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Forum: Canada
Apr 7th 2014, 7:40 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Yes I can hear the birds tweeting.

@BirdInCalgary Wow that was a ballbuster #wintersucks

@AnotherBirdInCalgary Stuff this, I'm moving to Kelowna.
Forum: Canada
Apr 4th 2014, 11:42 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

10 C.

All day I've been hearing icicles fall off of buildings, thud, crunch, wallop.
Forum: Canada
Apr 3rd 2014, 5:06 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Anyway, today appears to be the last day where it will be below freezing during the day and anymore snow will be the usual weather we get during the summer. :lol:

So can we stop talking about...
Forum: Canada
Mar 27th 2014, 10:35 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

I've never been to Malta but I had a job once where I had to talk to a lot of people in Malta and the general impression I got was that it was very crowded and expensive.
Forum: Canada
Mar 27th 2014, 10:33 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Ah, those were the days, I remember being on hold for eight hours once to talk to the Texas service centre for INS and also standing in a very long line indeed to get an I-129 petition application.
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Forum: Canada
Mar 26th 2014, 6:41 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

I've got to say I totally disagree with what is being posted here about going without doing much research. If only because I see people saying they moved for money reasons, well taxes are one...
Forum: Canada
Mar 24th 2014, 5:15 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Actually yes that is one. Heard that one a lot, "oh I'm going to retire to Vancouver Island/Kelowna" and they spend the entire winter building their retirement home and furnishing it in their head. ...
Forum: Canada
Mar 22nd 2014, 9:57 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

As I said a bit further back, I notice that a lot of people in Canada have mental coping mechanisms to get through winter. Lots of stories about how it isn't as bad as the winter of year X. Or...
Forum: Canada
Mar 22nd 2014, 9:48 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

What kind of birds? Seems a bit odd, they don't usually fly back in March.
Forum: Canada
Mar 19th 2014, 5:21 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Well 3.78 litres is a US gallon so I'm assuming Canada isn't going to become part of the US.
Forum: Canada
Mar 19th 2014, 5:04 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

I thought it was because the Commonwealth was going metric. But looking it up apparently both the US and the Commonwealth wanted to go metric.

Legally speaking the US is supposedly metric. :lol:...
Forum: Canada
Mar 19th 2014, 4:48 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

I'm sure they don't but I use centimetres. ;)
Forum: Canada
Mar 18th 2014, 4:54 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

The one thing I would say is that weather forecasts in Alberta are total wank during the winter.

Anyone considering moving here based on monitoring the weather forecast should bear this in mind.
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Forum: Canada
Mar 17th 2014, 5:09 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

I wouldn't want to live in Winnipeg either! :lol:

But as said, it's an atypical winter.
Forum: Canada
Mar 14th 2014, 11:29 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

But it's not really "extreme" weather, it's more the "it's a bit worse than average today" weather. Calgary has 190 days a year with temperatures below freezing (admittedly some of them are at night...
Forum: Canada
Mar 14th 2014, 11:24 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

OMG I just said to embrace winter.

I hate it when people say that.

Although I hate it more when they say it when I'm outside and just stepped through some ice into a puddle.
Forum: Canada
Mar 14th 2014, 11:22 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Last I checked there are tens of millions of Canadians and that is a news story on one storm during the worst winter in the last 20 years.

Yes newsflash, winter in Canada is not a fun exercise.
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Forum: Canada
Mar 14th 2014, 11:15 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Rain and grey is more depressing than sunny and cold imo. Which is why I could never live in Kelowna, which is in fact much drier than Vancouver, too grey during the winter.

Okay you don't want...
Forum: Canada
Mar 14th 2014, 11:02 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

330 days of sunshine on average, hard to beat that!

But I do agree that where you are in BC is okay, I dispute Vancouver being better though.
Forum: Canada
Mar 14th 2014, 11:00 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Which I did in #61. Funnier version of it too.
Forum: Canada
Mar 14th 2014, 10:58 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

So you're not exactly in a position to comment, are you.

I have actually spent a fair bit of time in Vancouver and as I've explained on here previously I'd take Calgary any day of the week. Sunny...
Forum: Canada
Mar 14th 2014, 10:57 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

I'm getting the impression that you in fact are the one who has a distorted view of what a Canadian winter is like. Okay yeah it does get cold but I've never dealt with a ten foot snow drift or...
Forum: Canada
Mar 13th 2014, 4:45 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Yeah but how many winters did you go through in the UK, I wouldn't want to be in the floods there. Your experience of elsewhere isn't the same as the experience of most people on here.

Having...
Forum: Canada
Mar 13th 2014, 4:35 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,350
Posted By Steve_

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Rather that than endless rainfall. And in reality on the prairies it's actually very dry. Very cold though, but sunny most days. Manitoba this year has had a very unusual winter.
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