cjones

And expats from the north of England (though in fairness, this is kind of understandable).

oriley

Hang on there old pal!
In all fairness Canada is an awesome country. Been in Canada 15 years.
Went back to Huddersfield for 2-wk Xmas vacation and loved every minute of it; but was happy to get back on the plane and land in Toronto where it was -14deg but the SUN was out.
I just don't remember the UK having so much rain. The pavements had a green tinge to them (moss); and also the north side of houses, buildings, etc.
Being able to bike/hike over here is bullet-proof. Over the course of weekly hiking throughout the winter, it usually gets cancelled only a couple times; and the same applies for weekly mountain bike rides over the summer/fall; unluck if we cancel more than 3 times.
Compare this to the UK where the rain makes such a mess of outdoor activities.
UK=4 barbecues per summer
Canada = 90 barbecues per summer!!!!!!

hooksy

This is close to what i feel for the last 5 years of my life

Tangram

Offensive.

mumof2

Love living in NS

Would i go back to the UK - NO not out of choice but you never know whats round the corner

britsnake

I do not regret moving to Canada. My only regret was not moving earlier.

I did not base my move on just hope, but on lots of careful research, and it has exceeded my expectations.

For the right offer I would move back to the UK (If I could persuade my wife), but probably not permanently.

There are things that I miss about the UK and things I don't like about my part of Canada, but nowhere's perfect.

Oink

Brilliant. The bbq scale of the quality of life.

Piff Poff

Seriously considering a move back, living here is slowly killing my husband. Still want to check out ontario but it all depends on the car scene, its crap in alberta.

Shard

What's the car scene? Racing?

magnumpi

30-40min drive from Ajax

http://www.canadiantiremotorsportpar...tional-raceway

Piff Poff

Muscle cars and drag racing, classics, and English classics too, the ease of buying and selling as well, here its an overpriced secret society. There is just so much more in the uk, at least where we were thanbthere is where we are now. We will be checking out the possibilities of ontario before final desicions are made, this is not going to be a quick move by any means. Snow on the ground for 6 monyhs dosent help anything either wgen it comes to cars, for example there is a classic overpriced (thanks tonthe idiots thst watch barrat jackson) auction at the weekend, mwe would have liked to have entered a couple of cars but a they are not ready and b they cant be moved because of the snow.

rivingtonpike

I don't regret moving to Canada. We're very happy here - so far!

magnumpi

No car scene is cock. Even Ajax has a car scene, I've got many pics (on my other phone) of cruises and classic Chevey Ss's and such like. The A&W burger store near my house has a cruise turns up every week end almost from May onwards.
Try Ontario. But, choose wisely or you maybe disappointed yet again.

dbd33

I think all small Ontario towns have some sort of car scene. Shelburne, for example, has parades of Americana while south of Guelph there's a dealer with interesting enough stock (MGs, Alfas, ten to fifteen thousand dollar "classics") that I pull on to their forecourt for a butcher's once a week or so. In retirement places such as Goderich or NOTL, there are any number of old geezers with a TR in bits. I even know of two Morgans in Oakville.

That said, Vancouver Island, especially someplace with a Q, Qualicum Beach, something like that, seems to be the place in Canada judging by the number of interesting cars offered for sale there.

MarylandNed

But yet you're free to use the cheese scale and any other measurement you can think of as long as it shows Canada in a bad light in comparison to the UK? Hypocritical perhaps?