Forget focus and sophistication - I`d settle for paragraphs

If you already have a nice lifestyle and a job I personally wouldn't do the move with 4 kids. But if your family loves skiing and you can afford $300 plus a time to go then Canada is the place for you.

Yes you will get a bigger house but will you be able to afford to visit the UK. With a family of six that would be around ($6,500) minimum with Air Transat.

We have lived here for 12 years, my kids are true Canadians but you do need a lot of money for all the sports especially if they get into hockey. My expenditure for two so far this year is around $2,500 but they are goalies and play rep (high league). Soccer is way cheaper!

My friends with daughters tell me how expensive ballet is, even more than hockey. But if you get a good job $90,000 plus you will be able to afford this.

Why do you have this dream? What made you think about Canada? Does your wife have the same dream? My husband had the dream and I followed and now he wants to leave!! Be careful for what you wish for.

Since we're being picky...

Root of all KINDS OF evil, not Root of all evil.

And while we're at it, isn't it "the love of money" that's the evil bit, rather than money per se?...

I don't care what it is the 'root of' but if there's a route involved then money would be a route to, or from, but not of.

PS No need to capitalise your second use of root.

Thanks everyone for their replies.

I don't really have a nice lifestyle, I work around 50 hours a week in a relatively well paid job (for the area) but still live hand-to-mouth and cannot afford to do the things we would like. My current profession would make me around the $80-90k mark in Canada.
I have wanted to live and work abroad for many years and considered Australia (too far) or Canada.

Reading everyones responses, it looks like trying to find employment first is the best way to make a start on the trail to emigrating.
Should I start by researching relevant companies in the areas I would like and begin just sending them my Resume?

As said above, don't view moving to Canada as a miracle cure. By the time you've spent £25-30k on moving your family over, often taken a step back career wise, and with cost of living roughly the same in Canada, you may find you're no better off financially.

Now you're catching on.

No. Do a trip to those areas and meet people in person. Alternatively, read the wiki.

$80,000 to $90,000 would be a good wage in some location but it would be not if you were living around Vancouver area. In Nova Scotia that wage would be probably be very good as the houses are much cheaper.

But if you are looking for a change and an adventure then money should not be the root of all decisions!

Perhaps, but we Canadians are taught grammar in our inferior education system. We know that lacks is not a contraction, so should therefore not contain an apostrophe. We are also taught where a full stop is required.
Not where I'm from they're not.
My daughter's 7th grade teacher (British import here in Australia) kept calling my daughter "the American girl" and insisted that Canada was part of the US when she corrected her. She argued with my daughter that she must be American and hold an American passport. My husband and I had to go to the school to straighten her out.

Ignorant teachers, like ignoramuses in general are found everywhere.

But you lot do sound like Americans.

What the hell? I thought we were part of the US of A?

Anyway, I'm off to hunt a Walrus and drag it back to the Igloo to feed the family.

it is the LACK of money that's the root of all evil.

Went for interview yesterday for glazier/ cladder job.
Got offered position of industrial cladder in Calgary. Got to wait a couple of weeks now for all the confirmation to arrive.
Best be going shopping for all my thermals

So was I, its just that I don't always apply the skill with the proper care and attention on a internet forum...

If you look at latest global stats, you have a better chance of a better education in the UK than here, and we all know how bad most of the Brits heading here think our educational system is

But take away the averaging behaviour of the stats, the odds on getting a crap teacher are probably the same, but the chances of running into unionized mentality and the resulting minimum effort, work to rule or a strike is probably higher here.