Ottawa, Canada's capital
 

Born and raised, and will probably die because I have hermit tendencies.
A great place to live, if you can forget how much we get taxed......
For the country's capital though, you'd think it'd be bigger, or at least fell bigger. Population of around 1 million, but feels like a small town sometimes....
Grown in leaps and bounds in the last five years. Who knows what'll happen in the next 5.......... :rolleyes:
Anybody else from around here, or Canada even?

I am not from Canada but I havn't met a Canadian I didn't like.*googling Ottawa*.http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/atl....aspx?lang=En#

A friend of mine lives in the Providence of Saskatchewan. He says it is flat terrain and on the highway you can see for miles. I get updates on the weather weekly. The way he describes it it seems like it's alot like Nebraska. That said, is Ottawa alot like the eastern part of the US?

I would love to go live in Canada but it seems colder than Seattle Washington .

I'm in Ontario a lot. Never been to Quebec. Always had the impression that Quebec wasn't too keen on the rest of Canada.

My uncle teaches at the University of Alberta, and we went to visit him a few times when I was younger. I remember getting the distinct impression that your animal protection laws were insane--on three different occasions, we found ourselves in a restaurant where a smallish animal had gotten inside, and because it was illegal to even shoo them out the door again, they were allowed to just sort of scurry around under the tables eating dropped food. Of course as a young girl I thought they were a good deal cuter than my parents did. :) Perhaps that was a local thing though, I don't really remember what parts of Canada we were visiting at the time.

I was talking to my mother, in MA, today (mother's day). She said one of my cousins from Ontario and husband visited this week and of course while down here did a lot of shopping. They were greatly disappointed they couldn't find any American made cotton clothing, anywhere. They didn't realize we get the same crap here, they do up there......it's just cheaper here.:(

I just remembered..... standing behind the capitol building and watching them run log rafts, years ago.

What is this "American made cotton clothing" you speak of?

Remember back when people actually tried to make stuff here? That "Made in the USA" label and ad campaign?

Oh yes, "Made In USA" label. Wasn't that from Guam or something? :rolleyes:

Well, there is the Japanese city "Usa"...

Isn't American Eagle stuff made in the US, with no child labour?

Hard to find though. There are a few outlets for American made goods but few and far between. :(

I want to go to Ottawa! Toronto, too!

Skip Ottawa, enjoy Toronto. :D

Curious, we have a number of Canucks on this board, but they didn't respond to cableguy's "Anybody else from around here, or Canada even?".
Animosity or ambivalence toward Ottawa? :confused:

I've got lots of family in Toronto, visited there many times, WAY too big for me. 4 million people, everybody seems to be in their own little world, there's no sense of community.....maybe I'm a country boy at heart?
I recently had a chat with some Torontonians who said they couldn't find downtown Ottawa.
"guys, you're standing in the middle of it"
Guess it wasn't the hustle and bustle they were used to :o
Ottawa is growing pretty fast, we have a light rail system now that's expanding to Ottawa's south end by 2009, the forecast is for VERY rapid growth leading up to that event and well past it.
Great, that means my taxes will go up :mad:

I liked Ottawa OK. I would like to skate on the Rideau, the Senators are a pretty good team, the Nat'l Art Museum is very nice, the copper covered gov't buildings are scenic. But best of all, there are none of those pesky Montrealers to ride your ass for not speaking Frog :)