How many British do you meet a week?
Dec 23rd 2014, 1:20 am
#16
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Re: How many British do you meet a week?
Lots, quite often I keep my mouth shut and carry on, it's only if I have to interact will I take part in the how long have you been here game, instigated by the other Brit. For some reason they are disappointed when they find out we've been here longer. It's one very good reason to get of retail and go and work in a box somewhere 
Bizarrely, whilst in NOTL the guy at the cash desk in the Brit/Scot shop mistook us for another couple that were shopping at the same time, also from Red Deer, also British, also just visiting. Never seen them around here though.
Bizarrely, whilst in NOTL the guy at the cash desk in the Brit/Scot shop mistook us for another couple that were shopping at the same time, also from Red Deer, also British, also just visiting. Never seen them around here though.
These are the kind of people that fly a Saltaire or Cross of St George in their front yards.
Best avoided.
Dec 23rd 2014, 1:24 am
#17
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Re: How many British do you meet a week?
I work Downtown Toronto. There are at least 5 Brits who work in my shared office space. I also hear other/new Brits in the elevator or downstairs in the food court almost everyday.
Dec 23rd 2014, 1:37 am
#18
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Re: How many British do you meet a week?
Location is everything. We went into a Loblaws in Ottawa a while back. I swear that half the people in there were Brits, including a fair few of the staff.
Dec 23rd 2014, 1:38 am
#19
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Re: How many British do you meet a week?
The barstewards are like cockroaches. They are simply everywhere.
Dec 23rd 2014, 2:17 am
#20
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Re: How many British do you meet a week?
Coming over here, stealing our jobs....
Dec 23rd 2014, 3:46 am
#22
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Re: How many British do you meet a week?
Been in Moncton 9 and a half years. I can recall three in all that time. And one Irish.
Dec 23rd 2014, 4:32 am
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Dec 23rd 2014, 5:22 am
#25
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Re: How many British do you meet a week?
Dec 23rd 2014, 6:08 am
#26
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Re: How many British do you meet a week?
I meet a few... I also know a lot of first generation Canadians where mum or dad immigrated...
Our landlady who turned out to be so helpful and lovely came here with here parents when she was three- I think she identified with our three yr old...
Our landlady who turned out to be so helpful and lovely came here with here parents when she was three- I think she identified with our three yr old...
Dec 23rd 2014, 7:00 am
#27
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Re: How many British do you meet a week?
I think it marks the difference between an an emigre and and expat. I've found that the latter often use "they", almost as if the The Raj still exists. It's similar to people you would meet at an airport. A bloke wearing trousers/a jacket with way too many zippered pockets is invariably going to be a bit of a prat.
Dec 23rd 2014, 11:37 am
#28
Peter Darwin
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Re: How many British do you meet a week?
Brits? I try to avoid them wherever possible. If I wanted to be with them, I'd have stayed in the UK.
Thankfully I'm the only Brit here in Kanata, so that's some comfort. Even the wife's not one.
Thankfully I'm the only Brit here in Kanata, so that's some comfort. Even the wife's not one.
Dec 23rd 2014, 12:05 pm
#30
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Re: How many British do you meet a week?
I would have said I'd met four or five in the three years we've been here (not counting the DandNhill clan), but having started reading this thread before I went out I deliberately refrained from commenting on the obviously South Coast accent of the woman on the till in Sobeys ( but at least she'd have known what I meant if I called it a till.... )
