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:-/ I first asked Pyro this one as he lives in Calgary. I'm sure he won't mind my passing it on.
This is thoroughly nerdy, but I can't help that. It's the way I'm made.
I was looking at a map of Canada and saw a town called Lloydminster. It was situated on the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan, so I looked it up on the internet and found out that border went along the main street and that there was Lloydminster, Alberta, and Lloydminster, Saskatchewan.
So does everybody go shopping in the Alberta part to avoid PST?
And what about time zones, especially as Saskatchewan doesn't have daylight saving time in the summer. So are they two hours apart in the summer?
Please save me from sleepless nights.
Nigel
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I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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marc
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If there was a website for these or this bisected town why not email them and ask?
I would think that anyone with a tiny bit of brains would go shopping where they had the best tax advantage.
As far as the time.... and time zones.... well, where ever there is a time zonal shife there must be someone near the line..... so it must be a fairly common occurance.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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I seem to recall (from ny days when doing National Telephone Surveys), Lloydminister, and that would be all of it regardless of which side of the Provincial boundary it lies, falls within Area Code 306, which would take care of your question about Daylight Savings Time, as all of "306" falls within the Province of Saskatchewan; regarding the shopping habits I haven't the foggiest idea, but surely it would be no different that other trans-border communities, whether they lie wholly within the territorial confines of Canada such as Ottawa, On./Hull, P. Q. (our National Capital Regional, where all telephones dial and connect regardless of the Exchange and/or Area Code) or straddle the International boundary with the U. S. like Rock Island, P. Q./Derry, N. H., Niagara Falls, On./Niagara Falls, N.Y. and Fort Erie, On./Buffalo, N. Y., Windsor On./Detroit, Mi. or hundred of others.
I do remember from my own living in Niagara Falls On. that we were never, ever, bothered by either Canadian or U.S. Customs traversing back and forth, even with a trunk loaded with merchandise, but only so long as we had proof of residence in either one or the other border community. The same applied when I attended school in Rock Island P. Q. where the border went right through half of the commercial buildings in town, so that dependent on which side of the painted white line you were standing, you were either in Canada or the U.S. The best restaurant in town (I've forgotten it's name now ... some 40-years having passed since I've was last there ... was owned and operated by a French-Canadian couple, whose children (all 14 of them) were born in the U.S. because their hospital was closer than the Canadian, and who routinely priced their Menu in both U.S. and Canadian Dollars because depending on where you sat you could be wholly in Canada, or wholly in the U.S. or as was most often the case, you would likely be straddling the line, with one or more of each of you and your party being in one or the other, or quite possibly both, at one and the same time.
Warren C. E. Austin
Toronto, Canada
"... comme recherché qu'un délice callipygian"
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Wow i feel kinda embaressed to still know so little about this town that's so close to me. I asked some friends of mine as well as my parents to try and see if anyone i know has been up that way and remembers much about what it's like there. So far no one knows. If i lived there however i'd probably want to live on the Alberta side, the taxes are better although the political climate isn't that great, but then again its no better in Saskatchewan.
Definitely a vacation destination i might look into this summer. It'd be perfect for a poor college boy like me cus it's in driving range  .
But while we're talking about Canadian stuff I have a question of my own. In Edmonton (city about 4 hours north of where i live) there is a giant shopping centre called West Edmonton Mall. they have a giant indoor water park there that's really cool if you're ever in Edmonton go take a look; even if you don't like water slides the place is usualy crawling with cute boys anyway, back on topic...they claim to have the largest indoor water park in the world. And i'm not sure, i mean, it's big there's a lot of water slides and a huge wave pool and a bungee tower and it's all indoors under one giant glass dome but still saying that it's the largest in the world, well, i dunno...can anyone confirm or disconfirm here?
Take care,
Pyro
Do what you love, changing the world is incidental.
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West Edmonton Mall, at the time it was built (very early 1970's) by the then Ghermazian (sp.???) Brothers, was the largest indoor Shopping Mall ever constructed, anywhere; this not-with-standing the included indoor theme park and amusement arcade.
The Ghermazians continued their trend-setting style when constructing the Woodbine Centre in the northwestern Toronto suburb of Rexdale some years later, which again featured an indoor Theme Park and Amusement Arcade; inlieu of the Waterpark (as another developer had just putting the finishing touches on theirs not half-a-dozen blocks away from the Mall site) a miniature railroad linking all elements of the Park and three-story roller-coaster were constructed. Recently the Ghermazians have been the subject of lawsuits and proxy fights arising form their "majority" ownership and operating control of the Mall of America (the current holder for it's record physical size) built in the U. S. mid-west in between their contruction of the West Edmonton Mall and Woodbine Centre attractions.
Mall "Theme" Parks appear to have lost some of their attraction and lustre to Torontonians, with Woodbine Centre having been recently reopened after considerable renovations and major reductions in the size of their Amusement Arcade and more emphasis placed upon connectiveity and "wired" living. This trend continuing with the opening late last month of a major new indoor Mall north of Toronto which bills itself as the most connected and advanced of it's kind in the world. Haven't been there yet so I can't really tell you much more than that; but I'm told it's not at all unlike something out of hte moviee Balde Runner or The Matrix.
Warren C. E. Austin
The Gay Deceiver
Toronto, Canada
"... comme recherché qu'un délice callipygian"
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marc
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Here in Sandusky, there is the great wolf lodge with its HUGE indoor water park.... and then on the other side of town there is the new castaway bay indoor waterpark park and resort and then on the other side of town there is the totally humongous Kahalarii resort and indoor water park and then on the other side of town there is planned 2 additional indoor water parks along the historic waterfront district.
indoor water parks..... i'm up to my eyeballs in water parks.....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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