Why to live in Canada (taken from Jenna's page) TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 1. Weed. 2. Vancouver: 1.5 million people and two bridges. 3. The local hero is a pot-smoking snowboarder. 4. The local wine doesn't taste like malt vinegar. 5. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is just 5 hours from downtown. 6. A university with a nude beach. 7. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations. 8. If a cop pulls you over, just offer them some of your hash. 9. There's always some sort of deforestation protest going on. 10. Cannabis. TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA 1. Big Rock between you and B.C. 2. Ottawa who? 3. Tax is 7 percent instead of approximately 200 percent for the rest of the country. 4. The Premier is a fat, alcoholic who is easy to make fun of . 5. Flames vs. Oilers. 6. Stamps vs. Eskies. 7. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of. 8. You live in the only province that could actually afford to be it's own country. 9. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia groups. 10. You can attempt to murder your rich oil tycoon husband and get away with it. TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN 1. You never run out of wheat. 3. Cruise control takes on a whole new meaning. 4. Your province is really easy to draw. 5. You never have to worry about roll-back if you have a standard. 6. It takes you two weeks to walk to your neighbor's house. 7. YOUR Roughriders survived. 8. You can watch the dog run away from home for hours. 9. People will assume you live on a farm. 10. Buying a huge John Deere mower makes sense. TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA 1. You wake up one morning to find you suddenly have beachfront property. 2. Amusing town names like "Flin Flon" and "Winnipeg". 3. All your local bands make it big and move to Toronto. 4. The only province to ever violently rebel against the federal government. 5. Hundreds of huge, horribly frigid lakes. 6. Nothing compares to a wicked Winnipeg winter. 7. You don't need a car, just take the canoe to work. 8. You can be an Easterner or a Westerner depending on your mood. 9. Because of your license plate, you are still friendly even when you cut someone off. 10. Pass the time watching trucks and barns float by. TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO 1. You live in the center of the universe. 2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump. 3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election. 4. There's no such thing as an Ontario Separatist. Separate from what? You are the centre of the universe. 5. Your grandparents sold booze to the States during Prohibition. 6. Lots of tourists come to Toronto because they believe it's a cool city. 7. The only province with hard-core American-style crime. 8. Much Music's Speaker's Corner - rant and rave on national TV for a dollar. 9. Baseball fans park on your front lawn and pee on the side of your house. 10. Mike Harris: basically a sober Ralp TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC 1. Everybody assumes you're an asshole. 2. Racism is socially acceptable. 3. The only province to ever kidnap federal politicians. 4. You can take bets with your friends on which English neighbor will move out next. 5. Other provinces basically bribe you to stay in Canada. 6. The FLQ. 7. Your hockey team is made up entirely of dirty French guys who can't skate. 8. The province with the oldest, nastiest hookers. 9. NON-smokers are the outcasts. 10. You can blame all your problems on the "Anglo bastards". TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK 1. You are sandwiched between French assholes and drunken Celtic fiddlers. 2. One way or another, the government gets 98 percent of your income. 3. You're poor, but not as poor as the Newfies. 4. When listing the provinces, everyone forgets to mention yours. 5. The economy is based on fish, cows, and ferrying Ontario motorists to Boston. 6. No one ever blames anything on New Brunswick. 7. You have French people, but they don't want to kill you. 8. Everybody has a Grandfather who runs a lighthouse. 9. Just as charming as Maine, but with more unemployed fishermen. 10. You probably live in a small seaside cottage with no television. Next Page |