vancouver advise.for people wanting to move here
Dec 26th 2004, 4:51 pm
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Re: vancouver advise.for people wanting to move here
Originally Posted by Glaswegian
Hehehehe ... Calgary's Chinatown is great ... Chinese shop signs, Chinese street signs, Chinese bank clerks who can't understand Scottish accents ... Dragon City Mall has a huge top floor restaurant with a fantastic buffet, well worth a visit ... but, there will be *ahem* Chinese people there 
Dec 26th 2004, 5:13 pm
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Re: vancouver advise.for people wanting to move here
Originally Posted by oceanMDX
Confucius say: he who doesn't like Chinese, should stay out of Dragon City.
Dec 26th 2004, 5:25 pm
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Re: vancouver advise.for people wanting to move here
Originally Posted by Glaswegian
Confucius also say: white man who speaks with forked tongue should avoid chicken feet dim sum.
Dec 26th 2004, 5:55 pm
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Re: vancouver advise.for people wanting to move here
Originally Posted by bevjohn
get what
Dec 26th 2004, 6:04 pm
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Re: vancouver advise.for people wanting to move here
Originally Posted by hot wasabi peas
That Canada is not Britain.
Dec 26th 2004, 6:17 pm
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Re: vancouver advise.for people wanting to move here
Originally Posted by willmore
"you are a racist"
Canada isn't 1960's Britain anymore than the modern day UK is ... there is a lot of discussion about how Canada is like the UK 20 or 30 years ago ... it's also not beyond imagination that you could interpret that to mean it isn't also multi-cultural.
The Canadian government tend to overplay thier Queen loving (the monarch, not the band) British heritage and downplay the multicultural aspects of life over here ... there's a lot of spin in what's fed to wannabe expats in the UK ... especially in Canada News ... the ethnic mix doesn't get mentioned anywhere in its pages.
Always visit before moving here ... it always pays to adjust your expectations to reality.
It's the season of goodwill ... let's not resort to name calling ...
Dec 26th 2004, 7:20 pm
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Re: vancouver advise.for people wanting to move here
Originally Posted by Glaswegian
Children, children ... it's Boxing Day ... can't you play together nicely without name calling?
Canada isn't 1960's Britain anymore than the modern day UK is ... there is a lot of discussion about how Canada is like the UK 20 or 30 years ago ... it's also not beyond imagination that you could interpret that to mean it isn't also multi-cultural.
The Canadian government tend to overplay thier Queen loving (the monarch, not the band) British heritage and downplay the multicultural aspects of life over here ... there's a lot of spin in what's fed to wannabe expats in the UK ... especially in Canada News ... the ethnic mix doesn't get mentioned anywhere in its pages.
Always visit before moving here ... it always pays to adjust your expectations to reality.
It's the season of goodwill ... let's not resort to name calling ...
Canada isn't 1960's Britain anymore than the modern day UK is ... there is a lot of discussion about how Canada is like the UK 20 or 30 years ago ... it's also not beyond imagination that you could interpret that to mean it isn't also multi-cultural.
The Canadian government tend to overplay thier Queen loving (the monarch, not the band) British heritage and downplay the multicultural aspects of life over here ... there's a lot of spin in what's fed to wannabe expats in the UK ... especially in Canada News ... the ethnic mix doesn't get mentioned anywhere in its pages.
Always visit before moving here ... it always pays to adjust your expectations to reality.
It's the season of goodwill ... let's not resort to name calling ...
Dec 26th 2004, 10:02 pm
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Re: vancouver advise.for people wanting to move here
Sometimes I like to call a spade a shovel, but a rose by any other name would smell as sweet........ 
I think I'll stick to the whisky! 
I think I'll stick to the whisky!
Dec 26th 2004, 10:04 pm
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Re: vancouver advise.for people wanting to move here
Hey! How exciting; ... I am now a "Senior member" !
Whoopee-doooooo!!!!
Whoopee-doooooo!!!!
Dec 26th 2004, 10:25 pm
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Re: vancouver advise.for people wanting to move here
Originally Posted by Morwenna
Sometimes I like to call a spade a shovel, but a rose by any other name would smell as sweet........ I think I'll stick to the whisky!
I think I'll stick to the whisky!
Dec 26th 2004, 10:30 pm
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Re: vancouver advise.for people wanting to move here
Originally Posted by willmore
........hope that whiskey is Crown Royal....only in Canada don't you know........
(haven't tried it yet ..... still working my way through a litre of Famous Grouse!) ..... hic
Dec 26th 2004, 10:31 pm
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Re: vancouver advise.for people wanting to move here
...and there's no e in proper whisky! 
Dec 26th 2004, 11:20 pm
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Re: vancouver advise.for people wanting to move here
Originally Posted by Morwenna
My mother-in-law gave me a bottle of Canadian Club! ....... I think she must finally be coming around to accepting the idea that we really are going!
(haven't tried it yet ..... still working my way through a litre of Famous Grouse!) ..... hic
(haven't tried it yet ..... still working my way through a litre of Famous Grouse!) ..... hic
You know I had to check our bottle of Crown Royal and the label is whiskey (Canadian spelling) I guess....Canadians have always had their own way of doing things......
Dec 26th 2004, 11:23 pm
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Re: vancouver advise.for people wanting to move here
Isn't that Red Rose tea's slogan...?
Originally Posted by willmore
only in Canada don't you know........
Dec 26th 2004, 11:24 pm
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Re: vancouver advise.for people wanting to move here
Here in the motherland, 'whisky' means scotch / Scottish whisky and whiskey is Irish or American (in a continental sense).
Originally Posted by willmore
You know I had to check our bottle of Crown Royal and the label is whiskey (Canadian spelling) I guess....Canadians have always had their own way of doing things......