How do Canadians feel about living in a country even colder than North Dakota?

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Karen C

Does it make them mad that they have to live there?
Absolutely not! It is fantastic! But it apparently makes you jealous that you do not live here. Very Understandable. Sorry you are one of the Deprived millions. Have you thought of seeing a shrink about your jealousy? Might be a good move on your part!

dacotah7

I beg to differ with your statement that all Americans know North Dakota is so horribly cold in the winter.

First of all when I was in US Army Basic Training back in the 70's, most of the East Coast fellow soldiers had no idea where ND was. Some had heard of it but did not have an idea where it was. I stopped drawing maps and stopped trying to explain it. It was much simpler to say I was from Minneapolis, or the Dacotah's, (the native american spelling) (hence my screen name), or the Dakota Territory. I had a blast jerking their chain, telling them about the covered wagons, the pony express and the telegraph we still used.

I grew up and lived most of my adult life in ND, until I moved SOUTH to Denver a few years ago.

I'm siding with and defending the Canadians. And I know the people from the Northern border, moutain states, and Alaska do to. The term pansy was used; I think well justified.

How can you stand it? I assume you are refering to cold weather.

I understand it perfectly well. It's impossible to ski, skate, sled, snow mobile or go ice fishing without it. It's rather silly to wear snow shoes with out snow, or capons with out ice. It makes tracking, hunting, and trapping much easier in many ways.

In the Army I went to winter survival training, lived and worked, ate and slept, outdoors for weeks in tempatures always below zero. It was a blast! There were no snakes, scorpions, bugs, mesquitos, or lizards like in jungle training.

You grow up with it, hard and tough, natural or learned aclimation. You prepare for it, dress properly, in layers. If you start to sweat you know you are over dressed, and open a layer, or shed a layer. You maintain your vehicles properly and have them equiped with winter gear.

Who said they have to live there? People move and migrate at will, if they want to or need to.

In ND and Canada people will help others in trouble along the road. Not like some places with road rage or victums of drive by random or gang shootings.

There is tongue in cheek saying in ND, "30 below keeps the Rif-Raf out".

While much of the rest of the nation is suffering a recession, and job cut backs, ND has 13,000 good jobs, good pay, unfilled. Employers are the ones looking and scrambling, not the other way around.

I'll get off my horse, but don't stero-type people or regions. Go there experiance it, see for yourself. You will be surprised, you might even like it. Both have a lot to offer.

JuanB

No. Not at all. First you need to get a lot of your facts straight.

To start with, I live in Canada and just checked North Dakota's temperature. It is a hell of a lot colder there than where I live. And the average temperature and weather is even worse.

Also the number of Americans living in that horrible winter cold is about 3 to 10 times the population of Canada. (I feel why look up the accurate statistic when you can't handle the truth.) Anyway, any time a Canadian is cold, they are warmed a bit to know several americans are just as cold.

Lieu. Provo William Parry Wallis

I live more south than North Dakota! And I like winter!

My3Boys

*sigh*

Gotta love the Americans who think they know a little bit about Canada and think they're funny.

I live directly north of North Dakota. Come on up in August when it's 100 degrees F.

Thomas H

I love it, I have warm weather in the summer and I have good skiing and hockey in the winter.

And we are tougher than you pansy Americans.

petey

I always have to wonder that with all the problems in the US, that americans are so concerned about what Canadians think of them....I don't get it

kenoplayer

It's -2C (30F) where I am in Newfoundland. My brother just came back from skiing in Colorado and the warmest it got there was -25C (-30F). Seems to me it is much warmer here in Canada than the some of the USA states.

br0k3nsm1le420

We would NEVER be mad to live in Canada are you f*ucking nuts!
it's not THAT cold here anyways.
just goes to show why we have better sex lives! DIG IT.
We're on top baby, because we're number one.

If it wasn't for our cold weather imagine the state your country would be in.

breakfastissexy

I honestly think that North Dakota is actually colder than most of Canada. We have no bodies of water nearby to keep us warmer, we are absolutely positively FLAT, which offers no protection from icy winter winds... its cold! And parts of Canada are actually further south than ND.

And NORTH DAKOTA IS NOT "virtually unihabitable" - are you joking???? We have tons and tons of farm land ("the breadbasket of the world"), but we are PERFECTLY inhabitable. I live in Fargo, the largest city, and its a great place to live.

ND is beautiful! And so is Canada!

*ajidamoon* the Eh team

Well, as I have never been to North Dakota, nor have even the slightest iota of interest in ever going there........nor does what an american "thinks" about my country have any effect on me whatsoever, I can say that I feel absolutely nothing about your statement.
Obviously you have never been here, nor picked up a credible geography book, or you would realize what an ignorant fool you sound like.
Sure, many parts of Canada get cold in the winter. Its -22 right now, here in North Bay. But it also hovered around 30 all summer.
Have you ever thought that americans are maybe just Big *** wimps, and that's why the trolls in here(present company included) love to whine about the weather in an entirely different country?
As for making me mad to have to live here, NO. I lived in the US, I will never go back. You couldn't force me to leave Canada.......

Eric S

Most of Canada's population is actually not north of North Dakota. In the East of Ontario and Quebec, Canada starts at the 45th parallel instead of the 49th parallel, and in extreme lower Canada you can enter into Windsor at the 42nd Parallel. North Dakota covers the territory that due East is well into Canada.

Grand Forks, North Dakota in winter is sometimes the coldest point on the entire North American continent.

Think of it this way, when an arctic cold blast blows down into North Dakota, the windchill is COLDER in North Dakota than north of it. North Dakota is getting gusting winds from the North, North of North Dakota it's about the same temperature with less wind, although more of the days average colder temperatures.

But North Dakota winter in many ways is as cold as it gets anywhere in Canada where anyone lives.

Adrian T. "Captain Canuck&q

Ohhh Americans... We love the snow and we're are used to it. Any true Canadian can walk outside in his boxers to get the newspaper in a normal Winter day. Put think about these factors. Our air is so much cleaner than yours, and the cold air makes it crisp and enjoyable. We get all four seasons. and it does get very hot up here in the summer...a good 86-90 degrees Fahrenheit but right now its about 8 degrees Fahrenheit in Ontario and -1 Fahrenheit in Alberta. is you head up north its a good -20 Fahrenheit. all in all we love it and our used to it. Its really funny actually. when i watch the news and get a seattle news station or something I always laugh because they'll get like a cm of snow and the whole world goes to hell. the roads are a disaster and everyone is panicking...meanwhile we have 12 inches of snow here and we have smart cars driving through it perfectly fine

itssoeasy

oh please...
its not that bad

Wolfenstein

It is impossible to live in Canada (year-round) without being unpleasantly cold at some point. Even just today, even with my new gloves on, my hands were so cold when I was shovelling snow that I had to go into the garage for a couple minutes, because I couldn't feel my hands. However, it is something that we grow up with, so it doesn't affect us psychologically as much. There are some cowardly people who just go to Arizona during the winter. I don't know how they can stand that; even though it is horrible sometimes, I would go crazy if there was no winter. I would go just as crazy if there was no hockey.

jesse

not really except this year, it's been an average temperature of -30 celcius as an average temperature.sort of depressing but we get chinooks

clubpenguinsthebest

i dont know how them canadians can cope up there because my uncle told me that it was -45c and when they went out their nostrils frooze and the weather down here would max at around 2c!

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