Motivations for emigration
May 3rd 2007, 8:35 pm
#46
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Re: Motivations for emigration
I really enjoyed reading all of your comments in this thread, seems we all have so much in common.
Heres mine:
Push
Vicky Pollard and her buddies
Eat in / eat out price differences (can someone explain that)
£1.00 a litre of petrol
£2.50 a pint
£5.00 a pack of smokes
Yob CHAV Culture
Threat of Violence,
Reading about people dying becuase they are cold in the winter and can't afford to put their heating on
Pull
Tim Hortons Coffee, 60p for a large coffee, not the 2.00 for a similar one here at starbucks.
Tim Hortons Drive throughs on my way to work.
a buck for a nice plate of pasta at IKEA (seriously its good)
Collossus in Mississuga, its amazing
Canadas Wonderland
My yearly wine tasting beano around the Niagra region.
Eating out,
Outddors, - Conservation in Canada rocks so does camping with a camp fire.
Molson 24
Friendly people, we are very friendly, Diversity in people and culture
Good game of Hockey
Labour day weekend.
Fireworks at Ontario Place
Stompin' Tom" Connors: you know the words - Hello out there....
Regards
John
Heres mine:
Push
Vicky Pollard and her buddies
Eat in / eat out price differences (can someone explain that)
£1.00 a litre of petrol
£2.50 a pint
£5.00 a pack of smokes
Yob CHAV Culture
Threat of Violence,
Reading about people dying becuase they are cold in the winter and can't afford to put their heating on
Pull
Tim Hortons Coffee, 60p for a large coffee, not the 2.00 for a similar one here at starbucks.
Tim Hortons Drive throughs on my way to work.
a buck for a nice plate of pasta at IKEA (seriously its good)
Collossus in Mississuga, its amazing
Canadas Wonderland
My yearly wine tasting beano around the Niagra region.
Eating out,
Outddors, - Conservation in Canada rocks so does camping with a camp fire.
Molson 24
Friendly people, we are very friendly, Diversity in people and culture
Good game of Hockey
Labour day weekend.
Fireworks at Ontario Place
Stompin' Tom" Connors: you know the words - Hello out there....
Regards
John
£5.00 a pack of smokes
cheaper and better than Canada, innit?
May 3rd 2007, 11:32 pm
#47
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Re: Motivations for emigration
Interesting thread and good to see the different motivational factors.
Mine would be......
Push:
The UK never felt like home
Couldn't move up the property ladder
Was always planning my next trip (had about 4 vacations a year)
No chance of getting to the US
Constant stress
Pull:
Sense of belonging even when just on a fact finding mission
Sense of opportunity
Nice house
More accepting culture
A more laidback atmosphere
Someone said something to me the other day that I hadn't thought of before but I understood what he meant. He is Canadian born and bred and recently had his first visit to London. His observation was
"In London you are always walking over 'dead' people and it is always looking backwards. There is no focus on the future or where they want to get to, just where they have been..."
People moan about the lack of history in Canada compared to the UK, but I think it is more important to focus on where you want to go, not what has past, so I spose that was part of the pull....
Mine would be......
Push:
The UK never felt like home
Couldn't move up the property ladder
Was always planning my next trip (had about 4 vacations a year)
No chance of getting to the US
Constant stress
Pull:
Sense of belonging even when just on a fact finding mission
Sense of opportunity
Nice house
More accepting culture
A more laidback atmosphere
Someone said something to me the other day that I hadn't thought of before but I understood what he meant. He is Canadian born and bred and recently had his first visit to London. His observation was
"In London you are always walking over 'dead' people and it is always looking backwards. There is no focus on the future or where they want to get to, just where they have been..."
People moan about the lack of history in Canada compared to the UK, but I think it is more important to focus on where you want to go, not what has past, so I spose that was part of the pull....
May 4th 2007, 9:17 am
#48
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Re: Motivations for emigration
we are doing it so our kids can experince more space, different things the they would get to do here ,
they might seem crap reasons but we know a lot of people that have very happy lives in canada
oh just to add i never once learnt any shakespeare at school ,
, and it never did me any harm , and i doubt my kids not knowing it will harm them either 
they might seem crap reasons but we know a lot of people that have very happy lives in canada
oh just to add i never once learnt any shakespeare at school ,
, and it never did me any harm , and i doubt my kids not knowing it will harm them either
May 4th 2007, 9:43 am
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Re: Motivations for emigration
we are doing it so our kids can experince more space, different things the they would get to do here ,
they might seem crap reasons but we know a lot of people that have very happy lives in canada
oh just to add i never once learnt any shakespeare at school , , and it never did me any harm , and i doubt my kids not knowing it will harm them either
they might seem crap reasons but we know a lot of people that have very happy lives in canada
oh just to add i never once learnt any shakespeare at school ,
, and it never did me any harm , and i doubt my kids not knowing it will harm them either It's what you gain, that's the issue, not whether you can get by without it.
<... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance—no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability...>
Maria Stewart.
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May 4th 2007, 9:56 am
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Re: Motivations for emigration
<... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance—no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability...>
Maria Stewart.
Maria Stewart.
I like this too:
"Only the educated are free". Epictetus.
May 4th 2007, 11:00 am
#51
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Re: Motivations for emigration
But how do you know it didn't do you any harm??? Look at your speelllinng
It's what you gain, that's the issue, not whether you can get by without it.
<... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance—no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability...>
Maria Stewart.
It's what you gain, that's the issue, not whether you can get by without it.
<... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance—no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability...>
Maria Stewart.
well my spelling is probably pants coz i have been up all night with a baby !!
May 4th 2007, 11:12 am
#52
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Re: Motivations for emigration
Well, gas is likely to be $1.50 a litre here over the summer if the worst predictions come to pass. When you're earning in CAD$ and driving a not very fuel efficient North American vehicle that's not really so different than UK.
A pint of Guinness, Cafferys etc downtown St. John's costs upwards of $7. That's 3 quid. I'd happily pay GBP 2.50 for a decent pint of beer.
A pint of Guinness, Cafferys etc downtown St. John's costs upwards of $7. That's 3 quid. I'd happily pay GBP 2.50 for a decent pint of beer.
May 4th 2007, 11:12 am
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Re: Motivations for emigration
May 4th 2007, 11:59 am
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May 4th 2007, 12:12 pm
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Re: Motivations for emigration
That's the problem, you weren't thinking!
Quick! Read some Shakespeare so you won't get pregnant again!
"I have given suck, and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me;
I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this."
Quick! Read some Shakespeare so you won't get pregnant again!
"I have given suck, and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me;
I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this."
May 4th 2007, 12:19 pm
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Re: Motivations for emigration
That's the problem, you weren't thinking!
Quick! Read some Shakespeare so you won't get pregnant again!
"I have given suck, and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me;
I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this."
Quick! Read some Shakespeare so you won't get pregnant again!
"I have given suck, and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me;
I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this."
Careful Steve! You will be had up for inciting violence!
May 4th 2007, 2:26 pm
#58
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Re: Motivations for emigration
i think the biggest pull for me has changed ,since reading this thread ,forget all that stuff i said about kids , open spaces etc , recreational tractors thats why im moving !!! and now i know you can ride in the bucket and buy the tow thingy it just dosent get any better.
is there a recreational tractor club whick gives you badges for your skip cap?
is there a recreational tractor club whick gives you badges for your skip cap?
May 4th 2007, 2:39 pm
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Re: Motivations for emigration
btw, this picture was taken on April 7th. The next day I was chatting with a client in Kentucky about the weather and sent it to him.
"Y'all have John Deere up there? I thought you was all commies".
May 4th 2007, 2:46 pm
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Re: Motivations for emigration
ok the dog bandanas have made it even more attractive ,with the -20 bit tho i would expect a heated seat.
wasnt there a film made about a guy who went across the US in a john deer tractor ?
wasnt there a film made about a guy who went across the US in a john deer tractor ?