The article offers the author's insights on his reasons why he moved to Canada after he bought a fisherman's house in Pouch Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador. The author says that he liked living in Pouch Cove because there were no stoplights. He adds that he could sit in his backyard on Sunday mornings listening to the bells at the United Church. He mentions that the American presence in Newfoundland and Labrador during World War II was still viewed in a positive light in the 1970s.