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Old Feb 27th 2011 | 1:07 pm
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Originally Posted by cxx
Have to disagree - 10 years after leaving the US we are still close friends with our old neighbours, have been to their family weddings, etc. whilst in here NB we try to speak to people in the street etc. and they just ignore us (and each other, so we don't think it's personal!!) - it's the first place we've lived where we haven't got to know our neighbours.
You're an outsider to Canadians always are and always will be. They are very private of their housing circle and circle of friends.
 
Old Feb 27th 2011 | 1:08 pm
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
A lot of people on this forum won't get into Canada either. Although I'm not sure why that's relevant to the topic.
You can get into Canada as a bus driver mate. You need to be at the top of your game in some advanced field to get into the states.

When did you get your visa for the states?
 
Old Feb 27th 2011 | 1:11 pm
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Originally Posted by Weebie
You can get into Canada as a bus driver mate. You need to be at the top of your game in some advanced field to get into the states.

When did you get your visa for the states?
Some time ago. And I'm not a bus driver, I'm at the top of my game.

Moreover I think you'll find bus drivers anyway aren't on the list of occupations in demand.

You?
 
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You're an outsider to Canadians always are and always will be. They are very private of their housing circle and circle of friends.
In other words they didn't like you............
 
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Originally Posted by cxx
whilst in here NB we try to speak to people in the street etc. and they just ignore us (and each other, so we don't think it's personal!!) - it's the first place we've lived where we haven't got to know our neighbours.
You must be living in the village of the damned. I have lived in Moncton/Riverview and now Fredericton and have never experienced that.
 
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Originally Posted by Tangram
You must be living in the village of the damned. I have lived in Moncton/Riverview and now Fredericton and have never experienced that.
I experienced it a lot in Calgary. They will be nice to you but no one wants to know you. It's like their comfortable with their inner circle and don't want it changed. although I'm sure the states has similar elements but this was the big thing I noticed abut Canada.
 
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You must be living in the village of the damned. I have lived in Moncton/Riverview and now Fredericton and have never experienced that.
Village of the Damned was the name of the film based on the Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham.

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I experienced it a lot in Calgary. They will be nice to you but no one wants to know you. It's like their comfortable with their inner circle and don't want it changed. although I'm sure the states has similar elements but this was the big thing I noticed abut Canada.
Perhaps it's just you?
 
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Perhaps it was I don't know.

I'm studying mate.
 
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Perhaps it's just you?
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Old Feb 27th 2011 | 1:24 pm
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True enough. But one gets a bit bored on a Sunday evening when all you have to look forward to is teaching ingrates about quantum spectroscopy in the morning.
 
Old Feb 27th 2011 | 1:27 pm
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True enough. But one gets a bit bored on a Sunday evening when all you have to look forward to is teaching ingrates about quantum spectroscopy in the morning.
Try software development with endless 'strokey beard' meetings.
 
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True enough. But one gets a bit bored on a Sunday evening when all you have to look forward to is teaching ingrates about quantum spectroscopy in the morning.
ah, then carry on. You've got to feel sorry for him living, as he does, in the land of fox news. I suppose it must make him feel really special to think he's got something we "can't have", even though we don't want it and haven't tried to get it. Sort of like a reverse fox and the grapes.

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ah, then carry on. You've got to feel sorry for him living, as he does, in the land of fox news. I suppose it must make him feel really special to think he's got something we "can't have", even though we don't want it and haven't tried to get it. Sort of like a reverse fox and the grapes.
Can't anyone get a student visa in the US?
 


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