Do you have an improved quality of life?
#61
Re: Do you have an improved quality of life?
Life is what you make it - as already stated a lot of it is like having a clean slate to start off with.
My life has changed no end over here - all for the better - I suppose in the UK I could've changed it that way too but when you have all the familiarity of the same old same old around you, then you don't really have much inclination too.
So yes quality of life has improved - but not BECAUSE I moved to Canada - more because I was removed from the old life and chose to make the new one better
My life has changed no end over here - all for the better - I suppose in the UK I could've changed it that way too but when you have all the familiarity of the same old same old around you, then you don't really have much inclination too.
So yes quality of life has improved - but not BECAUSE I moved to Canada - more because I was removed from the old life and chose to make the new one better
#62
Re: Do you have an improved quality of life?
Life is what you make it - as already stated a lot of it is like having a clean slate to start off with.
My life has changed no end over here - all for the better - I suppose in the UK I could've changed it that way too but when you have all the familiarity of the same old same old around you, then you don't really have much inclination too.
So yes quality of life has improved - but not BECAUSE I moved to Canada - more because I was removed from the old life and chose to make the new one better
My life has changed no end over here - all for the better - I suppose in the UK I could've changed it that way too but when you have all the familiarity of the same old same old around you, then you don't really have much inclination too.
So yes quality of life has improved - but not BECAUSE I moved to Canada - more because I was removed from the old life and chose to make the new one better
So while it's ok to say that people just need to change their attitude to life, so maybe a move isn't in order, but just an attitude, it's hard to actually do that because you are still surrounded by everyone else doing the same thing as always, it's well documented that family systems and just return to the state of equilibrium where everyone continues to play a role that they originally had. People don't like change, and sometimes the only way to achieve real change is just to get up and go and change EVERYTHING!
#63
Re: Do you have an improved quality of life?
I think this is exactly right. It's the shock of the new. You're forced to reconsider everything and to start again. I fear though that this causes misery and suffering for as many people as it does a new life of bliss.
#64
Re: Do you have an improved quality of life?
In a way it's as though the original pioneering approach is resurrected. Being adventurous, creative and adaptable sets the stage for an agreeable lifestyle.
#65
Re: Do you have an improved quality of life?
am i the only one with a hugely improved life, emotionally, relationship wise with my wife and daughter, financially and socially, yet still want to move back?
#67
Re: Do you have an improved quality of life?
i know, i have no explanation, i have absolutely nothing to moan about, apart from work, but then that is probably the same for lots of people, certainly plenty of others who have already posted. i have even gotten used to the cold! this is a whole other thread i think, so i'll leave it there.
much better quality of life, but still miserable bugger lots of the time.
much better quality of life, but still miserable bugger lots of the time.
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Re: Do you have an improved quality of life?
Although I don't see my move here as a huge improvement, merely a stepping stone along my career
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Re: Do you have an improved quality of life?
The bigger irony is that so many move here with that as their focus only to slide into the armchair lifestyle thats the norm for Canadians
#71
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rubbish... well it was for me anyway
I had no inclination or motivation in the uK it was live to work and not work to live and totally different attitude from those around me
how can you compare traveling nose to tail on polluted roads with nowt but buildings and chavs to miles and miles of some of the best scenery in the world with zero traffic and nil road rage and thats just one example of a diiferent way of living entirely
yes it would be different in a city agreed but rural Canada gives me everything the Uk can't for my needs
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Re: Do you have an improved quality of life?
rubbish... well it was for me anyway
I had no inclination or motivation in the uK it was live to work and not work to live and totally different attitude from those around me
how can you compare traveling nose to tail on polluted roads with nowt but buildings and chavs to miles and miles of some of the best scenery in the world with zero traffic and nil road rage and thats just one example of a diiferent way of living entirely
yes it would be different in a city agreed but rural Canada gives me everything the Uk can't for my needs
I had no inclination or motivation in the uK it was live to work and not work to live and totally different attitude from those around me
how can you compare traveling nose to tail on polluted roads with nowt but buildings and chavs to miles and miles of some of the best scenery in the world with zero traffic and nil road rage and thats just one example of a diiferent way of living entirely
yes it would be different in a city agreed but rural Canada gives me everything the Uk can't for my needs
I climbed the hills and walked those dales
I learned to Paraglide in the UK, I went potholing I climbed the cliff faces when I was young
If you didn't get your arse out the city it was nobodies fault but your own
Lived in Nottingham, Cardiff, Burton -on Trent and Banbury
#74
Re: Do you have an improved quality of life?
I'd agree except every where I lived in the UK was next to great sceanary with a right to roam.
I climbed the hills and walked those dales
I learned to Paraglide in the UK, I went potholing I climbed the cliff faces when I was young
If you didn't get your arse out the city it was nobodies fault but your own
Lived in Nottingham, Cardiff, Burton -on Trent and Banbury
I climbed the hills and walked those dales
I learned to Paraglide in the UK, I went potholing I climbed the cliff faces when I was young
If you didn't get your arse out the city it was nobodies fault but your own
Lived in Nottingham, Cardiff, Burton -on Trent and Banbury
with 60 million folk in an area not much bigger than NS ( NS has under 1 million) then of course what I say is correct
I lived in Lincolnshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Cumbria, Northumberland and many other places I also lived in Nottingham the gun capital of the Uk and Cardiff ( Beirut would have been preferable )
I have never lived in any city in the UK always lived in small villages and hamlets including owning a pub on hadrians wall but still managed to be awash with the great unwashed and surrouned by folk out for themselves making no effort to do anythign for their community
different ethos all together to what I have found in my little corner of Canada
I notice from one of your previous posts mikeuk you state you came to canada to work not stay or integrate so naturally your view is going to be very different than those who want to make Canada our forever home ie the vast majoity of us on here
Last edited by chumley; Feb 28th 2009 at 4:04 pm.
#75
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Re: Do you have an improved quality of life?
Life is what you make it - as already stated a lot of it is like having a clean slate to start off with.
My life has changed no end over here - all for the better - I suppose in the UK I could've changed it that way too but when you have all the familiarity of the same old same old around you, then you don't really have much inclination too.
So yes quality of life has improved - but not BECAUSE I moved to Canada - more because I was removed from the old life and chose to make the new one better
My life has changed no end over here - all for the better - I suppose in the UK I could've changed it that way too but when you have all the familiarity of the same old same old around you, then you don't really have much inclination too.
So yes quality of life has improved - but not BECAUSE I moved to Canada - more because I was removed from the old life and chose to make the new one better