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Post by Waffle on May 25, 2012 12:16:43 GMT -5
Welts,
The only incident I remember at the moment happened in a bookstore. I was actually with a French Canadian and we were talking in English about what kind of cookbook I wanted to get and the clerk came up and started talking to us in French. It's been so long I don't recall a lot of the details I know that it made my friend mad. She told me after we left the store how she hated when people acted like that. I don't know of anything I did that she would have perceived as rude.
Shasta,
The mountains are pretty - but if I were going for view - I'd want to be overlooking water of some sort.
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Sum Dum Gai
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on May 25, 2012 12:18:41 GMT -5
If I could live absolutely anywhere, I'd buy Alcatraz island, knock down the prison, and build a castle on it. We'd have to commute by boat to get into the city, but it would be pretty damn sweet.
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swamp
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Post by swamp on May 25, 2012 12:20:05 GMT -5
I've enjoyed visits to Montreal, but i don't care for the French snobbery of some of the residents. I'm curious. What kind of snobbery did you encounter? The people who work in the service and tourist industries all speak English. Unless they think you're rude. Then they mysteriously forget how. They're rude in both French and English. And their driving sucks.  |
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Waffle
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Post by Waffle on May 25, 2012 12:20:13 GMT -5
Dark,
You've got quite the imagination!
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Sum Dum Gai
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on May 25, 2012 12:23:27 GMT -5
You've got quite the imagination! It's not as completely crazy as it sounds. They're talking about closing and selling some of our state parks now. Alcatraz is a tourist destination, but maintaining the rotting prison ain't cheap. It'll get mothballed at some point, and the underlying land is insanely valuable. Can you imagine what some rich weirdo would pay for that island? |
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thyme4change
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Post by thyme4change on May 25, 2012 12:26:20 GMT -5
I like to think that I could move anywhere I wanted, so I choose to stay here. I do love Phoenix. My husband and I say we would want to live in San Francisco, but I think that is vacation talk. If we had all the money in the world, we might make different choices because we could get the lifestyle we want in a larger, more densly populated city - which we would love. But moving on our income we would have to make sacrifices.
That said - if for some reason I was run out of Phoenix, I would move to Denver.
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swamp
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Post by swamp on May 25, 2012 12:26:56 GMT -5
There are people who live on islands in the summer near me. Frankly, it sounds like a PITA to me. If it's pouring rain and windy and you have to make a grocery run, well, it sucks to be you.
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weltschmerz
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Post by weltschmerz on May 25, 2012 12:29:26 GMT -5
The only incident I remember at the moment happened in a bookstore. I was actually with a French Canadian and we were talking in English about what kind of cookbook I wanted to get and the clerk came up and started talking to us in French. It's been so long I don't recall a lot of the details I know that it made my friend mad. She told me after we left the store how she hated when people acted like that. I don't know of anything I did that she would have perceived as rude.
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There are assholes in every city in the world. It's much like saying that I don't like NYC because SOME people are pickpockets.
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zibazinski
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Post by zibazinski on May 25, 2012 12:30:52 GMT -5
Hey, I'm going to be there tomorrow through the 3rd of June!
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Post by Peace Of Mind on May 25, 2012 12:32:08 GMT -5
Northern Florida has seasons.  I love Florida and that is my first choice. I was a Navy brat and have lived out of the country and in many states but Florida and California would be my two choices. Out of the country - any where warm and tropical with lots of water.  |
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Sum Dum Gai
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on May 25, 2012 12:32:57 GMT -5
There are assholes in every city in the world. Assholes are one thing, an entire country that looks down their nose at tourists is something else. I know you love your city/country and all, but Canadians are fairly rude to American tourists. Shit, I served with a fair number of Canadian military in Colorado and they're rude to Americans even when they're stationed here. |
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thyme4change
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Post by thyme4change on May 25, 2012 12:34:56 GMT -5
There is at least one asshole in every city I've ever been in. At least while I'm there.
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Waffle
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Post by Waffle on May 25, 2012 12:35:00 GMT -5
There are assholes in every city in the world. It's much like saying that I don't like NYC because SOME people are pickpockets. Just to be clear - I never said that I didn't like Montreal. |
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Post by Peace Of Mind on May 25, 2012 12:40:34 GMT -5
I thought we had over 6,900,000,000 assholes in the world.  |
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weltschmerz
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Post by weltschmerz on May 25, 2012 12:44:08 GMT -5
Assholes are one thing, an entire country that looks down their nose at tourists is something else. I know you love your city/country and all, but Canadians are fairly rude to American tourists. Shit, I served with a fair number of Canadian military in Colorado and they're rude to Americans even when they're stationed here.
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If you say so. The people I know have no issue with Americans.
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Post by moxie on May 25, 2012 12:44:09 GMT -5
The French are the rude ones!
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Post by moxie on May 25, 2012 12:45:39 GMT -5
BeerBellyBilly was Canadian...he was a bit RUDE, but mostly HILARIOUS! ;D He was from Toronto, I believe.
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Post by moxie on May 25, 2012 12:46:28 GMT -5
Louisville, KY.  |
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Post by zibazinski on May 25, 2012 12:46:34 GMT -5
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Post by moxie on May 25, 2012 12:49:09 GMT -5
Madison, WI is a GREAT city...I went to the U there. |
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thyme4change
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Post by thyme4change on May 25, 2012 12:51:03 GMT -5
I won't live anywhere that most people are rolling their o's. Dontcha know.
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Post by moxie on May 25, 2012 12:54:20 GMT -5
What does "rolling their o's" mean? Doobies?
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Post by moxie on May 25, 2012 12:54:44 GMT -5
Oh...you mean like Fargo speech?
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Post by moxie on May 25, 2012 12:55:17 GMT -5
I thought you meant rolling joints like the Madison liberals! lol
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Post by weltschmerz on May 25, 2012 12:55:31 GMT -5
The French are the rude ones! Of course they are. Last time I went to Mary Queen of the World Cathedral, the American tourists were there in shorts, hollering at the top of their lungs and yelling into cell phones. The priest had enough and tossed them out. However, if you want to insist that the French are the rude ones, be my guest. |
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Post by thyme4change on May 25, 2012 12:55:57 GMT -5
ooo-ya. I can't take it for too long, yo no. Makes me crazy, ya.
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Post by moxie on May 25, 2012 12:56:26 GMT -5
I have been to France and they are RUDE! I am not speaking of the French Canadians...I have never been to Canada.
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Post by moxie on May 25, 2012 12:56:53 GMT -5
Geesh...  |
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Post by moxie on May 25, 2012 13:00:43 GMT -5
I will say that a few Canadians are a little too quick to jump on peoples' backs before they have ALL the information. On that, I am out!
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Post by kittensaver on May 25, 2012 13:03:09 GMT -5
Kihea, Maui, Friday Harbor, Washington or Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.
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