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Do I need a Visa?
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OK so I had forgotten to check if I need a Visa for Canada. When you think of Canada you just think its part of the US. (well I do anyway) and that you don't need a Visa. Then as your at the airport you realise its a British colony and part of the commonwealth just like Australia with the Queen on their cash and shit. Then you realise you need a Visa for Oz and you start to panic. I mean what exactly happens when you get deported from a country when you don't have a visa? fuck it, whats the worse that can happen?
...Nothing apparently. You don't need a visa after all, in fact it is the same as the US after all, and in so many more ways than one.
So every Canadian I meet, who incidental all have a Canadian flag sewn into their bags in order not to be confused with Americans, will bang on for hours about how different they are to the 'septic tanks' they have for neighbours. OK so their foreign policy is very different, i.e there not in Iraq, but that really has to be the start and finish of it surely? The accent is the same (well nearly), the landscape is the same (obviously), all their products are the Same (i.e. American) and they all have huge cars, trucks and bikes (like the Americans) thus contributing to the need to invade oil rich nations in the first place.
Toronto is itself a very very pleasant city, clean, easy to navigate, the metro (tube) is safe and easy to use, the street cars (trams) are efficient and convenient, most cool things are in walking distance. But, when push comes to shove, it just looks and feels like America. I guess its gonna and how a city looks is not the defining factor in a nation but come on. I was outside the baseball stadium where the Toronto Blue Jays were playing the Seattle someones... It all looked very very American to me!
I hooked up with a buddy Udai whom I had done some traveling with in Vietnam and Cambodia for some lunch and a few Canadian beers and he showed me around a bit, helped me get my bearings and I have to say, I would quite happily live and work in Toronto. A really nice place indeed... OK so I'm here the in Summer with the nice 80degree sunshine, and winter can see temperatures of 20 below, but then hey, who doesn't like building snowmen?
Great shops, great bars, great urban, worldly feel to the place with loads of ethnic areas all mixed up to make it feel really cultural. Loved it.
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