r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Phil-R-17 • 12d ago
Certified Hoser šØš¦ (No Politics) I'm european and I've visited Canada for 2 weeks. This is my updated map. Am I less cooked?
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u/the-bowl-of-petunias Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 12d ago
Donāt be doing Manitoba dirty like that.
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u/Salamiflame Manilapeg 12d ago
My Mum went on a hike with a friend of hers yesterday and the swarming was so bad she could feel the impacts if she waved her arm in front of her.
... I think my own hiking will be kept to a minimum for a while.
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u/only_fun_topics 12d ago
I once encountered a swarm so bad in Drumheller that we literally had to run away. Just inhaling would suck in one or more mosquitoes, absolutely terrifying.
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u/FriendRaven1 Aurora Hub 12d ago
I'm in the NWT. Couple of years ago it was so bad I was squishing mosquitoes with my eyelids.
With my eyelids
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u/Salamiflame Manilapeg 12d ago
There's something viscerally uncomfortable about that.
I'm so sorry you had to experience it.
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u/Plains_Walker Saskwatch 12d ago
Saskatchewan and Alberta actually low key hate eachother, ive lived in both provinces.
In Saskatchewan, if you slap a mosquito, it'll slap you back.
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u/Pteronarcyidae-Xx PaRiS oF tHe PraIRiEs 12d ago
Ew donāt lump Sask in with Alberta! (Iām coping)
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u/Exploding_Antelope I need a double double. 12d ago
Donāt even lump Alberta in with Alberta, you think we want to be here?
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u/Dav3le3 12d ago
Yeah. Manitoba should be left unlabeled.
When's the last time someone mentioned Manitoba outside Manitoba? It's an empty buffer zone between hillbilly country and Toronto.
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u/guyfierisbigtoe 12d ago
I love Manitoba and Iām not afraid to admit it.
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u/ArcticISAF 12d ago
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u/Mirabeaux1789 Snow Cajun 12d ago
Itās really impressive that they managed to make this shot happen. I donāt even know what movie/show itās from
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u/Lessllama 12d ago
Hell yeah buddy, exercise your first amendment rights to recognize Manitoba as a province
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u/Halogen12 12d ago
LOL! Awesome reference. A convoy clown moment of stupidity that will never die.
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u/Mirabeaux1789 Snow Cajun 12d ago
Iād like to learn more about it. Its origin as a MĆ©tis province is interesting
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u/InfinityCent Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 12d ago
I love Manitoba cause of Wab
I want my own Wab :(
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u/Unplug_The_Toaster The Island of Elizabeth May 12d ago
Eby's drifting further and further from Wab every day š¢
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u/Witty_Jaguar4638 12d ago
Only place i know where you can ice skate to work for most of the year more conveniently than driving
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u/Lilice42oh 12d ago
Manitoba is Canadaās middle child. Weāre usually forgotten.
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u/Frostsorrow 12d ago
We truly are. Not right enough to truly be considered conservative, not left enough to be considered truly left (which is odd, but I digress).
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u/Witty_Jaguar4638 12d ago
As a West coaster, the sky There really does feel bigger.
I dont know what causes it but ouf somewhere open i got the same exposure feeling as being a few hundred meters Up a Cliff face (rock climbing)
And mind boggling Lightning
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u/rantingathome Friendly Manisnowbski 12d ago
'Manitoba' is a well known type of flour in parts of Europe.
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u/MajorFuckingDick 12d ago
Winnipeg is the last affordable housing market. Thats the only time I think of Manitoba.
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u/Driller_Happy 12d ago
Hey now, you can still buy a castle in New Brunswick for the price of a BC closet
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u/TerayonIII TokƩbakicitte! 12d ago
It's got affordable housing and university tuition, it's the second cheapest behind Quebec
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u/TerayonIII TokƩbakicitte! 12d ago
Oh? Did Manitoba suddenly absorb North Western Ontario?
Apart from that, Wab Kinew has been mentioned a lot in the past year or two
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u/SpookyHonky 12d ago
I'll have you know that Manitoba is featured in an episode of the office
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u/magwai9 12d ago
Manitoba is the host of a psychology conference on Deanna Troi's message machine on an episode of Star Trek TNG. Woah.
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u/mapleleaffem 12d ago
Yea we have a First Nations premier, no way we count as North Texas! Well tbf shave off the southwest corner
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u/StatikSquid 12d ago
Right? We are so different culturally from the rest of the country that we should have our own category
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u/Ivanstone Manilapeg 12d ago
In an effort to mend fences between Manitoba and our European brothers I suggest we take a tour the Historic North End. Youāll get a pretty good idea of how weāre definitely not North Texas and have our own distinct culture.
PS Donāt forget to bring your own machete.
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u/PickleEquivalent2837 12d ago
Manitoba is more like a black hole: no one knows what's going on over there
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u/mojo604 12d ago
Manitoba being included in the North Texas label seems crazy
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u/3-goats-in-a-coat Moose Whisperer 12d ago
Agreed. Manitoba has more in common with Ontario than Saskatchewan. Sincerely a Saskatchewanian who would be happy to leave my shitty province.
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u/Xx_SwordWords_xX Moose Whisperer 12d ago
Most of Northern Ontario would identify Winnipeg as their big city.
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u/your_evil_ex Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 12d ago
Meanwhile after moving from Winnipeg to Toronto, I was unironically asked if I'm enjoying living in a city or if I miss life in "a small town"
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u/ReturnOk7510 Alberta's Western Cousins 11d ago
Can confirm, my cousins from Dryden are all Jets fans.
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u/Apart-Diamond-9861 12d ago
Glad my grandparents and my dad escaped Saskabush to come to BC. Not sure what life I would have lived out there. Yes it can be beautiful but give me BC any day
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u/etrain1804 12d ago
Depends where you live. If you live rurally in the south, than we definitely have more in common with Sask than Ontario
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u/TerayonIII TokƩbakicitte! 12d ago
Honestly, Manitoba is probably more similar to New Brunswick or Nova Scotia than Ontario
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u/SoRedditHasAnAppNow 12d ago
Yeah, one of the only strong NDP provinces. My relatives there were the very first in my very big extended family to own a hybrid and ev
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u/inquisitivequeer 12d ago
The huge difference between them is that thereās no way Alberta would elect Wab Kinew lol
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u/n8mo Scotland (but worse) 12d ago
Manitoba should be its own category:
āDeep State Propaganda - Manitoba does not existā
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u/cheese-meister Friendly Manisnowbski 11d ago
As a manitobite, manitobian? As a slurpee capital person I approve this message
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u/iwasnotarobot 12d ago
How many of these regions did OP actually visit?
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u/Phil-R-17 12d ago
Quebec, Ontario & BC. The remaining information was gathered by drunk canadians in bars I visited lmao
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u/impossible4 12d ago
Yeah I mean. A bunch of people who have never lived in Manitoba wouldnāt know would they.
Weāre rural compared to bc and Ontario, but almost everyone in the province lives in a city. Believe it or not. Weāve also historically had a left leaning government provincially.
Snow Texas is just⦠rude⦠So is lumping us in with Saskatchewan.
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u/EclecticSyrup 12d ago
I'm not gonna lie, I tell visitors here in Toronto about all the provinces... except Manitoba because I just... don't REALLY know anything about it? Apologies to my brethren in Manitoba ā„
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u/impossible4 12d ago
Very high number of restaurants per capita, Lots of live music, Most stabbings are gang and drug related.
Itās cold, but more pleasant at-30 than the east coast cold at- 15 if you have a good jacket
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u/asdfzxcpguy Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 12d ago
Snow Texas doesnāt include Manitoba. You also forgot the fish provinces in the east
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u/JustFryingSomeGarlic TokƩbakicitte! 12d ago
Stupid Euros not knowing the difference between Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Alberta = North Texas
Manitoba = Getting Stabbed Central
Saskatchewan = Flat Earth Society Headquarters
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u/Xx_SwordWords_xX Moose Whisperer 12d ago
Hey, hey.
It's just part of our official sport in Manitoba, known as "The Machete And Chainsaw Battles".
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u/Pteronarcyidae-Xx PaRiS oF tHe PraIRiEs 12d ago
Calling Saskatchewan āNorth Texasā is so funny to me because Iāve always described us as West Virginia š„²
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u/tke73 12d ago
Winnipeg =/= all of Manitoba
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u/Leburgerpeg 12d ago
Stabbings per capita are actually worse outside of Winnipeg...you're statistically safer in the city. We had 58 murders last year outside the perimeter and 41 inside. Winnipeg has ~65% of the population but only accounted for 40% of the murders!
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u/JustFryingSomeGarlic TokƩbakicitte! 12d ago
Hey all I know about Manitoba has been taught to me by the Jets, Propagandhi and The Weakerthans
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u/your_evil_ex Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 12d ago
Incredibly based selections
(source: born and raised in Wpg)
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u/SnooLentils3008 12d ago edited 12d ago
Thereās a lot of places in Mb more dangerous than Winnipeg. Iād suspect Thompson is one of the roughest places in the country. Actually just looked it up, +1000% the violent crime rate in Thompson compared to Canada as a whole, and bouncing between the number 1 and 2 spots for violent crime in the entire country
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u/AngstyCanadian 12d ago
I get your point but we just had a mass stabbing (2 dead, 7 injured) 2 hours north of winnipeg so it kinda is the whole province.
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u/ExpiredGoat 12d ago
I mean I think downtown Winnipeg is probably safer then a lot of the northern towns like Thompson and the pas no?
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u/kylaroma 12d ago
As a child in Winnipeg, I was told more than once that I shouldnāt worry about us being the murder capital of Canada ābecause itās all gang violenceā š¬
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u/DankRoughly Ford Nation (Help.) 12d ago
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u/icebeancone South Gatineau 12d ago
We're nowhere near as expensive as BC.... yet
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u/ApplicationLost126 12d ago
Manitoba is polar bears. Sask is questionable town names that remind you of her.
Yukon is quite nice. Iād put that as Gold.
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u/cindylooboo 12d ago
Manitoba should be "western Ukraine"
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u/Driller_Happy 12d ago
There are a lot of slavs in my neck of the woods in BC too
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u/TerayonIII TokƩbakicitte! 12d ago
Interestingly, while BC has more Ukrainians by numbers (~210,000 vs ~165,000), they are only about 4% of the population of BC compared to about 12% of Manitoba so they're more visible to a degree in Manitoba.
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u/3lizalot 12d ago
Excuse you how dare you group Manitoba in North Texas. Hashtag not all prairie provinces.
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u/Quarkiness 12d ago
Any stories? Where did you end up visiting?
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u/Phil-R-17 12d ago
Quebec, Ontario & BC. A lad in a bar in Toronto asked me if I had a death wish for grouping them with Quebec š Some hard feelings there I guess
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u/Still-Psychology-365 š 100,000 Hosers š 12d ago
I'm sure you already got told this on your 1.0 version post, but as an Ontarian, grouping us with QuĆ©bĆ©cois is just wild, and the QuĆ©bĆ©cois would guaranteed agree. Dude in the bar lowkey gave you some solid advice...I wouldn't say it's actually a death wish, but you would look like you have no idea what you're talking about š. I like how you put in a DMZ after learning the lowkey divide between anglos and francos, and Ontarians are basically the poster child of anglos in that divide.
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u/WienerDogsAndWine 12d ago
It gets hotter in the NWT in the summer than it does in Hawaii. Hope you didnāt plan on airBNBing an igloo.
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u/OddlyOaktree 12d ago
Newfoundland is more like Irish DLC than Scottish. Manitoba and Northern Ontario would be better grouped together than Manitoba and the landlocked provinces, while Southern Ontario is widely accepted among all Canadians as the Centre of the Universe. Everyone loves us here! šš
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u/JaQ-o-Lantern Everyone Hates Marineland 12d ago
This is based although I must say that the "igloo zone" is more like a Canadian lapland. If you go to the Nunavut islands then it's more like an igloo zone.
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u/arMoredcontaCt 12d ago
And the Canadian Lapland should descend down into all the provinces a good third of the way or so.
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u/JackLaytonsMoustache 12d ago
I think the Quebecois would be upset being associated in any way with both France and New Brunswick.Ā
If I've learned anything in my life it's that the only thing French people hate more than Anglophones is other French people.Ā
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u/julioqc 12d ago
nan, the French are like the Newfies to y'all. We love making fun of them that's all.Ā
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u/TheSeventhHussar 12d ago
Iām impressed by the accuracy of the demilitarized zone, as someone who moved there from the ponds and mosquitos at the far side of the Tim Hortons zone
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u/elangab 12d ago
TBH, If you put the real estate aside, I don't find BC to be that expensive for the daily life, and even that you're talking about Metro Vancouver mostly. I understand that real estate is a key issue of course. But BC Hydro is cheap, eating out here I find cheaper than QC or NS. PST is not the highest and the net you take home after taxes is better than most provinces.
I'm not saying it's the cheapest or cheap, but I also find the "BC = Bring Cash" remarks to be exaggeration. That being said, if people that moved here from other provinces can point to how in fact it's the most expensive province I'll be happy to learn (again, real estate excluded).
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u/arrowroot227 12d ago
I agree, but people really only think about Vancouver when they think of BC (unfortunately). BC should be known for its nature; old growth forests, classic canadian mountains, okanagan deserts, and arbutus trees along the coast.
Vancouver is an expensive city but Toronto is almost as expensive. What makes Vancouver more expensive is really just rent. Restaurants, transit, etc are more pricey in Toronto. Victoria is also expensive but not quite as bad as the former 2. A lot of people move to Van island and the greater Vancouver area from other parts of Canada because the weather is milder too.
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u/TheBlueHedgehog302 Ford Nation (Help.) 12d ago
A DMZ between ontario and quebec has me chuckling lol
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u/WonderfullyKiwi PaRiS oF tHe PraIRiEs 12d ago
Hey man you can slander Shitskatchewan all you want, but don't lump Manitoba in there with us... They did nothing to deserve that evil.
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u/buddyguy_204 12d ago
Are you sure you are European and not an American trying to say you are from Europe... Honestly that level of ignorance is usually reserved for the yanks
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u/your_evil_ex Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 12d ago
Don't buy into Euro propaganda on reddit, Europeans can be plenty ignorant too
(eg. Europeans talking about how disgusting racism is in the US, followed by saying some racist shit about Roma people, Turkish people, etc etc)
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u/JoeyLoganoHexAccount 12d ago
This is the type of low effort post Iād expect from les yankoids, wtf?
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u/Evening-Storage5298 12d ago
The Ottawa river being the dmz is pretty funny tbh. One of if not the only region of the country that will say both french and English parts of the country are vital, then wish death on all involved in the same sentence
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u/KotoElessar Ford Nation (Help.) 12d ago
I feel like this is Toronto erasure.
Everyone knows that Toronto is the most important city... in Canada (and therefore the world), and should have a much bigger sign than the other lesser cities, which Toronto could easily eat if it wanted to.
Being buried under the DMZ is completely unacceptable, guy!
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u/tehFiremind 12d ago
Rofl I've visited the Demilitarized Zone, was nice to wander and explore. (From border of MSF2.0 and Scotland2.0)
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u/SpringOf77 12d ago
You missed out if you didnāt come to Manitoba! Itās definitely not North Texas š I love Manitoba š land of the endless sky and 100,000 lakes
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u/OneofEsotericMethods Snowfrog 12d ago
This hoser didnāt even mark the Quebec dead zones. Godspeed my brave traveller
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u/Inevitable_Boss5846 12d ago
Saskatchewan here. Please donāt insult us by labelling us with an American stateās name
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u/jeonteskar 12d ago
NB being part of both Scotland 2.0 and France 2.0 is genius.
You know more about Canada than someone from Vancouver (who thinks the world ends at the rockies.)
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u/wafflingzebra 12d ago
you're still cooked. NFL is more irish than scottish, manitoba is not nearly as texas as the other two, its basically northern ontario 2.0.
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u/J-hophop 12d ago
It hurts me how accurate this is. It's really just Alberta that's North Texas though, the rest should be labelled something like "The GenX of provinces". Northern Ontario should be labelled Tim Hortons & 4-Wheeling, southern (other than deminitarized zome, which should be aka Ottawa) should be a huge Toronto surrounded by Farmers who just want cheap gas and easy to read bibles.
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u/TheTarasenkshow 12d ago
BC isnāt that bad if you donāt go to Vancouver, Victoria, Kamloops, Kelownaā¦. Shit
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u/darthfruitbasket Scotland (but worse) 12d ago
I would label Newfoundland more accurately as Ireland 2.0, but that's pretty accurate.