For some people in the process of thinking about leaving what they call a "sinking ship" for Canada with not much more than a few thousand dollars and no job to go to have a look at this latest BBC article

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/10604117

Sometimes moving just within UK may be all you need to do?

Don't leave UK because you think that the jobs are worse there than here. The national average is around 7.8% unemployment and that factors in lots of jobs Alberta (oil sands) cities but does not show you the unemployment in smaller communities. Yes statistics are manipulated by politicians, and a lot of jobs in Canada are part time.

To answer your thread title, for Calgary it's a no - the grass is brown from Sep/Oct to May/June

This time of the year? Yes because most people have just finished their winter fertilizing

Always - over the septic field

Ours is white for most of that time.

It's where we've buried all the bodies! Lovely and lush...

Same here, more a brown crunchy look, from May till Sept, no rain for 4-5 months and scorching temps will do that

Ah but on the Island it's always green and flowers are always bloomin'

I live in lloydmnster i never have seen such a busy booming place id say its sgreen here

ok I placed this in the wrong place! how do you delete a thread?

Better to let people do their own research and make their own mistakes without adding nonsense like BBC news to the Canadian forum. Sorry, still new here

At least I gave you all some fun for a Friday night with nothing to do!

You don't, that's the joy of an open forum, post a thread, get what you get and it lives in perpetuity.

As Aviator said, we wouldn't delete the thread.

It's an open forum, so you may get some responses you don't want, but that's just the nature of BE.

It was worth posting, and I'm sure you'll get some 'sensible' responses over the weekend as well as the usual flippant ones.

Thx.