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Old 01-20-2010, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete View Post
I figured Rob, I was hoping you'd chime in.

One thing I've noticed, a big difference between the US and Canada, heck also Europe and most of the world, we are a LOT more rough and tumble culturally and I think it makes a lot of folks outside the US uncomfortable.

But we like it

Pete
You may wellhave hit on the differences. The U.S. began in a rebellion (oops, revolution), We negotiated the British North American Act that resulted in Confederation.

You had the wild west, we had the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

One country born in violence the other in political bargaining.

Are you really sure you like it? Or is it just all the hype that makes you feel that this is the way things should be? I rarely locked my doors in Ottawa unless we were all going out of town, not so here.
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