Sunday, August 19, 2007

Living in Canadian Provinces.....Top Reasons

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.3. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations.4. There's always some sort of deforestation protest going on.5. Weed

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA1. Big rock between you and B.C.2. Ottawa who?3. Tax is 6% instead of approximately 200% as it is for the rest of the country.4. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of.5. You live in the only province that could actually afford to be its own country.6. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia groups.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN1. You never run out of wheat.2. Your province is really easy to draw.3. You can watch the dog run away from home for hours.4. People will assume you live on a farm.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA1. You wake up one morning to find that you suddenly have a beachfront property.2. 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.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO1. 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.4. The only province with hard-core American-style crime.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC1. Racism is socially acceptable2. 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 .4. You can blame all your problems on the "Anglo *#!%!"

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK1. One way or another, the government gets 98% of your income.2. You're poor, but not as poor as the Newfies.3. No one ever blames anything on New Brunswick4. Everybody has a grandfather who runs a lighthouse.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA1. Everyone can play the fiddle. The ones who can't, think they can.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.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND1. Even though more people live on Vancouver Island, you still got the big, new bridge.2. 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."5. 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.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEWFOUNDLAND1. If Quebec separates, you will float off to sea.2. 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

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I object have you even been to T.O? In the last couple of years? The crime rate is not as bad as the one anywhere eles. My house is over 3 hundred thousand and no where near being a "dump".
You also have to remember when was the last time in Toronto where a 13 yr old killer her whole family?.

Heather and Jeff and baby Jonathan said...

yes i have been to Toronto...and I still wouldnt live there...at least Paul B and Karla H arent from AB! She molested her sister and let her husband at the time help her! dont go throwing rocks at your glass house!

I think that if you are going to post such a comment, you should have the balls to sign your name!

New MrsIngram said...

Damn Heather you have a blog troll ... I thought you were just trying to be funny and someone took it right to heart .. please excuse me while I go get out my fiddle for practice .. hehe!

Heather and Jeff and baby Jonathan said...

thanks for signing your name...ha ha ha...i thought it was funny too...some people are just WAY to serious!

not us...apparently!

Lesley said...

Hey Monica,
How's your fiddle practise going? Ha ha, can't wait to see your talents at the next family hoedown!
I think H is right though, it's hypocritical to be proud of where you live but too ashamed to say who you are.
Guess, us Mac's are the only ones with a warped sense of humour.

Anonymous said...

Someone actually took that seriously? I was just going to leave a comment "LMAO" till I read the others. Geeezzzz....

But I did Laugh My AAAASSSSS Off!!!!!!!!!!!!