Posted on 06/29/2019 11:02:55 AM PDT by rickmichaels
I am a recovering American. This is a major admission on my part. Since moving to Canada in 2017, I’ve kept this part of my identity hidden from everyone except my closest friends. It’s a fairly easy sleight-of-hand. I’ve lived in various parts of the United States so I’m not easily pegged by any regionally-identifiable accent. The rest was simply a matter of a few linguistic somersaults: saying washroom instead of restroom; parkade, not parking lot; chatting at dinner parties about stratas rather than condo boards; and casually ordering deli meats by the gram (thanks to the conversion app on my phone). And to my utter delight, if my dirty little secret is revealed the universal response has been: “You’re American? But you seem so nice!”
To address the elephant in the room – quite literally, I suppose, since it’s the mascot of the Republican Party – yes, the tipping point for my relocation was the 2016 presidential election. Yet, I wasn’t one of those people who wrote angry Facebook posts and threatened to leave the country if Hillary Clinton didn’t win. That seemed overly dramatic – until, well, until the unimaginable actually happened.
I know some of my American friends think I took the easy route – the coward’s path, if you will. To the people who question my decision, I respond, “Do you really think it’s that easy to just pick up and leave the country where you were born and lived your entire life?” But the day after the election – and this is actually hard to really put into words – I just felt a seismic shift in my overall sense of well-being and thought, “I’ve got to get out of here.”
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Greenacres Grizzlies all the way. That said, we never saw a Grizzly adjacent to the property. Only black bears.
We had a neighbour who never had tasted beef until she went off to school in Portland, but she grew up somewhere outside of Dora, which is even more remote than Remote.
Did you follow all of the recent goings-on in Oregon?
That the Dems are attempting to destroy the economy is par for the course. I did follow the arrangement of a rumble between Loggers and Leftists a bit.
Wish I could say I was a ‘Yooper’ but I barely have time to visit to visit the place tbere.
West side of Manitoulin? Know the area well and have had a boat docked at Meldrum Bay for years. Ever go hunting on Cockburn Island or sail in the North Channel? Best place ever....
Eastern Ontario? I have a sister with a cottage in Barrys Bay and a brother in law with a hunt camp to Picton.
I’m sure he saw plenty of horrid writing over the years The Internet just puts it in lights. My first course at SWOCC was WR 121. Some of the MHS grads in it were barely literate.
The Republican walk-out must have focused people that don’t ordinarily go in for activism. There was a huge convoy that descended upon Salem. Some local businesses had signed onto the cap and trade bill. I think it was virtue signaling to their millenial customers, for the most part. Some flipped when they saw the backlash. A local brewery, Seven Devils, seems to be sticking with it.
” the wife and I were vacationing in Amarillo”
Now there is the story not told.
Ok you’re right. If we haven’t rubbed elbows, then we’ve rubbed elbows with each other’s kin. You’ve got Freepmail.
“For that matter, who cares what Canadians think?”
We don’t!
” the wife and I were vacationing in Amarillo”
Now there is the story not told.
Yes, and the distain for all things American is pitch perfect.
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