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This post, needless to say, is absolute, unadulterated crap. I think, if you have no true Canadian friends, it reflects more on your personality, than that of most Canadians.

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That, or it could be that he's just not dull enough..

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I can assure you that any crap emanating from that statement is extremely adulterated by my empirical and systematic research into the phenomena of the incommensurability of cross-cultural exchange. There remains with British immigrants a fundamental 'otherness' that creates insurmountable disjunctions in cultural values. I may have lots of Canadians acquaintances, but most are boring doped-up knobheads.

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but most are boring doped-up knobheads.

Birds of a feather and all that.

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I don't take marijuana, I'll leave that nonsense to the locals although I can't see it helping matters here.

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I must be just lucky! Perhaps its because we work with a large amount of ex forces both UK, Canadian and us. Squaddie humour must be universal the world over.
Get a group of lads and lasses together add beer and food and take it from there.

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Never had a problem making friends here.

Look at yourself and ask if you are the sort of person you'd want to be friends with (and answer that seriously).

If you're a whiny old fart then tbh I would't wanna be your buddy - British / Canadian or otherwise.

No-one wants someone around them who is totally needy - you have to give friendship before you can recieve it.

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I don't think resorting to insults, however passive aggressive, is very helpful..

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The sooner one stops obsessing about making friends here the more contented and happier they'll be. Get a hobby or something. Why not sign up for an allotment? Although I must say the ones here are depressingly small and don't allow sheds but that's a discussion for another thread.

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Yup you've hit the nail on the head for the US too.

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It takes a long time to make real friends. Jonboy had a good post about this on another thread, something about how finding those people you click with is one of those things you really have no control over. Some people are lucky enough to find those people early, others don't. I need to find that post, it was good and put it in perspective (I thought)

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Doesn't the saying go that when you die, if you have five real friends then you have had a great life.
If that is the case then therefore it is not the quantity of friends you have but the quality of the true ones.

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Wouldnt it be sad tho if all 5 of those 'real' friends lived in another country and you only got to see them every couple of years for a short time?

For me my opinion and experience is only down to what I have ascertained while living in Windsor, Nova Scotia and given that I have not lived anywhere else in Canada, I cannot blanket all Canadians as being one way or another. Maybe I should have moved to the same area as you Mandymoo, and maybe if you had moved here you would feel differently?? Just as someone who moved to a village in Cornwall may have a very different experience making friends than someone who moved to a village in Yorkshire?

Also I should imagine that some people may only be used to having a few friends and limited social interaction in the UK then of course its no big deal only having superficial friends in their life in Canada- I suppose each individual's experience is also very much related to their lifestyle in the UK and what they are used to? :o

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Thanx for all the posts.... I know how hard it can be as i moved from UK to Australia and its true the English stick together mainly because we have the same sence of humour. But we dont set out to be like that, its just if you click with someone then it can be a life long friendship.
I'm not sure where she is moving to yet... i know she has gone to look at a house today

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We lived in Nova Scotia and made lots of friends, with neighbours and work colleagues, very quickly. :)
We also lived in New Brunswick and encountered the unfriendliest people ever. :huh: