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Who has herd of this place,The Butchart Gardens
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How many people here have herd of this attraction called The Butchart Gardens.
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Brian says (9:16 AM): I was looking at houses in Ottawa... I actually have a temptation in me to move
Jeff ******* says (9:19 AM): Eww, Ottawa is gross. It's infested with politicians, and presently, 1 Harper as well.
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in case some are wondering why, trying to prove a point to my friend that its not as famous as he thinks it is around the world.
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Brian says (9:16 AM): I was looking at houses in Ottawa... I actually have a temptation in me to move
Jeff ******* says (9:19 AM): Eww, Ottawa is gross. It's infested with politicians, and presently, 1 Harper as well.
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Is it a herd of animals in a garden? Or did you mean heard? In that case, no, never heard of it.
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As one who lives a few miles south of you and Victoria, I have been there. sam
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I live in Tacoma, WA and I've heard of it and been there, but hadn't heard of it while I lived in California.
Here's a couple of pics I took two years ago if anyone is interested:
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Never heard of it until now.
Originally Posted by sworthy
It looks pretty nifty.
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never heard of it. we've got a busch gardens in virginia, which i think the simpsons did an homage to with duff gardens.
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Well, I have now, so I guess I should vote yes. 
No, I'd never heard before, voted no.
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I have, I went there when I was in BC in like grade 5  Beautiful place.
I live in Winnipeg
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I have heard of it (despite your bad spelling), and been there....
would post pix but all mine online are too big.
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My grandparents live in Port Angeles, thats my reasoning for knowing what it is.
(Last edited by goMac; Apr 25, 2005 at 11:10 PM.
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Uh... is this just a very poorly spelled "Bush Gardens"?
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Originally Posted by itistoday
Uh... is this just a very poorly spelled "Bush Gardens"?
No.
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Trying to get across to my friend who is from Victoria that the city isnt the greatest place on earth nor is it the tourist capital of the world. Hes kinda in his own box on local propaganda just like I was years ago thinking CAnada was the best place on earth and so forth. I am surprised that so many voted yes, but not as surprised since most of you are in BC or Washington, was hoping more ppl from back east and over seas would have voted though.
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Brian says (9:16 AM): I was looking at houses in Ottawa... I actually have a temptation in me to move
Jeff ******* says (9:19 AM): Eww, Ottawa is gross. It's infested with politicians, and presently, 1 Harper as well.
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I do indeed know what the Butchart Gardens are and I've got a rather humerous story related to it. However, the story is lengthy and I am feeling just passive enough to pass on typing it out for now. Hopefully one these days.
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Originally Posted by Athens
How many people here have herd of this attraction called The Butchart Gardens.
Never heard of it, but I've not yet been to Canada.
Maybe next year to visit a friend in Zurich, ON, or
another in Kelowna, BC.
To be honest, I really don't know much aboot Canada
at all, eh. Love Bob and Doug, and Kids In The Hall.
My Canadians friends are hysterical as well - even tho they
try to be rather prim and proper. And both are quite good
painters who travel Worldwide.
I get a kick out of the Canadian tourists who I wait on at work;
they usually have somewhat of an accent, but try their best
not to sound Canadian.
P~
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I've heard of the Gardens. But that's only because I visited relatives in Vancouver, BC, a few years ago, and they took me on a packaged day tour of VIctoria. Other notable destinations: The capitol building, the wax museum, and Mile 0. Victoria certainly is pretty, but it's not the greatest place on Earth, or even what I'd call a great tourist destination.
(This is coming from a person who has lived most of his life in Hawaii, New York, and San Francisco.)
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Dude... VICTORIA IS AWESOME! Haha joking, no it's not that amazing... but you guys have a nice city... certainly a lot more happening there than Winnipeg
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i have lived in victoria for almost 15 years now (i am originally from toronto...). yeah, it is not the "best place on earth" by any means but it certainly suits my lifestyle. climate is nice and moderate, city is not too small so that it is really boring and not too big that it feels congested. now that our new arena has opened we've gotten back on the concert schedules (nobody would play in that old barn as it was awful sounding) - in the last few weeks we've had rod stewart, cher etc come through (neither of whom i care for but it is great for the city nto have these tours come through. tourism is a huge industry here...but it is not the kind of place if you want to be on the go all day...it is a great place to come and relax. we get a lot of people that do the "triangle" of seattle-victoria-vancouver - spending a few days here on the island. eco-tourism is very popular, whale watching, hiking in the rainforests on the island.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Blur
i have lived in victoria for almost 15 years now (i am originally from toronto...). yeah, it is not the "best place on earth" by any means but it certainly suits my lifestyle. climate is nice and moderate, city is not too small so that it is really boring and not too big that it feels congested. now that our new arena has opened we've gotten back on the concert schedules (nobody would play in that old barn as it was awful sounding) - in the last few weeks we've had rod stewart, cher etc come through (neither of whom i care for but it is great for the city nto have these tours come through. tourism is a huge industry here...but it is not the kind of place if you want to be on the go all day...it is a great place to come and relax. we get a lot of people that do the "triangle" of seattle-victoria-vancouver - spending a few days here on the island. eco-tourism is very popular, whale watching, hiking in the rainforests on the island.
I lived there for 5 years, i hated it. Nice to visit but it sucked to live there. Just to small, nothing to do. Kids are to violent there prob from being bored. But it was the fact being stuck on a Island and having limited selection to things that was the worst part. I like having 9 futureshops to select from over just 2 and so forth.
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Originally Posted by Athens
I like having 9 futureshops to select from over just 2 and so forth.
I went to the futureshop, but it hadn't opened yet.
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Heard of it and been there, quite beautiful.
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