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Originally Posted by hipster duck
The only one I've heard outside of a handful of conversations on SSP is coastal BC belonging to the "Pacific Northwest", or Vancouver being one of a trio of major Pacific Northwest cities (the others being Seattle and Portland).
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There's the natural environment and then there's the cultural environment. Vancouver is in the Pacific Northwest geographically. It has the suicide-inducing dreary winters and the big trees and mountains. But culturally it is the odd one out in the Seattle-Portland-Vancouver trio. This is pretty interesting to me since Vancouver is so young. It's probably not what I'd expect if I weren't familiar with the city. But it was always different because even in the early days of the town the settlers came from different sources and Britain and Canada exerted influence over the place.
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Buildings from comparable eras are different. The food choices are different. And that's before people open their mouths (which in the US is very quickly). There's no mistaking that you're in a different country.
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Multiple times I've had the experience of driving a bit into the US, stopping at some small rural town for gas, and... completely failing to understand whatever it was that the people at the gas station said to me immediately when they saw me. The accent is somewhat different but also they jump right into talking about random things that I don't expect. There is a weird impedance mismatch. I usually just mutter something or say hello then leave.
I've also had Americans make a big deal out of my accent, although that has mostly gone away after 10 years in BC.
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Southern Ontario being in the "Midwest" doesn't make any sense. Sure, both places were settled around the same time and both places have some vestiges of heavy industry, but the differences end there.
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I think the concept of Canadian regions (minus apparently Quebec) all being extensions of US regions to the south is more of a SSP meme than a real phenomenon. Ontario isn't the Midwest, Cascadia isn't a real thing and it's not going to happen, and Atlantic Canada never was an outgrowth of New England even before the two regions started diverging around, erm, 1776 or so.