shelby
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Post by shelby on Jul 3, 2013 12:46:50 GMT -5
No but I would love to move to Canada we live about 1.5 hours away from BC, a really cool city. ETA: the only time I have been out of North America was Italy and I had no problem there, but I could totally understand in certain parts of the world. Isn't "BC" British Columbia a province? Vancouver IS a really cool city. So is Victoria. Yes but we still are close to both I was thinking Vancouver.
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Gardening Grandma
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Post by Gardening Grandma on Jul 3, 2013 12:49:05 GMT -5
I think of Canada as "Europe Lite". For someone who has never been to Europe, a visit to Canada gives the flavor of Europe. Not as far and less expensive. Kind of "training wheels" if you will...
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Formerly SK
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Post by Formerly SK on Jul 3, 2013 17:41:43 GMT -5
I spent a summer in Russia in college. My host family (2 adults/2 teenagers) lived in a two room cement apartment. When I arrived I found out I was going to stay in the apartment with one of the teenagers while the other three people crashed with relatives. They had pushed the two (not twin) beds together for me because they heard Americans need big beds. The teenager who stayed with me slept on the couch (which was really a small wooden frame with cushions...not comfy). I have to admit I was horrified that they had made such an effort to make me so comfortable when they obviously had so little. This was an educated family too (doctor and banker) but they hadn't been paid in months and were living off pennies and food they grew themselves. I would have gladly slept on the floor, but their idea of Americans was to give me everything assuming I needed it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2013 19:15:25 GMT -5
How could families ever travel if it cost 4 k per ticket... 16k for the 4 of us We do go off season, but last to/from Europe trip was under 4k tickets for four of us..
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NoNamePerson
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jul 3, 2013 19:23:15 GMT -5
Would you pretend you're Canadian when you travel abroad? Something tells me my accent would be a dead give away that I wasn't Canadian. Now I guess I could take diction lessons from some of our esteemed Canadians here - any takers
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violagirl
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Post by violagirl on Jul 4, 2013 19:48:02 GMT -5
Would you pretend you're Canadian when you travel abroad? Something tells me my accent would be a dead give away that I wasn't Canadian. Now I guess I could take diction lessons from some of our esteemed Canadians here - any takers Lately we've been catching ourselves saying "Some hot eh?"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2013 20:57:14 GMT -5
It's not wise to pretend that your Canadian. It's just to easy for them to test you & find out that your not. For instance if they keep buying you drinks & after a few gallons of beer you start staggering around they know that you aren't Canadian. A 9 year old Canadian with a bad leg doesn't stagger around with only a couple of gallons of beer in him.
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zibazinski
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Post by zibazinski on Jul 5, 2013 10:33:30 GMT -5
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