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[Chet Wautlands]

[youtuber]

The fresh air and space is what I appreciate the most.

[jhuntingtonus]

From this American:

- Tim Horton's, my favorite fast food chain in the world. Why oh why couldn't they make it in the US? Fine and reasonably priced soup, sandwiches, and of course donuts.

- Gordon Lightfoot.

- The courtesy of the drivers. They drive in the right lane when I'm moving faster in the left one, unlike those in a nearby country I can think of.

- The alliance with the US. What is it, 5,500 km of unfortified border?

- Consistent all-around civilizedness.

[Mr. Pink]

Things I miss/like about Canada:

People can communicate with me. Even when I am on the phone with someone who is in India or Quebec for customer service, they understand me and I almost always understand them.

I miss driving peacefully. I got quite used to taking my sweetass time for the 10 minutes it took to drive from A to B. Why speed or run lights to save 1 minute?

I miss blue skies. Been back in Asia since July and minus 3 weeks of awesome summer weather, I rarely see a true blue sky. Blue skies and clean air are a huge part of every Canadian's life. I wonder how many people take it for granted? Having gray air most of the time, I know I certainly don't.

I miss being able to buy food I want at reasonable prices. I miss being able to buy big and tall clothes.

However, the biggest thing I like about Canada is my family lives there

It sucks that the cost of living to enjoy those things I like isn't affordable for me at this point in my life.

[Arthur Dent]

As a young Canadian:

Montreal winters, playing hockey with friends - young and old - at the outdoor rink every afternoon and evening.

Cross-country skiing in the Laurentians through the low hills spread with maple, fir and cedar, rabbit tracks in the snow. Pea soup for lunch at the side of the trail.

Summer thunderstorms - everyone out of the pool!

The natural stone bridge over a trout stream near our cottage, and the gentle ancient feel of Eastern trout streams.

Skitching.

Basement music time with friends.

Visiting Nova Scotia, P.E.I, New Brunswick and Newfoundland - Western Brook Pond, the bogs and the briny coast.

Older: The West Coast:

- all the sea creatures whose world I visited while diving - for work, but it felt like pleasure.

- each island its own community, a chance to explore them and the sometimes eclectic characters who live there.

- seeing deer and bear while fishing or driving.

- Winter storms - riding the roller coaster of whichever vessel I was clinging to, or simply watching while tied to the dock.

- Island Rivers, the Cowichan, and more recently the Elk, the Woss and the Davies. Seeing elk or elk sign. This year I had a beaver rise to my fly with half a bush in its mouth!

- Visiting the Orca for several months a year and coming across the odd surprise, like seasonal visits by other mammals or birds.

- The Inside Passage on a clear starry night, calm and warm.

Uncrowded.

[VanIslander]

It's funny how one travels the world in search of amazing unique experiences and then realizes that the most awesome special traveling experiences were on trips back home:

the aurora borealis I saw in Northern Alberta, ice skating on the Rideau Canal, a majestic moose staring down one's car south of Prince George, the streets of Montreal on 9/11, the cougar who stole my salmon near Campbell River, clamming on the beaches of Vancouver Island, kayaking over crystal clear Big Shuswap Lake to an island to picnic, necking with a new girlfriend in Stanley Park, lightning storms in Kamloops, driving a highway through the Rockies during a snowstorm, etc.

[Jeju Rocks]

I like the fact that the Saskatchewan Roughriders are in this year's Grey Cup.

[peppermint]

Cape Spear- there's something pretty primal about seeing the ocean spread out before you as far as they eye can see.

The nature- wide open spaces free for everyone's use. I like that I can drive 20 minutes outside the city and unless there's a fence, I'm pretty much free to go camping or fishing, or picking wildberries on that land. (I don't do it much, but I like that I can)

I like the fact that my country has a pretty good standard of living. I like that I'm not subject to the intense social pressures that Korean women are. I like that my body and what I do with it is between my doctor and I, and not subject to the whims of politicians, I like that my gay friends can get married if they ever decide to settle down, I like that I don't have to worry about going bankrupt because of an illness.

[BoholDiver]

I like the people, except the 14-19 group. I could do without their attitudes. Most of them become reasonable after the age of 22 or so.

I like the food a lot. Many things that Korea could use to import. yes, some of it is unhealthy, but good anyways.

I like how people seem to genuinely enjoy life. They can be happy with little, as long as they have a roof over their head and food on the table.

Healthcare is not perfect but at least you don't worry about finances if you get sick.

There is such a multitude of places to go if you get some vacation. In the west, if you drive 30 minutes in any direction, you hit a lake with a decent beach and some cabins. Local wildlife too, sometimes.

[BobbyOrr]

-driving in blizzards at night and watching the big flakes illuminated by the headlights

-packing the car, picking up friends, hitting the beer store and driving to the cottage

-backyards and bbq's

-reading the 6 inch thick Toronto Star on Saturday's

-staying in on Saturday nights to watch Hockey Night in Canada

-being able to hiking and mountain biking and seeing no one the entire time

[blurgalurgalurga]

Skor Bars and Crispy Crunches. The cheap chocolate bars in Canada are pretty good.

The seafood...I remember the last year I was in Canada I bought about ten smoked salmons off a Native guy I knew for fifteen bucks each. Not the best salmon, but still, it was a Merry Christmas to all my friends, ho ho ho.
Lobsters in the east, Dungeness Crabs in the west, mussels, oysters...of course, Korea's great for seafood too, but I've not seen them treat a crab correctly yet in my 5 years here.

VanIslander, what was 9-11 like in Montreal?

[BobbyOrr]

[blurgalurgalurga]

I remember driving to a treeplanting camp somewhere in the Caribou-Chilcotin (honestly don't remember where--Clearwater maybe?) and chasing a family of moose down the logging road for about 200 meters. Going slow, obviously I didn't want to hit them, but just kind of tooting the horn and putting along and waiting for them to run into the woods...man, moose are dumb. Delicious, incredibly strange looking things, but they kill more people than bears do every year. Car + moose = death for all.

[VanIslander]

[blurgalurgalurga]

Moose is great meat! Sausage meat, mind you--spice the bejeezus out of it and grind it up and it's fine. Not as good as venison but still, I'm always happy when somebody gives me a chunk of moose.
Bear, though? I won't stick up for bear meat.
Not fond of bear hunters either...generally I prefer bears to the people who hunt them.
Of course, sometimes they need shooting, but actually going out looking for one to shoot is pretty low, in my book. The bears that is.