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Smart Americans moving to Canada

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Perry White, Aug 1, 2007.

  1. I don't know -- those Lake Erie beaches in Ohio can be pretty sweet ... :)

    And we've got Tim Hortons too, now, although not where I live, sadly.
     
  2. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    You forgot those wonderful Oklahoma beaches where you come out of the lake covered from head to toe with a thin film of red clay from upriver.
     
  3. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    Minnesota has more shoreline than California, FWIW.
     
  4. sportschick

    sportschick Active Member

    Montana has some pretty decent beaches around the lakes in the Western part of the state, including the Flathead Lake and Glacier Lake. Course there are chunks of ice floating in them too :D
     
  5. Mmac

    Mmac Guest

    Gimme a fucking break, HB, that statement wreaks of lame overgeneralized bullshit stereotypes. I've lived in Japan and traveled throughout Asia and Europe have never encountered these Americans "demanding" that others speak their language who can't. And I've not noticed American ex-patriots and travelers abroad being any more or less obnoxious on average than the Canadians I knew.

    But, come to think of it, I do recall one specific case of a teacher I knew who lost his job basically because of his excessively drunken, boorish, and culturally insensitive ways. Oh, but he was ...Canadian. My observation is that there are about the same % of obnoxious louts in both countries. Those stereotypes are largely bs.
     
  6. ballscribe

    ballscribe Active Member

    Sorry, sportschick. A beach, by definition (at least to me) requires ocean, not lake. Not even a really big lake :D
     
  7. Flash

    Flash Guest

    I stand by that. But people in Alberta and the B.C. Interior talk about beaches. And I laugh after growing up with Arisaig in one direction, the Cape in another and Pomquet over that way ...
     
  8. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    I'd take any lake cabin in northern Minnesota or Wisconsin over 99 percent of the public beaches I've ever been to.
     
  9. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Sorry, but the beaches on parts of Lake Huron are as impressive as any ocean beaches. And you don't get the salt. :)
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    And I know EXACTLY where this pic was taken.
     
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  10. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    I'm guessing not Michigan.
     
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  11. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Nope. About halfway between Sarnia (across the border from Port Huron) & Grand Bend
     
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  12. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Kettle Point?
     
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