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A question for all you people that are now living in Canada!!

A question for all you people that are now living in Canada!!

Old Jan 18th 2009, 8:43 pm
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Originally Posted by triumphguy
Well if you don't have kids, your kids wont have kids either! It's genetic or summat!

I'd go back to blighty with lotsa mullah and a winter house in Spain/Protugal/Greece, and a cottage in the Costwolds, and a flat in Knightsbridge,and an estate in Scotland. Until then, I'l stay here!
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
What is the point of yet another of these threads?
There you go again, if there's no point, then don't log on.
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Old Jan 18th 2009, 8:52 pm
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Originally Posted by dboy
There you go again, if there's no point, then don't log on.
Here here!!!!!!!

Such a jolly fellow isn't he!! I bet he oozes charisma!!!!

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Old Jan 18th 2009, 9:09 pm
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Originally Posted by brianscottie43

So you are both prepared to live in mediocrity for part or all of your lives.
If you came for a better life, then you're not going to be fulfilled if that's your feeling(s). Life moves along much faster than we think and before we know it, it can be too late to make meaningful changes.

That's assuming of course that there isn't a bigger picture. Like for example having a Canadian wife who has quite enjoyed her return to Canada and who's family live just up the road which complicates things a little.

We've been here four and a half years and if I'd only had me to think about then I'd have gone back to England but it's not just me.
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Originally Posted by act1980
Pointless like you I guess!! You always reply to threads with either rude or pointless comments.

I am just trying to find out how Canadian life has been for people, what's wrong with that??
I second that - he comes across as somehow being superior.
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I second that - he comes across as somehow being superior.
It's the effortless way he spells "hear" correctly.
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Old Jan 18th 2009, 9:32 pm
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Originally Posted by dboy
I second that - he comes across as somehow being superior.
I think the word 'deluded' comes to mind lol!!! With a name like Novocastrianus - hardly superior!!!
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Ultimately it comes down to the individual. I personally have no intentions of returning to the UK. In fact if I did n't have family there I would not go back at at all.

Having said that i think that the England I left in 1989 is very different to the one of today, so maybe my thinking is jaded. Also i've only ever really known Manchester - what a shit hole!

I came out of the RN in 1987 and was earning 95 pence an hour . Thanks Maggie Unemployment was rampant - there were no prospects at all.

I went through a divorce and returned to the UK for an extended visit. Was toying with the idea of going back. However, the nostalgia wore off very quickly and i felt more like i was going home when i landed back in Vancouver.

Like i say, it is all down to you. Some just cant do without the green, green hills of home. I've spent half my life out of the UK and have lived in Moscow, Istanbul, the US and now Canada.

Canada has been the best fit for me. Had i have lived in a sprawling country estate in Surrey - that may have worked as well. Home truly is where the heart it is. Canada is not perfect but from where I'm standing, it is a lot more appealing than Blighty.

I don't want to come off as a England Hater - just that I feel that i was badly let down by her. I almost felt when I left that i did n't really have any other choice.

There are always push and pulls when leaving home. You have to question why you are leaving and what you expect to find when you get where you are going.

Gosh i sure rambled on did n't I.
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Originally Posted by act1980
I think the word 'deluded' comes to mind lol!!! With a name like Novocastrianus - hardly superior!!!
He's a cod Latino, a Geordie Ricky Martin.
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Originally Posted by dboy
Ultimately it comes down to the individual. I personally have no intentions of returning to the UK. In fact if I did n't have family there I would not go back at at all.

Having said that i think that the England I left in 1989 is very different to the one of today, so maybe my thinking is jaded. Also i've only ever really known Manchester - what a shit hole!

I came out of the RN in 1987 and was earning 95 pence an hour . Thanks Maggie Unemployment was rampant - there were no prospects at all.

I went through a divorce and returned to the UK for an extended visit. Was toying with the idea of going back. However, the nostalgia wore off very quickly and i felt more like i was going home when i landed back in Vancouver.

Like i say, it is all down to you. Some just cant do without the green, green hills of home. I've spent half my life out of the UK and have lived in Moscow, Istanbul, the US and now Canada.

Canada has been the best fit for me. Had i have lived in a sprawling country estate in Surrey - that may have worked as well. Home truly is where the heart it is. Canada is not perfect but from where I'm standing, it is a lot more appealing than Blighty.

I don't want to come off as a England Hater - just that I feel that i was badly let down by her. I almost felt when I left that i did n't really have any other choice.

There are always push and pulls when leaving home. You have to question why you are leaving and what you expect to find when you get where you are going.

Gosh i sure rambled on did n't I.
The UK is certainly not what it used to be
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Old Jan 18th 2009, 9:39 pm
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Originally Posted by act1980
The UK is certainly not what it used to be
Where is?
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Old Jan 18th 2009, 9:41 pm
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Originally Posted by Elaine B.
Where is?
Well I can't comment on other countries as I have only lived here.
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Where is?
Chingford is unchanging. It is, perhaps, the truly eternal city.
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Originally Posted by act1980
Well I can't comment on other countries as I have only lived here.
Okay so in your experience what did the UK used to be? What has gone so badly wrong?
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