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It appears some Americans have misconceptions about Canada

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  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    ha ha ha ha
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited June 2012
    What the help? Why would people who perceive this model of health care as "socialist" want to move to Canada? What is the perception? Do not get. They are just that ignorant? #Disbelief
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I think it is just that "I'm moving to Canada" is what you say when you don't like the way America is going. So these people have no idea what they mean by "Canada" they just know that's where you say you're going when you're mad at the president. Because they are fucking stupid.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    I thought moving to Canada was for draft dodgers? When did that change, culturally?
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I think it just became a habitual figure of speech, ever since the draft dodging. The vague impression of "Canada" as being more-or-less just America but with values more closely resembling your own.
  • ThickeningAgentThickeningAgent
    wow, that is hysterical.
  • MatthewMatthew
    It is ignorance of the meaning of moving to Canada, parroting something you heard someone else say, not thinking about what you are saying and its significance.
  • 12341234
    But let's be honest... America is pretty fucked. I mean, I'm thinking about moving to Canada.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    I would 100% actually move to Canada if there was one single city that I actually wanted to live in. I've got my In already (Canadian wife).
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    Toronto is good!
    I could also get into some deeper rural Nova Scotia vibe, if I ever wanted to change my life and become a hermit. I'd get some really badass wellingtons and jumpers and just go for it
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Toronto is ok, but I avoid SNOW.
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    Just got back yesterday from Toronto, it's as lovely as ever. "Up north" they built a railway for boats to protect part of the lake district against the invasive lamphreys? Turns out riding a boat over land, via rail, is the kind of cognitive dissonance I really like....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Chute_Marine_Railway
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    That is WILD
  • Dr_William_HaywardDr_William_Hayward
    I think I'm Canadian, but those twits aren't.
  • joeyjoey
    You guys... I don't know, shit is pretty fucked in Canada these days. A ton of de-regulation is going on, they are killing Canadian presence in the global arts scene, there is a ton of corruption in the government. We have a sneaky evangelical Prime-Minister.

    Just last week they pretty much killed Canada's short-wave radio service which had been around for 67 years, now you can only listen to it on the internet. People were straight up sobbing on the air as they said their goodbyes. Such a cheap yet historical service for the government to provide its citizens and the world. I guess if you don't have a fast computer connection they figure you can just go fuck yourself.
    Added to the shit pile the fact that the current government is so focused on oil, mainly tar sands, scrapping laws which had been made to protect the environment years ago.

    Rich impatient assholes are whining about how they should have the right to private health care, why should they wait in line? Meanwhile other Canadian assholes who only watch American TV and listen to American music are electing the bigots we are stuck with.

    So yeah, maybe those people who are threatening to move to Canada are actually following our current events pretty closely, I mean, I doubt it, but they'd probably enjoy living in a place where things are sliding off to the right more more than in a place where everything's been fucked for longer. The impression of sliding to the right would at least feel like things in Canada are moving in their direction.
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    edited June 2012
    Yeah, I'm pretty bummed on the current direction of Canada, having lived there from 1999-2002 and having dated a Canadian from 2003-2006. Fuck Stephen Harper/Alberta/environmental destruction/the bicycle-hating mayor of Toronto/conservatives/etc.

  • joeyjoey
    edited June 2012
    Two less depressing things about Canada:

    -The giant student protest in Québec. Such a tricky cause to convey to other Canadians/Americans, "What, the students are pissed? But education in Québec is so cheap!" but also super inspiring.

    -That asshole mayor of Toronto asked City Council to cancel that law that made people pay an extra five cents when they have to a get bag from the store. Instead, Toronto City Council passed a law eliminating plastic grocery bag use for all of Toronto! The mayor called it "the dumbest law City Council had ever passed ever" or something like that.
  • Judar_SpitzerJudar_Spitzer
    what's canada?
  • Judar_SpitzerJudar_Spitzer
    JK LOL
  • joeyjoey
    edited June 2012
    It's that place where your girlfriend lives when you don't really have one.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    "Perky 'Canada' Has Own Government, Laws"

    http://www.theonion.com/articles/perky-canada-has-own-government-laws,19927/
  • joeyjoey
    Those Canadians have their own law for everything.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Or: I heard that in Canada they respect a man's God-given freedom from laws.
  • the_owlsthe_owls
    Everyone in Vancouver is so well dressed and attractive- I was like, WHOA.
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