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Have to laugh at all the "bad teeth" comments from fellow Americans. Are you kidding? You think Americans, who can barely afford decent health care, have enough money to pay for expensive teeth?
I've seen plenty of bad teeth on Americans.
I would choose UK or Australia.
Canada too cold and no real decent beaches or warm water and I don't find Canadians very friendly toward Americans when you are up there. When you run into them here they act different.
UK prob my fav as I feel more kinship with British folk and love their culture.
Australia for beaches and warm weather.
I have found this to be true it seems Canadians spend a lot of time thinking about the USA but Americans spend little time thinking about Canada. A lot of gripes come up when they know you're from the USA I have no interest in talking about the USA when I'm in Canada I'm there to either to visit family or relaxation. The only time I hear Canada come up in conversations is from people on the right who are looking insisting that the health care system in Canada is worse than what you find in the USA other than that it doesn't come up.
I don't think any do cost of living, particularly well, but outside favourite from within the Anglo world, would be Montreal. (love the French vibe and language on the North American continent)
Id love to live in Australia; my wife and I are considering it. She's Chinese so it'd be a third country for us. I have been to England and loved it. Either would be a potentially great place for us to open up a restaurant so we could do well... Visas would be a bit of an issue but we have enough cash reserves that we could probably meet investment criteria pretty easily.
I like Canada but it's too cold overall for me. England is fairly cold of course too, but I love it there so could deal with it.
I have found this to be true it seems Canadians spend a lot of time thinking about the USA....
We actually don't spend a lot of time thinking about the USA or Americans. Most of our time is spent thinking about the winner of this hockey game, or that baseball game, or that football game. Very little time is spent thinking about, "Now, how would my views go over in the USA?" We do spend a lot of time thinking about affordable childcare, paying the bills this month, hockey standings, and how yet again, we have to brush snow off the car. But I don't think that we consume every day with thinking about the USA. Our own lives consume enough.
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I like Canada but it's too cold overall for me. England is fairly cold of course too, but I love it there so could deal with it.
Please tell me that you believe that the mostly-inhabited parts of Canada have very nice springs, summers, and falls; and that you know for a fact that polar bears do not walk the streets of Toronto.
I have heard plenty here about how "Canada is too cold." It's not cold enough for 35 million Canadians to say, "the heck with this, let's just close down and move somewhere south." They stay. Yet the myths continue:
And that's just silly. Yes, it is true that from where I sit, it is currently -33C. But I an in my sturdy little house, by the fire, with a glass of whisky and my pipe. My car's block heater is plugged in, so it will start easily tomorrow. My cats are happily napping by the fire. And this weather will be over soon enough.
To AFP: We don't spend a lot of time on Americans, thinking about Americans, wondering about Americans. We wonder why Americans spend a lot of time on thinking about us.
To AFP: We don't spend a lot of time on Americans, thinking about Americans, wondering about Americans. We wonder why Americans spend a lot of time on thinking about us.
Do you really believe Americans think more about Canadians and Canada than vice-versa? Seriously?
I'd say that Canadians may not spend a lot of time thinking of Americans *as Americans* but they spend a heck of a lot of time thinking about American stuff. But it's as if it was domestic, almost as if Americans were compatriots (aka part of the same country).
All of the coverage this morning in Canada about the Oscars for example isn't generally thought of as Canadians thinking of Americans *as Americans*, but it's still Canadians thinking a whole lot about American stuff.
As I already stated, a whole bunch of American stuff from popular culture to news to sports to business, is treated by Canadians as if it's (quasi-)domestic.
@ChevySpoons The typical American can't cite a single fact about Canada it isn't even on their radar and doesn't come up in conversation. Whereas the typical Canadian I've come across can carry on a conversation about California the state I live in.
I would choose Melbourne, Australia as I have spent 6 months there a while back and more recently visited for a few weeks and still liked the city and Australian life.
Do you really believe Americans think more about Canadians and Canada than vice-versa? Seriously?
I'd say that Canadians may not spend a lot of time thinking of Americans *as Americans* but they spend a heck of a lot of time thinking about American stuff. But it's as if it was domestic, almost as if Americans were compatriots (aka part of the same country).
All of the coverage this morning in Canada about the Oscars for example isn't generally thought of as Canadians thinking of Americans *as Americans*, but it's still Canadians thinking a whole lot about American stuff.
As I already stated, a whole bunch of American stuff from popular culture to news to sports to business, is treated by Canadians as if it's (quasi-)domestic.
The Anglo-Canadian provinces that border US states I think are largely a continuation of the USA culturally. Those provinces share more culturally with those US/Canada border states than those states share with states in the deep south. The US and Canada could be one country if the south wasn't part of the Union.
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