Telegraph: Canada, the best place to live ...
Apr 23rd 2011, 11:32 am
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Re: Telegraph: Canada, the best place to live ...
I didn't say that everyone who posts is unhappy....I just suggested the possibility that perhaps a higher proportion of them are. And yes, it was tongue in cheek.
Apr 23rd 2011, 11:33 am
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Apr 23rd 2011, 11:43 am
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Me neither. Well, maybe today. Cos I've spent it assembling furniture, getting bits off tree of the roof, pressure washing the outside benches and doorsteps and now I've got to mow the lawn. Damn you domestic chores!!!
Apr 23rd 2011, 12:09 pm
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I used my fone to keep updated with this forum and a rc plane forum were we were aranging another day out at the flying field for tmw.
These new (well new to me) smart fones are great.
Apr 23rd 2011, 1:35 pm
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Re: Telegraph: Canada, the best place to live ...
Well according to the article, the survey is based on a poll of 1000 expats, presumably (if the poll was well designed) mostly in Australia, the US and in EU countries, especially Spain.
I'd think of those 1000, perhaps 100 are in Canada. In Canada: so that's maybe 10 per province.
C'mon, it is a Telegraph article. Just ignore it.
I'd think of those 1000, perhaps 100 are in Canada. In Canada: so that's maybe 10 per province.
C'mon, it is a Telegraph article. Just ignore it.
I only posted it as I believe that most people who read that article in the Telegraph will not consider the demographic or sample size for one instant, and many might well leap to the conclusion that "Canada is definitely the place to go!!"
Batten down the hatches!
Apr 23rd 2011, 1:44 pm
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Re: Telegraph: Canada, the best place to live ...
Well, it would seem likely that those polled are NatWest International (off-shore banking) customers, and as you say, only 1000 in total, so the demographic is bound to be somewhat skewed ....
I only posted it as I believe that most people who read that article in the Telegraph will not consider the demographic or sample size for one instant, and many might well leap to the conclusion that "Canada is definitely the place to go!!"
Batten down the hatches!
I only posted it as I believe that most people who read that article in the Telegraph will not consider the demographic or sample size for one instant, and many might well leap to the conclusion that "Canada is definitely the place to go!!"
Batten down the hatches!
Apr 23rd 2011, 2:36 pm
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Re: Telegraph: Canada, the best place to live ...
I'm rather concerned by this piece of the article:
"The country does, however, have one crippling disadvantage for expats. It is one of the 150 or so countries where British migrants can expect to have their pensions frozen at the rate they are when they first start drawing them abroad - something which causes serious financial difficulties for many of the country's oldest British settlers. "
"The country does, however, have one crippling disadvantage for expats. It is one of the 150 or so countries where British migrants can expect to have their pensions frozen at the rate they are when they first start drawing them abroad - something which causes serious financial difficulties for many of the country's oldest British settlers. "
Apr 23rd 2011, 3:43 pm
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Re: Telegraph: Canada, the best place to live ...
I'm rather concerned by this piece of the article:
"The country does, however, have one crippling disadvantage for expats. It is one of the 150 or so countries where British migrants can expect to have their pensions frozen at the rate they are when they first start drawing them abroad - something which causes serious financial difficulties for many of the country's oldest British settlers. "
"The country does, however, have one crippling disadvantage for expats. It is one of the 150 or so countries where British migrants can expect to have their pensions frozen at the rate they are when they first start drawing them abroad - something which causes serious financial difficulties for many of the country's oldest British settlers. "
Apr 23rd 2011, 5:01 pm
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Apr 24th 2011, 4:13 am
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I mis read this as Telegraph (Cove), Canada, the best place to live..must get my eyes checked
Apr 24th 2011, 10:12 am
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Re: Telegraph: Canada, the best place to live ...
You dont hate canada? But you would rather live in the uk!
Even though on your jollies you most likley did not do a full weekley house hold shop, attempt to get a job, sell or buy a house, go further north than watford gap? ect.
Not every one who lives in the uk spends all week drving around admiring the scenery and sitting in pub beer gardens.
Even though on your jollies you most likley did not do a full weekley house hold shop, attempt to get a job, sell or buy a house, go further north than watford gap? ect.
Not every one who lives in the uk spends all week drving around admiring the scenery and sitting in pub beer gardens.
I took my Canadian friends this weekend around the countryside and took them to country pubs. Their daughter move to Kent for work and she loves the UK.
We walk along the Dover seafront and along the North Downs footpaths. They through it was great so many people were enjoying the warm weather, fishing, sailing, sailboarding, walking and people swimming.
They are from Ontario and they chatted about living costs such as food, hydro, insurance, housing costs all rocking up in price. To me it sounded not difference to what we are experiencing in the UK with high inflation.
The were sitting on my patio over the weekend and kept on about our views and they said that the through England was a nice place to live and could see why my family and their daughter likes living in Kent.
We found not much difference in day to day living and standard of living between living in Ontario and England. Financially we are better off in the UK as I earn more money and have a smaller house to run compared to Canada.
Hudd
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Apr 24th 2011, 11:01 am
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Yes kent is nice. I have worked that area on several occasions. I could never afford to live there though.
Compared to ontario, yes, kent would have some apeal.
But,compare ontario to downtown blackpool. Preston, blackburn, bolton, hartlepool, and ontario apears idealistist.
Compared to ontario, yes, kent would have some apeal.
But,compare ontario to downtown blackpool. Preston, blackburn, bolton, hartlepool, and ontario apears idealistist.
Apr 24th 2011, 12:34 pm
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Re: Telegraph: Canada, the best place to live ...
And why have you picked-on northern towns. I'm sure that Ontario towns and cities have their crap areas (Edmonton and Calgary, here in Alberta certainly do). And we certainly have our fair share of social problems. When will UK newcomers stop viewing Canada as some of kind of nervana, where the kids are ALWAYS polite and well-behaved, drivers are considerate and the homeless just genial and jovial characters dotted around the landscape? Oh, and all the houses are luxuriously appointed and cost only $100,000? (And, dare I say it? There are not so many immigrants!)
