Australia better than Canada?
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After 6 years in Perth I've gone from the hate it camp to the meh. Like you I think we'll eventually end up over east. We are now too late to go back to Canada to retire so I'm thinking a few years in a smaller centre in NSW before retiring someplace green. I think once the kids are settled in good jobs and I'm qualified we'll look at moving.
Oh there are a couple of places in Canada I might move back to...Okanagan, southern BC. But I don't think hubby and I are old enough yet. LOL.
Last edited by Japonica; Apr 14th 2013 at 4:22 am.
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Great minds think alike. We could still probably go back to Canada, but with his work, it means Edmonton again (or northern Saskatchewan ) so Perth doesn't seem so bad in comparison. I'm thinking Melbourne right now, but we'll see how things go in the next year or so once my studies are finished.
Oh there are a couple of places in Canada I might move back to...Okanagan, southern BC. But I don't think hubby and I are old enough yet. LOL.
Oh there are a couple of places in Canada I might move back to...Okanagan, southern BC. But I don't think hubby and I are old enough yet. LOL.
Maybe Montreal's not such a bad idea after all.
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Last weekend we drove out from Yass (visiting friends) to Junee and there were loads of dry, arid, brown swathes of hillside. I hadn't seen anything like that in the parts of Australia I've visited so far.
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I would move back to Halifax in a heartbeat if I could. Perhaps when my Canadian born daughter is older she will go and live there and sponsor her old Mum to come too!
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Here in the Blue Mountains too - all that rain is good for greeness.
Last weekend we drove out from Yass (visiting friends) to Junee and there were loads of dry, arid, brown swathes of hillside. I hadn't seen anything like that in the parts of Australia I've visited so far.
Last weekend we drove out from Yass (visiting friends) to Junee and there were loads of dry, arid, brown swathes of hillside. I hadn't seen anything like that in the parts of Australia I've visited so far.
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I love Australia, but I could certainly live over there provided I could go somewhere warm for at least half of the winter.
#23
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I lived in Montreal for 10 years and it would be my pick of Canadian cities as well. We'll be there in July for a month visiting the outlaws. There's heaps of festivals going on in the summer, good food and I really like the down to earth, unpretentious humour of the Quebecois. My OH's family have a chalet outside Montreal on a lovely lake with water so clean you can drink, so we'll be spending a few days canoeing, chopping firewood, beaver trapping (well, maybe not) and fishing.
I love Australia, but I could certainly live over there provided I could go somewhere warm for at least half of the winter.
I love Australia, but I could certainly live over there provided I could go somewhere warm for at least half of the winter.
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I lived in Montreal for 10 years and it would be my pick of Canadian cities as well. We'll be there in July for a month visiting the outlaws. There's heaps of festivals going on in the summer, good food and I really like the down to earth, unpretentious humour of the Quebecois. My OH's family have a chalet outside Montreal on a lovely lake with water so clean you can drink, so we'll be spending a few days canoeing, chopping firewood, beaver trapping (well, maybe not) and fishing.
I love Australia, but I could certainly live over there provided I could go somewhere warm for at least half of the winter.
I love Australia, but I could certainly live over there provided I could go somewhere warm for at least half of the winter.
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Canada and Australia cannot be compared.
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Having lived in both I would say they offer a comparable standard of living. Australia has higher wages but the cost of living is proportionally higher. Aus economy is currently doing better as Canada has a conservative government which thinks austerity is the answer. That being said, Aus is set to get its own conservative government in September with a similarly simplistic/misguided view of how the economy works.
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Re: Australia better than Canada?
Well I wasn't expecting that many replies so soon, I guess you must have all got out of bed whilst I was in work (time difference). Thanks for taking the time to reply everyone, this has given food for thought. As it stands I am still pressing on with Vancouver area but I do need a plan B up my sleeve and Perth seems like a good one!
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Rubbish! Australia was doing FAR better when we had a conservative government. Since labor came in, we are now have almost $300 Billion worth of debt with nothing to show for it, and unemployment rates are on the up. Austerity measures means living withing your means...like all households have to do if they don't want the bailiffs to show up.
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Not sure about crime, but a decent amount of beggars downtown harassing people in stores after dark, and if you venture into the historic area called Gastown then take the wrong corner and you end up in 'zombie town', where hundreds of doped-up zombies literally roam the area, making you feel like you're on the film set of the "Walking Dead."
I wouldn't look at the outer suburbs either as we'd have to redefine the word 'boredom' all over again.
Sorry that I cannot compare directly to Perth as I only know Vancouver. Now I haven't been in Toronto but it's meant to be a much more thriving and exciting city, so you might want to look beyond BC.