>> >>> >>> REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> 1. Vancouver: 1.5 million people and two bridges. You do the math. >> >>> >>> 2. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is just 3 hours from downtown. >> >>> >>> 3. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations. >> >>> >>> 4. There's always some sort of deforestation protest going on. >> >>> >>> 5. Weed [marijuana] >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA >> >>> >>> 1. Big rock between you and B.C. >> >>> >>> 2. Ottawa who? >> >>> >>> 3. Tax is 6% instead of approximately 20% as it is for the rest of the country. >> >>> >>> 4. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of. >> >>> >>> 5. You live in the only province that could actually afford to be its own country. >> >>> >>> 6. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia groups. >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN >> >>> >>> 1. You never run out of wheat. >> >>> >>> 2. Your province is really easy to draw. >> >>> >>> 3. You can watch the dog run away from home for hours. >> >>> >>> 4. People will assume you live on a farm. >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA >> >>> >>> 1. You wake up one morning to find >> >>> >>> that you suddenly have a beachfront property. >> >>> >>> 2. Hundreds of huge, horribly frigid lakes. >> >>> >>> 3. Nothing compares to a wicked Winnipeg winter. >> >>> >>> 4. You can be an Easterner or a Westerner depending on your mood. >> >>> >>> 5. You can pass the time watching trucks and barns float by. >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO >> >>> >>> 1. You live in the centre of the universe. >> >>> >>> 2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump. >> >>> >>> 3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election. >> >>> >>> 4. The only province with hard-core American-style crime. >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> 1. Racism is socially acceptable >> >>> >>> 2. You can take bets with your friends on which English neighbour will move out next. >> >>> >>> 3. Other provinces basically bribe you to stay in Canada. >> >>> >>> 4. You can blame all your problems on the 'Anglo *#!%!' >> > >> >>> >>> REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> 1. One way or another, the government gets 98% of your income. >> >>> >>> 2. You're poor, but not as poor as the Newfies. >> >>> >>> 3. No one ever blames anything on NewBrunswick >> >>> >>> 4. Everybody has a grandfather who runs a lighthouse. >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> REASONS TO LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA >> >> >>> >>> 1. Everyone can play the fiddle. The ones who can't, think they can. >> >>> >>> 2. You can pretend to have Scottish heritage as an excuse to get drunk and wear a kilt. >> >>> >>> 3. You are the only reason Anne Murray makes money >> >>> >>> REASONS TO LIVE IN PRINCE EDWARD >> >>> >>> ISLAND >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> 1. Even though more people live on Vancouver Island, you still got the big, new bridge. >> >>> >>> 2. You can walk across the province in half an hour. >> >>> >>> 3. You can drive across the province in two minutes. >> >>> >>> 4. Everyone has been an extra on 'Road to Avonlea.' >> >>> >>> 5. This is where all those tiny, red potatoes come from. >> >>> >>> 6. You can confuse ships by turning your porch lights on and off at night. >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> REASONS TO LIVE IN NEWFOUNDLAND >> >>> >>> 1. If Quebec separates, you will float off to sea. >> >>> >>> 2. If you do something stupid, you have a built-in excuse. >> >>> >>> 3. The workday is about two hours long. >> >>> >>> 4. It is socially acceptable to wear your hip waders to your wedding.