Why does Canada feel like it exists 10 years in the past?

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, Canada has had those machines looong before ‘pre pandemic’. Interesting that the us is so techy but so behind in that aspect.

But THE SHOPPING!
I mean, who cares about a secure a s accessible banking system (which helps shopping, but whatever). Can you even imagine not being able to get the same
Michael Kors or whatever shirt that you can get in DC?

It's tragic. I don't know how we survive it.

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Canada is boring and cold.

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Anonymous wrote:Smaller cities being behind bigger cities on fashion trends is a thing, but at this point 90s fashion just keeps coming around every 5 years so I don't know how you can tell anymore who is behind the times. Maybe they're actually ahead of our next nostalgia-rooted trend.

FWIW my circles are moving back to physical media because stuff keeps getting removed from streaming.

The late 90s were the pinnacle of fashion. Everything was so plain and streamlined and practical. I hate a dropped shoulder, but otherwise, we can just keep 90s fashion forever?

I wish I had my 90s bod for that streamline look. The bootcut jeans and clingy tops? Yes please.

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So you’re visiting one city and anssuming all the provinces and cities are the same as the one you visited?

Okaaaay.

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Anonymous wrote:It's funny, I used to think that about France for instance (where I am from), but huge contrast now: Tech stuff like Apple Pay and payments in general -this used to be very annoying- are now seamless, and they also are so much more advanced when it comes to the environment: zero pesticide landscaping everywhere on roadways and towns, no plastic bags...It makes the US look behind.

The US is very behind.

Canada had better payment systems decades before the US. Even now, the US payment systems are worse than the UK.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a NYer, and this is how I felt traveling anywhere outside the city. Fashion especially is always a couple years behind.

lol

Typical New Yorker. Watching them navigate a smaller city is funny.

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Anonymous wrote:I find this interesting, because Canada had tap to pay long before the US did. I was still having SIGN receipts at cashiers while able to pay so much easier in Canada. That was a little while ago.

And those credit card machines that they bring to your table in a restaurant like the have in Europe and Canada.

I hate seeing the server walk off with my card here.

In NYC a ton of restaurants have those machines now.

This has more common in DC now too. I’d say half of the restaurants I visit have it now.

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My best friend and her DH moved from New York to Montreal 2 years ago. They love Canada and all that old fashioned stuff.