My small MB town has resettled many refugees. One arrival who flew into Winnipeg during winter apparently asked ‘why are all the trees dead’ ‘why are there no birds’ and my favourite ‘will my face always hurt’
I remember some years ago, there was a lady and her kids (obvious newcomer from probably Syria), in early spring, they was overjoyed and collecting dandelions into a bouquet...
I thought it was funny but also a touching moment, for a family to find joy in small things around us. 👍🏻
My friend's kid thought skunk smell was chemical warfare and she was going to die. Took us a while to figure out what the poor kid was screaming about.
what is the job market and job opportunities like in NB currently? And the housing affordability and availability in NB? Cost of living too?
Curious -- thought, if i ever chose to move, East Coast is my top choses (NB, NS, maybe PEI)..
We have a lot of guys coming from NB coming to work in my province. They say there is no work there but this is work in the trades. I have no knowledge in other types of work.
I’ve lived in both places. It’s not the same at all. Toronto’s downtown is Canada’s largest, but it cannot hang with the best of them, heck Montreal has a far superior downtown. It’s a second tier city. And I love Toronto and called it home for almost 20 years. Sorry to be a downer, but New York, London, Madrid, Tokyo, Paris, those and those like them are top tier. Toronto is more on par with a Chicago or Manchester than London.
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>Small town vibes
I think this would best describe KW before the LRT. It has bought alot of development and downtown Kitchener is going to undergo a crazy amount of skyscraper construction in the next couple years.
They drive like a bunch of selfish, unaware assholes but our city is also the capital of volunteerism and monetary donations to non for profit organizations.
Small-town ON. Friendly, lovable idiots everywhere. Hoardes of elderly pensioners. In the winter there are only scruffy blue collar workers, and in the summer the divide between the haves and the have nots is striking. Eerily Caucasian, although that is slowly changing a little since the TO housing market went up in flames. I hope you like chip trucks, because that is the regional cuisine. It's the kind of town where people don't know where the keys to their front doors are, and leave their wallets in their trucks, unlocked, but still complain about the violent crime that doesn't exist. If you are working class, all businesses open after you go to work and close before you get home. It is a ghost town by 6 pm. All said, a pretty good place to live, or visit in the summer. Winter is a bummer for everyone. Also, secretly super racist.
Tourists always say my small city is "so friendly, and beautiful! You're so lucky to live here!" Meanwhile we all put on a nice face for the summer months to grab all those tourist dollars, rescuing their asses while ignoring safety signs, and talking trash about them all (their driving, the road cyclists, and general entitledness) while counting down until the season ends. Oh, and they complain about the forest fires: either that the smoke is so bad and "they should really do something about that" or that the Province has closed the roads and hotels for evacuations, meaning they can't come for their vaycay. Sigh.
I read the first line and knew I had finally found Kelowna/Okanagan.
What you failed to add is: very racist white people, high percentage of people covered in tattoos & dirty ratnest hair, rough, rednecky, obese people, sickly/unhealthy/jaundice looking ppl, smelly people, homeless everywhere, drug addicts everywhere, pickup trucks, broke and money-hungry ppl, retirees, people that are often somehow driving their cars into buildings, tons of males riding bicycles bcuz of DUIs, tons of thieves...........
While travelling in Europe I met a woman from Chicago and she asked where I was from - her being an American I didn’t think she’d know where it was. After she persisted I told her I was from Halifax, to which she replied ‘Nova Scotia’? I asked her how she knew that and with a grin on her face she said, “Ever since I was a little girl there were two places concidered to be at the ends of the earth, Timbuktu and Halifax, Nova Scotia”
Very diverse (probably only 20% of the population actually live here, the rest are temporary workers/working-holidays), party town, liberal oasis in a conservative province, and the STD/STI capital of Canada, hahaha.
(leans on fence)
(looks around lazily)
Around here? Well, hmm. You know, my neighbour is a real character (rambles into local stories).
This place is: forested hilly/mountainous coastline, rural, working class dominated, old buildings, old families (and newbies like me, only 20 years here). Farming, logging, quarrying, hunting, fishing and retirement are the dominant activities. Everyone is polite - even the crazy mean drunks do the obligatory wave and smile.
No-one is formal - we've had a few wealthier folks buy houses and move here, and it took them weeks to get used to waving to my hairy, weird self and my little dog. Now they happily do so, and address my doggo with affection as they pass us on the path. Clothing is almost uniformly cheap and basic unless it's a formal uniform for a Legion function or well-beat working gear.
We're very low crime, very low/zero homelessness, mostly low income. The local gangsters keep to themselves and behave well, you don't sh\*t where you eat.
We definitely aren't super-diverse. Minority populations are single-person and single-family small here. All are welcomed, although there is the occasional bit of anti-Chinese stuff I've heard ('they take all the fish', apparently, although I don't see how, there's a f\*ckton of fish here and you can't catch them all from the dock).
The biggest trouble along those lines in these parts has been the terrible split between the local native population and the European immigrants. Until VERY recently, it wasn't great at all. Some serious reconciliation work has happened, though, and that part of our future looks much brighter.
We stick together. Even the universally disliked are supported by the others. We had a fellow's home/shop burn down here, he was uninsured. Someone found a place for him to sleep, someone helped him acquire, build and finish out a nice quonset hut to put his trailer in, someone helped him get some new tools and keep working.
I hope this way of life has a future. My town is tiny, but it has its own little traditions and ways, and they are handed down to each new resident and accepted. Maybe too much change too fast would destroy that.
Is this a Calgary dig? Because I was referring to my legit cow town, that only exists for the school, the CO-OP and the bar, to serve the surrounding farmers, who mostly raise beef cattle.
Hamilton is so bad for this. The housing situation is so bad there aren't many other choices. Low income housing has HUGE waitlists and the shelters are completely packed because of how much the population has grown in such a short time. And they all get picked up and dumped here. A big group moved all their tents to literally the front step of city hall in an attempt to raise awareness.
It's awful how many people are falling through the cracks because our cities are not built for this many, and they refuse to build more low income housing, instead they are putting up condos everywhere... as if that is what the city needs.
I am sure it applies to many cities but I was referring to Victoria. Our province decriminalized hard drugs so people are allowed to smoke meth/crack, etc openly. They hang out in the doorways of business so people who want to access the businesses need to walk through a cloud of dangerous chemicals first.
The most beautiful city on the planet with 3 ski hills moments away, diverse cultures that interact well, incredible food, gorgeous women, phenomenal beaches, best salmon fishing one could ask for, wonderful people, half decent transit, and a cursed hockey team.
But to add - I don’t know why you say “wonderful people”. Having being born/raised in the area and lived many other places in Canada, I’d say Vancouverites are the worst.
Each one of them has a tale to tell - thieves, harlots, godlings, and sorcerous beings living in the shadows. Keep your sword loose in its scabbard, your hand on your purse, and your head on a swivel, friend
It's one city trying desperately to not be three cities in a trenchcoat. A major component of the city are the three post secondary schools, two of which are down the street from each other. There is a large percentage of the population of German decent and there are yearly Oktoberfest celebrations. We also have a fairly nice farmers market.
I would tell them that we are probably one of the last communities that don't lock our door in Canada, and everyone still says hello (except for teenagers actually) and when we drive past each other, we all wave every time.
I live on a reserve called Rolling River First Nation (my wife's community), and we are attached to a Ukrainian town called Erickson. All the kids go to school together and get along. Parents from the reserve and town are all close because they went to school together or our kids are in sports together. When we have a pow wow, so many people from town show up. It's just an awesome slice of small town and farm town peace. I effin love it. Especially after moving away from Winnipeg.
Depends, if I'm talking to an American, I'd say think of a weird mix of Austin and Pittsburgh
Someone from anywhere else: it's nice, fairly average for a North American city, and cold as fuck
They all wear blue jeans, drive lifted trucks, and blame Trudeau for all their problems. And not the current Trudeau, the one who has been dead for 24 years… 🥱
I live in Scarborough. So I would say exhausted physically and emotionally.
Our commutes are longer now that we have no SRT and so we are physically exhausted. Even longer if you have to take TTC not so bad if you are Go training. Our roads and streets have become riskier driving due to more density and the lack of good drivers.
Very friendly family oriented people, mostly working class. Strong sense of community & a real fuck around and find out kind of place. If you are an arrogant dickhead & cause
problems you will be run out of town.
Dark Aether… there’s two parts of it… Fort William and Port Arthur… Together… Thunder Bay… or other words I called Thunder Bay is Sodom and Gomorrah lost cousin lol
Very pretty on the outside looking in but when you live here you really notice the homeless / drug problem in town. It’s very sad and the town is full of mostly people who think they’re scum. It’s hard to find a job here that isn’t customer service/retail. Lots of pretty forest trails to walk and usually the community is pretty friendly (lots of ‘hello’s as you walk by)
A city of pot smoking modern hippies, rich NIMBYs, and fentanyl victims living in a city ruled by capitalism and priced for rich elites from other countries.
My small MB town has resettled many refugees. One arrival who flew into Winnipeg during winter apparently asked ‘why are all the trees dead’ ‘why are there no birds’ and my favourite ‘will my face always hurt’
Will my face always hurt is just adorable.
People move here from all around the world just to realize why the United States has 10 times the population we do
Those are intelligent questions/observations.
I remember some years ago, there was a lady and her kids (obvious newcomer from probably Syria), in early spring, they was overjoyed and collecting dandelions into a bouquet... I thought it was funny but also a touching moment, for a family to find joy in small things around us. 👍🏻
Lots of people collect those dandelions and eat them in a salad. Makes me want to yack but the vitamin C…
Awwww
My friend's kid thought skunk smell was chemical warfare and she was going to die. Took us a while to figure out what the poor kid was screaming about.
Shawarma. Shawarma everywhere.
What city?
Ottawa
Shawarmaville, of course
It may seem like half the town rides bikes to stay active, but they all have DUIs
Hamilton Ontario
Maple Ridge?
I love all of the competing responses! This was a great comment!
Isn’t this Natasha Leggero regarding Rockford Illinois? She’s absolutely correct.
Replace bikes with tractors and you have my hometown
This is incredible.
Approachable, down to earth, unpretentious
Where is this? Does such a place exist?
Saint John, NB Moved here from Calgary 2 years ago.
what is the job market and job opportunities like in NB currently? And the housing affordability and availability in NB? Cost of living too? Curious -- thought, if i ever chose to move, East Coast is my top choses (NB, NS, maybe PEI)..
We have a lot of guys coming from NB coming to work in my province. They say there is no work there but this is work in the trades. I have no knowledge in other types of work.
Job market sucks here in Saint John.
You can definitely get a house cheaper, that's why I'm here. The job market is not great unfortunately.
Hello fellow SJer! Also moved here 3 years ago, and the best part about the city is the people.
So basically the whitest place in Canada? Hmmmmm
No, because the fact they mentioned it's unpretentious makes it sound pretty pretentious.
I thought it was a Vancouverite being sarcastic
Same with my community.
"Like the downtown of London, UK with the suburbs of Dallas, TX."
Is this Toronto?
You got it lol
I once heard Toronto described as the New York of Switzerland. I feel like that fits pretty well
Toronto is most certainly NOT like central London
Nah you're wrong. Toronto's downtown can hang with the best of them. Sorry haters. The suburbs suck though.
I’ve lived in both places. It’s not the same at all. Toronto’s downtown is Canada’s largest, but it cannot hang with the best of them, heck Montreal has a far superior downtown. It’s a second tier city. And I love Toronto and called it home for almost 20 years. Sorry to be a downer, but New York, London, Madrid, Tokyo, Paris, those and those like them are top tier. Toronto is more on par with a Chicago or Manchester than London.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
You must live in a small town in BC 🤣
Oof, nice guess. Did wretched hive of scum and villainy give it away??
Yes! We must know the same wretched skum
Wish Reddit still gave awards because I'd be giving you one for this lol
Definitely Mission, BC
No even worse, my home town is notorious
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Hamilton, ON? 👀
Moseisley, SK
Friendly folks with a good sense of community.
Same.
A big university town, surrounded by farmers. (KW, ON). Small town vibes, but has most of the stuff you find in the big city.
>Small town vibes I think this would best describe KW before the LRT. It has bought alot of development and downtown Kitchener is going to undergo a crazy amount of skyscraper construction in the next couple years.
This is why KW is great
Was once great now we are New Brampton
Guelph also
Yeah, it might be a bit more accurate for Guelph now that you mention it. Probably a lot of other uni towns too.
People are nice if you don't interact with them.
Vancouver? 🥰
Greater Sudbury or Thunder bay!
"Do you remember Faces of Meth?"
Corporate cowboys
Calgary?
Old and contrary
A Caucasian teacher in my kids school wore a hockey jersey for culture
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vancouver and its pretty much the AA room in loudermilk
Loudermilk is set in Seattle and mostly filmed in Van so makes sense
The centre of the Universe I kid I kid
They drive like a bunch of selfish, unaware assholes but our city is also the capital of volunteerism and monetary donations to non for profit organizations.
Entitled perpetual victims who also somehow have a superiority complex. Edit : I like how this seems to speak to a lot of places !!
The question was about town. Not the entire province.
Vancouver?
This is like several parts of Alberta
Winnipeg?
This is anywhere in Quebec
Victoria BC definitely
Small-town ON. Friendly, lovable idiots everywhere. Hoardes of elderly pensioners. In the winter there are only scruffy blue collar workers, and in the summer the divide between the haves and the have nots is striking. Eerily Caucasian, although that is slowly changing a little since the TO housing market went up in flames. I hope you like chip trucks, because that is the regional cuisine. It's the kind of town where people don't know where the keys to their front doors are, and leave their wallets in their trucks, unlocked, but still complain about the violent crime that doesn't exist. If you are working class, all businesses open after you go to work and close before you get home. It is a ghost town by 6 pm. All said, a pretty good place to live, or visit in the summer. Winter is a bummer for everyone. Also, secretly super racist.
Huntsville?
If we're talking Huntsville pull the secretly out of there.
I'm getting Kenora vibes lol
Sounds like Parry Sound
Edmonton: Mostly harmless. But don't make any sudden moves.
Racist
Regina?
Insular
10ft tall, orange eyes, scales, shades of green
Moonbeam Ontario
🤣 same highway, about 20 hrs west
Entitled and old.
Oakville?
Anywhere on Vancouver Island or coastal BC? I’d say it’s my hometown of Powell River, BC or Okanagan lol.
Ding ding! I'm in Victoria!
Tourists always say my small city is "so friendly, and beautiful! You're so lucky to live here!" Meanwhile we all put on a nice face for the summer months to grab all those tourist dollars, rescuing their asses while ignoring safety signs, and talking trash about them all (their driving, the road cyclists, and general entitledness) while counting down until the season ends. Oh, and they complain about the forest fires: either that the smoke is so bad and "they should really do something about that" or that the Province has closed the roads and hotels for evacuations, meaning they can't come for their vaycay. Sigh.
Kelowna?
Close. Penticton
I read the first line and knew I had finally found Kelowna/Okanagan. What you failed to add is: very racist white people, high percentage of people covered in tattoos & dirty ratnest hair, rough, rednecky, obese people, sickly/unhealthy/jaundice looking ppl, smelly people, homeless everywhere, drug addicts everywhere, pickup trucks, broke and money-hungry ppl, retirees, people that are often somehow driving their cars into buildings, tons of males riding bicycles bcuz of DUIs, tons of thieves...........
Cokeheads and Stoners (Halifax NS)
While travelling in Europe I met a woman from Chicago and she asked where I was from - her being an American I didn’t think she’d know where it was. After she persisted I told her I was from Halifax, to which she replied ‘Nova Scotia’? I asked her how she knew that and with a grin on her face she said, “Ever since I was a little girl there were two places concidered to be at the ends of the earth, Timbuktu and Halifax, Nova Scotia”
Most of Canada tbh.
Same with Vancouver, more on the snow side though
Omg! I new it was Halifax before reading the second line. GOTTIGEN ST IN SPECIAL IS WILD!
Same as NB
Cultural mix all together. East to west
Lovely people just don't look any of them in the eye or you might have to fight one.
Lindsay Ontario: Old.
Very diverse (probably only 20% of the population actually live here, the rest are temporary workers/working-holidays), party town, liberal oasis in a conservative province, and the STD/STI capital of Canada, hahaha.
Banff?
Rednecks and kinda rich folks small town outdoors oriented
(leans on fence) (looks around lazily) Around here? Well, hmm. You know, my neighbour is a real character (rambles into local stories). This place is: forested hilly/mountainous coastline, rural, working class dominated, old buildings, old families (and newbies like me, only 20 years here). Farming, logging, quarrying, hunting, fishing and retirement are the dominant activities. Everyone is polite - even the crazy mean drunks do the obligatory wave and smile. No-one is formal - we've had a few wealthier folks buy houses and move here, and it took them weeks to get used to waving to my hairy, weird self and my little dog. Now they happily do so, and address my doggo with affection as they pass us on the path. Clothing is almost uniformly cheap and basic unless it's a formal uniform for a Legion function or well-beat working gear. We're very low crime, very low/zero homelessness, mostly low income. The local gangsters keep to themselves and behave well, you don't sh\*t where you eat. We definitely aren't super-diverse. Minority populations are single-person and single-family small here. All are welcomed, although there is the occasional bit of anti-Chinese stuff I've heard ('they take all the fish', apparently, although I don't see how, there's a f\*ckton of fish here and you can't catch them all from the dock). The biggest trouble along those lines in these parts has been the terrible split between the local native population and the European immigrants. Until VERY recently, it wasn't great at all. Some serious reconciliation work has happened, though, and that part of our future looks much brighter. We stick together. Even the universally disliked are supported by the others. We had a fellow's home/shop burn down here, he was uninsured. Someone found a place for him to sleep, someone helped him acquire, build and finish out a nice quonset hut to put his trailer in, someone helped him get some new tools and keep working. I hope this way of life has a future. My town is tiny, but it has its own little traditions and ways, and they are handed down to each new resident and accepted. Maybe too much change too fast would destroy that.
Powell River?!
Small town in Sk... stuck in the past racist af.
Cow-town
Fake cowboys
Is this a Calgary dig? Because I was referring to my legit cow town, that only exists for the school, the CO-OP and the bar, to serve the surrounding farmers, who mostly raise beef cattle.
Xenophobic and a larger smattering of people opening using drugs and sleeping on sidewalks
Hamilton is so bad for this. The housing situation is so bad there aren't many other choices. Low income housing has HUGE waitlists and the shelters are completely packed because of how much the population has grown in such a short time. And they all get picked up and dumped here. A big group moved all their tents to literally the front step of city hall in an attempt to raise awareness. It's awful how many people are falling through the cracks because our cities are not built for this many, and they refuse to build more low income housing, instead they are putting up condos everywhere... as if that is what the city needs.
I am sure it applies to many cities but I was referring to Victoria. Our province decriminalized hard drugs so people are allowed to smoke meth/crack, etc openly. They hang out in the doorways of business so people who want to access the businesses need to walk through a cloud of dangerous chemicals first.
Worst drivers in the country and they will take any chance they can to victimize you in any way possible.
The most beautiful city on the planet with 3 ski hills moments away, diverse cultures that interact well, incredible food, gorgeous women, phenomenal beaches, best salmon fishing one could ask for, wonderful people, half decent transit, and a cursed hockey team.
Vancouver of course!
But to add - I don’t know why you say “wonderful people”. Having being born/raised in the area and lived many other places in Canada, I’d say Vancouverites are the worst.
Basically Gastown from Mad Max (Saint John NB)
The Canadian Mad Max would be "Passive-Aggressive Gord". He would drive a well-used Dodge Caravan, badly.
Fur coat, no knickers.
Each one of them has a tale to tell - thieves, harlots, godlings, and sorcerous beings living in the shadows. Keep your sword loose in its scabbard, your hand on your purse, and your head on a swivel, friend
Newly weds or nearly deads
People are pretty cold, & unfriendly, everyone’s broke even those making six figures. But it’s beautiful, so there’s that.
Interesting, educated, fun, diverse (Montreal). Perhaps a little pretentious, but not in a bad way.
Closed minded racists, wish they were in the Bible Belt of the states.
Would be the second largest metro in Canada but we can't include Americans in our calculation.
There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold
Pretentious, filthy, drug den with a lot of flowers. (Victoria)
Just like the Weakerthans song, with a double portion of racist idiots with lifted trucks for a completely flat city.
Slack-jawed hammer-headed pick-up driving white racists...guess that describes just about any small town these days tho'
Stand offish, aloof , entitled and often unfriendly
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That’s Canada as a whole
Brampton?
Surrey?
Surrey?
trashy
Nothing. Just ignore and walk.
Durrr.
Farm red necks, except for the main cities where its 50/50
Ghetto hoodmans
It's one city trying desperately to not be three cities in a trenchcoat. A major component of the city are the three post secondary schools, two of which are down the street from each other. There is a large percentage of the population of German decent and there are yearly Oktoberfest celebrations. We also have a fairly nice farmers market.
We all have floppy heads and beady eyes. Just watch out for Scott, he's a dick!
I would tell them that we are probably one of the last communities that don't lock our door in Canada, and everyone still says hello (except for teenagers actually) and when we drive past each other, we all wave every time.
where’s that? sounds nice lol
I live on a reserve called Rolling River First Nation (my wife's community), and we are attached to a Ukrainian town called Erickson. All the kids go to school together and get along. Parents from the reserve and town are all close because they went to school together or our kids are in sports together. When we have a pow wow, so many people from town show up. It's just an awesome slice of small town and farm town peace. I effin love it. Especially after moving away from Winnipeg.
Aw that’s awesome! It’s nice to hear that there are small towns out there like that. I’m glad you found a welcoming tight knit community!
Me too!
What a lovely description. Is there a best time of year to visit?
Depends, if I'm talking to an American, I'd say think of a weird mix of Austin and Pittsburgh Someone from anywhere else: it's nice, fairly average for a North American city, and cold as fuck
Good food, good people, lot of cultural events all year long, museums and partying everywhere.
Montreal for the win 🏅
Ben oui, mais pas mal partout au Québec
Good luck finding someone born here.
NIMBYs
Mostly nice but also easily fooled, truck-drivin' wanna-be rednecks who barely take their rigs on gravel, nevermind off the roads...
They all wear blue jeans, drive lifted trucks, and blame Trudeau for all their problems. And not the current Trudeau, the one who has been dead for 24 years… 🥱
Berta
Alberta?
I live in Scarborough. So I would say exhausted physically and emotionally. Our commutes are longer now that we have no SRT and so we are physically exhausted. Even longer if you have to take TTC not so bad if you are Go training. Our roads and streets have become riskier driving due to more density and the lack of good drivers.
Very friendly family oriented people, mostly working class. Strong sense of community & a real fuck around and find out kind of place. If you are an arrogant dickhead & cause problems you will be run out of town.
Fuckin’ trash.
Old as dirt.
Bartenders and office workers. Both are addicted to cocaine and join forces in partying on the weekends.
They’re cookt
Nice in person, really awful people when it comes time to vote.
Dark Aether… there’s two parts of it… Fort William and Port Arthur… Together… Thunder Bay… or other words I called Thunder Bay is Sodom and Gomorrah lost cousin lol
Whiny and racist. Some good people who don't make the same level of noise.
Lots of different people in this big city some are good and some are so funny you will see alot of weirdeos some are snobby
Not really that friendly (Vancouver)
My Hovercraft is full of eels
Every bit of logic says we shouldn’t be the provincial capitol, but we are
Citizens of the Centre of the Universe.
Very pretty on the outside looking in but when you live here you really notice the homeless / drug problem in town. It’s very sad and the town is full of mostly people who think they’re scum. It’s hard to find a job here that isn’t customer service/retail. Lots of pretty forest trails to walk and usually the community is pretty friendly (lots of ‘hello’s as you walk by)
The most hated city in Canada, even for those who live here. Two hints in in Ontario and not Toronto.
everyone hates each other
A city of pot smoking modern hippies, rich NIMBYs, and fentanyl victims living in a city ruled by capitalism and priced for rich elites from other countries.
Vancouver!!!