Canada2006

There's a good one too in Longueuil approaching Jacques-Cartier bridge from Boucherville - can be scary if there's a long queue to get on the bridge

And don't even mention trying to figure out how to get on the bridge if coming from Longueuil itself - nightmare even with sat nav.

Rich_007

Oh come now you're not still all stiff upper lip public school Mockney ?

R.

Canada2006

In Québec they usually have signs telling you which roads have a stop sign or not.

My experience here of roundabouts (they seem to be building more and more) has been a bit dodgy - cars don't always stop when they enter one and you end up slamming the breaks on. Be careful on them some people don't know how they work as there are so few of them!

dbd33

Absolutely not, to say so is balderdash, piffle and tripe.

Canada2006

We buy them as we don't know when we'll have the opportunity to watch. We try to keep the kids away from TV so it's very rarely on. And with all these elections at the moment there is more than enough to keep us occupied

dbd33

That's addressed by the subscription service, the charge is for having n disks, not for the time that you have them. We currently have a disk we rented when there was last snow on the ground, when we get around to watching it we'll return it and they'll send another.

Canada2006

Interesting - I'll take a look at that - thanks for the tip.

Rich_007

OK old bean you sound like a good sort so I trust your judgement.

R.

doomie

Took me a while:

1. Cell phone companies. Daylight robbery, horrible service
2. Expensive internet ($40-50 for high-speed cable internet!)
3. Taxes not included in the listed price (except at the SAQ )
4. Cycling network is not on par with Europe
5. Fruits have no taste (compared to what I'm eating now in California)
6. Boring politics (unless you count the Quebec independence movement)

This is kinda about Montreal, mostly. On the other hand, I could spend a day raving about the stuff that I like about Canada and Montreal specifically . There's simply no comparison between the life that I'm having in Quebec and the one that I had while in my 'beloved' home country (most Brits think they can beat me at tennis when I tell them where I'm from . How's that for an obscure reference?)

MAN2YKF

1 - Cell phone companies
2 - Crap TV
3 - Bell & Rogers
4 - Toronto
5 - BBC Canada

The dam CRTC with it's rules of home content.
BBC Canada should mean BBC, oh no though!, most of the day is filled with Canadian made programming that would not see the light of day in the UK.
The other day i saw a show made by ROGERS! about Toronto Greek restaurant.
I am positive BBC America gets far more British shows.

dejah

As a former USAian driver (with a commercial license) who relearned to drive in the UK, I'll attest that UK drivers are vastly superior to the North American variety. I'm lumping Canadians in with 'mericans because from what I've seen in my (admittedly few) visits to Canada they are the same. UK drivers pay attention (most of the time) and they are polite (most of the time) North Americans are too busy drinking their supersized coffee/soda - talking on their cell - yelling at the kids in the back - singing along with the country music - and making sure they get there first to worry about what's happening on the roads. Even my German relatives remarked on how competent and polite UK drivers are.
And that driving test was HARD! (compared to the one in the USA that I took a few hundred years ago) Taking it on the wrong side of the road didn't help either.

I'll contribute any other dislikes when we finally get to Canada.