Gozit

Err.. ABC? I don't watch the TV channel

MrFloyd

Absolutely, sir. Canmore/Calgary is where I'm headed!

MrFloyd

Just wondering Mr Jack/Gozo , apart from it being a little warmer(!) and more laid back in Malta, what else brings you there? Do you an employment idea at all? I was pretty surprised how stuff was more expensive than I was expecting - and the locals we talked too said ever since they joined the Euro, everything's shot up.

I would love to live there... Just wouldn't have an idea what I'd be doing there.

burks

Anywhere But Canada

MarylandNed

I started on £7500 a year in 1986. I thought I was rolling in cash. Didn't take me long to wipe out my student overdraft and get nicely in the black. Good days filled mostly with football matches, pub lunches, real ale and Indian curry!

According to this, £7500 in 1986 is worth £15365 in today's money. Not sure I could live the same way in Manchester today on £15365.

http://www.moneysorter.co.uk/calculator_inflation2.html

Novocastrian

humanist

I lived in Malta for a year and have been in Canada for 6.

They are very different places in many ways, Malta is wonderful (I love the place) but for me Canada works out much better for my life circumstances and long term prospects.

Jingsamichty

I started on £8,600 in central London in 1989 as a fresh-faced teenager, and I was flat broke.

I think I took home about £600 a month - my rent was £300, my travelcard about £80, other bills about £80, and partying was about £500.

BristolUK

I must have missed that one.

Gozit

Ah... Yup that about sums it up for me. Anywhere but Canada (or the United States for that matter)

To be quite honest, I don't know what i'm gonna do there. I've toyed around with many different things, I have connections in the hotel sector... but I don't really know at the moment.

Yep the situation isn't pretty there at the moment, especially with the incompetent government currently in place. (bloody crook-he made so many promises at elections, got elected and has done jack **** besides selling passports!) As for the stuff being expensive, a brand new iPhone 5S in Canada costs retail $812 taxes in. In Malta it costs €729 ($1,104.95) Same applies to laptops and other electronic appliances. Very expensive. I'll be bringing things from here, and anything else I need will probably be shipped from UK. Now I know those aren't essential items so don't think i'm thinking shallow, just an example... When I go over I usually have 3-4 iPhones from kijiji in tow because they are so cheap, and I sell them to friends over there for more!


Nice! I will agree Canada is much better for long term career prospects, maybe it's silly but I have hope that Malta will pull out and be a viable place career wise too someday...

Novocastrian

Oh, Frederic's Uncle's Cousin to the King, it's bleeding snowing in Richmond Hill.

Not too much, but really! Give over.

<I blame that jinxing Blackpudlian buffoon>

Steve_

Ah, those were the days, I remember being on hold for eight hours once to talk to the Texas service centre for INS and also standing in a very long line indeed to get an I-129 petition application.

This is a problem as much as it is a help, since INS put the forms on-line in 1998 the application rate has ballooned so anything subject to quota you can almost forget about.

Steve_

I've never been to Malta but I had a job once where I had to talk to a lot of people in Malta and the general impression I got was that it was very crowded and expensive.

Gozit

Expensive? For sure. See my above post. It's ridiculous. Crowded? No more than a city in Canada with 430,000 people in it. At least Gozo isn't. I've spent maybe 5 days on Malta in my lifetime, as when I visit I go to Gozo, and just visit Malta during the day... It's funny, most people in Malta would love to emigrate, and most Maltese abroad want to come home!

Novocastrian

You should visit the MBTTUK forum now and again. But not yet, you're too young.