Professor of underwater basket weaving !

R.

Give it up...you've been gardening again...

Ontheboatout

You have to admit, your post was somewhat contraversial.

OK, property is cheaper so people may not have a mortgage or will have a smaller one than in the UK. But what about the other things.

Food - you still need to eat, I find fresh produce cheaper (and better quality), but if you are the sort of person who buys alot of processed stuff it will probably cost more. Also if you like wine it is more expensive (even Jost wine).

Power - domestic fuel bills will be about the same. The cost per unit/litre or whatever may be less, but you just need more heat in the winter.

Transport - cars are cheaper, but most people probably want to buy a better model that they had in the UK. Insurance is way more expensive. Fuel is cheaper but cars are thirstier and distances are generally further.

Leisure - lots of free outdoor stuff to do and eating out it cheaper but if you want to fly off to the sun in the winter for a break it will cost double. Many people also find that they want to buy new toys to get the quality of life they moved over for (boats, ski gear, snowmobiles etc).

When you add this up most people would not have anything like the quality of life they are looking for on half the money. I accept that over all you may need less than in the UK if you live in NS, but that is largely to do with lower property prices. I would say that you need to earn a similar amount less what you will save of your mortgage.

So if you pay £600 per month mortgage in the UK and are only going to be paying $200 in NS, you need to earn £500 per month less to maintain your lifestyle (after you initial moving costs). Discuss??

With all that to consider I'm wondering how I can get me a grow op.....

Seems the only way to go...

Sas

All available by mail order. As they say - "everyone's doing it".



R.

Escargot herder

A mere 113 stores in BC.

Sow...and ye shall reap.....



R.

Cockle picker....?

Isn't the obvious reason that the immigration permit is issued on the basis of the person bringing a skill to the country - if the immigrant gives up heart surgery for a life cod jiggling he or she is failing in his or her obligations.

When last in Cape Breton we went whale watching on a little boat; we picked that company as they let us take our dog. I was amused to find that the guide was from the Beach area of Toronto, he'd taken up with a Cape Bretoner (one of those people who are the butt of Newfie jokes when told by Newfies) and moved down there. He made a living from tips and from the two weeks a year it takes to fill the lobster quota, mostly he was thrilled to have one of the few year round jobs available in rural areas; bar steward at the Legion.

It seems to me that moving to a rural location is likely to entail poverty, moving to a senic rural location is likely to entail poverty and swarms of rich tourists in the Summer telling one how idyllic rural life is; I wouldn't trade Kilburn for that.

The North Shore has a Morecombe Bay? Perhaps Ontheboatout wants immigrants interested in a career change for a bit of picking because the last lot were inadvertantly submerged.

The ripple effect.............cast a stone, buy a cucumber.

True, if I came in as a Skilled Worker as a press technician and worked as an oyster shucker I can imagine immigration might be miffed but on the community identified jobby a business helping the community etc.

Desnovsco mentioned Jost - an example, someone could get some land, grow their varietals and sell them the grapes. Banker becomes winer.

Got to be the way to go then. What do you reckon I should tell the CHC on my application? Horticulture? Medicinal herbology? Alchemist?

Sas x

When you start earning in Can$ and don't have UK Pounds coming in as income, you soon forget about the exchange rate.

At the end of the day economically life is no better in Canada than in the UK, its all about what YOU make of it.

If you like the UK life style and expect it be more affordable in Canada - - NO its not. The life style is NOT like the UK.

If you like pubs, its not happening over here.

If you like popping over to Europe, cool fashions, long holidays & sick pay, thats not happening here either.

If you like the casual humor in the UK, thats not happening here either.

So whats the attraction, for me it is, .... well.... , life is just simpler .... , there is not the bullshit here in quite the same quantities.

People expect more of you, they expect to you to be honest, mostly.

It's very difficult to explain, I just don't get so "UP-TIGHT" here as I do in the UK.

For me that's worth it.

Horticulturalist, natch.

Did you know, HA etc pay their horticultuarlists VERY WELL.

They tempt them away from the mainstream by offering better T+C's.

Well, it's just a bunch of plants, eh.

R.