I didn’t ask a question Tangram just responded to the one posted, which I believe is the point of a forum. 2 weeks vacation a year is not great and people are entitled to discuss hat fact without those who have moved to Canada or want to deciding how others should feel on the subject.

No need to be defensive or nasty....chill out

Hey I'm sat in the sunshine with a cold one

I doubt i could be anymore chilled bu i'm delighted to try

Have a good one

Thank you for proving my point with you're thinly veiled sarcasm. Like you said, people are allowed to post their opinions.

Perhaps, perhaps it's the corporate culture or the type of work. Lawyers, for example, seem to get a fantastic number of holidays and, unlike most Canadians, don't seem ashamed to admit to enjoying them. Something I don't like here (here being half a dozen different firms in Toronto) is that one cannot come back from a vacation having obviously enjoyed it for fear of setting of waves of complaint about being too busy to have taken a holiday for twenty years. I don't think people are joking about this, employees who haven't taken a vacation for a decade genuinely resent those who do take vacation, especially if they use the time for something frivolous. They do expect people who take time off, say for visiting relatives in the UK, to be shamefaced about having done so.

It's the same with camping or visiting remote places, that's not something one can admit to doing because it necessarily conflicts with the corporate policy of not being out of telephone range. Really, the only socially acceptable thing to admit to doing outside the office is playing or watching ice hockey and ideally it should be one's children doing the playing.

I think unhypenated Canadians are, by and large, a miserable and sanctimonious bunch. Driving in I listen to the things disk jockies say on Radio One and chuckle at the idea of being able to say such things in the workplace here. We're living in some conservative place when banter on the BBC seems edgey.

I think that with the financial state of Airlines globally that even an Airline Manager with so much expertise would find it difficult to improve on those conditions anywhere ................... Advise is to stay where you are gal ......... you have never had it so good.........................................:blin k:

DB - I take it you are actively looking forward to retirement then

From previous posts regarding your employment I take it you must like your work to accept that particular culture or is it purely a fiscal decision? (or are you a masochist by nature )

Given the stories of dbd's tangled web of ex-wives and associated litigation costs I suspect it's both.

I think there is a world of difference between the 'ex-pat lifestyle' one might enjoy in Hong Kong or other parts of Asia and immigrating to/integrating into Canada. For example I only know one person here who is able to employ a fillipino maid whereas I know several in Singapore & Indian who benefit from having various 'staff' at their beck and call.

With that lifestyle and 6 weeks vacation(& presumably cheap/free airfare's through hubbies role as a 'Manger' in the airline business) I'd stay where you are unless you have a hankering for snow and Tim Hortons coffee.

Oh, I shan't be able to retire as, unless inflation goes crazy, it's infeasible for me to ever be able to fund my alimony payments without continuing to work at this particular job.

I don't like the job at all, never have, I've always done it for the money. In fact, that's true of my presence in Ontario, it's the most cost-effective place for me to be, not somewhere I would choose for any other reason. That said, it has given me what I came for, children of whom I'm mildly jealous.

Thankfully, the litigation's over. That's one less massive bill to worry about.

Atlantic expat, the only real reason for moving on is the pollution in Hong Kong It’s really bad and not something we’d want to live with long term although we wouldn’t leave without another job to go too It would be madness. Thankfully due to the lack of qualified people in Aviation and some of the bigger airlines expanding there are always other options around.

Good luck to all in the quest to live in Canada

Singapore???

Emirates and Cathay not sure about Singapore

LOL
I meant the country as an alternative to HK.