From that CNN story...

[pyat]

Searchers had combed the brutal backcountry of rural Ontario for the housewife from the city of Hamilton, who had left her home three days earlier in the middle of a blizzard to grocery shop.

For "brual backcountry" read "Suburbia, 10 miles from a city of 500,000 people and right next to an international airport." It's sort of marginally rural. There are some farms.

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[paka.livejournal.com]

Okay, so it looks civilized, but surely there are degenerate clans of Yog-Sothoth worshipping yokels who claim that they'd never do anyone any harm, and that any disappearances are due to "them from below"?

[pyat.livejournal.com]

We call them CHUDS!

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

We call that area "Dundas."

Doug.

[melskunk.livejournal.com]

XD

[relee.livejournal.com]

I spent some time in the Brutal Backcountry of Rural Ontario back when I was in the Air Cadets. It was pretty interesting. Oddly, the Brutal Backcountry of Rural Ontario is right next to the house of my brother's godparents, who live in a farm house in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by farms that aren't theirs. I dunno why. ^.^;;

It was definately made more challenging by the fact I was carrying around a backpack that was bigger than I was, and I was also wearing an all-weather parka which is a kind of coat with tent poles in it, or a tent you wear as a coat, I was never really sure which.

Ahh memories.

[(Anonymous)]

Here's the BBC's take on things.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7798337.stm

Ancaster is identified by this news writer as being "...west of Toronto".

::B::

Thank you for the morning giggle

[foomf.livejournal.com]

The by-line says "Ashley Fantz" ... she's a CNN reporter in Atlanta.


I think that probably says all we need to know about the brutality of your backcountry.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Hey now, some of the backcountry is kinda rough. Anything up in Bruce-Grey gets hammered hard in a storm. But Hamilton?

I guess that makes The Red Green Show an epic battle of man and his wits against the elements.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

I disagree.

Mind you, "backcountry" in my mind means that you pretty much have to go north of highway 17 in Ontario, with some exceptions for the towns along highway 11.

[snobahr.livejournal.com]

Dude. Canuckistan=brutal backcountry, and is to be a-feared at all costs!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Aye! The hill people can pick you off with their bloody jezails from a mile off. And if they don't get you, the Screeching Eels will!

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'd say this micro-documentary (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=yEEmxbqV3rg) should be required viewing for all visitors.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Merry Christmas to you and the mister and the overlord. *hugs*

[renface.livejournal.com]

I grew up in a town of less than 400 people. It had one church, two bars, and a gas station. We could not get cable TV or pizza delivery. That's rural.

Well, compared to the city of 250,000 that I currently call home...

[neosis.livejournal.com]

To be fair, that section of Ancaster is currently enduring a cataclysmic shortage of Chardonnay. I hear it's literally seconds away from being declared a national disaster area. It is truly tragic how simply bestial the inhabitants have become.