upsticks

hi everyone!
fantastic forum-plenty of very helpful advice and quite hard to find stuff, too!

heres my view on emigrating. ive been to vancouver many times and yes, its a great place, but when i think about general living there, then in my mind its no different to living in london.
you will still have to go out to work, pay bills, look after kids, etc etc.
and more than likely, you probably wont have time to savour all those mountains so close by, as everyday you will come home knackered, eat, sleep and same again, day in day out!
IMHO, any place is what YOU make it. london is not THAT bad in the general place of things.
nevertheless, bc is one hell of a place, and only if we never had to work!
heres a pic of when i was there last :

http://i8.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/ec/26/c9b5_1.JPG

me? i think ill stay in the uk but still ahve the option of holidaying in bc whenevr i can!

iaink

Very hard to take the afternoon off and go skiing in London? Or whalewatching.

Twink001

I agree.

DOBBIE

Or driving 5 minutes out of the city limits and be in mile upon mile of open countryside with no one else around. Drive south or East from London and the first time you hit open ground you get wet feet in the sea....!

Left London 13 years ago and glad to see the back of it...

However you are right in saying that you make of life what you make of it...

Cheers

Dobbie

Edna Bucket

I don't get it. Vancouver or London are the only two choices?

rae

is it me, or has this person come onto an expats forum to say he likes canada to have a holiday but likes london better so will live there. can anyone see a point, or is it just me.

rae

i just don't get it. i love italy to holiday, but i am not on an italian version of expats. lost??

Twink001

I love Zante so much I got married there, but I would not want to live there, just holiday there once in a while!

neekie

There's a nice cow's barn down the road from me but would I live there? Nooooooo!

Beaverquest

i used to frequent a pub/club in stockwell (the swan?) of a weekend where a harpoon was mandatory

Paul Wildy

But arent you totally missing the point? Escaping responsibilities isnt what emigrating is about - its about moving to a different country where you improve your situation/lifestyle/career/happiness in some way. Your post implies that you somehow started out with the notion that if you emigrated you wouldnt have to work, pay your bills or look after your kids. And then recently you discovered that wasnt really the case and so therefore could't see the point in pursuing it! What you're describing (ie. not working) seems more akin to dropping out than emigrating.

FlirtyKnickers

Well said.... mrs 007

bazzz

I'd say that Vancouver isn't full of whining Brits, but that'd only be partially true. And as bad as the 99 B-Line is, it ain't a patch on the Northern Line for sheer unadulterated misery.

moondevil

Yeah but you can whale watch in the UK, it aint pretty and we are 60 miles inland

upsticks

im not saying that london is paradise but neither is canada, or any other place really! last time i was in bc, i was on the skytrain going from main street to metrotown, and you wouldnt believe the number of weirdos that got on, screaming and shouting at each other, so much that i had to get out and change carriages. ok, i know, its the same in london too! just my personal whinge!
glad you agree that life is what you make it, so for some people maybe they can better themselves in canada, others not. comparison wise, london has all the history you could want and could never see in your whole life, everything is close by etc. vancouver also has great scenery and lifestyle that you cannot get in london. so its horses-for-courses really i think. i still go back to what i said before; if as 99% of us all have to do, we are gonna slog our guts out making a living, then IMHO i prefer to do it in london. better the devil you know!