After I left America I wrote about the differences I noticed between the States and England. In Canada, I expected to find something a little more like home, Canada is a commonwealth country after all, so you’d think it would be a lot more like England, right? They have our Queen as their head of state and her head on their money, even if they do drive on the wrong side of the road and measure everything in kilometres and centimetres. As it turns out, not so much but it isn’t like America either. So what were the differences I noticed between Canada and England? Continue reading Canada, different but mostly in a good way
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America, the same language, a very different world

Before I went to America I read an amusing list of differences between our two countries written by an American in the UK. This made me think it would be fun to turn this around and look at the ways America was different to England. Of course we only spent a couple of days in a very small part of this massive country so the differences we noticed might be specific to New York rather than the whole of the United States. Rather then one hundred differences I’ve chosen just fifty, the next fifty will be about Canada.
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