Note to Liberals: shut up about Canada already

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Note to liberals: Stop saying “I seriously considered moving to Canada.” It sounds stupid (because it is), it’s not true, and it’s only providing hope and encouragement to the right wingnuts.

“I seriously considered moving to Canada.” Really? Did you travel to Canada, look at houses, check out schools, apply for a job? OK, did you start reading a Canadian newspaper or buy books on Canada? Did your “serious consideration” involve anything at all except saying that one silly phrase?

Didn’t think so.

Well, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is you are right not to move to Canada, for any number of reasons.

First, Canada is less progressive than you think. It still has an expansive, interventionist military policy and it also has its own variety of Neanderthal political factions. Remember, much of Canada is more or less Alaska, and we know very well what those folks are like.

Second, Canada has a tiny, resource-based economy, so unless you want to drive a wheat combine or a fishing boat or a dump truck the size of Starship Enterprise up above the Artic Circle, there’s not that much for you to do. The U.S. is the most advanced economy in the world, a byproduct of which is that we are the most hyper-specialized economy in the world. Many of the jobs we have, particularly the high paying ones, don’t even exist in other parts of the world.

Third, the weather genuinely sucks. If you can afford to bid against newly-minted Shanghai billionaires for tiny two bedroom condos in Vancouver, you can get weather that is almost bearable—Seattle, only colder. Anywhere else in Canada and the weather is pretty lousy. These are people who in January go to Duluth to warm up. In theory, all of us like the change of seasons, etc, just fine. In practice, we all are weather wimps. As a nation, we have all been slowly but surely moving southward as the advent of air conditioning and anti-microbials let us do so. By the way, so have Canadians. I know a lot of Canadians, and they all live in Rio, the Caribbean and Sarasota, anywhere but Winnipeg.

Fourth, it’s not unbearable here yet. Sure, it may be one day. And when it is, history says we will leave, just as the Jews finally left Germany in the 1930’s and the blacks finally left the South. But it has to be pretty unbearable before people emigrate, and usually that unbearability has to involve not just political repression but physical danger, e.g., the Irish diaspora.

Fifth, there’s an awfully good chance you’d end up isolated and irrelevant, like the Confederate enclave in Brazil or the Mormon settlements in Mexico. (Or Utah for that matter, but I digress.) You’d be forgotten by history except as a tourist attraction, like the cotillions with hoop skirts they have in Brazil.

Sixth, Canada has quotas and probably wouldn’t let you in.

So you ain’t going nowhere.

http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2012/07/09/note-to-liberals-shut-up-about-canada-already/

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it also has its own variety of Neanderthal political factions

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[Captain Oates 911]

I live in Wisconsin - worst of both worlds - its further north than parts of Canada and it has a brown shirt far right governor and 6.5% state tax and sky high property tax and my mother in law lives there

It's worse than being held in a goat shed by the Taliban

[james&olya 1,121]

Most of Canada's population lives south of Duluth I believe. I live farther north here in Michigan than most Canadians and I love the weather here! And with global warming the south may become less hospitable as well!

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Real American's don't leave, they buy more ammo!

[Penny Lane 8,159]

I live in Wisconsin too and it always makes me laugh how people think that since I'm from Canada, I'm suffering some kind of culture shock or that I'm "dying of heat" here in the 80-90 degree weather. Ottawa is further south than where I am right now.

[Teddy B 17,252]

I live in Wisconsin too and it always makes me laugh how people think that since I'm from Canada, I'm suffering some kind of culture shock or that I'm "dying of heat" here in the 80-90 degree weather. Ottawa is further south than where I am right now.

Same with my wife, she's from Windsor, right on the Detroit River, which is approx. the same longitude as Boston, where we live now. Everyone here treats her as if she's some kind of Eskimo that just came out of her igloo to move here.

[Captain Oates 911]

Most of Canada's population lives south of Duluth I believe. I live farther north here in Michigan than most Canadians and I love the weather here! And with global warming the south may become less hospitable as well!

Now ya talking

I don't want to die until SC becomes uninhabitable and they have to sign an affidavit that global warming is correct before they are allowed out into normal states and leaving their bibles and girlfriends behind

[MyLittlePony 340]

Real American's don't leave, they buy more ammo!

I hit all that.

[Captain Oates 911]

Real American's don't leave, they buy more ammo!

Charles sure does look different from this angle

They wouldn't do that at my range - we have a pit bull !

Edited July 10, 2012 by Ashud Cocoa

[X Factor 1,112]

I hit all that.

Aren't you married now?

[rocks 494]

Now ya talking

I don't want to die until SC becomes uninhabitable and they have to sign an affidavit that global warming is correct before they are allowed out into normal states and leaving their bibles and girlfriends behind

[Penny Lane 8,159]

You kidding me? I'd LET my husband hit all of that.

[Captain Oates 911]

You kidding me? I'd LET my husband hit all of that.

I say - that's awfully sporting

I almost got banned from Canada. When I couldn't enter the states because my visa was pending, she would fly to Toronto from Milwaukee and we would meet there for the weekend

A Japanese looking border control lady asked me why I wanted to come to Canada for 3 days

I told her I wanted to use her country for sex with my fiance

she looked like she was sucking a lemon and I resolved to say something different the next time

We did it (Toronto) 3 times - 3 weekends

Excellent homeless people - a source of endless amusement

and those people with the bells - jesters ? - no lepers !