Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
 

Hmmmmm... -I hate the winter. 7 months of shit weather, 2.5 months of decent, and only 2 months of "proper" summer, and even that doesn't get that hot, coming from the Med. I think the weather is great here. I don't really like heat and I don't do "hanging round" in the sun, I get bored after 5 minutes or so. My comparisons are Botswana (pretty good weather) and coastal Nigeria (F*%^*^&% terrible). -Not enough sunlight I miss the long summer evenings of London, appreciate the longer winter days, so this is a wash. -Most people put up too much of a front, everything is about fake small talk with them, and when you try to discuss something of relevance (politics, lifestyle choices, higher education, world issues, travel, etc) they sway it back because they get uncomfortable Some subjects are best kept for friends- politics and religion being two of them. -The obsession with hockey/the toronto maple leafs Beats soccer. -There is no distinct culture It's noticeable different from the UK. Hard to spot your "home" culture- it's the default which makes everywhere else different. -the lakewater is cold, gross and muddy 100% of the time, and almost every native Ontarian thinks its just "awesome". After having seen/swam in the Mediterranean sea and the Caribbean sea, I won't go near it. :lol: Freshwater swimming! I also find Lake Ontario pretty clean. Maybe my bar is low. Certainly yet to see any dead bodies etc in there.

Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
 

Or where I am headed tomorrow until April, Yuma, AZ, the sunniest place of all. Don't know how many hours but about 360 days a year ! :thumbup:

Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
 

Unless one had procured an amazing job or career advancement I can't see for the life of me see anyone would choose to live in Ontario. It just seems devoid of anything pleasant to the human condition.

Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
 

Massage parlours.

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You'd naffing need them. ;)

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OK so what do I need to do to fix the formatting issue? My answer to Gozit above is incomprehensible (because of the formatting). Oink- do a stint in Lagos. Then everywhere outside of an actual warzone seems nice.

Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
 

I can only give you three

1. at my age its the climate, that for 9 months a year totally sucks

2. Property taxes that are way too high.

3. Utilities, which are way too high


yes, all three. Plan is within [hopefully] the next 24 months when my 96 year old FIL pops his clogs - the sooner the better

Since you have started many threads with lots of posts & questions on life & things in Canada

What are the top 5 things you dislike about life in Sydney NSW, Australia, that makes you want to leave it to move to another country?

Exclude the adventure or giving the kids a better view of the world, or trying to find a place that you think may be better than OZ, NZ, UK?

Exclude the comparison of building structures or any comparison to Canada, OZ, NZ or the UK

And why do you think Canada would give you what you want in life?

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Your number 6 interests me as one of the big reasons for us to leave AB is the lack of a big body of water, does a massive lack not fulfill the ocean experience?

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+1, to be honest. I don't see any appeal of living here except for the fact that barring 6 significant ones that live in Malta and Qatar, all of the family I actually have a relationship with lives here. That's the only thing i'm considering when making my decision to leave. Basically means I won't leave until I know I can afford to visit / take time off for them to visit me.

Its a site wide issue ATM. Shoot BEVS a PM and see if she can do anything, if not AFAIK there is a thread somewhere in the vast land of BE about it.

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The sunshine point is really relative to what your used to, I found Ontario to be a sunshine paradise in winter, but of course we have a lot of gray gloomy days in this part of Canada in winter with sunshine lacking for a couple weeks at a time some winters.

Toronto gets a bit of longer days in Winter as well compared to Vancouver.

First day of winter Toronto 7:48am/4:43pm

" " Vancouver 8:05am/4:16pm


We probably get a bit more sunshine in summer though.... ;)

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313 days.....;) But sure beats most of Canada most likely... But certainly the best place in AZ and probably the US for sun and lack of rain.

Annual Days of Sunshine in Arizona - Current Results

San Diego is pretty good at 263 days.

Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
 

Lake Ontario is good for sailing, Superior better, but the former lacks a scenic coast line, both lack the taste of salt on the wind and the crashing of waves on the sand. There's commercial traffic on the great lakes but no fishing fleets and no catch of the day. The lake coast tends to be privately owned and densely populated so, even in winter, there's no sense of isolation, no wildness. It depends then on whether you want your ocean experience to have a romance to it or just to be cold and wet and a bit smelly. Lake Ontario does offer cold and wet and smelly.

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Guns n Gangs n Guns n Cops

Permits

Drive clean and tax on private purchased car

Kathleen Wynne

Tail gaiters (NASCAR wanabees)

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1) Truly awful architecture
2) The prohibitive cost of going anywhere worth visiting
3) Cradles and their parochial attitudes to absolutely everything.
4) Summer
5) Winter

Did I mention winter?

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Yeah you're right there, London (ON) has 286 sunlight days / year on average, Malta has 300.

Maybe its just nostalgia/the "high" you get from being on vacation or whatever, but I always find the sun more intense and present there vs here, always chalked it up to distance from the equator. (Canada very far away, Malta fairly close) (ie, I can walk around without sunglasses if I have to in ON, while in MLT I am shielding my eyes :lol:)

Personally here I find a good number of the days are gray and gloomy than not, but I would find that in the Maltese winter, too. But then you're talking about it being 15c there and -15 here, which helps. ;)

The "a bit smelly" kills it for me every single time. I can't stand that awful smell.