mrbeachman said:Let me try and phrase it differently.
Yes, of course there are friendships in Canada. When I was at the university I had plenty of friends.
However, it all becomes rather dull and depressing once people start to work or even worse have a "career".
Contacts are rarely made and the entire focus of one's life becomes this "career" that really isn't a career at all just the obsession to get a mortgage and toys.
I think you were hanging out with the wrong people or were doing something else wrong. This hasn't been my experience at all. I've been out of university for 20 years and continue to make many new friends (and very good friends) every year. None of them are through work (or at least extremely few). I have far far far more friends now than I ever did in university. We have different people from different walks of life to our house for parties all of the time. There frankly aren't enough weekends to spend time with all of the different people we'd like to spend time with (we can only fit so many people in our house at one time). Everyone I hang out with has the same problem (too many friends, too many social events, not enough time). I'm sorry that hasn't been your experience. I do however agree that people in condos / apartments don't tend to socialize or talk. Much different if you have a house.