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Re: Reasons for emigrating?
Originally Posted by alcat2010
(Post 9489174)
Is Canada "different"?....
Is Canada "another 1st world country"?..... Oh no, I think I better start doing some 'google-ing'!!! :banghead: Watching TV, buying the weekly groceries, going to work, and driving the commute... The labels are different, the location is different, but overall as a 1st world nation you’ll be doing the same things in the same way with the same problems and attitudes as you would in any other 1st world nation. and to add to the fun, you bring ‘you’ when you emigrate, you might be surprised how much of ‘your’ baggage and ‘your’ issues will follow you |
Re: Reasons for emigrating?
Originally Posted by MikeUK
(Post 9489241)
You'll get it once you get here... once you’re doing the same old thing you did back home..
Watching TV, buying the weekly groceries, going to work, and driving the commute... The labels are different, the location is different, but overall as a 1st world nation you’ll be doing the same things in the same way with the same problems and attitudes as you would in any other 1st world nation. and to add to the fun, you bring ‘you’ when you emigrate, you might be surprised how much of ‘your’ baggage and ‘your’ issues will follow you |
Re: Reasons for emigrating?
Originally Posted by cheeky_monkey
(Post 9489251)
with the added bonus that you are now the "bloody damn immigrant' taking all our jobs.
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Re: Reasons for emigrating?
Originally Posted by MikeUK
(Post 9489241)
You'll get it once you get here... once you’re doing the same old thing you did back home..
Watching TV, buying the weekly groceries, going to work, and driving the commute... The labels are different, the location is different, but overall as a 1st world nation you’ll be doing the same things in the same way with the same problems and attitudes as you would in any other 1st world nation. and to add to the fun, you bring ‘you’ when you emigrate, you might be surprised how much of ‘your’ baggage and ‘your’ issues will follow you True.. |
Re: Reasons for emigrating?
Originally Posted by Steve_
(Post 9489006)
Has to be kept securely. Non-restricted firearms, trigger lock or a locked case, restricted and prohibited firearms have to have both. http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/PS99-1-2004E.pdf
Not legal to leave it stored loaded in your house, not legal for your neighbour to borrow it unless he has a licence and a copy of the registration certificate. There is an exemption to storing it loaded if you are hunting and in a camp. At least in Canada they specify what the legal method of transport is, unlike the UK where there is no clear guidance, just "reasonable precautions" must be taken, which basically means if the police pull you over, you're in trouble. |
Re: Reasons for emigrating?
Originally Posted by alcat2010
(Post 9489325)
True..
Firstly, in somewhere like BC, it is a much shinier bucket. Secondly, emigrating gives you a fresh start. The **** can smell a lot sweeter. There are some not very nice places in and around Vancouver. However, they don't need to be part of your life and experience unless you choose let them. |
Re: Reasons for emigrating?
Originally Posted by izzi81
(Post 9489047)
. I can afford to live somewhere in Canada where there is a lot less of it. I can't afford that in the UK.
Most UK immigrants can afford to buy themselves a better lifestyle here - be it the larger home, more space, nicer type of area, whatever. They cannot always afford to buy themselves these things by moving 200 miles up or down the M1. We have been able to buy into a little slice of loveliness here - not quite utopia, but it ticks many boxes. But we came from leafy Surrey so to be honest , not that much has changed apart from ditching a massive mortgage. Less people and traffic, and free parking :sneaky: (Worth emigrating for? :lol:) To move to the UK now would mean losing a third of my square footage, living semi-detached from my neighbours and taking on a minimum of 175kGBP mortgage. That doesn't maintain my lifestyle here - but it will bring about proximity to orange squash and friends and family. Mmmmmm. |
Re: Reasons for emigrating?
Originally Posted by ann m
(Post 9489385)
Bingo!
Most UK immigrants can afford to buy themselves a better lifestyle here - be it the larger home, more space, nicer type of area, whatever. They cannot always afford to buy themselves these things by moving 200 miles up or down the M1. We have been able to buy into a little slice of loveliness here - not quite utopia, but it ticks many boxes. But we came from leafy Surrey so to be honest , not that much has changed apart from ditching a massive mortgage. Less people and traffic, and free parking :sneaky: (Worth emigrating for? :lol:) To move to the UK now would mean losing a third of my square footage, living semi-detached from my neighbours and taking on a minimum of 175kGBP mortgage. That doesn't maintain my lifestyle here - but it will bring about proximity to orange squash and friends and family. Mmmmmm. |
Re: Reasons for emigrating?
Originally Posted by lmartin999
(Post 9489077)
Some bugger nicked my BBQ when I lived in Vancouver, wheeled it right off my patio. And this was in Kits!
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Re: Reasons for emigrating?
Originally Posted by JonboyE
(Post 9489365)
Secondly, emigrating gives you a fresh start.
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Re: Reasons for emigrating?
Another thing I think happens, once you start to settle in, is your memory about your life in the UK starts to fade, and you start to only remember the good parts. I remember feeling pretty resentful about living in the UK before I left, but I often forget exactly why and have to really think about it to remind myself of the reasons. Memory is referential, you need something to remind you of something particularly to bring back your memory of it, and when something does not exist in Canada, you can forget it existed in the UK simply because you are never reminded of it again.
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Re: Reasons for emigrating?
Originally Posted by CanadaJimmy
(Post 9489919)
Another thing I think happens, once you start to settle in, is your memory about your life in the UK starts to fade, and you start to only remember the good parts. I remember feeling pretty resentful about living in the UK before I left, but I often forget exactly why and have to really think about it to remind myself of the reasons. Memory is referential, you need something to remind you of something particularly to bring back your memory of it, and when something does not exist in Canada, you can forget it existed in the UK simply because you are never reminded of it again.
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Re: Reasons for emigrating?
Originally Posted by iaink
(Post 9489058)
However the people in those nice bits still think they will be mugged if they go out after dark despite a lack of evidence to support that. Here it never even crosses your mind that you left a $2000 lawn tractor unprotected overnight in the middle of the yard, or that someone might nick the kids bikes from the front yard.
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Re: Reasons for emigrating?
I came to Canada so that I could have my holidays in France.
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Re: Reasons for emigrating?
Originally Posted by christmasoompa
(Post 9490014)
Got to disagree with this Iain, I never feel anything less than safe here, and as somebody that frequently leaves the car sitting unlocked all night (and has even left keys in the front door on a few occasions - whoops!), you can tell that I'm not that worried about things being nicked either. The kids bikes are currently on the front drive, where they've been since Saturday too. :o
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