Quote Originally Posted by badger View Post
and it's funny how some people associate the west as "brown". There's nothing brown around here in the pacific northwest!!
Maybe some folks are talking about the western areas with rolling, drier hills like what we have in the interior British Columbia...400 kms. inland from the coast...where it's near desert or at least the hills are hardly green.

Even western Canada includes the flat prairies, or foothills before Rocky Mountains rise.

Agree with GLC, North America is frickin' huge and diverse. It never ceases to amaze whenever I travel several thousand kms. across Canada. Somehow living in such huge countries, culturally and psychologically, gives some of us the sense of unlimited opportunities for life changes, etc. without switching languages as one would need to, in Europe.

I do mean my last sentence quite seriously. It has been one of the reasons and still is for some people, why people immigrate to North America: freedom to live where they want, lots of choice in terms of lifestyle, less national borders/less hassle in big space.

Except some people really refuse to travel/explore/learn outside their small region within their state/province.

You know what I mean?