What will you most miss about the UK
Feb 26th 2007, 12:07 pm
#286
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Re: What will you most miss about the UK
I have got a Saab convertible which i will have to sell...keep thinking it would great fun to drive around in Canada! Never mind we know some truck dealers so will maybe get a 4 X 4 instead ! I honestly wont miss much about the UK, (only my parents and sister) I definately wont miss being taxed to the hilt and the nanny state !
Cant wait to come to Canada, it is so exciting and a fresh start
Cant wait to come to Canada, it is so exciting and a fresh startSaab convertibles are common enough here, as are models from Volvo, VW, BMW, Ford (the Mustang), GM (Saab, Pontiac Solstice, some ugly thing with big knobs, the G8?), Audi, Chrysler (PT Cruiser), Mercedes, Mazda, Toyota and some other brand I should be able to remember but can't. It can be brisk in a convertible here though, on the weekend I found that I needed a hat.
Feb 26th 2007, 12:14 pm
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Re: What will you most miss about the UK
You can address some of these problems by subscribing to the the weekly version of a UK paper and to Sirius radio. I get the Guardian Weekly because it was the original sumarised paper and because I'm a bit of a pinko, but there's also a version of the Torygraph and, bafflingly, the Express. Sirius carries a couple of BBC stations (World Service and Radio 1) as well as lots of sports channels; you should be able to hear some match reports though perhaps they'll be in Spanish.
Feb 26th 2007, 12:16 pm
#288
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Re: What will you most miss about the UK
Sirus is Satellite radio. (Need a receiver - cheap and a subscription not so cheap). DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) doesn't exisit AFAIK in Canada. (It's a terrestrial based system).
Feb 26th 2007, 12:18 pm
#289
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Re: What will you most miss about the UK
Sirius is a satellite provider. There are two, the other being XM, but they're in the process of merging. The deal is you pay a couple of hundred bucks for equipment and then $15/month and you get good radio; lots of stations of all types and very few adverts. Oh, and more Howard Stern than anyone needs.
http://www.sirius.com/servlet/Conten...=1018209032790
Feb 26th 2007, 12:19 pm
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Re: What will you most miss about the UK
so thats getting the radio through your tv sat receiver?, don't have sat tv here, or buying some huge thing similar to a ww2 movie submarine set and then buying a subsrciption, for a radio?, is this germany?
Feb 26th 2007, 12:20 pm
#291
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Re: What will you most miss about the UK
I don't know what DAB is!
Sirius is a satellite provider. There are two, the other being XM, but they're in the process of merging. The deal is you pay a couple of hundred bucks for equipment and then $15/month and you get good radio; lots of stations of all types and very few adverts. Oh, and more Howard Stern than anyone needs.
http://www.sirius.com/servlet/Conten...=1018209032790
Sirius is a satellite provider. There are two, the other being XM, but they're in the process of merging. The deal is you pay a couple of hundred bucks for equipment and then $15/month and you get good radio; lots of stations of all types and very few adverts. Oh, and more Howard Stern than anyone needs.
http://www.sirius.com/servlet/Conten...=1018209032790
Feb 26th 2007, 1:12 pm
#293
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Re: What will you most miss about the UK
For dbd33: DAB is Terrestrial Digitial broadcasting which is becoming increasingly prevalent in UK. It offers better clarity and is being used now for a bunch of 'digital' only stations such a BBC7 f'r example.
Feb 26th 2007, 3:05 pm
#294
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Re: What will you most miss about the UK
You can address some of these problems by subscribing to the the weekly version of a UK paper and to Sirius radio. I get the Guardian Weekly because it was the original sumarised paper and because I'm a bit of a pinko, but there's also a version of the Torygraph and, bafflingly, the Express. Sirius carries a couple of BBC stations (World Service and Radio 1) as well as lots of sports channels; you should be able to hear some match reports though perhaps they'll be in Spanish.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainf...x.shtml?button
