In real life, I use a mix of both - imperial for most things (particularly distance; I *can't* visualise metric distance at any size); but metric for temperature, some food items, and (oddly enough) road speeds.
I'm almost the same, but not with measurement. When measuring stuff on a small scale, I prefer millimeters and centimeters to inches because inches means working in fractions. I hate working with fractions, even when they're all powers of 2. I'll do it when working in metric is inconvenient though.
I can't really visualize longer distances very well, so miles, kilometers, whatever, it's all the same to me.
And temperature; Celsius is better than Fahrenheit overall. I mean, what's with making 0 on a scale the lowest point at which a salt water solution will freeze? The freezing point of water at 0 and the boiling point at 100 should make more sense to the average person, especially when the two scales were developed within a few decades of each other. But I'm so used to Fahrenheit that I don't really understand Celcius temperatures well.
In the game, it's imperial all the way. I even re-did my coinage system to something similar to the pre-decimal British system (thus equivalents to pounds, shillings, pence, ha'pence, etc.), just for fun.
Fun? Not for me, I prefer keeping a decimalized currency system. Too much trouble converting between currency units, plus the players need to know what each coin is worth. And it helps that players can conceptualize cp as pennies and sp as dimes (If the Sacagewea dollar had managed to take off, we'd have gp too).
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It won't be completely gone from Canada until and unless it's at least mostly gone from the US. The overwhelming majority of the Canadian population livng within a two-hour drive of the border pretty much guarantees that.
Probably. They get some of our TV signals, a lot of our goods and the like, so it's understandable.
The global economy dictates shared standards.
That's what'll cause an American switch eventually. People will resist an imposed government change, but American companies will switch when it gets too expensive for them not to switch.
For two hundred years, ever since the French went crazy and got democratic revolution all wrong and invented metric, people have been adopting it for a variety of reasons. Often it was a need to feel or demonstrate modernity. In the later part of that period it was simple peer pressure. On the other hand, no one (outside of France during the period in question) switched to metric time or dating.
The French kept it I think because Napoleon was trying to build an empire. The calendar and metric time weren't worth the trouble of keeping, but France's units of measurement were a jumbled mess. And empire builders often standardize things like measurements and coinage.
