It's big.....It' cold.....Lots of places to dump corpses and you could go back agan and again to visit them as the cold weather would preserve them quite well. Great country for grave robbing I would imagine.
BC is home, but after living in T.O. for 20+ years I have come to realize that British Columbians in general seem to have some kind of inferiority complex about their position in confederation or something. They resent the hell out of the east, and they seem to resent Alberta too. Other than that though, they're a pretty good bunch.
I spent a year in Calgary when I was in my 20s. Loved it. Like you I wasn't crazy about Edmonton. Honestly, I could live most places. For me a city is more a state of mind (my mind) than it is geography.
Montreal is a great city too.
I can't speak for other people from B.C. really, but there is definitely a deep-seeding sense of dissatisfaction with the rest of the country. In general, most people (myself included) seem to feel that we are underrepresented in government and that the needs and desires of anyone west of the Rockies are rarely considered. As for Alberta, I think it's just a contrast between ideological perspectives. B.C. is the most liberal place in Canada and Alberta is the most conservative, there's bound to be friction. We are however united in our dislike of Ontario.
As I've stated before, my political views are not the norm, but I would have no problem if British Columbia became it's own nation. I'd probably actively support it if it were demonstrated to be feasible.
I've always wanted to see Montreal, I intend on doing so very soon.
That deep-seated sense of dissatisfaction has been around for as long as I can remember. I remember when I was a child and my father ranted about this. He hated Trudeau with a passion.
Honestly, I don't think BC is that badly off. If you believe in proportional representation according to population, then I think the system is probably quite equitable. If you think about the money a province puts into the federation in taxes compared to the money it gets back in funding, then BC is probably better off than Ontario.
maybe it wasn't dangerous but I panicked. I can handle 10-15 blokes attacking me no problem but now I'm late 30s I reckon I would have struggled with more than twenty thirty.
Stayed in a place called Telegraph Cove on Vancouver Island. Very remote and stank of fish ! Was good for the grizzly tour though and whales etc..
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East coast of Canada here, from the rebellious "french canada" Strangely enough, the views over here (in general, of course) are a lot like Vancouver: Very liberal, opposite to conservatism and pro-ecology and well known for its will (or let's say by a huge part of french canadians) to split apart from the rest of Canada. In general, the bigger clash comes with the middle's meadows too, especially saskatchewan and Alberta but provinces like New-Brunswick or BC are normally getting great along with Quebec (in general).
As it has been stated before, ideology is quite variable from a Province to another, I would say that starting on each coasts it's more "liberal" and the more you head for the middle, the more conservative it gets, Saskatchewan and Alberta being the most convervatives you can get.
Funny that peoples talk about Trudeau here, he's not hated only in Vancouver but also in Quebec where he's seen as a traitor in Quebec because of the feud with Levesque and peoples were pissed off power 10 when they renamed Dorval Airport P-E-T Airport... especially because ironically, he's the one who, at the time, decided to move everything from Dorval to Mirabel, only to hunt away countless farmers to take possession of their fields to build Mirabel who's not used anymore now.
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I am no fan of Trudeau.
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It's definitely not a nice place, and I understand that it would seem very dangerous to someone not familiar with the area and the circumstance and I certainly wasn't passing judgement on what you said. I was just commenting that, in my and many others experience, it's not a dangerous place per se, just an extremely depressing one. There was a club beneath the notorious Ivanhoe hotel where myself and some friends used to occasionally go to watch metal shows, and aside from having to avoid the discarded needles on the streets we never experienced any danger.
I've never been to Telegraph Cove, but I'd imagine it's a beautiful place. Lots of Black bears and other wild life I'd imagine.
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