Jimbo2012

When the Leafs lost in the play-offs, most likely

cheeky_monkey

There is not one single Premier league football ground close to where i live..so in terms of sport and history Canada doesn't do well

haggis88

i'm lucky that i was into Ice Hockey when i lived in Scotland albeit the Benson & Hedges Superleague (as it was at the time) isn't quite as high a level as the NHL...

Easier to watch NHL games over here, being that there's a local team and it's on at a decent hour

davidsk

Maybe when Clinton had an affair with Monica!

rwin

Only between August and June.

MarylandNed

Really? I know quite a few people in Canada that have pools.

For kicks I took a quick look in Brampton, Ontario and found quite a few pools on Google maps:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=neptun...3,+Canada&z=17

davidsk

So cold in Canada even in Summer. Only when the temperature goes above the human body temperature, it is a joy to jump into a pool. Unless it is a heated pool, I think people won't use their pools more than 10 days a year in Canada.

Howefamily

I was in mine nearly every day from end May to end September last year. Shame this year the weather is so rubbish so far.....

Howefamily

Where?

dbd33

We came to Canada for the bilingualism. That worked out better than having a pool, we didn't make good use of the pool due to the weather. A pool in Canada isn't really much use unless it's at your winter place, in Arizona.

Scribble

was being serious.
That's in Montreal where I imagine house prices are more reasonable that the more dense population areas like Toronto, Vancouver, etc. I appreciate that Toronto is pricey.

There's a lot of independent stuff in Montreal too.

You can buy 3 flats for about $400k there, that's about 3 times cheaper than London.

I know truck drivers who have massive houses with pools and lots of land.
You really don't need much to buy a house with pool in comparison to the same plot of land in the UK.

South Quebec is minus 30 in winter and about +30-40 in the summer. People there use their pool most of Jun, Jul, Aug.

As above. Again, it's a big place so it's difficult to generalise but it's just impressions on quality of life.

Siouxie

You are joking?

I know dozens of people that have pools, open them in June and use them through until late September.

It does get warm here, you know.

Almost Canadian

I accept that lots of Canadians do, particularly those in southern Ontario or the BC interior. That is quite different to the assertion that "most" in Canada do.

MarylandNed

I wasn't replying to the "most" comment. I was replying to your comment about you not knowing anyone with a pool. Sure - it's not Florida or Arizona but I know many people in Canada who get good use out of their pools. Personally I never felt it was worth the hassle considering the amount of time you could actually use it. Other people feel differently though and I've been to a lot of houses in Canada that have pools.

Almost Canadian

I am not disputing that. I simply don't know anyone with a pool. Do they exist in Calgary? Yes, we looked at purchasing a property that had a large indoor one, but they are not the ubiquitous feature in Calgary that they appear to be elsewhere in Canada.