Canada and the USA are generally still places where you can strike up conversation with people at bars and carry on a conversation about sports or whatever. It

Canada and the USA are generally still places where you can strike up conversation with people at bars and carry on a conversation about sports or whatever. It doesn't really get much deeper than that, though, and good luck running into any smart opinions if you bother to try... I just remember encountering a ton of bigoted drunken ranting.