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... it seems that Americans are always stating they are tired of snow, cold, winter, and are moving to southern states to get away from it. No matter what their state of origin is.
Canadians don't seem to say that. Now, I'm aware that in order to move south, Canadians would have to leave their country, and I know that Canadians vacation in southern US. (My mother lives in Fla and sees the license plates on the cars.)
Why does it seem that you don't hear Canadians COMPLAIN about the winter, cold and snow like Americans do?
It's like you said, if they wanted to get away from cold weather entirely, they would have to move to another country and the vast majority of people choose not to move away from their native country so they just learn to accept that they live in a four season climate with cold winters and get on with their lives. The U.S. is much more climatically diverse and gives us more options so people who don't like cold weather can move to a warm climate without leaving the country and vice versa.
You just don't know enough Canadians. Our family is from rural Saskatchewan. They all ***** and moan about winter and agree everyone drinks too much during it. Our niece and her husband, who are large scale farmers, take off to Hawaii for a couple of months. Others head down to Vegas or Palm Desert.
Canadians don't have a choice. If they want to live in Canada they have to deal with snow lol. Canada doesn't have an Arizona or Florida-equivalent place to relocate to. So they have accepted it as part of their reality as a Canadian.
That being said, plenty of Canadians hate it enough to invade Arizona during the winter months. You should see all the BC and Alberta license plates down here.
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... it seems that Americans are always stating they are tired of snow, cold, winter, and are moving to southern states to get away from it. No matter what their state of origin is.
Canadians don't seem to say that. Now, I'm aware that in order to move south, Canadians would have to leave their country, and I know that Canadians vacation in southern US. (My mother lives in Fla and sees the license plates on the cars.)
Why does it seem that you don't hear Canadians COMPLAIN about the winter, cold and snow like Americans do?
If Canadians are in Florida when you see them they have no reason to complain about the cold because in theory Florida is not cold.
The rest of the time you don't hear Canadians complain about the cold I believe would be because
they live in Canada and you do not.
Maybe cuz their culture heavily revolves around winter time activities. Hockey, curling, skiing etc. are very popular in Canada. I've noticed that the majority of winter whiners come from the northeast. You hear way less moaning from Midwesterners. (Not to say there's no moaning at all.) But in my experience, a New Yorker is more likely to complain and gripe at 35 degrees where at 15 degrees, a Minnesotan is planning to go ice fishing or snow mobiling.
People from very cold climates adapt and find things to do, because their is no point in whining for 4 months. People in cold but not that cold places probably spend more time impatiently waiting for spring and their winters aren't cold enough to ice skate without worrying about the ice cracking.
I think it's also an urban/rural thing. I think people from big cities are less hardened to the elements, compared to someone from a rural area who is used to working outside. Rural Texans, despite not being from a cold climate, don't really complain much when its below freezing.
... it seems that Americans are always stating they are tired of snow, cold, winter, and are moving to southern states to get away from it. No matter what their state of origin is.
Canadians don't seem to say that. Now, I'm aware that in order to move south, Canadians would have to leave their country, and I know that Canadians vacation in southern US. (My mother lives in Fla and sees the license plates on the cars.)
Why does it seem that you don't hear Canadians COMPLAIN about the winter, cold and snow like Americans do?
They leave for Florida for the winter, so why complain?
Maybe cuz their culture heavily revolves around winter time activities. Hockey, curling, skiing etc. are very popular in Canada. I've noticed that the majority of winter whiners come from the northeast. You hear way less moaning from Midwesterners. (Not to say there's no moaning at all.) But in my experience, a New Yorker is more likely to complain and gripe at 35 degrees where at 15 degrees, a Minnesotan is planning to go ice fishing or snow mobiling.
People from very cold climates adapt and find things to do, because their is no point in whining for 4 months. People in cold but not that cold places probably spend more time impatiently waiting for spring and their winters aren't cold enough to ice skate without worrying about the ice cracking.
I think it's also an urban/rural thing. I think people from big cities are less hardened to the elements, compared to someone from a rural area who is used to working outside. Rural Texans, despite not being from a cold climate, don't really complain much when its below freezing.
Thanks everyone. I agree with the "winter culture". We know ppl in Wisconsin and they really don't complain about the winter, where they go snowmobiling and do other winter sports, while we tend to hibernate around the woodstove. I've noticed even ppl who live in Vermont or the Adirondacks in NY, will get out more, then ppl who live in the Albany or Hudson Valley areas.
On the other hand, while we will wear T-shirts when it's in the 50's. we see tourists (by their cars with out of state plates), with coats, hats, and scarfs on. It became a "game" to pick out the tourists- their clothes where also more yuppie/ LL Bean-ish than the locals.
As far as I understand, Canadians all dream of moving to Vancouver, the Canadian Shangri-la where snow is uncommon in winter.
I'd take Vancouver also- beautiful city.
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