[grooveless touque]

This is not in any way a criticism. It's not. I have my opinions. Maybe I'm too stubborn to do the easy thing and get out of a bad situation! :lol: but if things were really in a bad way on a grand scale here in Canada, I wouldn't move back to England. Isn't there a part of you that wants to remain in the US, fighting for what you believe? Trying to make a difference from within? Once you're up here, Americans will dismiss your point of view. I have American friends who live here who have been very disappointed to find that out. My friend from Philly thought she'd be able to immerse herself in a culture she appreciates more up here while still waging a war of words against Bush...but even though she's from the US and lived there 27 years, she's been here for two years now and American dismiss everything she thinks out of hand. She's finding it hard for her ideology to be heard because she left and, in the eyes of many of her American friends, "quit". Your thoughts?