Why do you want to move to Canada
#430
Re: Why do you want to move to Canada
The GTA too has many areas that can be subdivided and named, just as London has it boroughs
Our tabloids read just like the UK ones, Crime, incompetent government, schools failing, too many immigrants
Canadians justifications for leaving are almost the same as the Uk, but I sincerely believe that their grievance with weather is justified
Our tabloids read just like the UK ones, Crime, incompetent government, schools failing, too many immigrants
Canadians justifications for leaving are almost the same as the Uk, but I sincerely believe that their grievance with weather is justified
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#431
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Re: Why do you want to move to Canada
My standard of living took a big increase on arrival in Canada. My salary doubled and I was able to buy a new house and car in the first year. I was able to take my family on its first vacation in 1964 and my wife could stay at home.
The UK may have improved in many ways but one thing that does seem to have changed since 1963 is that the UK has lost much of what made it a country to be proud of. Germany and France have become the dominant European coutries and the UK is comparable to countries like Spain. Most of it's best people still leave the country for greener fields, much like the Irish used to do.
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Re: Why do you want to move to Canada
In 1963 the UK there was still a housing shortage and availability of mortgages was poor, most people still had no bank accouts except for the GPO and few had cars. You had to wait in line to buy a new car and banks rarely loaned to buy a car. New cars were in short supply and a 6 months wait for one was the norm. Food was very expensive.
My standard of living took a big increase on arrival in Canada. My salary doubled and I was able to buy a new house and car in the first year. I was able to take my family on its first vacation in 1964 and my wife could stay at home.
The UK may have improved in many ways but one thing that does seem to have changed since 1963 is that the UK has lost much of what made it a country to be proud of. Germany and France have become the dominant European coutries and the UK is comparable to countries like Spain. Most of it's best people still leave the country for greener fields, much like the Irish used to do.
My standard of living took a big increase on arrival in Canada. My salary doubled and I was able to buy a new house and car in the first year. I was able to take my family on its first vacation in 1964 and my wife could stay at home.
The UK may have improved in many ways but one thing that does seem to have changed since 1963 is that the UK has lost much of what made it a country to be proud of. Germany and France have become the dominant European coutries and the UK is comparable to countries like Spain. Most of it's best people still leave the country for greener fields, much like the Irish used to do.
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Re: Why do you want to move to Canada
I was answering the quote as it appeared to me and all I can tell you is that to me Canada was a big step up in both cost of living decrease and the availability of what was considered luxury in the in the UK at that time..
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Re: Why do you want to move to Canada
The UK may have improved in many ways but one thing that does seem to have changed since 1963 is that the UK has lost much of what made it a country to be proud of. Germany and France have become the dominant European coutries and the UK is comparable to countries like Spain. Most of it's best people still leave the country for greener fields, much like the Irish used to do.
What do you think the UK has lost? I wasn't around in 1963, but certainly see it as a much better place now than when I was growing up in the 70's, and certainly much better than it was in the mid 1980's. I think it is a much more diverse, cosmopolitan and tolerant country than it was. I am trying to think what specifically there was to be proud of then.
Which 'best people' are you thinking of? In terms of something like the comparison of universities around the world, the UK continues to do extremely well whatever the criteria - especially considering its lack of resources relative to the large American institutions.
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Re: Why do you want to move to Canada
Canada may have represented a better opportunity for you personally to acquire the trappings of wealth. This doesn't mean that it was more developed which leads me back to the original question - what non anecdotal evidence do you have to suggest that Canada was 'more developed' than the UK in 1963. Was it more democratic? Was it's human rights better? Was the infrastructure better? Was there more social justice?