sam/stu

I think we have swayed a little!!!!
What would I change about Canada from a mere prospective immigrants point of view!!
The bacon is crap - streaky is meant for covering the turkey at Christmas not in a butty
The sausage skin is too tough, needs boiling then grilling - like I've got the time
What sort of fashion does a woman in her thirties wear? Either jeans with the crotch at your knees or a sensible two piece like what I would wear for a wedding - where's the likes of NEXT/cheapo PRIMARK/MONSOON - theres no middle ground
'Something About Raymond' is NOT funny
Plastic bags full of milk that split all over the work top when you try to open them
The price you see is not the price you pay - did I feel a fool when I went to buy a paper
No 'corner shops' when you run out of milk/bread/essentials - therefore no sending the teenager out for a pint a milk - he'd be gone days
And one from my hormonal teenager - why do I have to stay at school 'til I'm 18
Other than that, we are flying over to start our new life v.shortly so the pros obviously outweigh the cons

Good luck everone, we hope that you all find what you are looking for

sam/stu

Ooopps! Forgot to add - do you think that the government will pass legislation to help the ' immigrants' settle better.

Please note that this was meant as a 'tongue in cheek' reply, I didn't mean any offence and I don't want to start 'world war 3' with my coments!!!!!

Biiiiink

Imperial weights, measures and distances would be nice.

sam/stu

To or From ????

Steve_P

You are going to have to move south of the border for that.

You'll get used to it after a while.

Cheers
Steve

Rich_007

Hi BB,

Some of the members on here try to post rounded reality views of everyday life here.....trying to get people over/past that stage of rose tinted sunglasses which we have probably all been through after a week or four on vacation here.

Peeps can listen or ignore it, but I don't think they can say there isn't enough resource or open honest TIAYSI advice available.

Rich.

Biiiiink

I'm a product of a screwed-up imperial/metric education, I know what a meter is but have no concept of what a kilometer looks like, I think hot temperatures in fahrenheit and cold in celcius...

I just find the lack of lbs and oz on labels here confusing, especially taking things from american cookbooks as I do. Isn't the ruling in the UK that you can have the imperial measures on packaged food but the print must be smaller than the metric? That would suit me fine until all those who've ever learned imperial die off. Or their eyesight gets so bad they are forced to use metric

Happydayz

I wish they would make their minds up one way or the other (same in the UK). When we arrived in N.S. a friend explained to me that they work on the metric system here,which is fine with me as thats what I tended to use in the uk.So my first project was to make a bed out of pine,so I designed it and listed all the measurments in metric,went to the timber merchants and they didn't have a clue what I was talking about as they work in feet and inches when it comes to building materials .So I had to fumble around with a tape measure and do the conversions.

dbd33

I think the use of metric in Canada is a ludicrous affectation. Everything's made in imperial. People speak in imperial. At the market or at Loblaw's everything's priced by the pound. I used to think we had metric to please the French but my daughter, in Montreal, quotes the sizes of her various apartments in pieds carrés (French for square feet) so, really, it just seems like a bureaucratic whim.

iaink

Wooooo, I didnt realise mankind could even breath at such velocities.

Actually, thats not so different in Ontario, 130 on the 400s is usually safe, 125 certainly is, but its hardly breaking the sound barrier like you can in germany now is it!

sysclp

They advertise the prices in $/lb but then price the packages in $/kg which makes it very confusing. More than once I have seen them try to sneek by a higher price than what the conversion should be. You need a chart to carry around when shopping to make sure you don't get overcharged!

scimdarren

Maybe I should just get the Snowmobile I have been promising myself and ride the ditches alongside Route 1 at unlimited speed limits!!

Regards

Darritoban

Garfielduk

B, you should be living in good old britain because the country still refuses to go competely metric after being in the EEC all this time. They have even taught metric for over 30 years in schools and most people still don't understand it so refuse to use it. Everything is so confusing for most when half of things are metric and the rest imperial.

I think if a country adopts something it should do so wholeheartedly and then everyone gets used to it after a time.

METRIC GETS MY VOTE, it's a simpler system altogether

dbd33

This is such an irrational argument. Metric butter, for example, comes in 455g lumps. How is 455 a simple number ? What if a recipe calls for two tablespoons of butter and you want to do that in metric ? You have to be able to judge, by eye, fractions of grams, that's not simple, even if you can divide 455 by, say, 8 in your head.

If the world had been built in metric it would make sense to use it but having signs saying Toronto 144 kilometers, Niagara Falls 128 km is not more convenient than having signs saying 90 or 80 miles. If the government moves the towns, raises my ceilings from 9' to some exact number of hectoliters and comes and marks up all the recipe books in kilojoules then fine, otherwise metric is a silly little fetish for people who like to get short changed on a dozen eggs.

Calgal

S'easy! one tablespoon = 15ml