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Why Canadians love Baja

durrelllrobert - 6-21-2013 at 07:59 AM

canadianmoneyforum.com/.../6007-Food-prices-in-Canada-vs-US

shari - 6-21-2013 at 08:16 AM

there are a kazillion more reasons

[Edited on 6-21-2013 by shari]

David K - 6-21-2013 at 08:19 AM

How about the lack of 8 feet of snow? :lol:

durrelllrobert - 6-21-2013 at 08:29 AM

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Originally posted by shari
there are a kazillion more reasons

[Edited on 6-21-2013 by shari]

I should have said "Here's one reason"

DENNIS - 6-21-2013 at 11:01 AM

Baja is the end of the line waiting to see a doctor in Canada.

sancho - 6-21-2013 at 11:20 AM

Canadians APPEAR to have a lot more adventure in
their makeup, a lot more hardy, they enjoy roughing it,
a lot of US Gringos typically
demand more comfort, and whine if they don't get it,
and as pointed out the cold
they are escaping from

bajamedic - 6-21-2013 at 11:48 AM

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Originally posted by DENNIS
Baja is the end of the line waiting to see a doctor in Canada.

Now that is funny, I don't care who you are. JH

[Edited on 6-21-2013 by bajamedic]

DavidE - 6-21-2013 at 12:18 PM

August: Hornby Island. Down coat. Propane heater in camper. Camping inside cabover camper at Englishman Falls, thermal underwear, hot cocoa at 2PM. Residents think of BA in August like US residents think of Stovepipe Wells in August.

Canuck RV'ers are always first to leave Bahia Concepcion in March -- too hot.

Quebecois consider British Columbia to be the Hawaii of Canada.

motoged - 6-21-2013 at 01:03 PM

Hey, we live north of the 49th, so it is often bound to be cooler :light:

Summers up here are certainly more moderate than they are in Baja....winters in warm climates make sense to many critters. Birds are smarter than most of us ....many of them fly south when the north winds blow :saint:

Cost of living is higher...so are many of the benefits :coolup:

Kamloops is semi-arid desert (we even have cactus growing here and in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan ...where we even have antelope !!! ). So summers can be in the 90's and we look for cooler places, or at least be by water for cooling reprieves from the heat ("but it's a dry heat" :biggrin:

)

Another reason to go south is that you can't get good fish tacos up here....so getting a tan with that is a good winter option :lol:

DENNIS - 6-21-2013 at 01:09 PM

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Originally posted by DavidE

Quebecois consider British Columbia to be the Hawaii of Canada.

They come south because there's no more room on the ground at home to throw trash. [actually, I'll bet they don't do that at home, but I lived in Maine for a while and they had no problem doing it there]

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[Edited on 6-21-2013 by DENNIS]

Timo1 - 6-21-2013 at 03:06 PM

Gawwwd you people are daft

55steve - 6-21-2013 at 03:12 PM

Leaving tomorrow morning in the RV for Canada - heading up to Winnipeg so the wife can be there for Canada Day with her family. Going to take our time heading west to Calgary, the Okanagen Valley and winding up on Vancouver Island. Head back to San Diego from there - should be about a month long trip.

chuckie - 6-21-2013 at 03:17 PM

If I wasnt broke, I would likely spend late summer,falls in Alberta and the rest in Baja....BUT I am perfectly content to spend my life in Mulege....

durrelllrobert - 6-21-2013 at 06:50 PM

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Originally posted by 55steve
Leaving tomorrow morning in the RV for Canada - heading up to Winnipeg so the wife can be there for Canada Day with her family. Going to take our time heading west to Calgary, the Okanagen Valley and winding up on Vancouver Island. Head back to San Diego from there - should be about a month long trip.

huge floods in Calgary and all of southern Alberta right now.

edition.cnn.com/.../canada-calgary-floods/index.html

Bow river in Calgary

Downtown Calgary is evacuated

redmesa - 6-21-2013 at 07:02 PM

I see only one Canadian posting here and now there are 2. It is not an either or for me. I love Canada but I also love the sun and sea which I get only so many months to enjoy in Canada and now the other months I can love the Pacific in Baja.

DENNIS - 6-21-2013 at 07:12 PM

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Originally posted by 55steve
Canada Day

How long after "Where Am I Day" is that? :lol:

Jes kiddin', Canuckleheads.

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[Edited on 6-22-2013 by DENNIS]

windgrrl - 6-21-2013 at 09:10 PM

El Norte drives us to migrate south and join our windsurfing tribe each winter, leaving behind our mild prairie scorpions and mini-cacti under the silent snow.

55steve - 6-21-2013 at 11:13 PM

Yeah, we may have to head north to Edmonton....May review the situation in a couple weeks and head back south to Montana and head to the okanagen that way...

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Originally posted by durrelllrobert

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huge floods in Calgary and all of southern Alberta right now.

edition.cnn.com/.../canada-calgary-floods/index.html

Bow river in Calgary

Downtown Calgary is evacuated

55steve - 6-21-2013 at 11:15 PM

Kinda like their Thanksgiving in October...their 4th of July is on the 1st...appears they are ahead of the US...makes me no difference since I'm a Limey.

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Originally posted by DENNIS

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Originally posted by 55steve
Canada Day

How long after "Where Am I Day" is that? :lol:

Jes kiddin', Canuckleheads.

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[Edited on 6-22-2013 by DENNIS]

durrelllrobert - 6-22-2013 at 08:17 AM

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Originally posted by 55steve
Yeah, we may have to head north to Edmonton....May review the situation in a couple weeks and head back south to Montana and head to the okanagen that way...

We are leaving for Edmonton on Tuesday and will be crossing at Couts on Thursday. Unfortunately will have to traverse all of southern Alberta and flooding on the way. Lethbridge is really flooded in the low lying areas.

DavidE - 6-22-2013 at 09:51 AM

Damn!
This is hurting a lot of people. And to say nothing of all that hard red winter wheat crop that is lost. @#$%^&! Maybe at least it'll help raise the water table. Even that sounds lame