re a western country with western ideals.. we may be a little more socialist in our national politics and a little more capitalistic in our consumerism than the UK.. but all in all we work the same way the major cities have the same “Big City� mentality with all the traffic problem that go with it….yep the drivers here are worse than in the UK (at least in Toronto) and the rural sections as just as backward here if not more so than there UK counterparts |
Re: Canada...just like anywhere else really !!!
Originally Posted by squarepants
This is exactly my point, and that was the picture am painting here. I have lived in the UK, and am living here now, and I know its not as rosy as some people like to paint it ;)
Am glad you see it from my point of view, and living in Brampton, am sure you see a lot of things there, that go bump in the night :scared: I love canada, and can't stop raving about it, and the opportunities that are here, and things to do for leisure, but at the same time, its good for people to know the daily goingins on. Does it have fewer problems than anywhere else.. maybe per square foot of land… per head of population I don’t think so… You just need to open your eyes and look … there’s good and bad areas urban and rural… |
Re: Canada...just like anywhere else really !!!
What goes bump in the night in Brampton, incidentally? I have stayed there a number of times and it always seems rather quiet and, dare I say it, a bit dull. That is a good thing to a man of my advanced age with two young children. The in-laws, who live in Brampton, have never mentiond any trouble there...
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Re: Canada...just like anywhere else really !!!
They tend to forget too, that canada is a well bigger country with 30 million people, compared to an island like the UK, with over 60 million people. Well of course the problems are going to be noticeable over there than here.
Maybe if you live in the middle of nowhere where your neighbours are miles away, then you might not be aware of the troubles in slightly bigger towns and cities, but we do read the papers and watch the news, and we know there are all sorts of bad things going on, from people killing their partners, kidnapps, gang wars, paedophilia, corruption ( even in govt ), and road rages. Ignore all these at your own risk, you could be living next door to a paedophile, even though he might not look like it :rolleyes:
Originally Posted by MikeUK
I too find that this urge to pretend that Canada is some kind of utopia strange..
Does it have fewer problems than anywhere else.. maybe per square foot of land… per head of population I don’t think so… You just need to open your eyes and look … there’s good and bad areas urban and rural… |
Re: Canada...just like anywhere else really !!!
Originally Posted by squarepants
They tend to forget too, that canada is a well bigger country with 30 million people, compared to an island like the UK, with over 60 million people. Well of course the problems are going to be noticeable over there than here.
Maybe if you live in the middle of nowhere where your neighbours are miles away, then you might not be aware of the troubles in slightly bigger towns and cities, but we do read the papers and watch the news, and we know there are all sorts of bad things going on, from people killing their partners, kidnapps, gang wars, paedophilia, corruption ( even in govt ), and road rages. Ignore all these at your own risk, you could be living next door to a paedophile, even though he might not look like it :rolleyes: If you two are SO unhappy in Canada - what attracted you here in the first place? |
Re: Canada...just like anywhere else really !!!
Originally Posted by Rhodes
What goes bump in the night in Brampton, incidentally? I have stayed there a number of times and it always seems rather quiet and, dare I say it, a bit dull. That is a good thing to a man of my advanced age with two young children. The in-laws, who live in Brampton, have never mentiond any trouble there...
having said that It still no where near as bad as the bad parts of Toronto and Scarborough.. :) |
Re: Canada...just like anywhere else really !!!
Originally Posted by MikeUK
Brampton’s a small city in it's own right and as such has good and bad areas... and the shootings were getting a bit common in the bad side of town recently... however its got quieter over the summer... we'll see if it flares up as the nights get darker again...:(
having said that It still no where near as bad as the bad parts of Toronto and Scarborough.. :) |
Re: Canada...just like anywhere else really !!!
You are right Mike, and it's a shame that a small bunch of nitwits, try and spoil it for everyone else. Scarborough, that is a different matter entirely, won't live there for free :scared:
It's just good for people to understand the whole picture here, and don't go by what they saw on one trip from the UK, or what some other folks are telling them. It helps to foolow the news too, which you can listen to over the net from the UK.
Originally Posted by MikeUK
Brampton’s a small city in it's own right and as such has good and bad areas... and the shootings were getting a bit common in the bad side of town recently... however its got quieter over the summer... we'll see if it flares up as the nights get darker again...:(
having said that It still no where near as bad as the bad parts of Toronto and Scarborough.. :) |
Re: Canada...just like anywhere else really !!!
Originally Posted by Rhodes
Is it easy to describe which areas would be better avoided? Like, west of Airport Road or whatever? It would be ironic if we left the arse end of south ast London and got shot in Brampton!
Most of Brampton is safe at night… its as safe as London… |
Re: Canada...just like anywhere else really !!!
And more trouble in this lovely country that is canada:
http://www.cfra.com/headlines/index.asp?cat=1&nid=19051 Sexism would you believe it: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Con...l=968350116467 |
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