Er, I'm not looking for any furniture. I bought mine with me when I came here a few years ago.

I only remarked that I found furniture sold in Canada a bit old fashioned for my tastes.

Does this make me anti-Canadian?

Who knows, who cares ?
Looks from your signature like you are off to Australia next.....maybe they have nice tasteful furniture which meets your approval ? Surely a good reason to stay there rather than Canada. A country should be judged on the merits of its furniture. Let's hope OEDC run a table of global furniture approval ratings. That would help prospective immigrants better decide their chosen destination.

Rich.

Great idea.

The point I was trying to make is, just because a person does not enjoy something about Canada (in my case, furniture), does not mean that they are anti-canada, or shouldn't have emigrated, or is a whining Brit, or is unwilling to except another culture, or doesn't talk to locals, or wants only British things, etc etc

Sometimes, people just have different tastes.

Think people on the Canada forum are too quick to attack anyone who has anything negative to say about Canada. Yes! Even about the type of furniture being sold here.

I guess that's Ontario skiing for you.

I don't have much of a problem with Brits knocking Canada, there may be much to like but, it's unquestionably a bit of backwater. There isn't really fashion in Canada and it's not a hot bed of, well, of anything, really. So, I find it very strange that people can get jingoistic Canada and more so about regions of the country. I expect Alberta is quite nice in its way but, really, unless one is actually from Alberta or Ontario they're neither so great as to squabble over; none of us would be out here if we could afford to do the same things in Europe. The good and the bad of Canada is that it empowers the ordinary person to do approximately things only the well-to-do can afford at home, getting puffed up over Ontario vs. Alberta is a bit silly as one is not England and the other not Switzerland.

All that said, the idea that Alberta has a culture of being healthy and athletic is quite funny, Edmonton isn't the Republic of Boulder, any Albertans on the TV look to me like they've had a good quota of burgers.

http://calgarygrit.blogspot.com/2005...gary-stop.html

http://www.pbase.com/urban_hermit/image/37313378

http://www.flickr.com/photos/grantneufeld/33076110/

http://www.tomalberts.com/galleries/...alph_klein.php

Another well balanced 'common sense' post db

Where do you live ????? We in posh surburbia, don't feel we live in the back of beyond, and that everyone walks around in blod shirts and too tight jeans, finished off with the pointy toed cowboy boots. People are 'normal'...they dress in a similar way to the way we were used to in England. And the teenagers here are very fashion conscious, the same way most are in England. Sure, you always get the ones who look mismatched and look like they grabbed the first thing lurking in the tumble dryer..............but you get those in the UK too. Remember the shell suits, the jesus sandals with white socks !!! Followers of fashion are everywhere.................as are those who need 3 months with Trinny and Susannah !!!

Toronto. An area called The Beach, it's the left over hippy neighbourhood.

My dear, nowhere is more back of beyond than the suburbs, the suburbs of anywhere. Even the suburbs of places mentioned on perfume bottles are desolate places. Do you perchance live a development named for that which was bulldozed to build it, something like "Aspen Glade", "Pheasant Run" or "Fertile Field" ?

I think the availability of fashion in Canada is best summarised by the thread about going to Buffalo NY "for the styles". You may have heard of Buffalo, in Once Upon a Time in America, Robert DeNiro suffers a symbolic fate worse than death; he's forced to live there.

Actually that sum's up fashion in Canada..

Buffalo is a fashion desert...

Yes.

Tee hee .............. here in our beautiful sub-division of "Boggy Swamp", surrounded by all our neighbours in "Tumbleweed Hollow" and "Scrubby Marsh" , there are rather a lot of people who choose to live in the 'back of beyond'.............,contradiction of terms , me thinks !!.............Each to their own......................"my dear".

....or they wouldn't have a show!

.... some may say that'd be a good thing too!!!

We brought our own furtniture with us and are glad we did. Like some others, we haven't been impressed with the choice of furniture over here. A lot of it is very dull and dark and ugly in my opinion. I would also bring over curtains and quilt covers too as the things I have seen could belong to Mrs. Bucket!!

Chris

I would imagine that there are places in Europe that we could have sold up and moved to with enough cash to retire. But I doubt we'd have been able to speak the language and I doubt that the place would offer the same standard of living or lifestlye as we have here.

People should do the research and live where the want to (although for many it's where they can find work). If a persons boxes are ticked by where that person is living then they should be happy.

What I respond to is those who like to broadcast their views as if they were speaking for the whole of Canada. It's a big country (not everybody lives in a tickey-tackey suburb in the GTA) and people live many different lives and lifestyles here.

And you're tight, not every body in Alberta lives a healthy outdoors lifestyle. But we chose Calgary on that basis and have not been disappointed. Most of our friends ski, bike and hike.

Some even go to the Opera, although we prefer the Philharmonic.

Anyway, we're off to Sunshine skiing this weekend which reminds me

The sun has got his hat on !

A nice post ruined by your reference to "tickey-tackey suburbs"..... one man's meat is another man's poison.