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Has nothing to do with my comment. The U.S. and Canada are among the best of allies, and Americans and Canadians share many things, friendships, culture, faith, family, lineage, and more. I did not say anything to suggest that it isn't. However, there is a certain segment of Canadians, a pseudo-elite and pseudo-intellectual middle-class leftist cohort that finds it fashionable and socially acceptable to trash talk the States. It's ridiculous. Very few Americans do that. In Canada, it's almost an industry. If you read the comments on The Globe and Mail or the Toronto Star, you will see endless diatribes against the United States and the United Kingdom, in particular. Usually, those two are followed by rants against Russia and Israel. That segment of Canadians is looney tunes.
Come on just stop it, you're being petty now. I come from a large family of brothers and sisters and we "trash talk" each other all the time...but that's what brothers, sisters and families do, it is natural and it is most certainly harmless.
I am certain that there are some things not to like about America, especially with a president who does not possess any critical thinking skills before he opens his mouth or "tweets". He is at times a buffoon.
Both Canadians and Americans are fortunate we live in free countries where it is very much encouraged to speak our minds and offer criticisms, carte blanche. And we do, on both sides of our mutual borders.
However, there is a certain segment of Canadians, a pseudo-elite and pseudo-intellectual middle-class leftist cohort that finds it fashionable and socially acceptable to trash talk the States ...
There is a certain segment of Americans, a pseudo-elite and pseudo-intellectual middle class leftist cohort that finds it fashionable and socially acceptable to trash talk other Americans. So what?
Canadas proximity to the USA was convenient for road trips long weekends and winter holidays to Florida. ,new Enland/Boston/NYC etc were all achievable by car with a scenic trip to get there.
did you went by car to Florida?? yeah, living around Dorval Airport is convenient I guess
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Here to. We have that advantage over Australia and New Zealand
Many happy memories of road trips to California and Arizona.
How many hours by car is it from Vancouver to Los Angeles and Arizona?
yeah, Australia and NZ are very, very remote and very, very isolated, yet Vancouver is in my opinion also very remote. It is at the periphery of The Americas, far high north in a corner. It is not so much its location, more the circumstance that other US-American/Canadian major cities are in other regions of the continent.
The time you need to drive from Vancouver by car to California, I think it is as fast by airplane from Australia to LA. I think Vancouver is more like an airplane city.
Yeah, Los Angeles is influential enough to count as 10 major American cities, but still, it's very distant from BC
Vancouver has a distant location, but when I think about it, many other American states also have horrifiying location. It is only the north-east of North America that can be compared to Europe city distances
did you went by car to Florida?? yeah, living around Dorval Airport is convenient I guess
Plenty of snowbirds like jambo fly to Florida for the winter holidays. If you're going to be in Florida for three months and you think you'll need access to a car, it'll cost less to make the drive than get a rental car for 3 months while your own car is rotting in the garage during the Quebec winter.
I find that individual Americans are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. I well remember the New York City deli owner who opened up early because we found that the deli would open for breakfast in a half-hour, but he'd "put the coffee on and it's ready and why not open for you folks now? Come on in!" The couple from Denver at the poolside bar in Las Vegas who helped me remember many happy memories of my time in Denver. The hotel clerk in Lincoln, Nebraska, who gave us the "after midnight" rate when we pulled in at 10 pm without a reservation. Just a few examples, but I have found individual Americans to be a wonderful people, all of them.
When I do talk with Americans, what I do find we can discuss amicably and informally is sports and the weather or something about the attraction we are visiting or the thing we are doing. With some whom I have got to know well enough to stay in touch, we'll discuss topics of mutual interest: history, literature, law. Sometimes, they are curious about Canada and the Canadian way of life, and they ask questions, but such questions are information-seeking. They are not setups to lead into a political discussion. They are genuinely curious about us, and while my answers sometimes surprise them ("No, we have a system of common law in Canada, same as the US"), they accept the answers gracefully. I come away from such discussions thinking I have helped them learn something about their northern neighbour.
I have often said that the idea of the United States is larger than whoever is President or who controls the House or Senate. I believe the same is true of Canada, too. No one domestic politician, or political party, can destroy either of us constitutionally, because the checks and balances built into each of our systems, and our respective adherence to the Rule of Law doctrine, prevent such an occurrence. We will both survive, regardless of who is in power and how they use or misuse it.
I have visited the US under every President, both Republican and Democrat, since Richard Nixon, and I see no reason to stop now.
I have nothing against Americans. I've met nice ones, I've met not nice ones, they're just people. I don't have a habit of visiting the US, but used to have some interest. That interest has faded due to various reasons. There are lots of things I want to do and see in Canada. Not a big deal, just a personal preference.
Seems like Americans take that as a rejection of their awesomeness, but I assure you that it's just not that big of a deal.
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You just went and proved his point....posting it twice for effect lol
Thankfully the next couple of Canadians downthread were more level headed
It's only level headed to want to spend time in a certain foreign country? And to want to spend your vacation time in your own country is what, then? What a strange definition of the term level headed.
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Ninety percent of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border.
That's geography, not a desire to snuggle with the US. lol
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The time you need to drive from Vancouver by car to California, I think it is as fast by airplane from Australia to LA. I think Vancouver is more like an airplane city.
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Vancouver has a distant location, but when I think about it, many other American states also have horrifiying location. It is only the north-east of North America that can be compared to Europe city distances
Many people from Vancouver and Vancouver Island drive to Seattle and San Jose for football and hockey. Seattle not a big deal at all, only 2.5 hours from Vancouver. That's a daily commute for some Americans. San Jose is a longer drive, but I had friends who did it regularly on weekends.
How many hours by car is it from Vancouver to Los Angeles and Arizona?
That all depends on the nature and curiosity of whoever is doing the driving. For example - If my friend drives from Vancouver to Los Angeles it takes him around 18 hours. My neighbour does it in around 30 hours. If I drive there it usually takes me around 4 days, sometimes up to 7 days to get there.
You just went and proved his point....posting it twice for effect lol
Thankfully the next couple of Canadians downthread were more level headed
You seemed to have missed the humour in the first part of the pose, EVEN though I made it clear it was a joke.
The second part of the post stands.
The second posting was a glitch with CD.
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That all depends on the nature and curiosity of whoever is doing the driving. For example - If my friend drives from Vancouver to Los Angeles it takes him around 18 hours. My neighbour does it in around 30 hours. If I drive there it usually takes me around 4 days, sometimes up to 7 days to get there.
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I used to do San Francisco in a full day. A long day, but it is easily done if one is used to long drives.
The poster you are responding to is saying the exact same thing about living back east, that others have said. That they can drive to such and such cities so somehow that is preferable. Depends. My friends in Montreal still fly to NYC and friend in Toronto have never driven to Boston or NYC. Would I prefer that? Not really. I fly most places now. Although I would love to drive across Canada one day.
It's as if planes don't exist. Vancouver isolated ha ha ha ha.
That all depends on the nature and curiosity of whoever is doing the driving. For example - If my friend drives from Vancouver to Los Angeles it takes him around 18 hours.
That does sound quick. I have driven from LA to Vancouver stopping only for gas and food, and did it in 23 hours. Perhaps Zoiste meant San Fran, or she knows someone who really speeds
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yeah, living around Dorval Airport is convenient I guess
