Is Canada nice?

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jubyduk

I couldn't find "Bailey downs" in Canada. Fictional town in the movie "Ginger Snaps"?

I think Vancouver would get the vote for nicest place. Although anywhere could have valid arguments. Vancouver has the advantage of the ocean, warmer winter weather, and the rocky mountains a short drive away. Add the cosmopolitan flavor of the asian communities, aboriginal culture up the BC coast and the BC interior, great wildlife and fishing.... amazing skiing. Well. Hard to beat.

If you were wondering if the people are nice, particularly relative to Americans, well "theTruth" kinda answered your question.

1. Universal heathcare insurance is a great example of "nice". No one could dispute that insurance for healthcare is a necessity. Leaving such insurance to private enterprise inserts a "for profit" objective that sucks financial resources away from where they should be: giving treatment to those who need it. The result is the US model of HMO's that employ "doctors" who are financially motivated to deny coverage of medically needed care and millions of citizens unable to afford insurance nor treatment. Added bonus: Americans spend almost twice as much on Healthcare as Canadians ("theTruth" is wrong: http://www.kff.org/insurance/snapshot/chcm010307oth.cfm) but they still have a shorter life expectancy than Canadians and higher mortality rate at birth than CUBA! In the alternative, Canada chose to treat everyone equally where their health is concerned. Nice.

2. Lower GDP per capita, and more leisure time. Fewer billionaires, where would we put our 17th limousine? Time for family, friends and fishing instead of a cutthroat rat race = nice.

3. The crime rate is the same in Canada as the US? Wrong. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Canada) Latest average homicide rate in the US: 6.3 per 100 000. In Canada? 1.82 per 100 000. Hey "theTruth": That's adjusted per capita. Nicer, kinder, gentler.

4. Strong being a relative economic term, the question becomes just how strong do you need it to be? We can buy your cars, your computers and your Florida oranges, no problem. The problem the US has is that China now holds most of the US foreign debt and US currency in circulation. The US is about to become China's b*tch. When China decides to to convert those US dollars to Euros, watch out! Talk about the poor house! The cost of importing all that oil to fuel out of control consumption of earth's resources using US dollars worth 50 cents Canadian? Alberta will have the US on a leash. Nice!

5. 'nuff said.

Denise. E

There are many nice places in Canada. The are some very beautiful provinces here, but living, housing, communtiy, and family friendly wise, I would chose a nice quiet town in Ontario.

kenoplayer

Everything you want to know about Canada is in this website below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada

Hope you will come and visit us someday.

ffung898

all I can tell is Cops in Canada is well more polite than those in US. Bus drivers here in Ottawa (Capital of Canada) are the best too, they sometimes even sing Happy Birthday to you on the speakers if you bring a cake to the bus, lol. I not kidding, it happened to me twice.

but what I really upset about is why so many American not knowing anything from 1km outside of their border? I read some ppl actually think Canadian wear pants without zipper! so, who is actually living in the cave? lol.

pink_spotted_frog

Please do not let "theTruth" represent all Canadians!

It gets from -50 to +36 celcius depending on where you are and what time of year it is so to choose an average temperature is impossible.
The nicest place to live? Depends again who you are and what you are doing. Some prefer small towns, some prefer the big city like Toronto or Vancouver.
There is no way to answer those questions as they are too general.

tutuprincezz

Maybe their is a town, not sure, ask google, Vancover is really nice, the weather is prolly from hottest 100, 2 coldest below 30, ya its happend i was like frozen

Rachael

my bro.s girlfriend lives in Canada and she likes it she talks about it alot and it does snow alot but in the summer it get heated up up to 30 degree Celsius. translate that to Fahrenheit like 70 to maybe im not sure 80 degrees??

gary s

Canada is at war with the USA right now, except bombs, cheesy talk, and the balwn family...ps Jim carrery is fro there to so bring a flask, um mask

blastingames

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what?

Canada is nice if you don't want an exciting life

Francois Quebequois

Five myths about Canada you need to know about!

1. Free health care.

Canada's health care is not free. It is funded by a heavy tax
regime that takes hard earned money from even the working poor. If
you make $C20,000 a year. You will be taxed. Make more? Like $C75,000
and up? Oh, you can bet you will get hit with taxes. In some
provinces like Alberta, you also get the additional privilege of
paying health care "premiums" on top of your taxes.

The big hospital unions like the Registered Nurses and various
so-called "para-professionals" have taken over the health care
system and destroyed it. This is what happens when you create a
a monopoly, and worse, a government owned monopoly.

2. High standard of living

Huh? Since when? This country has one of North America's biggest
drug ghettos. It's called Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Canadians
have a lower per capita GDP than Americans. They also make less
money than Americans, and ironically many other countries: Ireland,
Germany, Switzerland to name just a few.

3. Peaceful

Nope! There are just as many acts of violent crime, drug gangs,
domestic murders in Canada as in the U.S. It's just never adjusted
for per capita, ie. the actual population of the two countries
and the size of the cities in each country. Canada has serial
killers, drug shootings, pollution, gang violence. How come we don't
hear much about this in the world's media, the way the U.S.'s
problems are constantly brought up?

4. Strong economy

No! Canadians just piggyback off the U.S. economy and they still
can't manage to get their unemployment rate down to anywhere near
to the U.S. rate, which was hovering in the low 5's most recently.
Canada's rate has varied over the last decade or more from 11% to
a low of about 7%. The country just sells off its raw natural
resources rather than having a productive economy through
strong innovation or research. Yet the Canucks complain about
selling those resources to the U.S. Huh?

5. Canadians are polite self effacing and humble

Whoa! Canadians are anything but polite and "European" as they
like to tell the world. Most Canadians I've met are ignorant,
boorish, self absorbed anti-American bigots. Go to a Canadian
workplace: see how they treat you, especially if you are a brown
or black person.

Go to a restaurant or a store. The tone is very cold and "British"
in nature. Look at how they drive. I have driven in Britain, the
U.S. (San Diego, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Seattle area).
Nowhere have I seen such stupid backward drivers as I have seen
in B.C. and Alberta.

Basically Canada needs to have its huge pompous self absorbed ego
deflated. Canadians are hypocrites and they love to be delusional,
and self absorbed about how great they are. The U.S. incidentally is the
country where a lot of Canadians, (about 250,000 at last count), go
to live well, retire and of course, for employment. Hypocritical or
what?

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