Living in Canadian Provinces.....Top Reasons (ZT)

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TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

1. Vancouver: 1.5 million people and two bridges. You do the math.
2. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is just 5 hours from downtown.
& r' P! y# T6 _4 n. {3. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations.
9 T2 l0 e. S( ?, f; T4. There's always some sort of deforestation protest going on.
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TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA

7 C6 q- [2 Y+ o$ a; _2 |8 v1. Big rock between you and B.C.
2. Ottawa who?
+ q/ }! n4 \9 p; L, @/ _3. Tax is 6% instead of approximately 20% as it is for the rest of the country.
6 y: \3 n& Z$ d6 `7 P1 e) G- W4. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of.
0 ~9 \; O. m* p: [' E8 M5. You live in the only province that could actually afford to be its own country.
+ G0 W, ~# e$ ^6. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia groups.
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TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN

0 N0 f) r7 v# j1. You never run out of wheat.
2. Your province is really easy to draw.
% C7 t3 A0 q4 ?5 |3. You can watch the dog run away from home for hours.
8 _5 L/ H- e0 X7 z$ k4. People will assume you live on a farm.
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TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA

1. You wake up one morning to find that you suddenly have a beachfront property.
/ ]$ b( A+ O2 [- E2. Hundreds of huge, horribly frigid lakes.
3. Nothing compares to a wicked Winnipeg winter.
4. You can be an Easterner or a Westerner depending on your mood.
5. You can pass the time watching trucks and barns float by.

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+ P- R% V; B& ]TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO

1. You live in the centre of the universe.
2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump.
3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election.
0 x5 U4 |$ U, m* o) \9 I! ~- K4. The only province with hard-core American-style crime.


TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC

1. Racism is socially acceptable
2. You can take bets with your friends on which English neighbour will move out next.
3. Other provinces basically bribe you to stay in Canada.
- V7 |# F. `4 j0 B4. You can blame all your problems on the "Anglo *
' \+ {" B0 m7 J( tTOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK

% m1 c6 t$ Y% i" `. d1. One way or another, the government gets 98% of your income.
) n* D$ L  p6 |0 K( y  N4 `9 ~1 Y2. You're poor, but not as poor as the Newfies.
3. No one ever blames anything on New Brunswick
4. Everybody has a grandfather who runs a lighthouse.


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7 z9 b' J/ N& k/ O( G  b5 ]6 f5 O1. Everyone can play the fiddle. The ones who can't, think they can.
5 Y% e7 b1 C& z( Q/ e: |2. You can pretend to have Scottish heritage as an excuse to get drunk and wear a kilt.
3. You are the only reason Anne Murray makes money.
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TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

1. Even though more people live on Vancouver Island, you still got the big, new bridge.
* e+ R0 V$ f: R0 A& L" O0 j' O9 s2. You can walk across the province in half an hour.
3. You can drive across the province in two minutes.
4. Everyone has been an extra on "Road to Avonlea."
$ @* l. b( a* A% d+ |, k5. This is where all those tiny, red potatoes come from.
6. You can confuse ships by turning your porch lights on and off at night.

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2 z7 J" s4 ~# E0 J$ u+ |TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEWFOUNDLAND

1. If Quebec separates, you will float off to sea.
$ x) ^0 X: i7 g( G9 W- n2. If you do something stupid, you have a built-in excuse.
3. The workday is about two hours long.
4. It is socially acceptable to wear your hip waders to your wedding

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Good to know

Mike_Wan

曾经想搬去那里，并且专程跑了一趟，那是前年春天的事情。
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住在一家移民接待站，房东打政府工，1200尺的平房，大学附近，前进双车库，大概只有28万。这样的房子，在我们这里得50-60万了吧。

/ R0 s1 F+ N4 _- P/ B7 z: F) Y0 f8 a聊起来，说是春天会发洪水。 Red River从南往北流，好像是美国的一个什么地方，到了春天，雪水就从山上流下来，并夹杂着大冰块，经常堵塞河道。这就是第一句话的由来了。不过，据房东说，市政府另修了一条疏洪渠，应该可以解决洪水泛滥的问题。当时，听到河水是由南往北，由美国往加拿大流，就觉得怪怪的。总觉得水应该是由东往西，由北往南流。
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至于冬天，没有在那里呆过，只是听人家说起过。好像，温尼泊的冬天，确实厉害。
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% p+ ?+ g0 ^) R% Y5 o如果看地图，温尼泊在加拿大的中间，所以，做加东还是加西，由你选。

0 L  C! u4 S0 c看房价的话，加拿大从东到西，几个大中城市里面，就她的房价，还比较低了。
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% W  K  U/ G' y) o- u2 ^4 \爱民顿、卡而加利，到今年的萨斯卡通、瑞嘉纳，轮番上涨的时候，后面都有一个跟着上涨凑热闹的尾巴，那就是温尼泊了。
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1 U1 P1 o: d/ c" X曾经主张新移民去温尼泊，就是觉得那里的房子还负担的起。等那里的房价也炒上去，整个加拿大，就没有适合新移民落脚的地方了。