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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
“Sadly, others that promised this move reneged on that promise. Hopefully they’ll follow through for PDJT’s second term.”
That might even be better than illegals going to Canada.
Maybe we could work out trades with Canada.
They would send down a good person and worker, and we could send them 1-100 illegals or as many rectums like this guy!
No kidding, I thought this was written by a female.
So glad he left. How can we get another 10 million to go?
Lynden is a different community. One can spot the outsiders, like from Bellingham, in that in Lynden, everyone is at least six feet tall, including the toddlers...Mostly blonde...but tall. Must be somthing in the milk.
Yes, the reaction will be vastly different based on where in Canada. I did a lot of business in Calgary and in Novia Scotia. In neither place did I get a negative reaction to being from the U.S. However, I’m guessing Vancouver and Toronto would be different. In Calgary, especially, they were more irritated with Eastern Canada than with the U.S.
No freedom of religion.
No freedom of speech.
Crappy socialized medicine.
You can be imprisoned for politically incorrect speech.
“Out in the west, people had to tame the wilderness filled with mountains, forests and rugged frontiers...It takes a determined individual to scratch life out of the ground and make something of it...Some of that rugged frontierism still exists, as well as it does in the Western U.S. Although it is being diluted.”
I’ve always wanted to be a lumberjack!
"They don't want to stay in Canada? Then they should get the bloody hell out!" was one response.
A French teacher, who was born in Quebec and taught in Alberta, and who served in World War II: "I fought for Canada, not Quebec!"
They all seemed to like Americans. A few beers and we were fine with each other.
[So is Oregon]
I believe it - and Washington State - be sure to click this ICYMI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3758334/posts
You can be imprisoned for politically incorrect speech.
I had a nice discussion with the Canadian recently at a business conference. One of our suppliers. The guy was very polite and interesting to talk to, he talked about a lot of cool places in Canada that I should see. His only criticism of America was the guns. He explained to me how he was horrified at the very idea of shooting a gun and cannot understand edgy we allow them. I politely listen to him, suppressed a smile and took a perverse joy that he had no inkling about the .380 in my pocket.
as a completely defanged male, he doesn’t even know how to notice if somebody happens to be carrying
I assume this conference took place in the US.
Canada’s loss is America’s gain. Glad to be rid of ye.
If you like seven months a year of winter, Canada might be your place.
I had hope for Canada when Stephen Harper was elected, too.
The United States of America does not need or want people like this to live here. I am so glad trash like you leave.
Amazing isn’t it? Amazing that everywhere else has reasonable protectionist work and immigration laws that are enforced and we don’t.
The first snowfall of the year in Toronto
was always beautiful. Big, soft snowflakes.
It’s the only time I’ve ever heard thunder
during a snowfall.
The problem is the later snow never melts, it
just gets dirty and wears away. The coldest
I have ever been was in Calgary in February.
Couldn’t imagine living there permanently.
“This isn’t a precautionary attitude, but a pacifist one. Gun horror is not a productive emotion, but learned helplessness disguised as moral superiority.” Daniel Greenfield.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/181248/shadow-gun-daniel-greenfield
Yeah, aside from his TDS, he sounds like he was used to rude city people, and was likely one of them.
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