I look at Canadians with slight envy. I would love to live in a country that had the essential freedoms that the U.S. enjoys (and more, at this point, given the state of health care and recent decisions about gay marriage), but without the "My Country Right or Wrong!!" jingoism and the schizoid Jesus-freakness/rampant individualism that seems to be pervading our culture at this point. And since I grew up in MinnesOHta, I already have a head start on the accent
