wilderness pete

and dont forget the bacon.

Booze has become slightly better priced since I arrived, though even $10 a bottle for red plonk still seems too much to me, though I was used to french prices.

TV I have found to be not too bad if you look around.
Yes the adverts are on too long but the Canadian period drama series are excellent, and for those of a less sophisticated taste you still get your Corrie.

dbd33

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle2006924/

The shows "worth watching" yesterday were Jamie Oliver cooking something and Are You Being Served?

paolosmythe

life in canada for me has provoked a change from the expression, 'not enough hours in the day' to 'not enough years in a lifetime'.

i guess with all things considered, what with my being someone who lives for playing / watching hockey (on ice) snowboarding, the ocean, the beach, the forests, chasing bears, watching eagles, baiting badgers...... a move to canadia was a good idea.

being happy to tolerate molson canadian and not lamenting a change in bacon 'style' has no impact and despite words to the contrary (and majority) whilst cheese selection in Lower BC is different to that of the UK, i dont find it to be neither better nor worse.

and so life in canada boring? hells no! but i guess it depends on what sort of person you are?

wilderness pete

I agree, if you are an outdoors kind of person, well you have to love it here, even when it snows.

Still not seen a bear yet, and I assume your using the badgers for forum fishing.

macadian

Only when it rains, or/and when Aaron Solomon & a certain Mr Capstick appear on the same TV program. Other than that I'm pretty occupied....

el_richo

You sound like my wife

Londonuck

yea, i thought that



runs!

ExKiwilass

It's not Canada's fault your sausage needs improving.

el_richo

Saw six in the garden over the past week. One of the buggers tried to eat our steaks off the BBQ

Almost Canadian

I hope you gave him a slap

el_richo

I stood behind my father-in-law like a coward while he waved an axe at the bear. The bear just grunted and wandered off to eat some bird seeds (in the picture).

The steak was beautiful, i might add

simonfiction

I have to jump in and defend Canadian beer. The national beers, such as Molson, taste like warm piss, but the local beers out here puts the UK stuff to shame. It's one of my favourite things about the Pacific Northwest.

It is really over priced, but keep in mind it is also pretty under priced in the UK. Somewhere inbetween would be nice.

Anyways, where were we? Canada.. boring.. carry on.

dbd33

How can it be underpriced if it's produced commercially? How would it benefit the consumer to increase the price?

simonfiction

I believe the argument here in BC, and presumably Canada, is that keeping the cost of alcohol artificially high helps to reduce drinking problems. There is so many things wrong with the system here and I would like to see it deregulated to allow cheaper prices, especially for domestically produced wines and beers as they can't compete with imported stuff.

However, IMO I believe it can get cheap enough to solely take advantage of the vulnerable. No one is buying Tesco value beer for the taste, they're buying it to get wasted and probably feed a dependency. I often felt it was quantity over quality with the UK's alcohol consumption.

dbd33

Not, IMO, a problem that goes away with price variations, people just cut their beer with something cheaper; crack or meth or glue.