I found this thread interesting to read. An insight into Canada.
In Australia we mostly live on the East Coast, and a hand-full of people live on the West Coast. The West Coast is a desert of mines and shit. Looks like Mars in Total Recall, with the birth defects and all. The East Coast looks like the forest in Avatar but we aint blue. You get paid 20% more on the west coast (mining boom) as they can't get enough people to move to the shit side of the country. Note I am still fucking here! Like the rest of us on the East Coast. This place is like 80% better than that shithole, %20 attracts the dregs and they.... stay as they can't get back anyway once they have been "WA-ified" through media and social reinforcement (re: Deluded fucks don't know any better anyway) that its a nice place.
The point I really want to make is that most East Coast people (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart) find that people from Western Australia talk like wankers. How often do you hear them say "Over in the west..." and then some comment about how things are better over there. Some people believe them, but if you have worked there like me you start to realise that they get brainwashed by local Media to believe they are unreal when really they are a pack of mining scumbags just like those Kobalds in World of Warcraft. People from WA even look a bit like Kobalds from the mines in Elwyn Forest.
"WA is unreal, stay here and mine the fuck out of it for us, don't piss off to somewhere nicer, even if it is an orange dust bowl with a few lumps of metal under it. Stay and help us dig this shit up you gullible morons". Thats the message I was seeing on local TV in WA.
Another thing I notice on media is this. If I leave Sydney (big city) and go to the small rural towns. Sitting in the hotel room at night they love to show news of how many people were killed in Sydney and all sorts of nasty stuff. Bu tin fact you are in more danger of crime in those shitty little towns. The rural people eat up this media shit and get around talking about crime in a big city when in fact it's total bullshit drummed up by their own media to try and keep people from moving to the big cities to find work and... an actual life more than fucking sheep in the arse. Or maybe an education or a fucking hospital, or a girl without a third breast.. you rural country hic fucks!!
Anyways, I found this thread nice. Australians tend to engage better with Canadians than Americans in real life, so I find the place interesting. They also have to share a world with a bunch of obese, flag waving, gun toting nutters who love to drive massive cars, and free the shit out of people all over. Who ever let that fat bitch Opra get on TV years ago, you Americans are mad. Somebody should have harpooned that fat whale during the pilot show.