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Old Apr 2nd 2007 | 4:33 am
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Black Widows live outdoors in bits of wood though, don't they? I remember seeing one on a log in America once.
 
Old Apr 2nd 2007 | 7:08 am
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Originally Posted by MarkG
Black Widows live outdoors in bits of wood though, don't they? I remember seeing one on a log in America once.
Actually we even get them in Alberta. Most commonly found indoors; in yer fridge!

(They get packed along with the grapes shipped up from California - so effectively, you can 'buy' 'em in Safeway...lol)
 
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Originally Posted by Calgal
Actually we even get them in Alberta. Most commonly found indoors; in yer fridge!

(They get packed along with the grapes shipped up from California - so effectively, you can 'buy' 'em in Safeway...lol)
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Originally Posted by Calgal
Actually we even get them in Alberta. Most commonly found indoors; in yer fridge!

(They get packed along with the grapes shipped up from California - so effectively, you can 'buy' 'em in Safeway...lol)
They sometimes come with the bananas too.
 
Old Apr 2nd 2007 | 9:17 am
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Originally Posted by Calgal
Actually we even get them in Alberta. Most commonly found indoors; in yer fridge!

(They get packed along with the grapes shipped up from California - so effectively, you can 'buy' 'em in Safeway...lol)
Do they do "buy one get one free" on spiders?
 
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Originally Posted by cora
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
We have to compete with the USA so therefore our working conditions are very similar.
If the list you give contain very, very important factors in your immigration choice, then don't consider canada......
 
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Originally Posted by printer
Do they do "buy one get one free" on spiders?
No but they do sometimes give ten times airmiles if you get one.
 
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Originally Posted by Steve_P
They sometimes come with the bananas too.
My wife once ...........................

No I'm sorry I cant.
 
Old Apr 2nd 2007 | 9:30 am
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Originally Posted by Butch Cassidy
My wife once ...........................

No I'm sorry I cant.
You truly are a sick, sick individual.
 
Old Apr 2nd 2007 | 9:46 am
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Originally Posted by cora
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
You must have done research to get/bother with BC PNP ????????

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.
 
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Originally Posted by Steve_P
You truly are a sick, sick individual.
NO
I think its your mind thats sick.
 
Old Apr 2nd 2007 | 10:19 am
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Originally Posted by Butch Cassidy
NO
I think its your mind thats sick.
It takes one to know one.
 
Old Apr 2nd 2007 | 12:15 pm
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Originally Posted by Steve_P
It takes one to know one.
.......and a bigger one to find one!

(that's what my mum always said anyway).
 
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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.
 
Old Apr 2nd 2007 | 6:02 pm
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Originally Posted by claire bob and matt
Right that's it! I'm not bloody going!
C
LOL - yer not going to let an itsy bitsy spider put you off, surely?

Originally Posted by Steve_P
They sometimes come with the bananas too.
That's new to me; not heard that before.....(least I've never seen it on the news).

Originally Posted by printer
Do they do "buy one get one free" on spiders?
Fortunately they aren't prolific enough for that. Should make Claire a bit happier, eh?
 


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