A tale of Provinces...why the chip?
Jan 30th 2013, 1:43 pm
#16
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Re: A tale of Provinces...why the chip?
Throwing this open to the floor - why are people who live in NS (or are looking at moving to NS) so "it's fabulous" about the place? There seems to be a culture of only being able to say something nice about NS - any kind of comment that may be deemed as being against it, can cause major outcry. It's like by admitting you agree with a negative about the place is a social faux pas.
The same doesn't seem to happen anywhere else - so why is it so prevalent here in NS?
The same doesn't seem to happen anywhere else - so why is it so prevalent here in NS?
Jan 30th 2013, 1:45 pm
#17
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Jan 30th 2013, 1:57 pm
#18
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Re: A tale of Provinces...why the chip?
I love Vancouver and am happy to be a Canadian citizen, but damn, people. There's still plenty to whine about
Anyway, the truth is the truth. People need to toughen up.
Jan 30th 2013, 2:01 pm
#19
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Re: A tale of Provinces...why the chip?
I have noticed a similar touchiness in the NZ forum. NZ is similar to NS in that it's a bit of a backwater, not that fabulous economically, constantly losing people to it's bigger brighter neighbour (Australia) (every West for NS) etc....
Maybe that's why people get so touchy.
Maybe that's why people get so touchy.
Jan 30th 2013, 3:49 pm
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Jan 30th 2013, 6:20 pm
#21
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Re: A tale of Provinces...why the chip?
'Cos as immigrants we hand-picked the environment we wanted to move to. To then bitch about it is pretty petty. I'm happy to moan about the UK weather, it was a small contributory factor to my emigration. Here I'm somewhere I want to be rather than somewhere I was born into, so I feel less inclined to need to bitch.
Jan 30th 2013, 8:25 pm
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Jan 31st 2013, 12:38 am
#23
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Re: A tale of Provinces...why the chip?
'Cos as immigrants we hand-picked the environment we wanted to move to. To then bitch about it is pretty petty. I'm happy to moan about the UK weather, it was a small contributory factor to my emigration. Here I'm somewhere I want to be rather than somewhere I was born into, so I feel less inclined to need to bitch.
I didn't choose Alberta it wasn't even on my radar, so i feel i have every right to moan about country and western, cowboys and the general day to day bug bears of the province...i do like the weather though
Jan 31st 2013, 1:10 am
#24
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Re: A tale of Provinces...why the chip?
'Cos as immigrants we hand-picked the environment we wanted to move to. To then bitch about it is pretty petty. I'm happy to moan about the UK weather, it was a small contributory factor to my emigration. Here I'm somewhere I want to be rather than somewhere I was born into, so I feel less inclined to need to bitch.
The weather is a conversation starter for most brits. We like to moan about it, usually because in Britain it's so damn awful.
You can't shake the habit of a lifetime!
Jan 31st 2013, 1:16 am
#25
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Re: A tale of Provinces...why the chip?
'Cos as immigrants we hand-picked the environment we wanted to move to. To then bitch about it is pretty petty. I'm happy to moan about the UK weather, it was a small contributory factor to my emigration. Here I'm somewhere I want to be rather than somewhere I was born into, so I feel less inclined to need to bitch.
Jan 31st 2013, 3:01 am
#27
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Re: A tale of Provinces...why the chip?
I guess you don't really know until you have lived with temperatures and conditions, before that they are just figures I suppose and you can't imagine the feeling of -30 until you have done it. Most of the time when it's that temperature, here it is blue skies and sun so it's not that bad. As they say, you get used to it. The only bit of it I have an issue with is the wind chill, as this is unimaginable until you have lived it.
Not sure of the percentage of people who can live with conditions for a few years, decide it's not for them, and have the funds and patience to uproot the whole family to sunnier climes.
Not sure of the percentage of people who can live with conditions for a few years, decide it's not for them, and have the funds and patience to uproot the whole family to sunnier climes.
Jan 31st 2013, 3:11 am
#28
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Re: A tale of Provinces...why the chip?
Throwing this open to the floor - why are people who live in NS (or are looking at moving to NS) so "it's fabulous" about the place? There seems to be a culture of only being able to say something nice about NS - any kind of comment that may be deemed as being against it, can cause major outcry. It's like by admitting you agree with a negative about the place is a social faux pas.
The same doesn't seem to happen anywhere else - so why is it so prevalent here in NS?
The same doesn't seem to happen anywhere else - so why is it so prevalent here in NS?
Jan 31st 2013, 3:27 am
#29
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Re: A tale of Provinces...why the chip?
'Cos as immigrants we hand-picked the environment we wanted to move to. To then bitch about it is pretty petty. I'm happy to moan about the UK weather, it was a small contributory factor to my emigration. Here I'm somewhere I want to be rather than somewhere I was born into, so I feel less inclined to need to bitch.
Same as the amount of whinging that goes on about holidays.
