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Re: Moving To Greener Pastures(Anniston)

To: "Hooper, Mark" <Hooper@alex.com>
Subject: Re: Moving To Greener Pastures(Anniston)
From: stu.jo@ibm.net
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:33:21 -0700
Cc: "'triumphs@autox.team.net'" <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
References: <c=US%a=_%p=Alex_Informatiqu%l=INTRANET-980612144134Z-754@intranet.alex.com>
Hooper, Mark wrote:
> 
> You fellows are all missing the real promised land: Canada !!
> 
> The living standard is as good as anywhere. The crime rate is
> approximately 10% of the US level. The people are generally quite
> polite. The cities are very clean. The countryside is beautiful. And
> right now the US dollar buys 1.45 Canadian dollars. Everything cost in
> $CDN the same that you pay in $US in the USA. Look at Ottawa, Montreal
> for research  and high tech and amazing French atmosphere. Toronto for
> finance and Vancouver for pacific rim trading and unbelievable
> coastline. In between there a few thousand miles of rather nice
> countryside. True, the taxes are higher than the US, but you get some
> medical care for that which avoids the prospect of saving your ass off
> all your life just to lose it when you get ill at retirement time. True,
> we have to tolerate our separatists (and I'm english living in Quebec),
> but I'd take them any day over your militia types (creepy people) I have
> travelled all over the US (and still do). I really like Americans in
> general and your medium sized cities, but you couldn't pay me enough to
> move to a large US city, and quite a few have tried. Good luck finding
> your new spot, eh.
> 
> Mark Hooper
> hooper@alex.com
> Montreal, Quebec
> Canada
> 
> >----------
> >From:  smith007@mindspring.com[SMTP:smith007@mindspring.com]
> >Sent:  Friday, June 12, 1998 4:14 AM
> >To:    triumphs@autox.team.net
> >Subject:       Moving To Greener Pastures(Anniston)
> >
> >
> >Carl Musson wrote:
> >>Hugh - you make it sound so good, maybe we should all move to Aniston...
> >Hallelujah! This sounds like the promised land? It's seriously hot here in
> >Tampa, Florida, I don't make enough money to live the life of the rich and
> >infamous.I want to move! Looking for a place with no crime, large enough to
> >gain employment, and inexpensive to live. Looking for 4 seasons. Cooler
> >Summers, Maybe a college Town.Right now I,m Looking into Western W.VA.,
> >Eastern KY., Southwest VA.Any suggestions? Any British Cities out there in
> >America?
> >
> >
> >  Phil Smith
> >    69 TR6
> >    " More Dreams Than Money "
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But what about the 140 inches of snow every year in Montreal? And
thatwind coming off Lake Ontario-my wife is from Burlington- been there
in Winter-didn't like it.

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