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Poutine is complete shit outside of Quebec.

I always found the story of that so fascinating.

The British commander that took Washington wanted to take the city peacefully and entered the city under a flag of peace but some Americans in the city opened fire and wounded his horse and killed some of his soldiers. That made him change his mind and he ordered the burning of all public buildings in the city. And his orders were followed so only public buildings such as the White House, parts of the Capitol, the Department of War were burned. The only government building that survived unscathed was the Patent Office because the guy in charge of it pleaded with the British and they listened to him.

The general also wanted to burn down some newspaper that was printing negative stuff about him but some women convinced him not to do it as the fire would likely spread to their houses. He instead ordered the soldiers to take the newspaper building down brick by brick and then ordered the printing equipment destroyed so they can't write more about him. I always found that to be hilariously petty.

Also another story I heard was that President Madison was so sure that the British wouldn't take the city that he had a dinner party prepared for that evening. When the British sappers came to burn down the White House they ate all the food and drunk all the wine prepared before starting to burn the White House down.

After sometime a big storm came and put out the fires and even a tornado landed in the middle of the city. The British decided to get out at that point as the storm caused a lot of damage to the city and casualties to their troops and civilians. As they were pulling out the general asked some woman if this is the kind of weather they get in these God forsaken lands. The woman told him the storm was sent by God to save them from their enemies and the general retorted that the storm actually helped them finish destroying the city.

We already did half of it for you!

I mean honestly and truthfully if you don't care and are willing to drive...like...awhile to get to something even moderately close to what would be considered a decent sized civilization then I think you'd do fine.

If you don't want to live along the US border then you could probably score some land in like Northern Ontario or like Albera or something. But keep in mind the further you get from the border the harsher the winter. If you're ok with dealing with -40C winters then have at it. You gotta prep for that crap too because depending on where you decide to go you gotta be ready to spend 8+ hours at least driving for like groceries or something. I used to live in a town in Northern Ontario where the nearest Indigenous reserve was like 10+ hours away. So once a month they'd all drive down here, clear out the walmart and safeway, and then head back. People who lived and worked out in the bush did the same. came to town once a month, stocked up, spent the night in the motel, drove back the next day.

I agree, what’s property like way out in the country?

The first tell is usually the volume (*when talking amogst each other), followed by wanting things to be adjusted to accomodate them in ways that don't make any sense in Switzerland.

Khaki shorts and New Balances and visiting Europe to eat McDonalds

If they've been living in Canada 30 years, these are overall probably not the sort of people who are gonna use this (unless the political climate in the US changes significantly I guess). Most of the right wingers I know have a very "America is better than Canada, why would I want to be Canadian?" sort of view.