Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
Victoria. Doesn’t snow, close to vancouver for big city stuff, alway’s sunny and warm, never any traffic. Drive 2 hours and you can go skiing/snowboarding, drive 1 hour and you can go surfing.
East Coast: Friendliest people in the world and a starkly beautiful place.
Quebec: Montreal and Quebec City are very european in culture with incredibly sexy women. Quebec produces, without a doubt, the best strippers in the world.
Ontario: Probably the most boring of provinces with the least friendliest people, but Toronto is a world class, happenin’ city.
Calgary: The rockies and Eva, what more could you ask for.
Vancouver: Beaches, mountains and warm weather. With the exception of so much rain, it’s quite a beautiful place.
Damn, I’m lucky to live in this country…what an incredible place…I feel a motorcycle road trip comin’ on.
your italian ???
why my friend, have you NOT heard of Woodbridge, Ontario CANADA.
it is the second largest population of Italians in the World. (first being Italy). ← not shitting you.
So come to Woodbridge Tony, and have some Pepperoni !
http://www.city.vaughan.on.ca/index.html
jaystyles
Hey everyone, thanks for the replies. Looks like Calgary, Toronto, and Edmonton are the leading vote getters.
Jay’s reccomendation of Woodbridge is interesting, and I’ll definelty look into that. I would’ve thought the 2nd largest Italian pop. would be (at least at one time NYC, but guess not).
I’m not sure how well I could adapt to a mostly french speaking area, although, as someone stated, I could prolly pick up french fairly easily.
Thanks again.
Yes, Woodbridge… coincidentally also having the highest concentration of camaros and trans-ams in the world. I remember summers with my Woodbridge buddies well…Hopping into the pontiac firechicken and heading up to Wasaga beach for the day.
Magnus, that does bring back memories. But of course, you forgot to mention the most popular car of them all…the Ford Mustang 5.0. Of course, any self-respecting “Gino” would only go for the LX model and not the GT. But they are right about Woodbridge, and Toronto in general, being the largest Italian speaking population outside of Italy. Woodbridge is actually a suburb that is only about 20min. drive from downtown TO. But I don’t see why you would have ruled out Toronto as a place to live. This is a great city with the most to offer. It is only about a little over an hour’s drive from the US border and therefore probably the most Americanized of the Canadian cities. Whether this is good or bad is up to you. The opportunity for job placement here is unsurpassed, lots of great new condos downtown, great nightlife, restaurants. Good sports town with an NHL, NBA and MLB teams and the best Lacrosse team in the world. We got a great cottage country providing R&R in both winter and summer and the city just comes alive with festivals and such in the summer. Winter leaves some to be desired, but if you’re coming from Jersey then you’ll be acclimatized. On top of that, you’ve got a bunch of us T-Men living here that you can choose from for your new training partner.
Nobody mentioned Ottawa.Great city.
I havent ruled out Toronto…I’ve heard alot of great things about it. Just browsing the country right now, i suppose.
Ottawa! Let’s think… Liberals, Parliament, OOhh baby sounds fun.
The west is best baby… All the $ is here. How many places can have a 3.3 billion dollar surplus and still pay equalization payments to support a 200 million dollar federal vote buying in Quebec? Besides, have you seen the girls? Stop in Calgary during Stampede… you’ll see what I mean!
I lived in Ottawa for 13 years and totally forgot to mention it. Yes, Ottawa is a beautiful city, but they roll up the side walks by 6:00pm. The market area and Elgin street are pretty happenin’, but not much else goes on. They also made a huge mistake in putting the corel centre (senatos hockey) outside the city in Kanata.
Ottawa also gets lots of snow and is a fair bit colder than Toronto, so if that’s and issue, avoid it.
I still can’t believe noone has mentioned the beautiful city of Hamilton.
Ah yes, Pittsburgh of the North!
I would say Victoria or Calgary… both Calgary and Edmonton rock but the slightly warmer weather in Calgary and the greater number of young people give it some appeal.
Toronto: big, boring city with no personality.
Calgary: great fun, friendly people, mountains nearby, Stampede in the summer, increasingly prosperous and cosmopolitan.
Edmonton: why would anyone live here? It’s an ugly outpost in the middle of the tundra.
Ottawa: Canada’s purpose-built capital city. Boring, small, and lacking in personality. Those who have been to Canberra, Australia know what I’m talking about.
Vancouver: Beautiful. Ocean, mountains, parks, views, sunsets. People take a while to warm up to you and the nightlife isn’t the greatest, but it has all the conveniences of a good-sized city. This is a city that Europeans and Asians come to just for the beauty.
Il Cazzo,
I think you’re full of shit. They probably won’t let you in because
(1) There may be a regulation against carrying across the border over 100 lbs. of maneur on one’s person.
(2) They’re not going to believe anything you say you tell them at customs, because they will think you’re ridiculous and apt to tell tall tales.
(3) They may think you have brain fever and represent a public health hazard.
There are, however, many great places to live in Canada, which you may have been considering independently from whether Bush gets re-elected or not.
I hope wherever you live, in the U.S. or abroad, you grow up.
I haven’t been out West myself so I couldn’t tell ya about it, but I think Nova Scotia is a pretty cool place to live. Don’t pick Quebec or New Brunswick though, I’m from NB, and there’s absolutely nothing there except St. Andrews and MOncton maybe - it pretty much sucks there.
Thanks again to everyone who replied with suggestions.
I have to go with Jaystyles on this one.
If you are Italian, then Woodbridge is the place to be.
In regards to Toronto, I think this is a really great city and the longer you stay here the better it gets.
Where else can you go to live with so much ethnic diversity. How could anybody say this city does not have a personality. Maybe b/c it is so multicultural. But for somebody moving up here, it is a greta place to start.
Mind you…it is expensive. I believe Van city is more though.
What r the qualifyers for moving?
I grew up out west on the flatlands in a small town, have travelled around the country pretty extensively, and have many differing opinions on size of place as well as how each city matches well with your age.
So more info would help.
PS. I never knew so many people on here were from Canada? NICE!
T
Halifax, if you like a small town feeling. The people are nice and we have quiet a few italians over here as well. Not high in crime or violence. Tons of college chicks (its basically a university city). Tons of partying and night life but not much to do in the day time in winters.
Woodbridge all the way, you frenia. I spent over 25 years living here. Some italians can be friggin ignorant sometimes, but I guess it’s just the same with every other manga-cake that live in Toronto, too. If you want to keep your italian roots, then come here.
I’m very surprised to hear that Woodbridge is the 2nd largest population of italians, with Italy being 1st. Very surprised, and proud!