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i am born and raised in toronto, and spend significant time in vancouver.
as much as i love canada, i am dying to have the sun 365 days/year. i'm always searching the internet for real estate in SoCal, LV, DFW, and PHX (preference in this order as well).
although i love big cities and wouldn't mind NYC (i love NYC), i just need to be in the sunbelt. i can't stand the gloom and small-town feel of vancouver, and i can't stand the cold in toronto.
everytime i visit the US, i end up talking to very friendly people. from my personal experiences, i find the US is generally more talkative and approachable than the CDN counterpart.
i am born and raised in toronto, and spend significant time in vancouver.
as much as i love canada, i am dying to have the sun 365 days/year. i'm always searching the internet for real estate in SoCal, LV, DFW, and PHX (preference in this order as well).
although i love big cities and wouldn't mind NYC (i love NYC), i just need to be in the sunbelt. i can't stand the gloom and small-town feel of vancouver, and i can't stand the cold in toronto.
everytime i visit the US, i end up talking to very friendly people. from my personal experiences, i find the US is generally more talkative and approachable than the CDN counterpart.
why vancouver airfare to sothren california and Las Vegas is pretty cheap (esp las vegas in the off season) and 2 and 1/2 hours and your there. remeber alot of those homes are foreclosed so looking on the net is useless you have to get down there and look into the RE and see the places first hand.
Most of Canadian I met were indirect. but when you really know them, you realize that they all (not all, sorry but large group) have the desire to move to US if possible. is that true livng Canada is boring?
Not boring, just doesn't pay as well and the taxes are higher. I left the NWT when I was a lad and have returned a number of times, but thought it odd - everything was like when I left. Nothing much had changed.
The milder weather is tempting yes, but there are some big drawbacks for me... The violent crime (and the whole pervasiveness of the hard drug scene); heavy traffic and the visual horror of neverending expressways around the largest cities; smog.
I wouldn't want to move there principally because it'd be too much of a culture shock coming from Montreal. I feel a kinship with other Canadians even if we are so different regionally, so I could probably adapt to the differences if I went somewhere different in Canada, but the States just feels a couple steps to foreign for me to feel motivated to go there. I'm sure I could survive, but I just don't really have a desire.
i am born and raised in toronto, and spend significant time in vancouver.
as much as i love canada, i am dying to have the sun 365 days/year. i'm always searching the internet for real estate in SoCal, LV, DFW, and PHX (preference in this order as well).
although i love big cities and wouldn't mind NYC (i love NYC), i just need to be in the sunbelt. i can't stand the gloom and small-town feel of vancouver, and i can't stand the cold in toronto.
everytime i visit the US, i end up talking to very friendly people. from my personal experiences, i find the US is generally more talkative and approachable than the CDN counterpart.
You can't stand the small town gloom of Vancouver? Vancouver is comparatively huge compared to the cities you mentioned. Those cities are all very highly suburbanized compared to Vancouver. Want to walk to the supermarket for a few things? No sidewalks. Big brick/stone fences that completely separate neighborhoods from commercial areas in the suburbs. Cars that have absolutely no regard for pedestrians. Temperatures so high in the summer that a few blocks will give you heat exhaustion.
Need to get from (Dallas example) Garland to Arlington via bus? Forget it. Want to have a job you can bike to? Nope. Nearby neighborhoods are zoned completely office commercial or are too far spread apart. Want to catch a Coyotes game after getting off work a little late? That's a 45 minute trip out of downtown into the suburbs.
Dude, Vancouver is expensive and there's a lot not to like about it, but you're getting too caught up in the idea of warmer weather to see the forest for the trees.
The milder weather is tempting yes, but there are some big drawbacks for me... The violent crime (and the whole pervasiveness of the hard drug scene); heavy traffic and the visual horror of neverending expressways around the largest cities; smog.
This.
The only things keeping me out of Canada are the wife and the weather. The people are all more down to earth, the politics aren't so singed with vitriol and hatred that someone's beliefs supersede all good things about their personalities, the culture is more inviting, the emphasis on things like education and the environment and foreign policy is so much more to my liking. The US is just becoming a bunch of mindless facebook clones that can't take 5 minutes out of the day to understand a budget deficit rather than watch American Idol. I feel like I'm a duck out of water with my generation and I'm only 28 years old. Everyone's priorities in the states seem so out of whack with reality these days. I mean you guys have had health care for what, 40 years and we can't even get a public option passed without cries of socialism. It makes my head hurt.
I have lived in both countries, and I'm a citizen of both. While there are certainly pros and cons for both countries, I am absolutely desperate to get out of Canada. The people are shy and unfriendly. The stuff about Canadians being so friendly is a big myth.
The culture is hopelessly boring. People bad-mouth Americans here in Toronto (and in Vancouver) a lot, but there is very little discernible culture up here to be proud about, as far as I'm concerned. The weather in most of the country SUCKS. I'm leaving in a few months, and i can't WAIT.
I've visited Canada a few times and have never been bad mouthed. People seem very polite. I assume you mean they bad mouth us behind our backs then, which isn't nice. I'm sure they don't bad mouth us while they are lounging on our beaches all summer. Everytime I go to the beach on the East Coast I've seen Canadian license plates all over the place.
I'm an American with friends and family in some of the "snowbird states" and I don't hear of a lot of Canadians moving "down here" to get away. Maybe my friends just aren't in places that draw Canadians??? If there is such a place.
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