DigitalGhost

I think that it honestly depends on the industry in which you work and the numbers of Eastern Europeans working in the UK has grown significantly smaller in the last 12 months or so although I have to say that I have never met an Eastern European whom I didn't like. From my experience, I have found them to be honest, decent and hardworking people unlike a lot of other 'tradesmen' who are UK natives.

sarah75

Yes, my husband says the same, I have pretty much spent most of my working life employing contractors, and have seen most of the work disappear, unless it is military/defense work which has to stay in house. We are looking at Toronto, but we will be renting our house out, just incase work falls apart and we need to escape!!

huddm

el_richo

I am another ex pat( English) from Canada who also was hired to work for a UK nuclear engineering company in Oxfordshire. At the time we returned to the UK I was nearly 40 years old (2005).

Most of my friends who are over 40 now are not looking to leave the UK due to immigrants taking over their jobs. They are definitely happy with their lot in the UK and those who thought about moving to Canada decided not too when they found out who hard it was for my family to first settle in Canada.

There are still some good jobs back in the UK if you have qualifications and skills employers want. I know when I lived nearly Oxford they did employee machinist from Eastern Europe as those local experienced machinist were in high demand by hi tech and automotive industry. Local small engineering companies could not afford the premium salaries the like Honda or Williams racing was offering, so they hired Estonian's.

hudd

joycejimi

Hi DigitalGhost,

Are you moving to Vancouver soon. You can send me a private mail to communicate further.

Regards
Joyce

Londonuck

You should of seen it in '98 when i moved over. There were tumbleweeds blowing down Granville.

DigitalGhost

Possibly, if we were going then I don't think that it would be until around October though.

ork

Thank you, I found that website just before I found this forum but I haven't become a member yet - I'll keep an eye out for events.

dgjamison

Hi I have been reading this thread with interest, and thought I would throw in my tuppence worth we first came to Canada in 1976 to Toronto, my husband had a job to come to so things were fine. I found the first year horrendous OH worked in hospitality industry and worked 16 hour days, i was in an apartment with a 10 week old baby and 2 year old and I knew no e.It was very hard and it took a few years to settle. When my children went ot school I got a job and started meeting new friends it was great and my sister and her husband came over so I had family. 8 years later my dad passed away and I went home to Ireland, we ended up back in Ireland to look after my mum and now 26 years later we are back in canada. I know it was a real risk as I knew it would have changed. But nothing has prepared me for how much!! I now find people too busy to be friendly as they used to be, and nowhere nearly as hospitable, I am really sad, as I love canada, we even went to bc in april to check it out and though I find it a beautiful part of canada, again I found it hard to meet people. Maybe had rose tinted glasses on thinking people stayed the same. We are retired now, and thought we would meet friends through playing golf but now I am not so sure. I would love to find a nice friendly community with good golf courses close, as I really don't want to go back to Ireland, its a beautiful country, but I still Canada is my home if I could just make it work. We have made some bad choices especially where we live I really don't like it Its Fort Erie, and I feel very isolated, and its a bit of a dump very depressed area. if anyone can suggest a nice friendly community (by the way we rent) I would be grateful. I am retired but not yet 60 yrs so I am still very active, so is my husband. Looking forward to hearing from you, sorry if i have rambled a bit

flashman

You might want to check out Eastern Ontario (Kingston, Belleville, Brockville etc.).

Lots of interesting areas for living ,day trips etc and volunteer opportunities for meeting people.

Sandbanks Park (http://www.ontarioparks.com/english/sand.html)

Bon Echo Park ( http://www.ontarioparks.com/ENGLISH/bone.html)

Kingston ( http://www.cityofkingston.ca/index.asp)

Land of Lakes (http://www.lol.on.ca/)

Thousand Islands (http://www.visit1000islands.com/visitorinfo/)

dgjamison

Thank you for your reply, I had thought of kingston ect: do you reckion they are friendlier places to live, we had thought of the Thorold stone road area of Niagara, do you know anything about there? again thanks

pacepeter

i think i would rather have a 2 faced canadian your quote compared to the larger louts, druggies who would steal the shirt off your back and all the litter bugs that are in the uk. not counting all the people i would have to pay for who did not want to work, then there all the people that come from europe that want to use the NHS for free, a bottle of wine and some cheese lol its very funny, maybe you lived in a nice area of uk and didnt see a lot of what goes on

dgjamison

when I first read this readers thread I thought the same as you, but then I pulled myself up, you know there is nothing worse than homesickeness. I went ot Australia in 1971, I was very young , my brother lived there at the time and I married there (you have to remember I moved because the troubles in Ireland were at their worst and my husband and I are mixed religion) i tried desperately to settle as the quality of life at that time in australia was so much better than Ireland, but I was still homesick and ended up going HOME. I won't go into all the details but I am now back in Canada, its not the same place as in 1979 + and not for the better, but i am still looking to find a place for us here in Canada as I feel it is still the country for us ( I( really hope) Hopefully it will work for you to I hope so
Djam

Unhappypat

Well so are we, my family and I have been in Canada for 6 years, we came here to experience a new life, a new begining, we embraced our new country we put down roots, But the roots didn't take and after all we have done we have achieved nothing. Sure Canada is nice on the one side, but on the other the winters are too cold and long, the food sucks, everything seems to be fried or have bread wrapped around it, no decent restuarants just fast food everywhere, the produce in the shops is either very old or has travelled so far it has no taste left in it, the standard of driving here is dreadful, the T.V. definition is horrible,( makes your eyes hurt)Oh and weve had more power cuts here than when we lived out in the wilds of untamed Scotland! I personally dont think that I'm looking through rose tinted glasses, the atmosphere is too dry and chillblains are the norm here. That's before you get into the shame of the Gas and Oil industry and what they are doing to the Earth. Some places look like" Mordor"(from Lord of the Rings) its a travesty. Canada's image of a clean, fresh wonderful place to live Lies.

lady lord

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Out of interest which part of Canada do you live in?

DigitalGhost

Are you sure that you didn't accidentally stay in Scotland? because a lot of that definitely sounds like Glasgow to me.