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Do they dismiss entire provinces' worth of people as jerks based on a single experience? Because that would be a pretty awful thing for them to do, yeah.
buddy I grew up in Alberta. and there's 2 things to sum up the people.
During mask mandates I was in the Carstairs post office, and saw a woman with no mask picking up 2 boxes labeled cristianbooks.com
the second is everyone in Alberta thinks being compared to Texas is a compliment.
these are two light hearted examples, with many more in the memory bank.
there's jerks everyone. My worst bit of transphobia was in Toronto.
But Alberta does seem to have the highest concentration of jerks. at least as far as my experience has gone.
Carstairs is a rural town with a population of 4900.
Oh, everyone?
I happen to be Albertan and the notion of being compared to Texas fills me with anger. I'd like you to back that up with some kind of poll or statistic, please.
if your taking things that literally on the internet, I can't help you.
but what I can say is I didnt know anyone who understood it's an insult was until I moved out of Alberta. So everyone I met while growing up, yeah.
for the record I grew up in Calgary.
OP is being warned to "stay away" specifically from Alberta because we're apparently not safe to be around, how am I supposed to be taking this? So far the only solid reasons that have been given are:
So yeah, I'm rather offended. I think OP would have a perfectly fine time coming to visit Alberta.
why are you taking it personally that were talking about you specifically?
I know many great Albertians. But they're a slim minority. The people, as a whole, are not as good to interact with if your a person if color. this is coming from friends who are.
we're not saying you specifically are an ass, but that a lot more people are asses in Alberta than most other places in Canada.
I gave you a few light hearted examples.
how about the person who crashed into my friends cart for wearing a mask in a store and said "don't rob me".
how about all the terrible things said about natives out there?
how about the police running moonlight walks?
or the anti abortion ads that used to be on trucks and on the university campus showing graphic photos?
there's more than you there.