Top 10 to Live in Canada

[Jabba]

Long, but good. Prolly some points only make sense to a fellow Canuck 

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

1. Weed.
2. Vancouver: 1.5 million people and two bridges.
3. The local hero is a pot-smoking snowboarder.
4. The local wine doesn't taste like malt vinegar.
5. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is just 5 hours from downtown.
6. A university with a nude beach.
7. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations.
8. If a cop pulls you over, just offer them some of your hash.
9. There's always some sort of deforestation protest going on.
10. Cannabis.

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA
1. Big Rock between you and B.C.
2. Ottawa who?
3. Tax is 7 percent instead of approximately 200 percent for the rest of the country.
4. The Premier is a fat, alcoholic who is easy to make fun of .
5. Flames vs. Oilers.
6. Stamps vs. Eskies.
7. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of.
8. You live in the only province that could actually afford to be it's own   country.
9. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia groups.
10. You can attempt to murder your rich oil tycoon husband and getaway with   it.

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN

1. You never run out of wheat.
3. Cruise control takes on a whole new meaning.
4. Your province is really easy to draw.
5. You never have to worry about roll-back if you have a standard.
6. It takes you two weeks to walk to your neighbor's house.
7. YOUR Roughriders survived.
8. You can watch the dog run away from home for hours.
9. People will assume you live on a farm.
10. Buying a huge John Deere mower makes sense.

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA
1. You wake up one morning to find you suddenly have beachfront property.
2. Amusing town names like "Flin Flon" and "Winnipeg".
3. All your local bands make it big and move to Toronto.
4. The only province to ever violently rebel against the federal government.
5. Hundreds of huge, horribly frigid lakes.
6. Nothing compares to a wicked Winnipeg winter.
7. You don't need a car, just take the canoe to work.
8. You can be an Easterner or a Westerner depending on your mood.
9. Because of your licence plate, you are still friendly even when you cut   someone off.
10. Pass the time watching trucks and barns float by.

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO
1. You live in the center of the universe.
2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump.
3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election.
4. There's no such thing as an Ontario Separatist. Separate from what? You   are the centre of the universe.
5. Your grandparents sold booze to the States during Prohibition.
6. Lots of tourists come to Toronto because they mistakenly believe it's a   cool city.
7. The only province with hard-core American-style crime.
8. Much Music's Speaker's Corner - rant and rave on national TV for a   dollar.
9. Baseball fans park on your front lawn and pee on the side of your house.
10. Mike Harris: basically a sober Ralph Klein.

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC

1. Everybody assumes you're an ---uvula---.
2. Racism is socially acceptable.
3. The only province to ever kidnap federal politicians.
4. You can take bets with your friends on which English neighbor will move out next.
5. Other provinces basically bribe you to stay in Canada.
6. The FLQ.
7. Your hockey team is made up entirely of dirty French guys who can't   skate.
8. The province with the oldest, nastiest hookers.
9. NON-smokers are the outcasts.
10. You can blame all your problems on the "Anglo ---daisies---".

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK
1. You are sandwiched between French ---uvulas--- and drunken Celtic fiddlers.
2. One way or another, the government gets 98 percent of your income.
3. You're poor, but not as poor as the Newfies.
4. When listing the provinces, everyone forgets to mention yours.
5. The economy is based on fish, cows, and ferrying Ontario motorists to Boston.
6. No one ever blames anything on New Brunswick.
7. You have French people, but they don't want to kill you.
8. Everybody has a Grandfather who runs a lighthouse.
9. Just as charming as Maine, but with more unemployed fishermen.
10. You probably live in a small seaside cottage with no television.

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA
1. The only place in North America to get bombed in the war by a moron who set a munitions ship on fire. (Halifax Explosion)
2.The province is shaped like the male genetalia
3. Everyone can play the fiddle. The ones who can't, think they can.
4. If someone asks if you're a Newfie, you are allowed to kick their ass.
5. The local hero is an insane, fiddle playing, sexual pervert homo
6. The province that produced Rita MacNeil, the world's largest land mammal.
7. You are the "only" reason Anne Murray makes money.
8. You can pretend you have Scottish heritage as an excuse to get drunk and   wear a kilt.
9. The economy is based on lobster and fiddle music.
10. Even though it smells like dead sea animals, Halifax is considered   Canada's most beautiful city.

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE ON PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
1. Even though more people live on Vancouver Island, you still got the big   ass bridge
2. You can walk across the province in half an hour.
3. You were probably once an extra on "Road to Avonlea".
4. This is where all those tiny red potatoes come from.
5. The economy is based on fish, potatoes, and CBC TV shows.
6. Tourists arrive, see the "Anne of Green Gables" house, then promptly   leave.
7. You can drive across the province in two minutes.
8. It doesn't matter to you if Quebec separates.
9. You don't share a border with the Americans, or with anyone for that   matter.
10. You can confuse ships by turning your porch lights on and off at night.

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NEWFOUNDLAND
1. The poorest, drunkest province in Confederation.
2. If Quebec Separates, you will float off to sea.
3. In the rare case when someone moves to the Rock, you can make them kiss a    dead cod.
4. The economy is based on fish, seafood, and fish-related products.
5. If you do something stupid, you have a built-in excuse.
6. You & only you understand the meaning of Great Big Sea's lyrics.
7. The workday is about two hours long.
8. You are credited with many great inventions, like the solar-powered   flashlight and the screen door for submarines.
9. If someone asks if you're from Cape Breton, you are allowed to kick their    ass.
10. It is socially acceptable to wear your hip waders on your wedding day

[Stingray]

5. Your grandparents sold booze to the States during Prohibition.

On behalf of my grandparents, I'd like to thank you guys for that. Canadians are too cool.

-S

[ChadTower]

Ha, I can verify, NS and PEI lists are valid.

[missioncontrol]

and the top 1 reasons not to live in Canada........










































It's friggin cold, eh

[Scott84]

Around Toronto, its just as cold as northern parts of the USA....

So come up and join the party! We got better beer up here! 

[missioncontrol]

Around Toronto, its just as cold as northern parts of the USA....

So come up and join the party! We got better beer up here!

[Jabba]

A lot of the Northern States are more north than me here in Ottawa. We're about the same lattitude as Portland Oregon...

[Dartful Dodger]

Around Toronto, its just as cold as northern parts of the USA....

So come up and join the party! We got better beer up here!

[missioncontrol]

I've been to Windsor (right across from Detroit) and it was cold there.......

[Santoro]

Top of Mont Tremblant in early Feb?

[ChadTower]

Around Toronto, its just as cold as northern parts of the USA....

Yeah, but up there, it's that cold 9 months a year, and here, only 5-6.

[Stingray]

just send me your beer down here...... there's a reason why I'm not in the northern part of the USA 

In Oklahoma, we like to think of those four states between us and Canada as insulation.

-S

[RayB]

Yeah, but up there, it's that cold 9 months a year, and here, only 5-6.

B.S.

[ChadTower]

When I lived in QC, it was cold a lot longer than it is here in MA, and most people in the US consider MA winters fairly harsh.

[Jabba]

When I lived in QC, it was cold a lot longer than it is here in MA, and most people in the US consider MA winters fairly harsh.

Usually, we (here in Ottawa) get a snow flurry around Halloween. Then we usually get a storm or two(small) before Christmas, it then gets realy nasty from January to about March, then starts easing up, so worst case Dec - Mar = 4 months of cold weather. Heck, its a 6 degrees celcius right now, 42 segrees Farenheit, but we don't consider THAT cold, whereas in Okie or Texas, THATS COLD MAN!!!

I remember it being much worse in my younger years. I remember making tons of cash shovelling peoples laneways and the snow banks were huge then. Lately, I've only had to take the snow blower out maybe 4-5 times a year.

And they say Global Warming is imaginary. Hah!

[ChadTower]

If more people read up on Global Warming, they would understand that Global Warming really means harsher seasons in both directions as well as increased storm activity.

Global Warming means hotter summers and colder winters.

[GGKoul]

Around Toronto, its just as cold as northern parts of the USA....

Yeah, but up there, it's that cold 9 months a year, and here, only 5-6.

Yep.. I'm started building my igloo with all the snow we have already... 

[Stingray]

42 segrees Farenheit, but we don't consider THAT cold, whereas in Okie or Texas, THATS COLD MAN!!!

Interestingly, that's about what the temps are like here today. Come take your Canadian weather back!

-S

[RayB]

When I lived in QC, it was cold a lot longer than it is here in MA, and most people in the US consider MA winters fairly harsh.

Quebec = Canada but Canada != Quebec
Just as MA = USA but USA != MA

I'm sure the witches in Vermont and Maine have it much harsher than the Nuns in Toronto.

[ChadTower]

No, but since we were talking about Toronto, which is not all that far from QC, it was a good reference point for talking about Toronto, which is not all that far from QC.

[GGKoul]

No, but since we were talking about Toronto, which is not all that far from QC, it was a good reference point for talking about Toronto, which is not all that far from QC.

Toronto is 5 hours from the Quebec border and its about 8 hour from Quebec City.

[ChadTower]

Right, and in terms of Canada, that's not all that far.

[RayB]

No, but since we were talking about Toronto, which is not all that far from QC, it was a good reference point for talking about Toronto, which is not all that far from QC.

It's 6 hours north east. That takes you significantly more northward (ie: colder)

Just look at current temps:
45' F in the Niagara region, while it's 37 in the northeastern tip of the US.

The difference of a few degrees is enough that it makes a big difference when that range is straddling the 0' C point. Montreal will get snow sooner, than Toronto. When I was living in TO, I never needed snow tires (all-seasons were good enough). It sometimes snows, then week later it melts. In Montreal though, it snows, and snows and it piles up.

It's not unusual for kids in the MOntreal area to trick or treat with snow on the ground. In TO that's pretty rare.

I'm just arguing your "9 months" of frigid cold argument. It's more like 7 months.

[ChadTower]

If you ask most Americans, those two buffer months are frigid too.  We just have a harder standard of cold.

[xar256]

Ah...You mean you're cold sucks. 

Manitoba's list seems accurate.  .  Yeah..It's cold....But it's a DRY cold. 

Xar256
Oct 25, and no snow on the ground in Winnipeg