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somewhere like this for example (found randomly on google maps) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong,_Thunder_Bay_District,_Ontario what is life like
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its boring
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Jul 10, 2022 01:21
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fps_nug posted:its boring did you live there?
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Jul 10, 2022 01:23
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ellasmith posted:did you live there? Why would someone want to live in a place that they think is boring?
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Jul 10, 2022 01:25
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You can buy a two story house for under 50K
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Jul 10, 2022 01:26
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Devils Affricate posted:Why would someone want to live in a place that they think is boring? If he didn’t live there then he can’t honestly contribute to this topic.
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Jul 10, 2022 01:27
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I don't live there but I have family in Nelson BC which might not qualify since it is close to the border and it is a decently sized town but I like it as a place to visit, not to live since there isn't a lot of work. It's a beautiful town on Kootenay lake in interior BC so mountains everywhere but that means lots of tourists and Aussies that come to visit/work/ski. I have a buddy that lives a couple hours outside of Prince George BC which is more northern and when I was there you definitely got the feeling of remoteness. The stop signs there were bilingual English/Inuktitut which I thought was pretty neat but there was just... nothing there apart from nature.
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Jul 10, 2022 01:48
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Enoch Root posted:I don't live there but I have family in Nelson BC which might not qualify since it is close to the border and it is a decently sized town but I like it as a place to visit, not to live since there isn't a lot of work. It's a beautiful town on Kootenay lake in interior BC so mountains everywhere but that means lots of tourists and Aussies that come to visit/work/ski. thank you goonsir this is literally EXACTLY what I’m looking for
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Jul 10, 2022 01:50
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ellasmith posted:thank you goonsir this is literally EXACTLY what I’m looking for I wish I could tell you more about Prince George since I was only there the one time and it was several years ago, but what I can tell you is that my buddy's place was about a 10-12 hour drive from where I live in Calgary AB. The locals were an even split between white people and First Nations and were very friendly. I've heard that in a lot of these more remote smaller towns the Hell's Angels have a major presence for drug distribution. It was stupidly easy to get cocaine even in the small hamlet my buddy lived outside of. Enoch Root fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Jul 10, 2022 |
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Jul 10, 2022 02:01
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Enoch Root posted:It was stupidly easy to get cocaine even in the small hamlet my buddy lived outside of. Small towns have come a long way if they have big city amenities now.
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Jul 10, 2022 02:39
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I lived in Fort McMurray for a summer. My aunt took me on a nature walk near a lake in the mist and it was the closest thing I’ve ever experienced to being on another planet. The trees were only chest high and the ground was covered in multicoloured mushrooms and bog cranberries. But that was 18 years ago, it’s probably an open pit tailings pond by now.
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Jul 10, 2022 02:50
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If you have Aussies coming through on a working holiday it's definitely not the sort of place that OP is asking about. I have a friend that's currently looking into a move to Yellowknife, NT. She's a therapist and reckons she can make the big bucks up there.
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Jul 10, 2022 02:50
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Frankly I'd give anything to live somewhere I can see the Aurora Borealis again. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed in my life
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Jul 10, 2022 03:03
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Beartaco posted:Frankly I'd give anything to live somewhere I can see the Aurora Borealis again. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed in my life There really is no way to describe it unless you've seen it first hand. I've seen it in Calgary a handful of times and it was so surreal to see the sky glow green in the middle of a major city.
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Jul 10, 2022 03:12
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Do they speak the French?
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Jul 10, 2022 03:19
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I've never technically lived there, but I have spent a significant amount of time in northern BC. Like, way norther than Prince George (which sucks) It sucks and it's full of racists and rednecks and drug addicts OP Also, if you ever see a nature documentary talking about the elk and the muskeg they live in, just think "disgusting mudpit that gets everywhere and fucks up your truck" HTH op I can answer more questions
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Jul 10, 2022 03:20
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I guess it's right on the border but I used to go Sault Saint Marie when I was a kid to visit grandparents and extended family. Only ever met one other kid there, and he went on to murder my aunt who was extremely nice to him  Seemed like the most boring place on earth.
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Jul 10, 2022 03:22
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I could survive in Canada I learned from Camping with Steve how to live in their parking lots and parks
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Jul 10, 2022 03:22
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Some of my internet friends live in not landmark Canadian cities, I assume they live like frontier people or homesteaders and scrape the frozen dirt for every morsel of food
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Jul 10, 2022 03:25
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I say this as a Minnesotan living in the Twin Cities, albeit a transplant from southern regions. They're like an 8 hour drive away
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Jul 10, 2022 03:26
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I lived in a town kinda geographically close to Vancouver but seperated by two different ferry rides, so practically kind of remote. You could drive about 20km either north or south of town before the road ended and you had to get a boat to go somewhere else. I was there about five years. It was pretty, and a former draft dodger town, so there were lots of artists, musicians and other flavours of hippie. It was also a mill town with plenty of racist redneck types. I had a good time, and didn’t really miss city life. Bears used to visit my yard to burgle the fruit trees.
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Jul 10, 2022 03:26
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Honestly it blows my mind how often Americans move around between cities without a second thought. But then I remember that there are a ton of places you could move around to without a real difference in quality or style of life. Canada has like, four cities where you could do that.
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Jul 10, 2022 03:42
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ante posted:Canada has like, four cities where you could do that. And they're all really expensive
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Paul Allen Wood Shaffer CM[2] (born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian[3][4] singer, composer, actor, author, comedian, and multi-instrumentalist who served as David Letterman's musical director, band leader, and sidekick on the entire run of both Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993) and Late Show with David Letterman (1993–2015). e: Early years Shaffer was born in Toronto, and raised in Fort William (now part of Thunder Bay), Ontario, Canada,[1] the son of Shirley and Bernard Shaffer, a lawyer.[5] His father was a jazz aficionado while his mother loved show tunes. When Shaffer was 12, his parents took him on a trip to Las Vegas where they took in Nat King Cole and other shows; this was an experience Shaffer described later as "life changing" and led to his decision to become a perfo
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Jul 10, 2022 03:56
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just letting you know that i have not lived in a location like that, op
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Jul 10, 2022 03:58
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How far away is "not close" to americastan? I grew up on the Border, but went to college in a small town that was probably about 3ish hours (less if you could drive fast) away from home, thusly 3 ish hours from the border. Its (college town's) population at the time was probably about 20,000 people. Probably more now. These days I'm about an hour and a bit from the border.
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Shithouse Dave posted:I lived in a town kinda geographically close to Vancouver but seperated by two different ferry rides, so practically kind of remote. You could drive about 20km either north or south of town before the road ended and you had to get a boat to go somewhere else. lots of people moving to Powell River now even though the mill closed because real estate prices are so insane everywhere else remotely close to civilisation
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Jul 10, 2022 04:33
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Small towns are universally shitholes 
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Jul 10, 2022 04:59
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ellasmith posted:somewhere like this for example (found randomly on google maps) why do you continually post threads that only a braindead person would post OP?
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Jul 10, 2022 05:04
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Colonel Cancer posted:Small towns are universally shitholes While usually true it isn't. OP I live in one of these towns now. I grew up outside Vancouver and for the last decade have lived in 4 different towns from 900 people to 10,000. The one I'm in now is actually quite nice with lots of city amenities. I only go to the big city (2hrs away) maybe once a month. Plus it's affordable(ish). Anywhere western Canada still isn't that cheap.
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Esoter1c posted:While usually true it isn't. OP I live in one of these towns now. I grew up outside Vancouver and for the last decade have lived in 4 different towns from 900 people to 10,000. See what I mean?  Don't go there if you don't want to end up... a poster.
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I live in a small Canadian town of like 50 houses at most. For the last 10 years the only internet option we had was Bell DSL which had a max speed of 7 Mbps down and like 0.4 Mbps upload. It sucked but the only other option was Xplornet satellite which is horrible in its own way. Anyway, this winter Bell ran a fiber optic line through town to service the larger towns to the north. So by some strange twist of fate we are now able to get up to 1 GB down / 1 GB upload. It's pretty wild.
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I lived in the Laurentians a few hours upriver from Ottawa for a while. Many lifelong-locals had unironic Scottish accents and the biggest local event of the century was when Stompin Tom did a concert two towns over. Also Jimmy Carter saved the entire region from nuclear meltdown in 1952, back when america did good things. Stompin Tom was still a bigger deal than that meltdown.
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Jul 10, 2022 05:14
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I have a coworker who lives in a tiny town in the rape fields of Saskatchewan. It's flat, lifeless, and deeply racist. Pretty much like any podunk town in Nebraska.
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Spent my first 18 years in a small town about an hour outside of Saskatoon, SK. Fun activities for teenagers include getting drunk/high, driving around in a circle around the town, or both at the same time. There's also hockey and football. I can't recommend it. Those were some boring fuckin years. At least once you hit 16 at least one person in your friend group gets a car and we could skip our last classes and spend the afternoon in Saskatoon, doing... not a hell of a lot there, either. But, you know... they have McDonald's and movie theatres. And then I just moved to Saskatoon when I graduated, and over a decade later I'm stuck here doing... not a hell of a lot, still. It's a relatively tiny city, maybe a quarter million people, but it's a drat metropolis compared to anything within like a 7 hours' drive. Something that sucks about being so literally in the middle of nowhere is that most concert tours skip us right over, and it's really expensive to fly to a major city from here. But, I dunno, I think there's still a ton to do if you make an effort, and maybe the reason I'm so bored all the time is I'm just a boring lazy person who doesn't make an effort.
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i grew up in Quesnel BC which is close to Prince George that was mentioned earlier, moved out when i was like 22, to Prince George lol. it sucked rear end and was extremely boring with an extreme poverty split between whitey and natives, i lucked out and escaped with just a decade+ drinking problem, all my friends who stayed turned into meth/crackhead right wing anti vax hippy types. we had many kids who wanted to be rappers and my friends and i were in a lovely metal band for like 6 years together
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I havent, sorry OP
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My family moved through a few small towns in northern BC growing up. Some were nicer than others. You have to enjoy nature and be ready to learn a fair amount of “how to live in nature” things, like how to drive on logging roads and switchbacks, what’s safe to touch/eat in the woods, and how to share space with bears and moose. I loved the parts that were quiet. There wasn’t the same weight of expectations to always be doing something or going somewhere or making something of yourself. But I also love the variety of people in cities, and everything that comes with that - more amenities, more food, more viewpoints. Small communities can get pretty insular and prone to drama and bullying.
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Buce posted:the rape fields of Saskatchewan. 
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ellasmith posted:somewhere like this for example (found randomly on google maps) don't fuckin do it
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