Canada ?
#16
Black Widows live outdoors in bits of wood though, don't they? I remember seeing one on a log in America once.
#17
(They get packed along with the grapes shipped up from California - so effectively, you can 'buy' 'em in Safeway...lol)
#21
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Hi,
Canada(BC) is a destination to which I have for many years had a ambition of moving too.I am very fortunate to have a BC pnp nomination but !
I also have a chance of moving to Australia and have been comparing employment conditions.What a difference!!
Four weeks vacation with 17% loading plus ten public days,Eight days per annum sick leave(can be forwarded to next year),Employer pays 9% into pension,long service leave equating to thirteen weeks paid leave after fifteen years,38 hour working week.Also having three children the family allowance is VERY generous.
Perhaps there are things I do not know about working in Canada so please enlighten me.I just can`t imagine the conditions being so far behind.
Thanks
Canada(BC) is a destination to which I have for many years had a ambition of moving too.I am very fortunate to have a BC pnp nomination but !
I also have a chance of moving to Australia and have been comparing employment conditions.What a difference!!
Four weeks vacation with 17% loading plus ten public days,Eight days per annum sick leave(can be forwarded to next year),Employer pays 9% into pension,long service leave equating to thirteen weeks paid leave after fifteen years,38 hour working week.Also having three children the family allowance is VERY generous.
Perhaps there are things I do not know about working in Canada so please enlighten me.I just can`t imagine the conditions being so far behind.
Thanks
If the list you give contain very, very important factors in your immigration choice, then don't consider canada......
#25
Hi,
Canada(BC) is a destination to which I have for many years had a ambition of moving too.I am very fortunate to have a BC pnp nomination but !
I also have a chance of moving to Australia and have been comparing employment conditions.What a difference!!
Four weeks vacation with 17% loading plus ten public days,Eight days per annum sick leave(can be forwarded to next year),Employer pays 9% into pension,long service leave equating to thirteen weeks paid leave after fifteen years,38 hour working week.Also having three children the family allowance is VERY generous.
Perhaps there are things I do not know about working in Canada so please enlighten me.I just can`t imagine the conditions being so far behind.
Thanks
Canada(BC) is a destination to which I have for many years had a ambition of moving too.I am very fortunate to have a BC pnp nomination but !
I also have a chance of moving to Australia and have been comparing employment conditions.What a difference!!
Four weeks vacation with 17% loading plus ten public days,Eight days per annum sick leave(can be forwarded to next year),Employer pays 9% into pension,long service leave equating to thirteen weeks paid leave after fifteen years,38 hour working week.Also having three children the family allowance is VERY generous.
Perhaps there are things I do not know about working in Canada so please enlighten me.I just can`t imagine the conditions being so far behind.
Thanks
If not you're an idiot....if so, then why ask an unaswerable question here.
Use the search button or google if you're leaving things this late.
#29
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Joined: Mar 2007
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We live in Adelaide. I work in Heavy Industry and none of my UK experience would count to an Australian employer, so this meant starting at the very bottom on a wage that has to be supplemented by the money that I earnt in the UK.
I have just got back into heavy industry and we are now looking to move to Canada as we could seriously live with out the Pommie bashing that goes on.
The Aus culture is a stereotype of a hardworking, hard drinking fast sense of humour with great deal of get over yourself. In reality the hard work is left to the migrants, the only constant that we have found is the racism, even the headmaster of our childrens school gave his 'dont come here expecting us to like you' speech to friends of ours who are police officers and have been in Aus for two years.
There is a big chip on an Australians shoulder, generally about America or anyone else who has a standard of living greater than the local Australian.
The UK has far greater salaries than Australia. The South Australia news paper summed it up recently in the Editors blog when he said, 'After the massive influx of Brits to Adelaide have realised that the only thing that we have to offer them is sunshine and sea they will either go interstate or to Canada'.
Be careful on your choices as you may have to live with them for longer than you anticipated.
I have just got back into heavy industry and we are now looking to move to Canada as we could seriously live with out the Pommie bashing that goes on.
The Aus culture is a stereotype of a hardworking, hard drinking fast sense of humour with great deal of get over yourself. In reality the hard work is left to the migrants, the only constant that we have found is the racism, even the headmaster of our childrens school gave his 'dont come here expecting us to like you' speech to friends of ours who are police officers and have been in Aus for two years.
There is a big chip on an Australians shoulder, generally about America or anyone else who has a standard of living greater than the local Australian.
The UK has far greater salaries than Australia. The South Australia news paper summed it up recently in the Editors blog when he said, 'After the massive influx of Brits to Adelaide have realised that the only thing that we have to offer them is sunshine and sea they will either go interstate or to Canada'.
Be careful on your choices as you may have to live with them for longer than you anticipated.
#30
LOL - yer not going to let an itsy bitsy spider put you off, surely?
That's new to me; not heard that before.....(least I've never seen it on the news).
Fortunately they aren't prolific enough for that. Should make Claire a bit happier, eh?
That's new to me; not heard that before.....(least I've never seen it on the news).
Fortunately they aren't prolific enough for that. Should make Claire a bit happier, eh?





