{"id":1751,"date":"2014-03-23T19:16:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T19:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2014-03-23T19:16:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T19:16:10","slug":"a-guide-to-the-provinces-canadians-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/?p=1751","title":{"rendered":"A Guide to the Provinces&#8230; (Canadians Only)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;\"><b>TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA\u2026<\/b><br \/>\n1. 2010 Winter Olympics &#8211; champagne tastes on a beer belly budget.<br \/>\n2. Vancouver: 1.5 million people and two bridges.<br \/>\n3. The local Whistler hero is a pot-smoking snowboarder.<br \/>\n4. The local wine doesn\u2019t taste like malt vinegar.<br \/>\n5. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is just 5 hours from downtown.<br \/>\n6. A university with a nude beach.<br \/>\n7. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations.<br \/>\n8. Great place for avalanche training.<br \/>\n9. There\u2019s always some sort of deforestation protest going on.<br \/>\n10. A drunk driving premier &#8211; setting a good example for all British Columbians\u2026 a Ralph Klein wannabe.<\/p>\n<p><b>TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA\u2026<\/b><br \/>\n1. Big Rock between you and B.C.<br \/>\n2. Ottawa who?<br \/>\n3. Tax is 7 percent instead of approximately 200 percent for the rest of the country.<br \/>\n4. The Premier is a fat, alcoholic who is easy to make fun of.<br \/>\n5. Flames vs. Oilers.<br \/>\n6. Stamps vs. Eskies.<br \/>\n7. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of.<br \/>\n8. You live in the only province that could actually afford to be it\u2019s own country.<br \/>\n9. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia groups.<br \/>\n10. You can attempt to murder your rich oil tycoon husband and get away with it.<\/p>\n<p><b>TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN\u2026<\/b><br \/>\n1. You never run out of wheat.<br \/>\n2.There are no curves or hills on the highway.<br \/>\n3. Cruise control takes on a whole new meaning.<br \/>\n4. Your province is really easy to draw.<br \/>\n5. You never have to worry about roll-back if you have a standard stick shift.<br \/>\n6. It takes you two weeks to walk to your neighbor`s house.<br \/>\n7. YOUR Roughriders survived.<br \/>\n8. You can watch the dog run away from home for hours.<br \/>\n9. People will assume you live on a farm.<br \/>\n10. Buying a huge John Deere mower makes sense.<\/p>\n<p><b>TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA\u2026<\/b><br \/>\n1. You wake up one morning to find you suddenly have beachfront property.<br \/>\n2. Amusing town names like \u201cFlin Flon\u201d and \u201cWinnipeg\u201d.<br \/>\n3. All your local bands make it big and move to Toronto.<br \/>\n4. The only province to ever violently rebel against the federal government.<br \/>\n5. Hundreds of huge, horribly frigid lakes.<br \/>\n6. Nothing compares to a wicked Winnipeg winter.<br \/>\n7. You don\u2019t need a car &#8211; just take the canoe to work.<br \/>\n8. You can be an Easterner or a Westerner depending on your mood.<br \/>\n9. Because of your licence plate, you are still friendly even when you cut someone off.<br \/>\n10. Pass the time watching trucks and barns float by.<\/p>\n<p><b>TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO\u2026<\/b><br \/>\n1. You live in the center of the universe.<br \/>\n2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump.<br \/>\n3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election.<br \/>\n4. There\u2019s no such thing as an Ontario Separatist. Separate from what? You are the centre of the universe.<br \/>\n5. Your grandparents sold booze to the States during Prohibition.<br \/>\n6. Lots of tourists come to Toronto because they mistakenly believe it\u2019s a cool city.<br \/>\n7. The only province with hard-core American-style crime.<br \/>\n8. Much Music\u2019s Speaker\u2019s Corner &#8211; rant and rave on national TV for a dollar.<br \/>\n9. Baseball fans park on your front lawn and pee on the side of your house.<br \/>\n10. Mike Harris: basically a sober Ralph Klein.<\/p>\n<p><b>TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC\u2026<\/b><br \/>\n1. Everybody assumes you\u2019re from a different planet.<br \/>\n2. Racism is socially acceptable.<br \/>\n3. The only province to ever kidnap federal politicians.<br \/>\n4. You can take bets with your friends on which English neighbor will move out next.<br \/>\n5. Other provinces basically bribe you to stay in Canada.<br \/>\n6. The FLQ.<br \/>\n7. Your hockey team is made up entirely of French guys who can\u2019t skate.<br \/>\n8. The province with the oldest, nastiest hookers.<br \/>\n9. NON-smokers are the outcasts.<br \/>\n10. You can blame all your problems on the \u201cAnglo bastards\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><b>TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK\u2026<\/b><br \/>\n1. You are sandwiched between French morons and drunken Celtic fiddlers.<br \/>\n2. One way or another, the government gets 98 percent of your income.<br \/>\n3. You\u2019re poor, but not as poor as the Newfies.<br \/>\n4. When listing the provinces, everyone forgets to mention yours.<br \/>\n5. The economy is based on fish, cows, and ferrying Ontario motorists to Boston.<br \/>\n6. No one ever blames anything on New Brunswick.<br \/>\n7. You have French people, but they don\u2019t want to kill you.<br \/>\n8. Everybody has a Grandfather who runs a lighthouse.<br \/>\n9. Just as charming as Maine, but with more unemployed fishermen.<br \/>\n10. You probably live in a small seaside cottage with no television.<\/p>\n<p><b>TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA\u2026<\/b><br \/>\n1. The only place in North America to get bombed in the war by a moron who set ammunition&#8217;s ship on fire. (Halifax Explosion).<br \/>\n2.The province is shaped like the male genitalia.<br \/>\n3. Everyone can play the fiddle. The ones who can\u2019t, think they can.<br \/>\n4. If someone asks if you\u2019re a Newfie, you are allowed to kick their butt.<br \/>\n5. The local hero is an insane, fiddle playing, sexual pervert.<br \/>\n6. The province that produced Rita MacNeil, the world\u2019s largest land mammal.<br \/>\n7 You are the \u201conly\u201d reason Anne Murray makes money.<br \/>\n8. You can pretend you have Scottish heritage as an excuse to get drunk and wear a kilt.<br \/>\n9. The economy is based on lobster and fiddle music.<br \/>\n10. Even though it smells like dead sea animals, Halifax is considered Canada\u2019s most beautiful city.<\/p>\n<p><b>TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE ON PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND\u2026<\/b><br \/>\n1. Even though more people live on Vancouver Island, you still got the big kick-ass bridge.<br \/>\n2. You can walk across the province in half an hour.<br \/>\n3. You were probably once an extra on \u201cRoad to Avonlea\u201d.<br \/>\n4. This is where all those tiny red potatoes come from.<br \/>\n5. The economy is based on fish, potatoes, and CBC TV shows.<br \/>\n6. Tourists arrive, see the \u201cAnne of Green Gables\u201d house, then promptly leave.<br \/>\n7. You can drive across the province in two minutes.<br \/>\n8. It doesn\u2019t matter to you if Quebec separates.<br \/>\n9. You don\u2019t share a border with the Americans, or with anyone for that matter.<br \/>\n10. You can confuse ships by turning your porch lights on and off at night.<\/p>\n<p><b>TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NEWFOUNDLAND\u2026<\/b><br \/>\n1. The poorest, drunkest province in Confederation.<br \/>\n2. If Quebec separates, you will float off to sea.<br \/>\n3. In the rare case when someone moves to the Rock, you can make them kiss a dead cod.<br \/>\n4. The economy is based on fish, seafood, and fish-related products.<br \/>\n5. If you do something stupid, you have a built-in excuse.<br \/>\n6. You &amp; only you understand the meaning of Great Big Sea\u2019s lyrics.<br \/>\n7. The workday is about two hours long.<br \/>\n8. You are credited with many great inventions, like the solar-powered flashlight and the screen door for submarines.<br \/>\n9. CBC sets time in terms of you being on the half hour.<br \/>\n10. 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