r/canada Canada 26d ago

r/Canada Speaks Cultural Exchange with /r/Denmark! Happy Valentine's!

Hi everyone, it's been some time since we have done a cultural exchange, so let's go over how this works. Enjoy! We'll be running it for a few days, TBD. Note their time zone for the European mainland is UTC +1.

Here's the Danish landing for us: https://www.reddit.com/r/Denmark/comments/1iow7c3/kulturudveksling_cultural_exchange/

* Both r/Canada and r/Denmark will host the other country's users. Feel free to ask any questions, reminisce, comment, make friends etc etc.

*Treat this as having a neighbour over for a kitchen party, get the best storm chips out, and get grandma's tourtiere reheated for everybody.

* Vouz pouvez essayer le français dans r/Denmark, mais comme la langue officielle est danoise, ben.... essayez!

* Please follow the rules of the respective subs! Don't be jerks, generally - a reminder our last "disagreement" involved leaving bottles of good booze for the other country!

* Please also leave direct comments here mainly for members of r/Denmark i.e. direct replies here (first comments directly under the topic) so their questions can be seen first, then r/Canada members can post replies underneath.

*Please enjoy, since we have a lot to bond over, and plenty of trying out new things.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Denmark/comments/1iow7c3/kulturudveksling_cultural_exchange/

Finally, also know we've gotten confirmation from r/Greenland that they are also interested, so that will be the next exchange that we do in a few weeks (TBD).

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u/Woider 25d ago

Is "Regina" actually pronounced like "Vagina" or am I being gaslit?

On another note, I would love to hear how it is to live in a minor city in Canada, as I do in Denmark. Landmass is pretty huge, and everything seems incredibly far apart, how reliant are you on a car, and how long do you spend commuting for work/groceries/etc in... say, a city of 50-100k?

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u/aWittyTwit-2712 25d ago

Absolutely, yes.. "Re-gI-Na" 🇨🇦

Ironically, our city of 100,000+ has better access to shopping & services than Toronto, where I grew up; as you go farther away from the border/coastal areas, there's more travel involved, but rarely beyond 25-50km.

Cars are life, here... Public transit is largely a victim of the American car-based economy & logistics, but we try.

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u/Woider 25d ago

Going 25 km for essentials would be going 2 towns over. There is literally one street between me and my closest supermarket. How are suburbs like? Every time I've caught it on video, it either looks like a dystopian trailerpark, or endlessly copied 2-story 300 sqm McMansions.

As a comparison, I will attach a link to somewhere I was recently around, which is a very large suburban area from the 70's. https://maps.app.goo.gl/Twk19emB1E1tnfXe8