Originally Posted by geordie-gill

Hi
Just joined today, so am new to this. My husband and I have decided to move to either Australia or Canada, but cannot decide which. Can anyone tell us the pros and cons of either country. It would be a great help. cheers

Originally Posted by ezvanetree

Anyway, my two cents.

Originally Posted by dbd33

But that's location specific, what we have here is mainly smog. There are a couple of days a year when the pollution clears and one can see blue but mostly we're looking at a grey/brown haze.

Originally Posted by ezvanetree

Also, I was reading with interest the thread about manners and general friendliness in Canada verses the UK. That is another reason I left Australia--I found that the most common reaction from a stranger was hostility. People didn't seem warm and welcoming, but cold and aggressive. My neighbours, for example, ignored me--if I and a neighbour were getting into our cars at the same time the neighbour would pretend s/he didn't see me so s/he wouldn't have to say hi. Crazy. No neighbour introduced themselves in the five years we lived there. And forget friendly work relations!! Meetings were hostile encounters that I grew to dread. I could go on. But a friendly country it was not, in my experience.

Canada wins hands down in terms of general overall choices for what I want out of life: much easier travel, better cost of living, great weather (can't wait for the snow to fly so I can get out my cross country skies); beautiful scenery (Australia is flat flat flat--nice in itself but try driving for three days across very flat desert country--it gets old fast); much friendlier people etc etc. Anyway, my two cents.

Originally Posted by JaseAndHeth

Wow - good post. We have friends moving to Oz later next year - wonder if I should show them this!??...

Glad we chose Canada (Oz was never really on the cards for us though - Canada won hands down...) :)

Originally Posted by geordie-gill

Can I ask why you chose Canada and why oz was never in the running. cheers :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by hudd

Stuarty

We also lived in rural Ontario for 6 years and remember having to cut the lawn or gardening wearing bug nets and bathing in Woods Off. Black flys are the worst as they get in your ear and rip pieces of skin off. Must admit I laughed a quite abit when my father in law visited seeing him running up and down the lawn trying to escape the bugs.

Originally Posted by Estelle

Do you have any suggestions on that? That could be a very big factor in our decision to move.

Originally Posted by Novocastrian

Just in case there are one or two people on this board who still take dbd33 seriously, he is, of course, grossly exagerating.

Originally Posted by Lees147

once again It is a big place and it is hard to answer this sort of question without a province name.

Originally Posted by dbd33

Kitchener is in southern Ontario. It'll be about the same as Toronto. In winter it's dark when I get to work and it's dark when I leave, the sun is up from about 8 until 4.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...ear=2006&day=1

Originally Posted by Keg and Mash

Whats a Skeeter vac?

Originally Posted by Lees147

http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/phys08a.htm

i'm still trying to find the list of daylight conditions.

They have recently changed stats canada lol. i'm lost.

thats a good site db

Originally Posted by Estelle

I like crisp snow scenes, but hate slush. I also get the seasonal disorder - ie. more depressed in winter with shorter days.

Do you have any suggestions on that? That could be a very big factor in our decision to move.

Thanks