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And we all know the weather in Montana, Colorado N. Dakota not to mention Alaska just to name a few states is far different than the picture you're trying to paint also.
Since you were critical of "generalizations"; who was it calling Canada a frozen tundra again?
What "picture was [i] trying to paint"? I did no such thing. You are confused. All I did was point out your fellow Canadian's claim that winter was so mild. Of course, she lives in southern BC.
Who did call Canada a frozen tundra? I wasn't the one who did so.
You are confused. All I did was point out your fellow Canadian's claim that winter was so mild. Of course, she lives in southern BC.
The Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island tend to be milder than the rest of the country. But for the vast majority of Canadians elsewhere in the country, winter is certainly do-able. There are some very nasty cold winter days, but only a few. Of course, to us who were raised in such a climate, the rest of winter is pretty normal--to people from Florida and California and Hawaii, a Canadian winter must seem like it is abysmally cold, but a Vermonter or a Montanan or a Minnesotan probably wouldn't find it any different than the winters they experience.
As for Colorado--my ex-wife came from there. She liked it here in southern Alberta, because as she put it, "It's just like Colorado!" Weather-wise, of course. She found that southern Ontario was too humid, but when we moved to Alberta, it was a dry climate (like Colorado), there was lots of sunshine (like Colorado), and it had four seasons (like Colorado). She could happily produce a fine garden of flowers and vegetables in the summer months, and she was no stranger to shovelling snow (or playing in it, as, while shovelling snow, I always had to be alert to snowballs thrown by her when I wasn't looking) in the winter months. I'm sure that climatology data may show a slight difference in climates between Colorado and southern Alberta, but any such difference was apparently so negligible that she didn't notice it.
Winter in much of Canada is not mild, but it is certainly not the impossibly-cold deep freeze many Americans (and in fairness, others from various parts of the world) think it is from September until May. And the nice thing about being as far north as we are--well, at least to me, in my location--is that I can get a full 18 holes of golf in after work in the summer, the sun sets so late.
The Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island tend to be milder than the rest of the country. But for the vast majority of Canadians elsewhere in the country, winter is certainly do-able. There are some very nasty cold winter days, but only a few. Of course, to us who were raised in such a climate, the rest of winter is pretty normal--to people from Florida and California and Hawaii, a Canadian winter must seem like it is abysmally cold, but a Vermonter or a Montanan or a Minnesotan probably wouldn't find it any different than the winters they experience.
As for Colorado--my ex-wife came from there. She liked it here in southern Alberta, because as she put it, "It's just like Colorado!" Weather-wise, of course. She found that southern Ontario was too humid, but when we moved to Alberta, it was a dry climate (like Colorado), there was lots of sunshine (like Colorado), and it had four seasons (like Colorado). She could happily produce a fine garden of flowers and vegetables in the summer months, and she was no stranger to shovelling snow (or playing in it, as, while shovelling snow, I always had to be alert to snowballs thrown by her when I wasn't looking) in the winter months. I'm sure that climatology data may show a slight difference in climates between Colorado and southern Alberta, but any such difference was apparently so negligible that she didn't notice it.
Winter in much of Canada is not mild, but it is certainly not the impossibly-cold deep freeze many Americans (and in fairness, others from various parts of the world) think it is from September until May. And the nice thing about being as far north as we are--well, at least to me, in my location--is that I can get a full 18 holes of golf in after work in the summer, the sun sets so late.
I remember one conference I was at in Whitehorse, Yukon that occurred over the summer solstice. Feature activity was teeing off on the golf course at midnight, and finishing off fly fishing at 3 in the morning. Yeah, land of the midnight sun. (actually, fishing was in dusk as the true midnight sun is a few degrees further north).
I've seen those shows, and I can't stand the people on them.
They all want these giant 2500sf McMansions with a 3 car garage, master bedrooms the size of a basketball court, two sinks in the master bath, open floor plan, ridiculously big and fancy kitchen they're never going to actually use, no sharing a yard with neighbors, and many other forms of wanton excess.
So yes, no surprise they're going to spend millions. What do you expect?
Do you really begrudge people who don't want to share a yard? And 2500 is not that big. Y
And you find nothing questionable about getting your real-estate information from an entertainment motivated TV show?
That's like saying I know all about the U.S because I watch the Disney Channel. Well...then again....
Right? I also enjoy HGTV, but I do not base my version of reality on any program where a "fixer-upper" lists for half a million dollars before it's even been fixed up.
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