APAD: There’s no place like home

There’s no place like home   Meaning
to have an affinity for one’s home over every other place
to say that the home is the best place
to say that one’s home is beyond compare

- Source: theidioms.com
 

I found this idiom is a very fitting one for today: Canada Day.  Yes, Canada turns 157 today.  It was Confederation on July 1, 1867, when Canada officially became a country.

  I have been in Canada for such a long time that I have spent more of my life in my 2nd home than the 1st. During this time, I had many opptunities to move elsewhere, especially to south of the border, like many of Chinese people working in Hi-Tech, including my co-workers and friends did.  But I chose to stay.    I can't say exactly why when being asked.  Is it the cold weather in winter with snow & ice? No. Is it higher taxes and higher food cost? No.  Okay, I think it's its people: warm and kind, relaxed and down to earth, especially in not too big cities like where we live now.  People treat each other like neighbours and are always ready and willing to help strangers. So stayed I did, and happy to have become a proud Canadian.  Of course we may be labled as "lazy" too, but that is okay with me. ;-)   Back in May 2008, we drove to Washington DC for a pleasure trip and stayed in a small B&B.  At the end of the first day in our stay, I found this note (see photo below) on our car windshield.  It was from a fellow Canadian couple living in the neighbourhood, they must have seen our car plate (Ontario) and wanted to welcome us, even we were total strangers.  We didn't visit them, but have kept this wonderful note.    July 4th is also coming soon for those live in USA. But today is a special day for me and fellow Canadians, as there is no place like home.  

Home is where the heart is

for sure.

Happy Canada Day! It was cold but oh so many warm memories.

Thank U! we r lucky here: not too cold even in winter ;-))

and not lucky: not hot enough in summer ;-))

Happy Canada Day, fellow Canadian! a nice write-up.

Thx 白云美眉，same to You!

Just noticed: Chinese Canadians like to play APAD :-))

Keen observation! Maybe 文艺青年 in our last lives? ;-))))

Happy Canada Day! Saw your lovely home b4. Enjoy ur stay!

Thx 暖冬。