# Tell me about your impressions of British Columbia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 12, 2007, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-impressions-of-british-columbia/407638 "2007-06-12T00:06:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-impressions-of-british-columbia/407638/1 "2007-06-12T00:06:21Z")
Inspired by this thread: [Tell me what your perceptions of New Zealand are.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=424480) 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… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-impressions-of-british-columbia/407638/2 "2007-06-12T00:22:15Z")
[QUOTE=Shamozzle] I, for one, don’t smoke pot 24 hours a day… 😉 [/QUOTE] 18? Anyway… Mountains Fjords Salmon Rain ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-impressions-of-british-columbia/407638/3 "2007-06-12T00:35:42Z")
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” ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-impressions-of-british-columbia/407638/4 "2007-06-12T00:38:49Z")
I visited Vancouver and Victoria when I was a kid (12ish) and I remember it was very clean. Sorry, thats all I got. ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-impressions-of-british-columbia/407638/5 "2007-06-12T00:41:16Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] 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” [/QUOTE] I believe you are thinking of Newfoundland. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-impressions-of-british-columbia/407638/6 "2007-06-12T00:49:33Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster] I believe you are thinking of Newfoundland. [/QUOTE] 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… ;)) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-impressions-of-british-columbia/407638/7 "2007-06-12T01:03:06Z")
Fluffier snow in the interior than on the coast. ---
**Author:** ![BluePitbull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@BluePitbull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BluePitbull)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-impressions-of-british-columbia/407638/8 "2007-06-12T01:05:58Z")
Lots of untouched wilderness, lot more diversity in culture compared to Canada, Liberal politics. Sidenote, I would love to work in Vancouver one day ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-impressions-of-british-columbia/407638/9 "2007-06-12T01:34:51Z")
The Parliament building is really impressive at night. [B.C. Parliament](http://members.aol.com/xpus/bccapnit.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-impressions-of-british-columbia/407638/10 "2007-06-12T01:49:05Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] doesn’t the whole country do that? I know someone from Toronto who speaks like that. [/quote] 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. > [@](#): > > (I should tawk, being from Lawn Guylandt and all… ;)) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-impressions-of-british-columbia/407638/11 "2007-06-12T01:51:44Z")
Vancouver. Granville Island Brewing Company. Seattle North, with more Chinese. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-impressions-of-british-columbia/407638/12 "2007-06-12T02:21:54Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] doesn’t the whole country do that? [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-impressions-of-british-columbia/407638/13 "2007-06-12T03:18:43Z")
Lots of Canadians. StG ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-impressions-of-british-columbia/407638/14 "2007-06-12T03:44:56Z")
[QUOTE=amarinth] 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. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-impressions-of-british-columbia/407638/15 "2007-06-12T04:09:01Z")
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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-impressions-of-british-columbia/407638/16 "2007-06-12T04:59:23Z")
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. 😃