Quote Originally Posted by higher4hockey
nochowder, now that i have a hard on for canada... a few more questions..

A. whats the hunting like
B. how easy or difficult is it to get citizenship (tough question i know)
C. and basically , whats the general attitude up there ?
I'm not a hunter myself, but some of my buddies back in Alberta do, and I can say, it is very easy to obtain a hunting license. If you're 18, have $20, you can get one pretty much. A clean record helps with getting guns registered too. As for the actual hunting, I mean there is mountains around the edge of Alberta, and in BC, with land that goes for many, many, many miles, that is open for hunting. I don't know the exact details, but hunting is a big thing for folks in the smaller towns/cities, so it can't be that bad.

These days, I think it is a little more difficult to get citizenship. I moved here from Holland 9yrs ago, and the process was very easy. Back then, I got registered under my dads name, as I wasn't 18 yet, so my process was very easy. All my dad had to do was write a test mostly focused on the English language, his goals and why he wanted to move to Canada. It was all pretty personal and wasn't a random test given out. In your case, with a clean record, it helps, I think you'd just have to the same thing, except the English writing/reading part.

The attitude I can't complain about. The smaller towns love their hunting and outdoor cooking, while the cities are just, a city. If you're foreign, it isn't looked down on. Where I live, I see all kinds of people, from Native's, to people from India, Pakistan, the Uk, Scotland, America, everywhere, and no one gets put down just because of who you are. There are the random people who may be racist or hateful towards other kinds, but that's just like anywhere.

The crime rate is low, and the murder rate is even lower. The most murders in a city in Alberta, of all of Canada was 33 in 2006 I believe. The city I moved away from, Red Deer, that has 80,000 people, had 0 murders of 2006.

It's a friendly place, jobs are easy to get, and the weed ain't bad either. I got no complaints. I'm Dutch with a thicjk accent living in Vancouver and people treat me great here. They greet me on the street in the moring, and say thanks when I shop at their store.