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Forum: Canada
Jan 28th 2016, 5:38 am
Replies: 403
Views: 46,462
Posted By jock_mcbile

Re: Is anyone else massively disappointed in Canada?

Generally speaking, Canadians are more reserved than Brits, Americans, Aussies, etc. Doesn't mean there aren't exceptions. You know, it's not an insult to be called introverted.
Forum: Canada
Jan 28th 2016, 12:09 am
Replies: 403
Views: 46,462
Posted By jock_mcbile

Re: Is anyone else massively disappointed in Canada?

This forum is anything but Canada's fan club. You will be popular here.
Forum: Canada
Jan 27th 2016, 11:47 pm
Replies: 403
Views: 46,462
Posted By jock_mcbile

Re: Is anyone else massively disappointed in Canada?

Canada's minimum 2-week paid leave (minimum 3 weeks in Saskatchewan) is a disgrace and completely out of step with every other advanced country except the US, where, believe it or not, there is ZERO...
Forum: Canada
Jan 27th 2016, 11:06 pm
Replies: 403
Views: 46,462
Posted By jock_mcbile

Re: Is anyone else massively disappointed in Canada?

Not to be pedantic but the geographical centre of Canada would actually somewhere in Nunavut :)
Forum: Canada
Jan 27th 2016, 10:39 pm
Replies: 403
Views: 46,462
Posted By jock_mcbile

Re: Is anyone else massively disappointed in Canada?

By accident of birth, you were born in a country a stone's throw away from about 30 other countries. By accident of birth, Canadians weren't. And I don't know who you've been meeting but nearly every...
Forum: Canada
Jan 27th 2016, 10:11 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 1,918
Posted By jock_mcbile

Re: Toronto neighbourhoods

Liberty Village is too inconvenient and City Place is a wasteland.

To the OP, check out College & Bathurst (Little Italy) and Bloor & Bathurst. Both are very cool areas, lots of restaurants and...
Forum: Canada
Jan 27th 2016, 10:01 pm
Replies: 34
Views: 8,970
Posted By jock_mcbile

Re: Vancouver polite but unfriendly

You weren't shunned. The idea of making new BFFs at a baby prep class isn't something that crosses any Canadian's mind. It wasn't personal. If some of the other couples interested you, why didn't you...
Forum: Canada
Jan 27th 2016, 9:50 pm
Replies: 403
Views: 46,462
Posted By jock_mcbile

Re: Is anyone else massively disappointed in Canada?

Look, Canadians are the most introverted in the English-speaking. The UK, the US, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa...all are extroverted by nature. Canada is the outlier. It isn't surprising this...
Forum: Canada
Jan 27th 2016, 9:44 pm
Replies: 42
Views: 3,145
Posted By jock_mcbile

Re: Moving to British Columbia

What aspects of culture do you feel that they lack but you have?
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