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Originally Posted by CDSmith
Painintheass... tell me, if you are from one of those poor areas of Quebec, how come you aren't still there? I mean, how did you find a way to afford not only university education, but at a university 4,000 km away in Vancouver?
And,... how is it that YOU found a way out of those "poor rural areas"?
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My father died when I was young. My step-father was an Acadien lawyer from Moncton and every year he used come up to visit his sister in the nearest ville and then would go for a week of camping.
My mother and step-father met one day. 2 years later we moved to Moncton. I was lived in the remains of an old logging settlement that hadn't been used for almost 100 years. There was apx 30 families in my community.
You want to claim that the people that origionally came there made the decision for us? Hmmmm.... think about it logically before you do. Montreal or quebec is a long distance away and they came to this place because of work. And the work never disappears just over-night. Because if it did there would have been an exodus and this conversation wouldn't be occuring.
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Originally Posted by CDSmith
AND.... why are you so insulted when someone dares to suggest that staying in such a poor rural area is a choice rather than a prison sentence? Are you always insulted by the truth? No one is holding a gun to anyone's head to live in a shack at the end of a dirt road no matter where they are in Canada. In this country we have the freedom to go where we want, and it seems to me that YOU are the proof in that pudding. You got out.
Seems to me the only one who is insulting your people here is you. You obviously think they are too stupid to get themselves out of their lousy situation, that they all need some kind of government funding (we call it welfare) to flow their way before they have a chance at a better existance. Damn, you are harsh girl.
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I didn't say anyone was stupid. In fact I have avoided the use of the derogatroy name calling. And any strong worded attacks I might have made have been at the issues and never on a personal level.
However, this is something you have engaged in with zeal.