I would not go there anyway, I spent a month in Canada seeing relatives that was more than close enough.Originally Posted by Besoeker
Well, I spent a bit of time in Canada too. Mostly on business but I did find time to see some old friends.
East to West. St John's Island to Vancouver Island. And various places between.
Some highs - Rogers Chocolate Shop in Victoria, frozen seas. Some lows. But different to USA.
Lots of ex-pats. Perhaps not surprising.
A couple of coincidences that stuck with me.
I took a taxi to my hotel in Vancouver.The driver had an English accent. I asked him where he was from. It turned out that he had lived in the same town as me and his parents still did. I ended up taking some stuff back to his folks.
At the hotel, I needed to extend my stay. The receptionist on duty looked at my booking.
"You live on.........street."
"That's right."
"I did to. Number **. "
Turned out to be about eight houses away from mine. So I was yet again conscripted into the role of mailman.
Even weirder, her father was in the same line of business as me but with a different company. We'd had some business dealings.
A few of my contacts in Montreal were Brits too.
My experience of USA is different.
For sure, there are those who want to claim ancestry from Europe despite being several generations removed.
Maybe it's an identity thing wanting to claim a bit of history.
And perhaps a little surprising too given the ignominious exit of the colonial powers.
Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.
How strict exactly is the passport-control between the USA and Canada? I know there is control but just for practical reasons alone the control can't as strict as it must be at the border with Mexico.
If you're Canadian/American, it's pretty much the same as driving into Scotland/Wales for us. If you're foreign it's pretty much the same as at the airport, form filling, plus thumb prints and retinal scan. They've got a bit more pleasant over the last 5 years or so, but they used to be right obnoxious cwnts awhile back. The real problem you have is, if you go from Canada to America and leave via Canada, you get a visa ticket thing in your passport, which the Canadians need to verify back to the Americans but never do. So you end up registering as an over stayer on the American border computer system. You can end up having a complete shake down and vehicle search, I think I was lucky that I didn't end up with a rectal search one time.
Some years back the Yanks refused to let my mother into their country when he was sight-seeing at the Niagra Falls. Then I the same sort of thing happened to a Black British woman only she told all the newspapers that she was a victim of racism by white US immigration officials.
Which newspapers did she tell that? The US or the UK papers?
If ever you needed a demonstration of hype over substance!
How low does the BNP have to go before the Gri££otards see it?
No hype involved and plenty of substance:-
American Angst- Making fun of flag slathered retards and trend humping fashion lemmings
Giving a Harley owner
access to Email is like giving a Neanderthal access to a microwave
oven.
I'll have a guess and say that Americans have low passport ownership because you don't have to fly abroad for sunny beaches or ski resorts. I woud guess that the French travel less than other Europeans for the same reason.
I did lose my OHIP card...but that was just once! And I've lost a couple of house keys...but I always had a spare! It's like my parents want to keep me hostage!
Ageless Male
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