- Peanut Butter: okay, I know, I’m a peanut butter snob
- Roads: While Canada has wider roads, larger shoulders, less curves, no hedges or stone walls to crash into, we do have bigger pot holes and bumpy surfaces. I still prefer driving in Canada, though!
- Restaurant prices: give me Swiss Chalet anyday! $15 gets you a huge rotisserie chicken meal and a drink (including taxes and tip!)
- How bars & clubs operate: I prefer the tipping system because it motivates bar staff to work harder and ensures you’ll be served quicker if you tip better.
- Subway: Choose from three types of cheese and yellow mustard. How I miss yellow mustard.
- Public Toilets: I much prefer American toilets. The water levels are so low in the UK / Europe that more often than not the entire bowl smells like pee
- Recycling: You wouldn’t believe how bad the recycling system is in Bath & North East Somerset… Plus I have a feeling it all ends up in the dump anyhow. There should be a bottle deposit on alcohol cans and recycling bins beside public trash cans…
- Central heating: I prefer vents to radiators, and in Canada we keep our houses warmer, generally.
- Television: namely Comedy… I don’t ‘get’ British comedy
- Coffee: You know I love my Tim Horton’s!
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- Dairy products: Skim milk is actually delicious and cheese is incredible
- Cider: There are are so many different kinds – my favourite is Pear
- Checkout queues: aside from Lloyds bank, they keep the queues moving faster here
- Fashion: always a step ahead of Canada, but prices are double (or more)
- Traffic intersections: traffic circles make so much more sense than traffic lights or four-way stops.
- Window shopping: I love having everything on a ‘High Street’ where all the shops are terraced and all the good shops are crammed together with nice window displays.
- Public transportation: trains, in general. They run so often and are much cheaper.
- Houses: gotta love the Georgian architecture in Bath!!!
- Fireplaces: there’s one in each room here, including the bathroom!
- Accents: you know all us North Americans are suckers for the accents…
- Slang: Not only is everyone familiar with American slang, but they have a whole set of slang
- Design: signage, menus, magazines, etc are much nicer here, on average
- Pub cleanliness: well, the ones I’ve been to anyways…
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Oh my good lord! What an excellent comparison! Each time one of my friends asks me about how Canada is different to England, I’ll link them to here.
I don’t agree with every single point but you’re, for the most part, spot on. (I miss Yellow mustard too… I always take my subway sandwich home and use some of my own!
) Especially about Timmy’s What I wouldn’t give to have Timmy’s in England… Instead we get Krispy Kream… like that’s an alternative. pfffft!
I gotta say though…. you don’t like British comedy!?! wtf!? best in the world. All the old stuff like Fawlty Towers right the way through to current gems like Peep Show. But hey, horses for courses.
I just read this again…. Are you counting the bendy roads in England as a negative!? What are you on!? you wait til you get a license here and see how that holds up.
I’ve been meaning to getting around to making a blog like this too. The peanut butter thing is so true, but now that I’ve been here for a while without North American peanut butter, I’ve gotten pretty used to it. I mean, I *can* get North American peanut butter here, but only in select grocery stores, and it’s pretty pricey.
And pear cider is delicious! I used to drink this kind in Canada, Sir Perry. I think it’s from England, though.