Does Canada = Utopia?
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Does Canada = Utopia?
Hey there! I just want to get a opinion from brits living in Canada if it's really the Utopia it seems to be! I moved to America 5 years ago and go to Canada often on business and i'm always stunned at how much of Canada is nicer than the states despite the obvious similarities! Thanks guys
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Re: Does Canada = Utopia?
and try using the search.... if you can't be arsed to do that come back in a few days and see the 20 page mega-thread that you may have started. Personally I hope not.
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Ok thanks lol
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Hey there! I just want to get a opinion from brits living in Canada if it's really the Utopia it seems to be! I moved to America 5 years ago and go to Canada often on business and i'm always stunned at how much of Canada is nicer than the states despite the obvious similarities! Thanks guys
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Re: Does Canada = Utopia?
Hey there! I just want to get a opinion from brits living in Canada if it's really the Utopia it seems to be! I moved to America 5 years ago and go to Canada often on business and i'm always stunned at how much of Canada is nicer than the states despite the obvious similarities! Thanks guys
there may be marginally less gun crime, but a utopia it is not
where do you go on business trips??
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the 2 walmarts near us do .. One for a while now and the other as of about a month ago... Walmarts taking over the world
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Re: Does Canada = Utopia?
we stayed in Alberta last year for 3 months and loads of Walmarts had fresh veg and fruit sections, plus a large selection of crazy people
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Re: Does Canada = Utopia?
Hey there! I just want to get a opinion from brits living in Canada if it's really the Utopia it seems to be! I moved to America 5 years ago and go to Canada often on business and i'm always stunned at how much of Canada is nicer than the states despite the obvious similarities! Thanks guys
...Surely you can find plenty of Canadians to ask? Most of them spend all their vacation (and their kid's college money) in your town.
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Re: Does Canada = Utopia?
Hey there! I just want to get a opinion from brits living in Canada if it's really the Utopia it seems to be! I moved to America 5 years ago and go to Canada often on business and i'm always stunned at how much of Canada is nicer than the states despite the obvious similarities! Thanks guys
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Re: Does Canada = Utopia?
Hey there! I just want to get a opinion from brits living in Canada if it's really the Utopia it seems to be! I moved to America 5 years ago and go to Canada often on business and i'm always stunned at how much of Canada is nicer than the states despite the obvious similarities! Thanks guys
I can't tell the US and Canada apart. What would you say are the major differences between average life in, say, Mississauaga ON and Plano TX?
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Re: Does Canada = Utopia?
Hey there! I just want to get a opinion from brits living in Canada if it's really the Utopia it seems to be! I moved to America 5 years ago and go to Canada often on business and i'm always stunned at how much of Canada is nicer than the states despite the obvious similarities! Thanks guys
Utopia? No, there are some issues, but on balance its a pretty nice place to live and raise kids, if you have a decent job/ income.
The main differences are climate and political landscape I would say, the material things are much the same, and the people as individuals are much the same, although perhaps Canadians as a group are more open to criticise their country, something Americans seem loath to do.(In public at least?)
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I don't think the climate varies very much between Maine and New Brunswick, Ohio and Ontario, Montana and ..., well you get the idea.
Canada has universal healthcare and gay marriage, I don't belittle those differences, but what else? Canada and the US are equally engaged in attempts to subjugate foreign populations, they both indulge religionists (Ontario and Utah stand out as rare places where religion and education are confused), they're both societies in which big business dominates the political agenda. Differences are subtle indeed.
Apart from the two above, I think the main difference is that in Canada the music industry is subject to government regulation and that results in some truly awful noises emerging from the radio.
Canada has universal healthcare and gay marriage, I don't belittle those differences, but what else? Canada and the US are equally engaged in attempts to subjugate foreign populations, they both indulge religionists (Ontario and Utah stand out as rare places where religion and education are confused), they're both societies in which big business dominates the political agenda. Differences are subtle indeed.
Apart from the two above, I think the main difference is that in Canada the music industry is subject to government regulation and that results in some truly awful noises emerging from the radio.