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Ok, I want to move.
No, I mean really tell me you have room for a small one? go ooooon... I'll even dress up as a penguin for you...
Sounds like home should do - like a northern exposure kinda place
Ah yes, Cherry Coke. We Americans are quite famous for that.
Sounds like a great little town you live in! I especially like the nice neighbor thing. Mine are so unfriendly down here.
What will we think of next? Why, diet cherry coke, of course! Nutritious and delicious.
Canada fascinates me. It's like America with a soul, or something.
I've heard the rumours about the days of yore when people could go to the US and buy things. I always assumed they were fables.
Farhenheit 9-11 isn't doesn't represent Vancouver very well, we've got one of the worst property crime rates in North America.
It sounds like such a nice place to live, because I love small towns. I remember going to the U.S. in the 90's too for the great deals, especially PAYLESS!
Hey Jamie,
Great answer!
I doubt that I could make my home town of Brampton sound so interesting...
Although, TECHNICALLY I am from the big smoke...
Actually, the movie doesn't say we don't have crime, because we do. It just says that we aren't afraid of it because if someone breaks into our house, we know they want our stereo (replaceable), and that they're not there to shoot us.
A few of my Torontonian friends and I will be taking a good old fashioned road trip up to Quebec City next month. Perhaps we should take a pit-stop in Cornwall! We already have to make the obligatory stop at The Big Apple, so...
As far as the doors unlocked thing goes, I'll add that I live within spitting distance of downtown Toronto, and I regularly leave my door unlocked/open and let random people into my building. I also walk around the city at all hours of the night and rarely, if ever, feel apprehensive. And I'm not crazy or anything, either 
Well, not that crazy.
Also... not to be all corrective... but I think the movie with the scences where Michael Moore walks into random Toronto houses was actually Bowling for Columbine.
It's great that the town is so safe! And strawberry picking is fun too, although your fingers get sticky. I want to live in a small town one day, well actually not that small. It has to have a department store, gourmet health shops, a gym, a main street with cafes..oh well....
Burning on the way up? Yeah "Two Dogs" and "Hooch" were the evil concoctions over here... we went through a spate when so-called "brewers" injected pure alcohol into sweet beverages and found that their consumer base consisted chiefly of kids... strange that :S
I left a comment earlier and it hasn't materialised. 'Bugger!' indeed. Was just saying thanks for the fullness of that answer - it suited my desire for the clear mental image of Cornwall (spliced with personal experience). Lovely lovely. Good week to you.
with the exception of the hand job comment, you could submit that beauty into the freeloader to increase tourism.
growing up in m-town i always view cornwall as a city, yet here are all these people calling it "small town"... well shiiit, how naive.
i especially liked the fact that most of your compliments had to do with the out of city experiences, which are definitely the best characteristics.
Sounds like my home townin the pine barrons of NJ. Now I wanna go back and visit the ice cream parlor there!
Sounds real nice there.
You almost make me wanna move!
Except you get too cold there for my tastes.
3T
odd, i have only ever driven by cornwall on the way to TO. never actually BEEN there. my grandparents used to vacation there all the time for a weekend get away or something. i thought it was cute. they'd been doing that since they were just young pups together. (now they've been together 66 years!)
That was so colorful!
I too had the BSC and SVH books - no Nancy Drew for you?
Thanks, Matt. It is entirely possible I got my wires crossed...or, er, more wires crossed than usual? Super criss crossy wires? Well, you know.
Yes, Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys too...I read pretty much anything I could get my hands on. By the age of 10 I had depleted the city's resources of youth books, and moved on to Danielle Steele...I learned lots about milky white breats and such at a very young age.
Ah a ten-year-old reading Danielle Steele- a girl after my own heart!! Thanks for stopping by the other day. You have a great site here!!
And oh how I loved the fun shennanigans of the BSC and SVH!
Hey - maybe we Americans LIKE our gun, gand, and drug-related violence; our increasingly fascist/crackpot religious government; constant warfare with nations who don't pose a threat to us; widening divides between classes, races, religions, and sexual orientation; out-of-control real estate prices and the aristocratic society that evolves when only the wealthy can afford to own property; and the spectre of megacorporations! Ever stop to consider that?
Hi Jay, thats a really nice description of Cornwall. Like some of the other commenters I've only driven through it a time or three. Next time I'm back east I'll make an effort to go see it with a new eye.
Jay, are you secretly working for the Cornwall Business Improvement Association? If not, they should snap you up.
Ah, very nice. Pure Canadiana, that! Cool.
this was a great read and you sure made cornwall stand out against the background. well done. only someone with heart can go in-depth like that.
I'm going to pass this along to a guy I know from Cornwall. He doesn't seem to like the place very much.
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