People of Canada and the USA I have a question!!
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I live in Calgary Alberta Canada. I love the rocky mountains, I love the Calgary Stampede, I love that in a city of a million people we still have a small town feel.0
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Toronto, Ontario
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I live in Portland Oregon (USA) I love the fact that I live 2hrs form the beach and about an hour from a mt with great skiing! I also love the fact that it's green here all year round. :0)0
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I grew up in Ohio. There we had gloomy summers full of rain, and harsh winters as low as -20F with foot after foot of snow. I enjoyed the rain very much, and liked running through the mud even as an adult. I also grew up next to a large lake, where I could sit and watch the sun set (while getting destroyed by mosquitoes.. :grumble: )
Now I live in southern Arizona, a huge change of climate from where I grew up. I really love the scenery here, cactus everywhere, flat plains suddenly change into rising mountains. Shrubs all around with lizards and snakes and scorpions, nature's wonders (even though they are very dangerous!) I very much enjoy the immense heat, in the summer months it is not uncommon to see 2-4 weeks straight of 110F weather. Sad that it only rains maybe 5 times a year, and those rains are very weak and pathetic. They call them 'monsoons' but they are certainly the weakest most pitiful rain I have ever witnessed. There is no winter here. Don't let anyone complain about the 2 days in a year where it gets to be 20F. That is not winter. That is simply a chilly day.
How about England? What is is like there?0 -
Denver, Colorado. I love my mountains and 300 days of sunshine a year! I also love living in a progressive, smaller city.0
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I love the age difference. I've been to Scotland, and the land is just steeped in history. As amazing as that is, the US /feels/ younger, even in Charleston, our oldest city, especially when compared. The only time the dirt around here has felt really old to me has been when I've found an arrowhead. Oh, and I love watching the Blue Mountains grow as you move from Columbia up to the Piedmont.0
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I live in Portland Oregon (USA) I love the fact that I live 2hrs form the beach and about an hour from a mt with great skiing! I also love the fact that it's green here all year round. :0)
I live about 40 minutes from Portland and I agree with this.0 -
Toronto, Canada. We have beautiful summers.0
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Great question!
I live in Medford, Oregon (USA). We have awesome mountains, rivers and lakes and are only 2 hours from the beach. We have all 4 seasons.....although Spring is taking it's sweet time in coming. It so beautiful and there is so much to do - outdoor wise! Tell us about where YOU live! :flowerforyou:0 -
I live in Vancouver British Columbia (Canada). I'm surrounded by ocean and mountains, rivers and lakes! Lots of rain, but everything is plush and green. We have a great city here, Vancouver, where we just hosted the winter Olympics, so much fun! We also have lots of back country for the adventurous!0
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I live in Florida in the U.S. What I love best about where I live is sweltering heat, mosquitos, and hurricanes. Oh, and snow birds.
Just joking...
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I live in Windsor ON Canada and honestly there isnt much amazing about this place!! We are flat, our pollution is brutal, allergies tend to spike while here. Our summers are insanely humid. I dont hate it here but I definitely do not love it! Ive been to other parts of Canada such as out west and its amazing out there. The air is fresh and the scenery is breath taking, plus little to no humidity. I would say the only thing that can be really convenient and good about living here is that we are a border city. I can be in Detroit Michigan in 15 minutes where the shopping is much better! Oh and we get free health Care!!!0
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I live in England and I've never been to Canada or the USA so my question is: What do you love most about where you live? I'm looking forward to seeing some of your answers and finding out about different places
I live in Colorado. I love the mountains/gorgeous views, the weather, having four seasons and the hiking/running/biking/skiing/snowboarding opportunities.0 -
I live in Calgary Alberta Canada. I love the rocky mountains, I love the Calgary Stampede, I love that in a city of a million people we still have a small town feel.
Ya I live in Calgary too, and I love that the best sledding of the season was this weekend!!!0 -
Oh, and snow birds.
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Oh... snow birds. It's about time they fly back north, I hope.0 -
I live in San Francisco and one of the best things about living here is that everyone says, "I love San Francisco!" :happy:
It's beautiful here. We are right on the ocean, but we are only 3 hours away from world class skiing in Tahoe. Outdoors adventures can be had year-round.
Most people would say the climate is great, but I personally would like FOUR seasons. We have about 1-1/2 :yawn:0 -
Denver, Colorado. I love my mountains and 300 days of sunshine a year! I also love living in a progressive, smaller city.
Me too! All of the above!0 -
I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico....and I love the green chili! YUM!!!0
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I live in the Valley just north of Los Angeles, CA. We have lots of things to do and all within easy traveling distance. Beaches, snow, amusement parks, sporting locations, concert halls, clubs of all kinds. It has a wide variety of ethnic and economical areas, so someplace for everyone.
Other side, schools not so great, taxes high, gas prices high but lots of sunshine!0 -
I live in the Texas Hill Country and it is wonderful. I have no neighbors and an incredible view from my living room. It's a small town and the school is elementary through high school all on one campus. I have to drive about 20 minutes to get to the nearest store but it doesn't bother me at all. The way of life is relaxed and the people are kind and well mannered. It'd a definite change of pace from growing up in a metropolitan city!0
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I live in Chicago and I love that we have all of the culture of a big city, but people are still friendly. I also love the architecture dwntwn and the fact that we have the longest coastline of any city in the US--lots of beaches!! Great shopping, pubs, and restaurants, too! Oh, and Lincoln Park Zoo--love the zoo!
I don't always love the weather LOL! but I think I appreciate the beautiful days that much more b/c they aren't always predictable.0 -
i live in raleigh, nc (eastern usa) and i absolutely like NOTHING about it! lol sorry, but i'd rather live in europe somewhere. what i don't like about here is that there is no reliable transportation so you MUST have a car, you have to pay to use life's most vital resource (a.k.a. water), there's absolutely NO life here unless it's christmas time (the streets are pretty much dead and everything's closed by 9), the weather is so unreliable (it's sunny and hot one day then it's cold and dreary the next), and the list goes on but i don't have time to list everything. lol0
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I live in the Ozarks of Missouri. I am right in the corner of southwest Missouri that meets Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas. They call us the "Four States" because everything is within a few miles.
I love the rolling hills filled with green trees and valley filled with small farms that have cows in the fields. I love the mountans with rocks and a few waterfalls peeking through different areas. I love going to Branson to visit a theme park filled with ol' time country and folk music and dedicated to the traditions of the Ozarks. For instance, going to see the lady who makes homemade soaps and lotions there then getting on a rollercoaster. I love the flowing rivers where you can fish or just play in the water, or swim in a lake. You can find all sorts of adventurous things here, even casinos, but we have every season to show for it.
In the spring we have cool flowing breezes and summer can be a little hot and humid. Fall has the falling of the leaves then the winter has our snowing and blizzard days. Did I mention that we can occasionally get these huge windstorms...called tornados, but we do not like those all that much, in fact, they really do cause great havic.
I am originally from Houston, Texas, but call Missouri my home. I am in the middle of the country here, but within an hour or two of four major cities in any direction. I have everything I need here. I am fortunate to know all my neighbors and live within walking distance of my work. My husband and I share a huge garden in the back with our neighbors that we love and cherish. We are indeed happy here and welcome any visitor to give us a chance to show you a great time.0 -
Well I live in the USA, precisely, I live in Brooklyn, NY. Here are some of my favorite things; NYC has the best transportation in the country. The subways may be dirty and filthy and perhaps the recent fair increases (50 cents total in the past two years) is kind of annoying, our trains are still the most reliable and frequent you will find. You can get almost anywhere at any time of day or night.
I also love the fact that we have so many areas where you can stay out and party as late as you want and not worry about things closing or transportation not running.
I love all of the restaurants! Brooklyn has some areas, like Green Point, Williamsburg, Park Slope, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Heights, Bensonhurst, etc. And there is a wide range of variety, tons of different restaurants who all make different things, some restaurants that are strange, some ordinary, many who are ethnic, no matter what kind of ethnic cuisine you like, you will probably find it. The quality of most restaurants in these areas are really good too. I like to search reviews of restaurants in these areas before I go.
In Manhattan there are a lot of great restaurants as well, in Times Square, Greenwich Village, Soho, Noho, but some of my personal favorites are in Little Italy.
The night life is great, there are tons of things to do, interesting to people to gawk at, movies, comedy clubs, museums, etc.
I hope I've been of some help, and certainly hope you visit us at some point! Haha.0 -
I live outside of Philly but am origianlly from the jersey shore (yes like the mtv show jersey shore ahaaa) but my favorite parts about living near philly are the philadelphia phillies and the history (valley forge, liberty bell, etc)0
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I live in Windsor ON Canada and honestly there isnt much amazing about this place!! We are flat, our pollution is brutal, allergies tend to spike while here. Our summers are insanely humid. I dont hate it here but I definitely do not love it! Ive been to other parts of Canada such as out west and its amazing out there. The air is fresh and the scenery is breath taking, plus little to no humidity. I would say the only thing that can be really convenient and good about living here is that we are a border city. I can be in Detroit Michigan in 15 minutes where the shopping is much better! Oh and we get free health Care!!!
Edmonton Alberta here. totally agree about the west being nice although you guys in the east get amazing thunder storms that i am totally jealous of.. i love how wide open everything feels here, although as we are smack dab in the center of the province, it's not nearly as open as the southern half of the province. but as i was born and raised in the northern part of the province, surrounded by trees and muskeg, i can fully appreciate the nice balance of trees and open fields we have around here. similar to my neighbours to the south in Calgary, Edmonton is a big city with a smaller town feel, or at least i think so, and i am from a smaller city. i gotta say, it gets too hot here for me though, i love the winters. with temps getting down to -40C before the wind chill. but in the summer we are capable of getting into the high 30'sC. ug!!! at least it's not humid here, so when it's +30C, it only feels like +30C....lol. spring is amazing here, it's like the snow melts and boom!!! it's green. but our warm seasons seem pretty dang short, we like to say here that we have 2 seasons, winter, and pot hole filling time :P
i love Canada, and can't imagine living elsewhere, although i would love to visit more places, specially over on your side of the world.0 -
I was a military brat so I moved all over (I've lived in Alabama, California, Virginia, and Italy), but I always lived on the coast and I loved being in the temperate climates. Now I live in Utah and I get these horrible winters with loads of snow. That's a skier's paradise, but since I'm not one I pretty much dread the weather here from November to February. Freezing temps, snow up to my eyeballs, and really bad air quality. The very brief fall and spring are fantastic. I don't mind the hot dry summer but I would love a more temperate rainy summer. But I do love the gully-washing thunderstorms we get in the summer! Someday I hope to live in a more temperate climate. Utah is not for me!0
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I live just outside of Detroit, MI. I got to Canada quite frequently for wine ...although i'm rethinking that now that i'm trying to loose weight.
Anyway, I love love love the great lakes and all of the lakes in Michigan. Personally I think winter is a little too long here, but maybe that's just because we are still stuck in the 40's in late March. Summers here are great - they get hot and humid in August, except nothing like FL.0 -
How about England? What is is like there?
It's beautiful really. I love it here. The changing seasons, all the familiar things each year, daffodils in spring, never knowing what summer will bring but pretty much always having to carry an umbrella, the colours in autumn, walking by the canal. Reading the Independent in the pub with a pint, Stoke City FC at the Britannia Stadium. Cornwall, one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. Traditional seaside towns, fish and chips How just in the space of a few miles the culture of a place can totally change, I'm from the south and moved to the north and there was plenty of mickey- taking out of my accent. I forget the UK is a group of islands sometimes. It would just blow my mind to see some of the wide open spaces in Canada and the USA. I forgot to say I live in Stoke-On-Trent (a.k.a The Potteries) where all the pots come from, like Moorcroft and Wedgwood, TONS of history everywhere! I love it, I'm a history student
Thanks for all of your replies, I'm still reading through them, I love all of them, I'm gonna make notes for when I eventually have enough money to come over!0 -
I live in Vancouver British Columbia (Canada). I'm surrounded by ocean and mountains, rivers and lakes! Lots of rain, but everything is plush and green. We have a great city here, Vancouver, where we just hosted the winter Olympics, so much fun! We also have lots of back country for the adventurous!
I completely agree! I love the big city feel with the amazing scenery and "outdoorsy" activities so close by. The cherry blossoms are starting to come out now too!0
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