Canada

denrix · Post by **denrix** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 7:36 am

So, from what my sources tell me, a lot of you guys here are from Canada. Good for you.
I am moving to Canada, from Albania in a couple of weeks.

Not good for me. I am kinda SCARED TO DEATH from this thing!!!ARGH!!
but unfortunately, there's nothing I can do about it.
So, if you people are kind enough, I'd like to ask about Canada, life in Canada, School in Canada, and babes in Canada. every information may be vital to my survival in this land of lurking horrors... Please, help me.

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 9:03 am

Scared of Canada? HA! Whats there to be scared of in canada? Haven't had a school shooting ever except for once in alberta AFAIK, and we have the best looking girls in NA (Except for some of those Mexican Girls). If you moving to Toronto, its the greatest city in Canada. It has everything. Also, if your living in Ontario, there is free healthcare. In Alberta, no Provincial Sales Tax. Canada is great, no terrorists, no bombings, nothing!

denrix · Post by **denrix** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 9:50 am

yep, Toronto it is.
And I wasn't talking about physical fear. I was talking about spiritual one. Hell! I am moving to antother continent, in the other side of the world!

J-Man · Post by **J-Man** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:39 am

Canada is mostly Christian!

jmmijo · Post by **jmmijo** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:03 am

Canada has lots of great things going for it, like the afore mentioned national health care etc...

I'm a yank and have always had a great time when visiting my friends in the Great White North

Of course I can only comment on the folks on the left coast, in partucular British Columbia and Vancouver Island

One thing I always liked however was the exchange rate between US and Canadian dollars, so nice.

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:12 pm

Canada isn't as cold as you would think. Summers are around 30c and winters -10 c maximums, thats for the southeastern canadian area (Toronto, Windsor, London, etc.).

jmmijo · Post by **jmmijo** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:20 pm

Of course not, just like it doesn't always get that cold down here in the states. It depends on how far north you want to go

However I do remember that nasty freeze a few years back that covered much of the north-east and that part of Canada...

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:49 pm

The Ice Storm? that covered Ontario, Quebec, Michigan, New york, etc.

jmmijo · Post by **jmmijo** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 1:07 pm

Yeppers, that's the one

Of course that's more an abboration then the norm but the pics of all that ice, looked like it was from the Arctic Circle and not from more temperate climes.

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 2:47 pm

Think about America. Now hit your head against a brick wall a few times. What you're thinking about now is Canada.

just kidding

Anyway, I *think* dnirex is a muslim, so that's what he was talking about religious-wise, I *think*. However, I believe Canada is like America as far as religious tolerance goes. And I assume it doesn't have the anti-muslim tensions that have been spreading through America since 9/11.

By the way, K0, wasn't the last school violence in 1984, and that was just with a knife, right? That's what my Canadian Social-Studies teacher told me in 7th grade (2000).

Post by **Dogbreath** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 3:17 pm

http://www.time.com/time/search/article ... 88,00.html

April 1999-that's four years, not nineteen. Still, all of Canada in the past 20 years doesn't have the same violence or death as my city in the last 6 MONTHS so I'd reckon it's a pretty safe place to live.

denrix · Post by **denrix** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 11:47 am

Da_Goat wrote: Anyway, I *think* dnirex is a muslim, so that's what he was talking about religious-wise, I *think*. However, I believe Canada is like America as far as religious tolerance goes. And I assume it doesn't have the anti-muslim tensions that have been spreading through America since 9/11.

nah. I wasn't referring to that. Cause I don't believe that's gonna be a problem in Can. I was talking about MY inner life. IE. leaving all my friends, and having to deal with a bunch of lamerz

. Cauze, in all sincerity, things like this: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/artic ... E_ID=35039 leave me a little perplexed.

K0 wrote:Canada isn't as cold as you would think. Summers are around 30c and winters -10 c maximums, thats for the southeastern canadian area (Toronto, Windsor, London, etc.).

holy fuck! -10C?!?!?!!??!? You got to be f*cking with me! In the worst winter I remember, the min here has been -1!!! I would NEVER EVER be able to survive in -10!!!

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 1:00 pm

It was -10 once last year, it really never got past -5. Its not THAT cold.

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 2:41 pm

-10 C = 14 F....

dnirex, it gets that cold here in Prescott, Arizona. In Flagstaff, it can even get below 0 degrees Farenheit, which is about -17.8 C. -10 C is really not that cold.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 3:30 pm

I used to live in Long Prairie MN. where it got down to -30C in early January... -10 is not cold at all-barely below freezing.

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 4:09 pm

Ya, the praries get very cold and dry in the winter.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 5:49 pm

Indeed-but if you're moving to a city, you should be okay, Erind. The extra amount of polution (in the form of CO2 and heat polution) and tall building that serve as windstoppers in the city make it much less cold and snowy than the praries.

denrix · Post by **denrix** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 12:43 am

Dogbreath wrote:Indeed-but if you're moving to a city, you should be okay, Erind. The extra amount of polution (in the form of CO2 and heat polution) and tall building that serve as windstoppers in the city make it much less cold and snowy than the praries.

Toronto. at least I won't have to fear the cold.
now, how's Toronto like? Or, more specifically, how are Toronto's girls like? Are they worth all this trip around the world?

Oz · Post by Oz » Tue Oct 14, 2003 12:02 pm

jeez, it gets to about -5 C here in the winter. i thought that was cold, but now i'm used to it. it doesn't snow and i'm fine with that. i guess it's all the pollution from what used to be the most dirty city in the world: London. i like about 10 miles away, in the middle of the countryside.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 1:10 pm

Actually, the reason why the U.K. is so relatively mild during winter (as opposed to the harsh New England/Eastern Canadian climates further to the south than Brittan) is because the Mexican Gulf Stream warms it, while the Appalachian Mountains and Florida's peninsula prevent that same from happening in the U.S. and Canada. The result is that there is nothing to negate winds from Siberia so the Midwest and Northeast get *really* cold, despite being closer to the equator than Europe.