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12:13:2004 Entry: "Ann : My Own Personal Top Ten Reasons Why Not to Move to Canada"

My Own Personal Top Ten Reasons Why Not to Move to Canada

10 That's what THEY want: They want all us liberal-minded folk to get the hell outta Dodge, love it or leave it. I don't want to play into that close-minded rhetoric. Love it or leave it? What about help change it? I have just as much right to stay in this country as they do. It may be the land of the free, but no one has the freedom to tell someone else who was born here to leave....that's fascist!

9 Russ Feingold and Tammy Baldwin: There may be a toddler in the White House, but my district in Wisconsin is represented by good people.

8 My Neighbors: We have nice neighbors and they're all going through the same post-election depression that I am. Despite the dead man found behind our garage this past summer, this is a great neighborhood and I'd really miss it.

7 Cold: Yeah, I know, Vancouver has beautiful weather. Well, everyone and his cousin is moving to Vancouver, what does that leave for the rest of us who can't afford the premium amenities Vancouver has to offer? Moosejaw, Saskatchewan? Region 4 winters are bad enough here...I'm not ready for Region 2....or 1.

6 Stan's job: Hey Canada, you got jobs for cooks that pay as well as his current job? Need another cook? I didn't think so. Me, on the other hand, can practically work anywhere. Hey Canada, need another self-employed artist? I didn't think so either.

5 Vacations: Driving 1000 miles one way to visit friends and family in Colorado is long enough, but if we were in Canada...it would be much longer. We also wouldn't be able to bring back the incredible cactus and succulent finds that we get in Colorado greenhouses, let alone the cacti we got from Bill's mountainside.

4 Our living green things: With an established plant collection both inside and out, we'd literally have to give up years and years and thousands of dollars worth of collecting and establishing our indoor and outdoor gardens. Although I haven't researched it thoroughly, I suspect that we would not be able to bring our houseplants with us.

3 Our house: I love our house and can't imagine being able to afford something as nice ANYWHERE with property prices rising all the time. So we sell it and the peasly amount we would get for it (that doesn't go back to the bank) wouldn't buy much outside the US with the shrinking US dollar.

2 I just don't want to move anymore: I moved about three times when I was a baby that I couldn't even remember. I was uprooted 4 times to move before I was a teenager, 3 of those times were cross country. I moved countless times in my 20s trying to find the right rental. I moved cross country again before I was 30. I just want to stay in one place, and I have, for the past 14 years. I hate moving.

1 I'm waiting for a miracle for Canada to appropriate US!

5 Comments

I have another thought on how to escape the giant toddlers currently running anyone with a brain out of the White house like Colin Powell.

Wisconsin can leave the union and be absorbed by the Hochunk Nation. We could be an independent nation and keep all of the good things we would have to give up by moving to Canada.

History always shows that borders will change sooner or later. Someday Mexico will want Texas back and we really did take territory from Mexico by force. A person has to be competely blind to history to think that this kind of thing can't possibly happen.

This is all tho more reason why militaries should never be squandered in optional wars. Oh, Well, It's too late now and it's best at this point to be open to changes even these sorts of major changes are possible in history.

Sure these kinds of thoughts are usually reserved for people like may bio - dad, but it is complete folly to believe in the seeming permancy of history in the present tense.

The more I think about it the more I think returning to the origional native nations is an actual possible future history - for better or worse it's surely possible.

Posted by Stan @ 11:16:2004:08:12 PM CST

As long as there are bored, non-creative, hobby-less blue-haired widows willing to squander their late husband's pensions, (and children's inheritance) the Hochunk nation could feasibly buy up lots of land in the future.

I think it's ingenious. I wish them luck.

Posted by Ann @ 11:16:2004:08:19 PM CST

It may be more than ingenious it may be part of cosmic cycles in the order of all people in the universe. I believe that if we were citizens of the Hochunk nation instead of the US ordinary life would be very simmular to what it is now. There are always problems to be solved and living beings to be cared for no matter what government is in place.

Posted by Stan @ 11:16:2004:08:24 PM CST

i don't dream of becoming Canadian. i've rather fantasized about establishing myself as clanmother of a large, matriarchal, and self-sufficient commune, somewher in the 'heartland' of America. there, we would breed an army, equipped with ideals and the strength, logic, and inner will to bring ideals to fruition. we would change America! we would grow mighty! we would dominate! we would...
turn into something really terrible, actually. which is why i haven't packed my bags for any nudie camps, just yet.

i very much like your reasons for not bailing on the US. i can't quite understand the logic behind the great Canadian migration. why not stick around, and at least TRY to make things better? well said, Ann, as usual.

Posted by bran @ 11:17:2004:08:25 AM CST

Ha ha! The commune fantasy was a great chuckle, Bran!

Yea, if everyone bails, then there'd be even less support for those of us who choose to stay or have no choice about sticking around. Seems a bit self-serving for the free-spirited, no-ties types of this country. And why play into the hands of the other side...that's the last thing I want to do! (Well, at least reason #10)

Posted by Ann @ 11:17:2004:09:34 AM CST

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