Lisa_W

Yes this has brightened my afternoon up. In fact I'd go and lie down with a glass of wine too if I didn't have to collect my sproglets too!!

joe.bloggs

Angie story .. made my face light up & grin .. what can I say , I have experienced exactly the same line by line ..
realtor : take 6% , when buying & selling your house EACH TIME !, they promise you the earth & then just sit back doing squat nothing
very difficult to survive on a single wage , unless you are a Doctor & Lawyer .. other professions including IT are a LOT less paid !! we have manged to go thru £100K plus in saving alone in the past 4 years , never mind the 2 monthly wages .. Tax & property tax's & heating in the winter & AirCon in the summer are a huge burden in qubec ..
very expensive in Canada .. absolutly true ! , once you start earning local slave wages .. all the basic foods stuffs are MUCH more expensive than the UK , ie bread ..milk etc..
Job hunting : is very dificult , they may want highly skilled IT people , BUT there simply aren't enough jobs in this particuler field especially for new emigrants ..
Medical bills : you wait until you fall ill & you get a bill of $200 for the ambulance & the cost of medicine .. will bring tears to your eyes
" too expensive for us to get back on the property ladder in England:" we are in exactly the same boat ..

"but I would call it a third world country." LOL ! I worked this out in our first year !

I could go ON & ON .. you probarly woun't belive a bit, until it happens to YOU !!

purple80

Err, no, definately an adult last time i checked, have been accused of having mental age slightly lower

Mr Lee

I can see the avatar.

On the original thread subject, is this written by a Canadian not wanting Brits to immigrate or what?!
Sure - it's not easy, but some of the stuff in the article seems to be a bit hard to believe.

Even the bits like there being "no frills" stuff in supermarkets.
Errr...does she not have a Zehr's ("No Name") or Sobey's/IGA ("Compliments") in her neighbourhood?

And 3 houses in 5 years?!? Well - you're going to pay a lot of fees in the long run aren't you. As for realtors - our estate agents in England were dreadful; uncommunicative, forgetful, just plain useless - a complete contrast to here where the guy who found us our house is even offering to help us move!

Horses for courses I guess. Sure it's no bed of roses, but like most point out: is anywhere?

Does this Angie come on these boards? I'm guessing that if she posted that article on expats, she must, so maybe she can elaborate on her experiences further...

printer

So we started off being annoyed at Angies piece on the front page and now we are even more annoyed because we cannot see purple 80's avatar.

SORT IT OUT!!!!!!!

purple80

IF I COULD I WOULD
GIVEN UP NOW:curse:
WILL TRY AGAIN LATER WHEN MY BRAIN HAS COOLED DOWN

MarkG

Which is odd, because my girlfriend lives pretty well on half my salary in Canada... even if I end up taking a 50% pay cut (and 30-50% seems likely at this point) I'm not sure what we'd spend all the money on.

Of course neither of us are into buying expensive stuff for the sake of it... she was talking about people spending $10,000 on a set of kitchen cupboards, whereas I'd rather settle for some cardboard boxes for free .

Yeah, I'm not surprised that they say most of the IT graduates move to America, when they can earn twice as much there.

Agreed. The guy who's helping my girlfriend look for a house at the moment seems miles away from any estate agent I've had to deal with in England.

printer

Interesting viewpoint from someone who clearly hasn't had much to say since joining in 2004

ImLivingTheDream

That's because he can't afford to run his computer. Computers are most more expensive in Canada blah blah

DaveTheCat

Er... non-sequitur? what's his relative silence so far got to do with his opinion on the matter?

MesserMoony

hmm as for IT I have a BSc in Multimedia and my husband is a Data analyst and obviously doing inland application I am not working and we are living quite comfortably on his wages. He does some overtime to earn a bit more but not all that much, certainly nothing like what Angie experienced.

steve666

Ye printer, answer that and stay fashionable!

bazzz

I'm surprised they don't edit the articles they put on their front page so they don't sound like they've been written by a seven year-old. God knows how she managed to hold down a "well paid professional job" in the UK.

printer

Er later when i've had a chance to look up the meaning of that word.

DaveTheCat

Sorry P, I really didn't mean to sound like a pompous arse. I was just pointing out that keeping relatively silent and having strong opinions on something are not mutually exclusive.