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From: dave-no_spam@unixhome.net
"Lance A Boyle" wrote in message
news:djjmh.552254$R63.219505@pd7urf1no...
> Canuck57 wrote:
>
>> Read my last post in this thread to find out why.
>>
>> They give me a green card, I will be gone as fast as I can. As I don't
>> trust that Canadians will wake up.
>> Canadians generally hate Americans, but I assert it is envy and jealousy
>> has no other basis in fact.
>>
>> The real problems in Canada are exclusively internal. We are our own
>> limitation on what Canada can be. Plain, simple and rational.
>>
>> PV, I know you didn't hit on the US, but I can smell this coming.
>
>
> Interesting comments.
> Here's is how I see it.
>
> The worst thing of Canada:
>
> 1/10 the population of the USA. Every mile of highway, every mile of
> power line, every mile of sewer line cost 10X per capita. Plus it costs
> more to build stuff here because of the frost, and the short construction
> season.
True to a minor point. But if the US, 9 times our population can put 20
non-stop ways from east to west, another 25 north to south, can we not have
1 east to west? The math says we should.
Last time I checked we don't run a sewer from Calary through Saskatewan,
Manitoba through Ontario. It is a liner expense based on population. In
the US, when you live in a place that you can see into someone elses
bathroom or kitchen, your in midlle-lower to poorer neighhood. Lot sizes
for middle class are generally twice the size of Canadian counterparts. So
our sewer lines, based on the linear foot should be cheaper but they are
not.
If anything, when you get to someplace like California, they have to pump in
their water -- ship out their garbage. Worse than Toronto because it is
larger.
Frost, how about heat. They don't melt in Alabama and are laser smooth.
But here is a hint, they do a lot more prep than run a bulldozer over it -
they engineer it. The US can build highways through swamp and can resist
buckling under heat and cold. Minnisota builds on swamp, eats the prarie
cold more so than BC built on rock but without the heaves. Just like
Northern Ontario 100 miles away (by the crow flies) but without the cracks,
turns, no traffic lights and stuff.
> The best thing of Canada:
>
> 1/10 the population of the USA. Less crowded, less noisy, less pollution,
> less everything.
If we say LA, NY City, Miami, the mega bunch I would agree. The bigger a
city gets, the more poluted it becomes. But when the city is of comperable
size like Calgary to Milwaukee... nada. Too many Canadians have to cut
corners driving oil burning junk heaps as the $$ are not there to buy
something better. Milwaukee middle class lot sizes are about twice the size
of Canadian class equilvelants.
Density is minor on Canadian/US scale. North Dakota right underneath it has
much lower taxes than comparable Saskatchewan, yet has less than 2/3rds the
population.
You aught to take a two week vacation and travel the US, not LA, NY, Boston
and the like, might I suggest Minniapolis/St. Paul, Milwaukee, Madison,
Houston, Dallas, Home Arkansis, Vegas, Billings, Spokane, Portland, Denver,
Kentucky (anywhere), DC and others.... an eye opener. I won't say where the
Beverly Hillbillies should have come from... but suffice it is north of the
45th and east.
Don't believe everything you see on NYPD, CSI or Sopranos... there is a lot
more to the US than that. Besides, Divinci Code is a CSI wanta-be.
Canada could be fantasitic, we just have to get a little more politically
smarter.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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