What Makes People emmigrate
May 24th 2007, 5:01 pm
#106
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Re: What Makes People emmigrate
And it made huge news across the country - not exactly a regular occurance. I'm having my own mental tussle about staying here or going back to the UK, but I don't pounce on every negative in this country and hold it up as the norm. Speaking from my limited experience of annual visits back to the UK and keeping up with the news from there, I still say that I feel a damned sight safer here in the Vancouver area than back there. If I do go back to the UK to live, I'd like to be able to afford to live in a backwater somewhere quiet! My hometown (UK) newspaper last week carried stories of a dog that was tied up and set fire to; a cat that was stomped to death; an expectant mother stabbed in the abdomen; an elderly man punched for looking at a group of teens. That's just some. I think I'd rather wander down East Hastings at midnight!
May 24th 2007, 7:44 pm
#107
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Re: What Makes People emmigrate
And it made huge news across the country - not exactly a regular occurance. I'm having my own mental tussle about staying here or going back to the UK, but I don't pounce on every negative in this country and hold it up as the norm. Speaking from my limited experience of annual visits back to the UK and keeping up with the news from there, I still say that I feel a damned sight safer here in the Vancouver area than back there. If I do go back to the UK to live, I'd like to be able to afford to live in a backwater somewhere quiet! My hometown (UK) newspaper last week carried stories of a dog that was tied up and set fire to; a cat that was stomped to death; an expectant mother stabbed in the abdomen; an elderly man punched for looking at a group of teens. That's just some. I think I'd rather wander down East Hastings at midnight!
Go figure...
John
May 24th 2007, 7:48 pm
#108
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Re: What Makes People emmigrate
No doubt it's terible to be punched or kicked at a petrol station but here there are bums all over the petrol station forecourts, they hobble between the pumps asking customers for money. I imagine that if you acknowedged them, you could quite easily get swarmed, kicked and punched.
May 24th 2007, 9:01 pm
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May 24th 2007, 9:08 pm
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May 25th 2007, 9:06 am
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Re: What Makes People emmigrate
And it made huge news across the country - not exactly a regular occurance. I'm having my own mental tussle about staying here or going back to the UK, but I don't pounce on every negative in this country and hold it up as the norm. Speaking from my limited experience of annual visits back to the UK and keeping up with the news from there, I still say that I feel a damned sight safer here in the Vancouver area than back there. If I do go back to the UK to live, I'd like to be able to afford to live in a backwater somewhere quiet! My hometown (UK) newspaper last week carried stories of a dog that was tied up and set fire to; a cat that was stomped to death; an expectant mother stabbed in the abdomen; an elderly man punched for looking at a group of teens. That's just some. I think I'd rather wander down East Hastings at midnight!
May 25th 2007, 12:42 pm
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May 25th 2007, 2:58 pm
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Re: What Makes People emmigrate
More a refinement than a quote, innit, Ustinov thought Toronto dull but he didn't mention it being physically unattractive. Of course, in his day the air might have been breathable.
May 25th 2007, 9:05 pm
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Re: What Makes People emmigrate
Well if you fill the kids with sugar, pop and addiictive chemicals, then cater to their every whim with out serious consquences for their behaviours what do you expect.
Loads of different diet changing shows and research has shown that giving kids healthier diets changes behaviour and reduces problems. Yet the goverment still allows the manufactures to produce the crap and hence eaten by the addicts so the cycle continues.
Loads of different diet changing shows and research has shown that giving kids healthier diets changes behaviour and reduces problems. Yet the goverment still allows the manufactures to produce the crap and hence eaten by the addicts so the cycle continues.
May 25th 2007, 9:23 pm
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May 26th 2007, 5:54 am
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Re: What Makes People emmigrate
Well if you fill the kids with sugar, pop and addiictive chemicals, then cater to their every whim with out serious consquences for their behaviours what do you expect.
Loads of different diet changing shows and research has shown that giving kids healthier diets changes behaviour and reduces problems. Yet the goverment still allows the manufactures to produce the crap and hence eaten by the addicts so the cycle continues.
Loads of different diet changing shows and research has shown that giving kids healthier diets changes behaviour and reduces problems. Yet the goverment still allows the manufactures to produce the crap and hence eaten by the addicts so the cycle continues.
May 26th 2007, 7:34 am
#119
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Re: What Makes People emmigrate
Well if you fill the kids with sugar, pop and addiictive chemicals, then cater to their every whim with out serious consquences for their behaviours what do you expect.
Loads of different diet changing shows and research has shown that giving kids healthier diets changes behaviour and reduces problems. Yet the goverment still allows the manufactures to produce the crap and hence eaten by the addicts so the cycle continues.
Loads of different diet changing shows and research has shown that giving kids healthier diets changes behaviour and reduces problems. Yet the goverment still allows the manufactures to produce the crap and hence eaten by the addicts so the cycle continues.
Of course good parenting skills, and a good relationship with you kids, I'm sure would in most cases would mean their kids do not have any part of this growing trend.
rgds,
John
May 26th 2007, 12:43 pm
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Re: What Makes People emmigrate
Not quite sure what's on this last page so back to thread topic
If the posters here have the negative comments about the reason they left or want to leave the UK what do their friends or relatives think? Are they too applying to come here now? Just a small minority of the population leave the UK and come to Canada- about an average of 5,000 per year out of a population of 60 million.
If the posters here have the negative comments about the reason they left or want to leave the UK what do their friends or relatives think? Are they too applying to come here now? Just a small minority of the population leave the UK and come to Canada- about an average of 5,000 per year out of a population of 60 million.