beckiwoo

Thanks, I'll look into it.

That's an interesting story. I have certainly found 'dating'' men here a challenge. Most of them have been very flakey and unlike in the UK where I could actually have a decent friendship with a guy without any romance, it has not been like that here.

I sometimes wonder if it because I am not a size 0-2 and I don't wear yoga pants lol - although I have been told a lot of the guys how here get fed up with that anyway.

Pizzawheel

I think we tend to think "Canadians are really just Brits who talk funny" too much; we can talk about the work cultures, going to the pub, Christmas parties etc but less so about the real difficulties you can have in a slightly multi-cultural relationship.

So I think I'm saying have you tried dating brits out there and had the same experience as dating cradles?

JamesM

Haha.

I own 3 pairs of Lululemon pants bought over the years.

It's not so much the brand but the fact that they tailor the bottom of the leg so for track/golf pants they look a little smarter.

Not yet brave enough to sport a pair of leggings or run in the winter.

JamesM

This is an odd concept.

Shouldn't one focus on some sort of assimilation?

Jericho79

What an abhorrent idea.

Pizzawheel

Well yes it is different for us chaps when a canuck hooter is much the same as a british one. I've read that women have other, additional criteria above and beyond bust size.

JamesM

And by the way before anyone starts making wise cracks about my Canadian dress sense a woman at my office has told me I dress like an "Australian".

SchnookoLoly

I was saving my comments for tomorrow.

Pizzawheel

If James rocks up in Lulumons you will take pictures? Please?

beckiwoo

IMO Australians dress better then BC men!

beckiwoo

I have a few but I think I wanted to date outside my culture/fellow countrymen - I have found that I have stayed in contact with more of the British guys I have met up with here than with the Canadian guys...

scilly

I find this interesting .........

could it be because of the situations in which you are meeting these guys??

My daughter was born here so is Canadian bred, and she always had many more boy friends vs boyfriends. She had some very close friendships with guys that never approached romance, and some of those friendships have lasted until now. She keeps contact with them via email and FB.

She found it rather hard when she married and moved to NS that she could not form those same friendships over there ........ questions were always asked if she even went out for coffee with a male colleague.

JamesM

For some reason people don't seem to take much pride in their dress in Vancouver. It really does stand out when you go there. There is a gap between London and Toronto and then another altogether out west.

JamesM

I'm wearing a pair now in the office but you wouldn't know they were Lulu's with out me telling you.

Pizzawheel

Do you think there's a general "left coast" thing? The beach snobbery of California is reasonably famous but when I found Cape Town to be similar I started thinking.

To be fair I didn't pick up this vibe in Vancouver but I've only spent a couple of weeks there and have generally been so busy I may not have noticed...