Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
Canada	Car Import Journey	I imported a 2002 Pontiac Sunfire earlier this summer. Easiest part of the whole process. I had ordered the compliance letters from GM: $89.95. I drove to the PoE, and after them taking an hour and a half to process my K-1 entry (a whole 'nother story!) I mentioned that I wanted to import my car. Guy looked at my registration (which in Manitoba is also proof of ownership, and proof of insurance) and compliance letters, had me fill out one form, they stamped it, and that was that. The form asks for the value of your car, which I had to guess. I guessed a little high, but it ended up not mattering. Later, in Utah, when I went to register it, I had to get safety and emissions inspections (local county requirement). Then i took those certificates, the compliance letters, and the import form to the DMV, dropped $150, and they gave me local plates and a new registration certificate for my car. They mailed out a new title deed about a week later. On recent models, apparently, they charge a 1-1.5% tax on the value of your car as stated on the import form you did at the PoE, so it's probably good to either check it beforehand or slightly lowball it, but it ended up not affecting me because my car is old enough to be charged a flat import/registration fee. Only complicated part there was, because my Canadian registration was also my proof of insurance (I was still on my Canadian car insurance until a couple of days ago) they had to give me a photocopy of my registration to serve as temporary proof of insurance, and I had to call the state agency that maintains the database the police use to check whether people have insurance, and have them create a database entry for my Canadian car insurance until it expired and I replaced it with American insurance.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2009-12-16 19:44:00
Canada	what if i can't book a physical before interview?	It's fairly normal for people applying through Vancouver to have their medical the same day as the interview. In this situation, people go to the medical early in the morning, attend the interview early in the afternoon, then go get the medical results and return to consulate. What they told me at the interview was that I was "approved pending the medical results." Montreal may do something similar.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-01-18 13:38:00
Canada	BC to Vancouver for medical & interview, transport questions	My K-1 Interview was April 29. Here's how it went, schedule-wise: April 28: 4:30 pm: Finish work, drive home, pick up luggage (already packed), go to airport, 7:00ish flight Arrive in Vancouver 12:30 am Taxi to Burrard Inn ($28.00!) Register 5:30 am wake up call Wednesday April 29: 5:30 am Wake up, get dressed, walk 250 feet down block to Medical, don't even have to cross any streets 2nd in line for medical. Finish around 9:30. See other people's detailed Vancouver medical reviews. Walk 4 blocks to travel medical clinic to get TDap vaccination. Walk back to Medical Clinic to give them vaccination receipt so they can mark it as done in Medical. They say results will be available after 2:00. They close, but will leave results with XRay desk in same lobby for pickup. Go get lunch, K1 Interview at 1:00. See other people's detailed Vancouver consulate reviews. Approved pending medical results. Hike back to medical clinic to pick up results. Hike back to Consulate (just make it - they close at 4) Getting tired of hiking up and down Burrard street Visa approved. Am told to leave passport, can pick it up tomorrow after 2:15. Hike back to hotel. Sleep. Thursday April 30 Wake up at a decent hour check out of hotel, leaving luggage in hotel's safe/locking closet. Walk up to Stanley Park along the river and back down to consulate. I had two days of beautiful sunny weather. This is apparently rare in Vancouver. Lots of people out enjoying the weather, even though it's a weekday. For $3, leave camera at cigar store across street from consulate, as electronics not allowed inside. (There are two cigar stores in that block. This is the more northern one.) Pick up passport and visa package. Walk back to hotel. Pick up luggage. Catch 3:30 shuttle bus back to airport. ($13.00) Almost miss 5:00 flight. Should have taken earlier bus. Oh well. 5:00 flight back to Winnipeg. Arrive Winnipeg about midnight. Work tomorrow. Edited by HeatDeath, 29 January 2010 - 08:28 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-01-29 20:26:00
Canada	BC to Vancouver for medical & interview, transport questions	Look up a hotel called the Burrard Inn. They are, literally, next door to the Medical Clinic, and they have budget rooms that are about $60 - $70 per night, which is pretty darn good for downtown Vancouver. The place is very very basic (a step or two down from Motel 6), but they're clean, and VERY conveniently located for getting up at the crack of dawn to get in line for the medical. They are literally 250 feet down the block from the Woking Medical clinic, and about a 15 minute walk from the consulate. Edited by HeatDeath, 29 January 2010 - 07:54 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-01-29 19:50:00
Canada	POE process question	Same here. I went through at Pembina, North Dakota, just south of Winnipeg. They didn't look in my car or ask me for a list at all. And they definitely aren't used to doing I-94s: The first one they printed out for me was multiple entry. The guy caught it and had to call the older guy over to show him how to print out a single-use I-94. I had the list on my laptop. Very simple - Box 1: DVDs. Box 2: Books. Etc... But they didn't ask for it at all.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-01 14:36:00
Canada	POE process question	When I ordered my compliance letter from GM for my car, I got two letters: A compliance letter (indicating that the car was compliant with DOT regulations for the year it was manufactured) and a recall letter (indicating that my car had no outstanding recalls). The two came together, and I paid Vintage Vehicle Services $89.95 CAN for the pair. To import the car, I simply indicated my intention to do so to the border officer, once we were done with everything else. He looked at my compliance letters and registration, and filled out a form, asking me for the bluebook value of my car (look that up before you leave, or lowball it: it may be used to calculate an import tax when you later register the car in your home state.) And that was it. Later, in Utah, I had to get inspections done on the car (local county requirement, will vary wildly from state to state, and even from city to city within a state). Then I took those inspection certificates, the import form the border officer did, and the compliance letters, and my Canadian registration/proof of ownership, handed them to the DMV, plus about $150, and they gave me American plates, an American registration form, and (a week later, in the mail) an American title deed. Easiest part of the whole immigration process. Edited by HeatDeath, 30 January 2010 - 05:56 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-01-30 17:53:00
Canada	Canadians that have a fiance in the States, Their fiances filed petition for them K-! visa	Remember, there are literally hundreds of Canadians here who have successfully gone through the exact same thing you're going through. Feel free to ask any questions you may have, or just vent. The process may seem overwhelming, but serious problems are VERY VERY uncommon. We're extremely fortunate that Canada and the US have very close ties. We have to be patient and jump through a bunch of hoops like everyone else, but we're spared a lot of the obstacles and occasionally even outright hostility that people from some countries have to contend with.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-07 01:59:00
Canada	Canadians that have a fiance in the States, Their fiances filed petition for them K-! visa	Welcome! The best thing for this process is to remember that it may seem long, but it's very straightforward. The K-1 flowchart in the guides section is a good high-level map of what will happen over the next year or so. Just always stay focused on the just next step, and it won't seem so overwhelming. A piece of advice for visiting the US while the process is underway: bring a copy of the I-797 NOA1, AND the entire I-129F packet that got sent to USICS by your USC to start the process. Have your American make you a copy of the whole thing and the receipt notice. We've just heard from someone who visited the US who was weak on the other evidence of ties to Canada (rental/lease/mortgage, employer letter, etc) and their customs officer specifically said that the I-129 packet and NOA1 receipt were the most helpful things for showing intent do this properly.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-07 01:52:00
Canada	What size of UPS trailer did u rent?	I've got an '02 Sunfire and its manual indicated a towing capacity of 1000 lbs or less, not that it has a hitch or anything. If you can't find it in the manual call the dealership, they'll know.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-07 01:43:00
Canada	Child's birth certificate on DS-156K	Parent's names aren't listed on the "normal" birth certificates most Canadians have, but US Immigration usually wants a specific kind of birth certificate called a "long form" birth certificate - those have both parent's names listed. I would expect him to be listed on that unless the divorce/custody arrangements involved special filing to remove him. He may have to order one special from the Vital Statistics department of the province where the child was born. He may need the mother's permission and/or signature to do this. Is he filing through Vancouver or Montreal? I filed through Vancouver, and found that for detailed questions about the consulate / visa application phase of the paperwork, emailing the consulate directly was the best way to get authoritative answers. Vancouver's email address is VancouverK@state.gov. Montreal's should be similar. Be sure to include his name as it appears on his Packet 3 paperwork, and the consulate case number. Edited by HeatDeath, 09 February 2010 - 06:33 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-09 18:29:00
Canada	Interview question	I'm from Winnipeg. If you get a K-1 the interview will be in Vancouver. If you get married first and go for a CR-1 the interview will be in Montreal. There should be no problem with him going to the interview alone. Some consulates, particularly in "high fraud" countries make a big deal of it, but we are very fortunate to be in Canada where it's not a big deal. I was alone at my interview. It's very common in Canada, and not a problem at all. Your main choice, as I said above, is between a K-1 and a CR-1 visa. With a CR-1 you get married first. (For you this would probably happen in the US, because of the travel concerns you note above.) You would then return to Canada while the visa processes. After the interview and approval, you would travel to the US, and receive a green card in a few weeks. This approach is cheaper, and normally about the same length of time (perhaps 1-2 months longer.) The major downside is that you face a significant period of separation after the marriage. Also, Montreal has been significantly backlogged of late, so it may take a couple of extra months to get an interview, delaying the process. With the K-1, your American initiates the process of petitioning for you. Eventually the petition is approved, and you get a packet from the Vancouver consulate. When you fax them everything they want, they schedule you for an interview. If all goes well you get the visa and can travel to the US. Once in the US, you have 90 days in which to marry. You cannot leave the US (for ANY reason, period full-stop) until after you marry and file your Adjustment of Status, receiving your AP document, usually 2-3 months after arrival. K-1 is more expensive (the AOS process is an extra thousand dollars) and you have that awkward 2-3 months in legal limbo after arrival, but it will be somewhat faster (particularly because of Montreal's backlog, which doesn't affect Vancouver), and you have the advantage of no separation after the wedding.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-10 02:02:00
Canada	Canadian Guilt?	Does anyone else feel a little guilty sometimes, thinking about how easy we generally get through compared to the nightmares we read about in the Central and South American consulates, not to even MENTION the MENA (Middle East, North Africa) area? I mean, the worst things we have to worry about is a couple-month backlog at Montreal and accidentally leaving the US without an AP document! That's like nothing! Do we have it too easy?	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-04 01:34:00
Canada	Last Minute Question for POE	I was not asked for my birth certificate at PoE. The copy of your birth certificate from the I-129 and/or the consulate interview is probably inside the packet anyways. But don't open it to check!	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-01 15:39:00
Canada	K-1 immunizations in Canada	Thank you for the replies. That is a relief that we aren't in for a new 7 month wait. He did come home with a question... He is still 18. We are hoping he will still be 18 when he schedules his medical (it will be close, so we aren't taking any chances, he is getting all shots for an 18 year old). According to the medical sites, he needs Meningococcal. The doctor asked him, does he just need the C strand? Or does he need all the strands? I can't find this info on the website. Thanks again. Info sheet I have from the CS medical clinic in Vancouver doesn't specify either. Just says "Meningococcal". Their email address is wokingmedical@telus.net. I'm sure they could tell you. Let us know!	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-10 20:10:00
Canada	K-1 immunizations in Canada	I know for multi shot vaccines (what I recall is regarding Gardasil, but should be true for MMR as well) they only require you to show them proof that you have had the first shot in the series. This is according to the medical instructions for the CS in Vancouver. My daughter needs a vaccine which is given in 3 doses, does she have to complete all three before coming to her medical exam? No, she does not have to complete the series before her medical exam. As long as you have had the first one, that is acceptable. Edited by HeatDeath, 10 February 2010 - 03:17 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-10 15:16:00
Canada	extending wife's stay while she's here in the states	When I've driven down I've never gotten a stamp, except when I entered with my K-1. When I've flown down, I always got a stamp, but sometimes they wrote "B-2" in on the stamp, and sometimes they didn't. I think it may depend on the CBP officer. I have a stamp in my passport from 2007, two from flights from 2008, and two from entries in 2009: a flight in March and a K-1 entry via a land PoE in July. The 2007 stamp was left unwritten on. My two flights in 2008 were both given written B-2 indicators, but first flight in 2009 was not. The second stamp from 2009 is from my K-1 entry via a land PoE, and is of course marked with pen as a K-1, valid until October 9, 2009, just like my I-94. That some of the stamps had no indicated visa type made things a little interesting when I went to fill in the "Visa Issuances" question on the DS-156. I had to asterisk the visa type and indicate at the bottom of the attachment: "Passport stamped but visa type not indicated. Purpose of trip was Visitor for Pleasure." Shrug. The consulate seemed to accept it. At any rate, if you have no indication, either verbal or written, of a specific time by which you have to return, and certainly no I-94 (which would have a hard date on it), then the limit is very likely 6 months and the difference between 2 and 3 weeks won't matter at all.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-16 21:22:00
Canada	I-94 is stapled to my passport...	I specifically asked about this at the PoE. The border officer said that no, removing the I-94 from the passport does not damage it's integrity as a document or any such thing - they just staple it in there because it's a convenient place to put it where it won't get lost When I went to photocopy mine I removed the staple very carefully, made my copies, and stapled it back through the same holes. You can't even tell it's not the original staple Edited by HeatDeath, 18 February 2010 - 04:48 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-18 16:46:00
Canada	Feeling homesick for your favorite rural canadian town or national park?	Google have just added the entirety of rural Canada to Google Maps Streetview! Previously they only had major cities in Canada, and not even all of those. Now it looks like they've got the whole country, in the same density as the US! Go play!	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-17 21:34:00
Canada	POE prior to final move?	Oops, should have specified. Ours is an IR-1. Same thing. Only difference is the category and expiration date on the green card that gets mailed to you. 10 year vs 2 year.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-22 14:31:00
Canada	POE prior to final move?	Technically a CR-1 visa is single use, just like a K-1. But because a CR-1 is an immigrant visa, you are a permanent resident the instant you cross the border. When you PoE for the first time with a CR-1, they will stamp your passport with an I-551 stamp. This stamp is equivalent to a green card (which is also a Form I-551), and you can freely reenter the US using that stamp for (I think) up to one year. The green card itself is mailed to your US address within a month or so of your first PoE.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-22 14:22:00
Canada	wedding bands, wearing in pictures while fiance was here	In Canada, we have the ridiculous good fortune that the consulate officers tend NOT to assume that we are all desperate third-world con artists who will say and do anything to get a visa (unlike some consulates you will read about here :\ ) If they even ask about the ring, which is unlikely, simply tell the truth: that it is currently an engagement ring and the ceremony will turn it into a wedding ring. My USC fiancee wore her ring through the entire engagement. We just added a couple of bands at the ceremony, but the difference wouldn't show up unless the photo was taken from less then a foot away.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-21 14:05:00
Canada	More P3 questions...	I don't know if you're going through Vancouver or Montreal. I emailed Vancouver specifically about the picture blank on the DS-156, as it was one of the forms they wanted faxed in advance of scheduling the interview, and I wanted to know if I should fax it with a picture there. They said I could fax it with or without the photo. I don't think it matters.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-23 22:55:00
Canada	Security check???	this has nothing to do with the topic but I saw Steinbach and I had to respond... I was born there and lived in the Steinbach area for about 15 years.. I still have a boatload of relatives that live there, aunts, uncles, cousins etc...... Cool. I was born and raised and lived in Winnipeg until I moved down here to SLC but for my last 3 years in canada I tuaght computers at Steinbach Christian High School.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-03-03 19:54:00
Canada	Security check???	I agree some take more time and you should call ahead to check. I had mine done in Kitchener, ON and walked out with it. I had mine done in Steinbach, MB, and was able to walk right out with it. Took 20 minutes, tops. Only complication was that they wouldn't take cash, CC or interac, and I didn't have a chequebook handy so I had to go buy a money order at the post office. I just showed them my Packet 3 checklist and they knew exactly what it was talking about and what I needed.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-03-03 16:06:00
Canada	In these Olympics, Canadians only paid attention to Canada.	Many Canadians of a liberal bent (which is to say most of them, including several of my immediate family, but that's a whole 'nother story!) have a strong anti-American bent. One of the things they claim to most hate about American culture is what they describe as "gung-ho, jingoistic hyper-uber-patriotism" - "American exclusivism" - "the idea that they think they're the best d*mn country in the whole world". Patriotism is an utterly foreign, indeed, even barbaric concept to these people. These Canadians, many of them, would be more comfortable describing themselves as "citizens of the world" than of any particular country, including Canada. During these Olympics, my father was telling me the other day, signs of Canadian patriotism were everywhere. When Canada won that last hockey game, you had street parties with thousands of people in the downtowns of every major Canadian city. For the first time, perhaps ever, it mattered that we - that Canadians won, as opposed to people from other countries. This from the country that basically invented "non-competitive" children's "sports"! Canadian society discovered in itself a real patriotism that has never really been publicly expressed on anything like this scale before. It therefore does not surprise me in the least that a significant cross section of Canadian society, in the morning hangover after this orgy of healthy patriotism, looked back on their own behavior, and saw something in themselves and their fellow countrymen that they hate when they see it in others. I have no doubt that they feel quite conflicted over the whole thing. The phrase "self loathing" may not be misapplied Edited by HeatDeath, 03 March 2010 - 01:39 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-03-03 13:37:00
Canada	Cheque question...	Ditto. I deposited a cheque here with no problem. Took them about a week. There may or may not have been a service fee. The exchange rate probably wasn't ideal, but whatever. The distinction here is between depositing and cashing cheques. Most banks have the ability to do the former, for some kind of nominal fee, if you have an account. But cashing is different. Cashing is them just giving you cash for the cheque even if you don't have an account there. My bank won't cash Canadian cheques, and I think very few banks , if any here, will.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-03-04 15:18:00
Canada	Canada to switch to plastic bills next year	Is this the same kind of stuff that several province's birth certificates (at least Manitoba's and BC's) are printed on? That'll be pretty cool. I once saw an Australian bill that had an embedded plastic transparent region, again kinda like the birth certificates. I don't think the entire bill was plastic, but it was still kinda neat. That was in 2000.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-03-07 01:27:00
Canada	Canada EI HELP	Thanks Minnew. Hmm might hard to get money back and forth from a Canadian institution after immigration.. Wonder if EI may be best sent via cheque to the US address? I like direct deposit best but I think it might pose a challenge to have this deposited to a Canadian bank then having it wired to me in the USA. If you still have a Canadian bank account open, then you only need to know one web site for transferring money to an American account: http://www.customhouse.ca A lot of people in the Canada subforum here use it and recommend it. I've used it extensively. Just like Paypal, but with much better rates, and amazing customer service. Edited by HeatDeath, 09 March 2010 - 01:57 AM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-03-09 01:56:00
Canada	Canada EI HELP	Long tenured worker initiative. You have to meet certain conditions to qualify for this ... if you do, it is automatically applied to your claim If you don't ... too bad for you! ;D Read more here: http://www.serviceca...ltw/index.shtml Well, that explains that. Thanks. I had no idea. They ain't told me nuthin' about nuthin' since I applied. They just keep sending me cards and blank statements, and depositing money every so often. The extended benefits are nice, but hopefully won't be applicable. I've got a job interview tomorrow! Wish me luck!	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-03-09 01:19:00
Canada	Canada EI HELP	56 weeks of benefits??? When I did it, the max was 36 weeks. Everyone keeps saying that, but that's what the piece of paper said. <Shrug> Maybe it's some kind of bonus related to how long I'd held the job or how much I was paid? I dunno. Edited by HeatDeath, 08 March 2010 - 08:42 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-03-08 20:42:00
Canada	Canada EI HELP	It's tricky, because there is one place where K-1 holders are required to pretend that they are eligible to work, and that is the US Social Security Administration office. When a K-1 holder applies for a social security card, they are, by the SSA's internal classifications, "eligible to work without specific DHS approval". The SSA is the only organization on the planet that believes that K-1 holders are work authorized, and that is only because until recently, some states required a SSC in order to get married, so K-1 holders needed to be able to get an SSC to fulfill the conditions of the K-1 visa, and you couldn't [by prior SSA regulations] get a SSC unless you were work authorized. Apparently, up until about a year ago, the Canadian EI Out-of-Country Claims Unit was fuzzy on whether or not K-1 holders were work authorized, and favored the SSA's interpretation. This has not been the case for at least a year. Canadian EI now holds, consistently with the USCIS, that K-1 holders are not work authorized until they have an EAD card in their hands. Sucks when government offices actually coordinate, huh? :\ Even more changes are in the pipeline, too. A recent Supreme Court decision finally abolished the rule that a state could require someone to have a SSC to get married. So the entire rationale for K-1 holders to even be able to get SSCs prior to the arrival of the EAD has vanished. Sooner or later they'll clean up the regulations, and K-1 holders will have to wait until we have EADs in order to get SSCs. Edited by HeatDeath, 08 March 2010 - 06:01 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-03-08 17:59:00
Canada	Canada EI HELP	Same thing happened to me: -I arrived here on July 12. -My school employment contract technically ended July 30 (even though July is part of summer holidays). -I applied for EI in very early August. -Got married September 12. -Mailed off AOS on September 23. -Got EAD in late November. -Played phone tag with the EI office for a month to figure out exactly what I was supposed to do, and finally got my EAD and RoE (which I thought they had already from my workplace directly) sent to them in early-mid January. They approved me for 56 weeks of benefits, back dated to 2 weeks after I got my EAD (some kind of necessary waiting period) - early December. So I got a nice lump sum for the 6 weeks between the end of the two week waiting period and mid January, and since then they've been depositing money whenever they get my cards. They sent me a letter stating that I couldn't get any money before my EAD was valid, with instructions on how to appeal that decision, but I don't see any grounds for doing so - that's just what their rules are. Edited by HeatDeath, 08 March 2010 - 04:56 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-03-08 16:53:00
Canada	Birth certificates and divorce decree...	In Utah, there isn't even such a thing as an "original marriage certificate" that you keep. The officiant, you two, and your witnesses sign the marriage license at the ceremony, turning it into your "original" marriage certificate. You take it to the county office, and they keep it permanently, and will only give you certified copies. State-issued certified copies are what the consulate means by "original". They are merely distinguishing between state-issued "extracts from official records" and personal photocopies that you make on a work photocopier, computer scanner+printer, or at Kinko's. Also, to confirm, I did not need to produce my USC fiancee's birth certificate at the interview. They, of course already had a copy of it from the I-129F petition anyways. They did want to see an original of my birth certificate, and would have kept it for inclusion in the file had I not, according to their instructions in the Packet 3, brought a photocopy of it. Edited by HeatDeath, 09 March 2010 - 02:42 AM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-03-09 02:41:00
Canada	HOOOOOOOOOOOCKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY	I stood up, pumped one fist, and whispered "yessssssss" which is more animated than I have ever been about a sporting event in my entire life. Edited by HeatDeath, 28 February 2010 - 08:05 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-28 20:05:00
Canada	HOOOOOOOOOOOCKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY	My goodness, look at what this thread turned into. Yeah. A hockey game broke out!	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-28 19:12:00
Canada	HOOOOOOOOOOOCKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY	OK, so I watched the last 5 minutes of Canada's semifinal over Slovakia, and I have just watched the last 6 minutes of the final, plus the 7 minutes of overtime. I watched Canada win the Gold medal in men's hockey, against the Americans, in overtime sudden death, on home ice, in an Olympics where Canada won more Gold medals than any other country, and more Gold medals than any other country in the Winter Olympics ever, wasn't it? I have now fulfilled my obligation as a Canadian to see any hockey for about the next decade . I just can't see any plausible game in the medium-term future topping that. Yay. Edited by HeatDeath, 28 February 2010 - 06:39 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-28 18:36:00
Canada	Got my Passport Back!	Since you asked... Man, you're hardcore! This is my normal route from Winnipeg to Salt Lake City. The 2nd day, from Bismarck to Butte seems long to me http://maps.google.c...p...16df33a&z=5	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-03-10 01:41:00
Canada	Why Canada Sucks....	State Farm Insurance said in 2001 that this one was the most dangerous one it saw in the US... yikes. That's a BIG standard 4-way. It doesn't seem dangerous for any particular design flaw, so much as for the sheer volume of cars that must pass through it every day. An awful lot of people have to stay in their track, pay attention, maintain situational awareness, and not try to race through in the twilight seconds of a yellow for that thing to stay sane and functional. Just one person drifting sideways in their turn or racing the yellow too late can wreck a lot of people's commutes through that beast	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-03-10 17:53:00
Canada	Why Canada Sucks....	here in LA I used to be scared of merging onto the freeway.. but now I have gotten used to it... Salt Lake City's interstates are very intense, at first, for someone coming from Winnipeg. Winnipeg has no freeways, and very few merges of any kind. Driving from Winnipeg to SLC for several years got me very used to highway merges on rural interstates, which was good: it stepped me up to the point where I could begin to get used to the urban densities of interstate traffic in SLC. which came in very handy on our honeymoon. We went for our honeymoon in Laguna Niguel and San Diego, California. Arriving in the LA basin late at night after a 9 hour drive from SLC was a special kind of hell. The instant you cross the Nevada state line into California, the interstate traffic was as dense as downtown SLC. I think we caught the Sunday night rush from Vegas back to LA! And it only got worse from there. I am very glad I had been driving around SLC, getting used to it's freeways for several months by then. It's like an SAT logic comparison: LA driving is to SLC driving as SLC driving is to Winnipeg driving. I don't know what it is with (at least some) LA drivers. I had to learn to display a new level of inhumanity to my fellow man just to avoid having some maniac drive up my tailpipe! It's like aggression is the only language they understand or respect. T'was probably the Canadian license plates: like an enormous target painted on the back of my car	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-03-10 17:48:00
Canada	Why Canada Sucks....	Maybe I'm thick, but I don't see it... Big ugly uncontrolled area in the middle, the main road is curved, there's a building right at one of the corners killing the sightlines from one of the entrances, and you just get the general feeling that cars could roll through that patch of ground from just about anywhere. With the increasing urban sprawl of Chicago, apparently it's fairly high traffic too, apparently.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-03-10 17:37:00