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December 21st, 2008 at 7:24 pm
One thing that surprised me when I first came to Canada was that the word “cheap” described a positive attribute. Employers, and clients do not want to spend money on creative class services, and input because they do not see the value and are very concerned about spending money. Americans, on the other hand like to be “outside of the box” (that is not a Canadian phrase), and are willing to spend whatever it takes in order to be first, best, biggest, etc.. The difference in attitude is why the modern world was largely invented in the USA. My wife thinks that what it would take to transform a city like Vancouver, for example, is to import a hundred thousand well financed, educated, entrepreneurial Americans.