Inspired by this thread: Tell me what your perceptions of New Zealand are.
As a BC’er, I thought I might ask fellow Canucks (and others, for that matter) about their impressions of BC. I, for one, don’t smoke pot 24 hours a day… 
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I, for one, don’t smoke pot 24 hours a day… 
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18?
Anyway…
Mountains
Fjords
Salmon
Rain
Great place from which to embark upon an Alaskan cruise…
I picture it’s much like Washington state, except they talk funny and say things like “oot” instead of “out”
I visited Vancouver and Victoria when I was a kid (12ish) and I remember it was very clean. Sorry, thats all I got.
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Great place from which to embark upon an Alaskan cruise…
I picture it’s much like Washington state, except they talk funny and say things like “oot” instead of “out”
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I believe you are thinking of Newfoundland.
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I believe you are thinking of Newfoundland.
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doesn’t the whole country do that?
I know someone from Toronto who speaks like that.
(I should tawk, being from Lawn Guylandt and all… ;))
Fluffier snow in the interior than on the coast.
Lots of untouched wilderness, lot more diversity in culture compared to Canada, Liberal politics.
Sidenote, I would love to work in Vancouver one day
The Parliament building is really impressive at night.
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doesn’t the whole country do that?
I know someone from Toronto who speaks like that.
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Must’ve been born in Newfoundland 
Really ‘oot’ is Scottish, not Canadian, but folks from down east have an accent of their own that vaguely resembles the Scottish one.
Vancouver. Granville Island Brewing Company. Seattle North, with more Chinese.
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doesn’t the whole country do that?
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Yes they do. Or at least they all pretend to whenever I visit BC. (Mostly Vancouver, but also Victoria and several cities in the Okanagan) I can’t imagine that it’s all for my benefit. It is much more pronounced from people who just moved in from the east - but people who have spent their entire lives in BC still say “oot.”
Vancouver feels much more “urban” than Seattle - but they both still have the same feel of moving to the city to get to the outdoors rather than moving to a city to get away from it. It also feels more laid back than some other cities.
When I finally got to London, I found out that Victoria isn’t like London at all. It just thinks it is.
There’s a whole lot of nothing in BC. Just great big expanses of nothing. Occasionally a town or two (or a mountain) might get in the way of the nothing, but there’s a lot of space.
Lots of Canadians.
StG
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There’s a whole lot of nothing in BC. Just great big expanses of nothing. Occasionally a town or two (or a mountain) might get in the way of the nothing, but there’s a lot of space.
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I’ve been on road trips where you’re bloody lucky you can pick up CBC radio, never mind anything else. All that mountainous nothing makes FM reception a bitch.
Born and raised in Beautiful British Columbia.
When my mother was dying, I drove back and forth from Victoria on Vancouver Island to Castlegar, in the Kootenays a fair number of times.
Even though I only saw a narrow slice of the province during that time, I was still impressed. It’s a beautiful place, it really is, from snowy mountains to wine country and a pocket desert, to the misty rainforests. Cities and ghost towns alike.
And a little refrain went through my head quite often as we drove:
Rocks and trees and trees and rocks and rocks and trees and trees and rocks…
That’s what we got. Luckily, both can be quite gorgeous. 
You’re not going to like this - from my Saskatchewan/Albertan perspective, BC’ers tend to come across as somewhat pretentious and snobbish about their incredibly enlightened socially-conscious ways - both in BC and when they move to Calgary for the work.
Pretty province, but too many trees and mountains for my taste. Can’t hardly see a horizon. 