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| Is Winnipeg, Manitoba really that friendly?
Posted: 10/29/2009 5:47:53 AM | Been to quite a few around the world in my day and I have to say 2 of the 3 worst were right here at home. Winnipeg, Ottawa and London are my top three for the hardest to meet people, unless you know people.
Edinburough, Ocho Rios, Montreal, anywhere in Newfoundland, and Rankin Inlet win for most likely to be invited home for dinner and drinks or coffee by someone you met walking down the street. | |
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| Is Winnipeg, Manitoba really that friendly?
Posted: 10/29/2009 8:22:33 AM | Can we really equate violence with the everyday people we meet,though? I agree the violence has gotten out of hand,but I don't believe it has anything to do with the people you may meet elsewhere.
On the other hand,I've seen a couple of situations that make me wonder about "Friendly Manitoba". One was when my sister-in-law swerved to avoid a deer on a rural road in our area and ended up rolling her car into a water filled ditch. As she's walking home barefoot and soaking wet,she says that at least 4 vehicles passed her without stopping to see if she needed help. And here I thought Woodlands was a close-knit rural community.
The other was when my 8 months pregnant girlfriend had a flat tire on highway 68 in Eddystone. As she was trying to change the tire people were slowing down,flipping her the bird and driving off. No one stopped to help her. She was finally able to get me on the phone(I was working on a job 10 miles down the road)and I headed over to give her a hand.
Maybe it's just me,but I've often been late for an engagement of some type because I stopped to help someone. | |
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| Is Winnipeg, Manitoba really that friendly?
Posted: 11/8/2009 9:57:14 AM | Interesting thread!!
I moved to Winnipeg 20 years ago. Coming from Saskatchewan I felt that the "Friendly Manitoba" monicker was not deserved. We had neighbors on 3 sides. The older couple on one side were alright..."friendly" I suppose enough but there was nothing like the hospitality I came to take for granted in Regina.
On the other two sides, one neighbor was afraid to be friendly (we suspected) because they had a swimming pool and assumed we would always be sending out kids over. The couple behind us ignored us for about a year whenever they were working in their back yard.....until one day the man called me over to complain about something.
We also found Winnipeg rather "cliquey" ...seemed alot of older people lived here and/or there were alot of long time relationships between people and not much room for new comers.
NEGATIVE EH?
Well 20 years later I feel a little like the fella who Produced " My Winnipeg" ...inspite of cold ...the cold and the dark.....the fork inside the forks....I still am drawn to it. Its like it never escapes you even when you leave.
The strong relationships built over that time...the memories ...the good and the bad....the experiences have become a part of me.....
Being apart now and able to look back with perspective I can honestly say I feel far more connected to Manitoba than I do to Saskatchewan, where I was born and raised and began a family. Except for Family and the Riders, (somethings are too important and strong to surrender..lol) I feel little tie to Saskatchewan.
So maybe it takes time...
Except for ONE THING: Notice these two guys below
With few exceptions have seen Saskatchewanians bad mouth and make fun of Manitobans....on the other hand mouthy M'tobans (there's a better monicker) constantly put down their neighboring province....look at the latest in MTS commercials for example...sheesh whats with that?
Such bullying is usually a sign of an inferiority complex. | |
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| Is Winnipeg, Manitoba really that friendly?
Posted: 11/9/2009 11:12:20 PM | | When I go out and meet people not from Winnipeg, they have said that Winnipeg is not friendly. Anyone who was friendly to them were also not from Winnipeg. I am not originally from Winnipeg, but am from Manitoba. And I don't think the crime in this city is a measure of how friendly it is. Just because a place is friendly doesn't mean it doesn't have crime. My girlfriend from back home was visiting and we were downtown and she held the door open for the person behind her. It's what nice people do. Well! It just wasn't one person that walked through, but a number of people and not one of them said thank you. I finally told her to leave the door because she could be standing there all day. I would say the people from the country are more friendlier. But people coming to our city are expecting to meet friendly people because that is what is being advertised. Friendly Manitoba. How friendly are you? | |
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| Is Winnipeg, Manitoba really that friendly?
Posted: 11/10/2009 9:47:19 AM | As long as I have you I'll be okay.............everywhere you go there has to be something going on. I think it's just the media that sensationalizes those things, why can't they focus on good stuff for once. | |
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| Is Winnipeg, Manitoba really that friendly?
Posted: 11/15/2009 6:40:48 PM | What could be friendlier than offering some one drugs to share?? LOL!! Maybe thats why all the friendlier peole are "stoners"...ha!!
To h#@% with "Friendly Manitoba" or what was that other one that was so bad I can't even remember it? Something "Spirit!"
Our License Plates should read "Home of the original Stoner"...of course I am refering to people from Stonewall . Ha!! | |
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| Is Winnipeg, Manitoba really that friendly?
Posted: 11/15/2009 7:53:51 PM | | what is the new sign you have at fort whyte welcome to winnipeg hub of the continent or some such thing? i think with that kind of arrogance it must be hard to be friendly, who could measure up other than toronto of course. | |
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| Is Winnipeg, Manitoba really that friendly?
Posted: 11/20/2009 8:34:40 PM | I think a lot of places have good and bad, and Winnipeg isn't any different. You can focus on crime but that isn't the point. New York City is legendary for crime also for the closeness of neighbors in pockets like the Bronx.
I do think that our cousins from the east coast have the friendliness business cornered though. I was travelling up the coast of Nova Scotia several years ago and stopped in a restaurant in Lunenberg. I was seated at a table by myself and only one other table in the restaurant was occupied. I sat there for maybe 30 seconds before being invited to join the others, I had a great meal and a great conversation- for about 3 hours!!! I love Winnipeg and know a lot of great people, but I just don't see that happening here. | |
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| Is Winnipeg, Manitoba really that friendly?
Posted: 11/21/2009 5:59:34 AM | not at all friendly,, i would rather stay out of town as much as possible,, but have to go sometimes,, and only in the daylight,,, or in certain areas only,,
need prooof wait and see the responses,, | |
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