• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    the west. We made some money in the oil and gas industry

    Wrong. You’re thinking MID-west. Get over the Rockies and we’ll talk.

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      16 hours ago

      I also studied and worked in northern BC in forestry and lived on the coastal islands as a hippie. Please don’t presume to know me. Did you move to BC? That’s a very un-BC thing to say in my experience of living there and being from somewhere else.

      I have also in my fifty years of life, thirty five of which I spent travelling and living in many different places and provinces, most west of Manitoba and east of Quebec, never ever once have I heard Alberta and Sask called the mid west. Never.