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Canada is nothing more than an extension of America, like a fast-food franchise - but it's also pretty safe. The Silly country is cold and damp most of the year- sort of like a large version of the U.K. Personally, I'd rather be surviving in the sunshine, on a beach, in a country that has NO military or particular axe to grind on the world stage...
Canada's not an extension of the U.S. We have our own government, culture, history, attitude, military, geography, spelling...It's like saying Ireland is an extension of Scotland.
Although yes, it is cold here for about 6 months of the year...but there are nice beaches in the summer where we can frolick and -in the north- swim...unfortunately a lot of our border lakes are polluted. *cough*
Anyway, I read up until about page 2 so this might have been said before, but my feeling is that for all of us who are saying at laest we don't live in the U.S...the U.S. economy is such a big part of the world economy that if it sinks, we're all going down in the whirlpool. It might not be as bad here but things are definitely going to take a downturn.
I don't know about other people, but it's been hell to get a job here, since our film industry is mostly dependent on U.S. companies coming up to save a buck on their production. There's less money to fund film, and with the conversion no one's coming up here, and name actors are taking smaller jobs. Granted the problems with SAG and the previous writers strike have a lot to do with this now so it's not entirely the economy.
I feel safe that at least I'm in university, don't have student loan, and the mortgage on my parents' house is paid off. But honestly, things are going to get bad for a lot of people, for a long time. I was reading the newspaper the other day and it said we're past the point of recession.
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