Originally Posted by EasyRider (Post 8359796)

What? It's you acting like have never finished high school. I think what you're really trying to say is that Vancouver is a boring mediocre backwater, but can't admit and say this here 'cause of all bunch of your complexes? Are places like New York, Chicago, Montreal for "grown ups" as well or Vancouver apparently got a leg on these places?

Weak.

Originally Posted by dboy (Post 8359827)

My comment was based on the fact that you childishly restored to name calling. I don't have a complex, just don't agree with the diatribe that you passed off as a post. Is Vancouver boring? Well interms of bar hopping, which I imagine is how you define a place, then yes, it is, you'll get no arguments from me. There's more to a place than pubs and clubs. When you grow up you'll realize that.

Originally Posted by EasyRider (Post 8359857)

You think aforementioned places seem not boring for me because of bars and clubs? I don't give much *** (or else he'll call me childish!) about bars and pubs though how can be good pubs a bad thing I don't know.

You're like hanging out here and call whatever you don't like "a bunch of crap"? And you tell me you're grown up, sure of that? You're in a bubble of delusional assumptions, sir.

Originally Posted by mocol (Post 8358118)

...we hear tales of what the UK is like now it makes it easier to bear.

Originally Posted by mocol (Post 8358168)

I hope your eventual return to the UK is a good one and that you are not disappointed in what you find there.

Originally Posted by chrisfromusa (Post 8359308)

Plus add to the fact that British people come visit the U.S. and Canada and think they are entitled to live here simply because they speak English and both of our countries used to be British colonies.

Originally Posted by chrisfromusa (Post 8359460)

...she feels that she's treated like a 2nd class citizen because she's English.

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 8359314)

I'm glad that you're catching on. You too can contribute to the Oinki.

Originally Posted by chrisfromusa (Post 8359329)

US is better, at least 4/5 of my country isn't frozen tundra :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by chrisfromusa (Post 8359460)

That's what I don't understand, as an American anyway. Why would waving the Union Jack about or St. George's Cross be offensive, latter being illegal last I heard??

Originally Posted by chrisfromusa (Post 8359460)

Though ym British girlfriend does say the same thing, and is quite sick of it as well, she feels that she's treated like a 2nd class citizen because she's English.

Originally Posted by Devil Girl (Post 8360158)

Thank you, though I am not sure what the oinki is :o:o

Maybe it is just an English thing, as here in Scotland there is no problems about flying the Saltire (or the Union Jack)

There is one house on my street and another nearby that have got the Saltire flag flying.



I do not either and I live in Scotland :lol:

Though technically that makes me an immigrant so maybe that is why I am having no problems ;) :lol:

Originally Posted by blue monday (Post 8355815)

Awesome, thats what im talking about, a 'proper' circuit :) As you say I should have done better research.

Ill have to perused the wife to be to move to BC though as I imaging it's a long drive there Lol. Then again its a quick flight on westjet for a weekend trip to the races. :D

That now means I can't think of one negative about Canada, ah except the holiday entitlement but I can live with that in all honesty.:thumbsup:

Originally Posted by el_richo (Post 8360091)

What tales? It's looking up, work wise, from what I see in may areas.

Originally Posted by el_richo (Post 8360106)

Unfortunately i think this person will have a hard time if his view on immigrants (ironic) is anything to go on.

The influx in "non British" folk will keep his blood pressure levels high.

Originally Posted by EasyRider (Post 8359566)

I understand where they are coming from. I have a question-- does it hold true for the province of Quebec (Montreal, Quebec City)? Who can tell?

I'm almost certain not, I'm in Vancouver and I'm looking to escape this awful, cold, almost Darwinian social culture of narcissism and segregation. Very antisocial existence, there are no interesting real communities worth mentioning or common bond here. Some thrive in all that, but it's just not my cup of tea. Comparing to Europe-- life's totally antisocial here. I think the OP who has sent this is from Western Canada, likely Vancouver.

I'm honestly tired of wasps and protestants with their live-to-work corporate-brainwashed culture with cities that leave impression of large labor camps after you actually try to "live" there for a while with some cheap entertainment thrown for color.

I just wanted to confirm-- is Quebec culture so different from the rest of Canada? I'm looking for a place in Canada where people are actually lively and laid back (not lazy or dumb like so many in Vancouver), can have genuine fun and can let go (not these stiff anglo-saxon parties with pretend fun) and people talk to each other on the streets. I've heard Montreal is much like Barcelona which would be great. Why would I stay in Vancouver then?

As for Vancouver I can't wait to leave, the place is seriously messed up socially and politically. People are backward and aren't able to work together and cooperate efficiently which has come to limelight during this Olympics-- scandal after scandal, poor planning, organization and implementation. Everybody just seems to want to escape any responsibility "I'm done-- F.U. attitude" and walk over the others heads at any cost. Very backward society-- back to the caves, I'd say. I like this post I found and resonate with it pretty well:

Originally Posted by Oink (Post 8359545)

I certainly didn't mean to be offensive, sorry you took it that way. I was merely trotting out the same old baseless, nonsensical and overly generalized drivel that masquerades as factual reason in this thread. I thought it must all have been a joke, as no one could take these positions as anything other than that.