[@21308] Terribly far? Try literally three provinces in between the one you currently live in. I'm in Ontario and I'm trying to get to BC.
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I doubt I'll be able to visit my family other than maybe during the holidays, and even then, I'm not sure if I want to.

But yeah, anyways...Well, it helps to have grown alongside them since you were two years old, and have family (There's some unwritten rule that 80% of all Kurds who have pets have pet birds for some reason) and friends who had them as well. I honestly pick up parrot (and sub parrot since Tiels and Toos technically aren't true parrots) body language better than humans. And some other birds, though to a lesser extent. ^ ^"