flashman

Some comments in various threads state that Canada is "So far Behind" or something equivalent. What are the specific examples?

Erica P

Here in BC we are 8 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time

Biiiiink

Internet shopping and researching purchases online - both feel like a UK circa 1993 experience for me

ann m

The staff in the banks don't sit in bullet proof cages with tinny microphones to communicate. You get to walk right up to a real life person and, like, talk to them properly, and everything. It's so 1970's

chumley

folk are incredibly friendly and people are more important than possesions

also its not rush rush rush rush folk have time to talk and appreciate natural things

no sense of fear or crime when walking alone in the dark ( apart from bears of course)

service is second to none in local stores and business the personbal touch is alive well and thriving

Helen Parnell

teenagers are not paranoid about having the latest fashions or cell phone. Jeans are worn all day everyday and any cell phone will do, that is if they have one at all.

When I went into a class room of teenagers in the UK and asked who had been robbed of a cell phone, most said yes. Here I do not know any young person who has been a victim of crime. I have just asked my 16 year old if any of his friends have been robbed. Answer ' NO'

dingbat

Ha ha ha. This is hilarious. I can give you at least twenty examples of cell phone theft (mine included) and every teenager I know round here is into the latest fashions/labels. They all, without exception have cell phones. It is NO different to the UK in that respect.

Inse

" It's just a jump to the left".......

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=zdu7xoHU9DA

Rich_007

The Jesus/God combo deal is popular. That went out in the 1950's in the UK.

R.

dingbat

Lack of equal employment rights in reality.
Enforceable employment legislation.
Attitudes towards working mothers.
Attitudes towards women in general.
Too many red neck racists who would rival your average neanderthal - in numbers.
Covert racists who get away with it - even when reported, time and time again.
Religious discrimination.
Unchecked nepotism.
Poor quality of goods and no one does anything to change it.
Actual customer service which provides a real service, and not just a cheesy grin and "how are you today?" trotted out like an automaton.
Piss poor online shopping/deliveries.
Cost of public transportation.

Many more where they came from - cue the flaming.

Rich_007

You missed out systemic child/spousal abuse.

tut tut

R.

dingbat

Yeah. I've had the work week from hell in that regard. Maybe I lived in a cave in the UK, but I just don't recall it being this bad or prevalent there.

BristolUK

I'm with Helen. I experienced Montreal for 10 months before moving to NB. Fashion conscious teens were few and far between even in Montreal and public use of cell phones there and Moncton is nothing like that in the UK.

dingbat

Moncton (or Fredericton) are nothing like here either. I've been to both. Daughter is in Fred at the moment.

Rich_007

How so when Montreal is Canada's fashion capital.

R.