iaink

^^^ What he said

Good Luck Mike, wherever life takes you.

MillieF

What can one say....damned if one does, damned faintly if one doesn't

Very best of luck in you future endeavors.

Tootlepootle

Bournville is lovely! Lived in Harborne for 10 years. Nice part of Birmingham.

MikeUK

Thanks, will take note of that and send on to to my better half, she's working Rightmove.co.uk rather hard at the moment...

haggis88

Is work the only thing taking you back?

Former Lancastrian

Probably an aircraft involved at some stage

Tootlepootle

Message if you want any more info. We still have a lot of friends in the area

scootb

Missed it?
Its ongoing mate,and will continue for years to come yet,so not missed at all.

christmasoompa

the recession ended a year ago, did you not get the memo?

Still tougher times than before the recession, but economy is slowly improving, same as in Canada really.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/...ecasts-economy

christmasoompa

An oxymoron, surely?! As a Brummie and another former Harborne resident, I'm allowed to say that.

scootb

NEVER believe all you read in the papers,try telling the average UK working man that the recession has ended,I remember some idiot on the radio a couple of years ago trying to say that the UK was out of recession.
As long as the EU is economically unstable there will be a recession,I fail to see the UK recovering fully for at least a decade.

They tried to speed up the countries joining the EU before they all had economies of the same level.

Tootlepootle

Ha! I have a big soft spot for Brum, maybe it was because i was young and carefree! where did you live?

MikeUK

Will do, Thanks

MikeUK

Don’t really care about opinions either personal or in the papers

For what I do there’s a growth in vacancies in Europe and in the US, but not in Canada, from what I see Canada’s not investing, others are, I follow the work.. (but the wife doesn’t want to go to the states)

I also took the liberty of re-writing your last line ” As long as the USA is economically unstable there will be a recession, I fail to see Canada recovering fully for at least a decade.”

The global economies are all interlinked

christmasoompa

I *am* the average UK working man (well, woman), and things are definitely improving. Houses are suddenly selling quickly, at least where I am, and somebody I know that lost their job in the recession has found work again.

I'm not relying on the papers, I'm going on experience and the official figures that show that employment is up, house prices are on the rise again, etc. Having said that, I suspect it's probably a different story 'oop North', as there seems to be the usual North/South divide.

But I was simply correcting your statement of fact that the recession is 'ongoing', which isn't true. Or do you know something that the Bank of England and IMF don't?!?

As Mike's done above with your statement about the EU/UK and US/Canada, you can also do the same with newspaper articles in both countries. The one I linked to above is pretty much exactly the same as this Canadian one from yesterday!! http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2...g_economy.html)