Originally Posted by Steve_ (Post 10862505)

http://globalnews.ca/news/742031/b-c...s-liquor-laws/

Also: Bill C-311



If you value your liquor licence, you have to be careful who you sell to. I'm sure you can find it but there was a big thing on CBC about the enforcement of the law against wineries in the Okanagan, hence the change in Federal law.

Originally Posted by Steve_ (Post 10862492)

I'm not. Well I mean I'm happily criticizing I suppose but Canada is definitely a better place to live than the UK. (Although I suppose I am always posting on here about how much I prefer the TV and radio which appears to be a unique POV. :lol:)

I could go on at great length (and have) but basically the underlying reason why Canada is better is that the UK suffers from a wide variety of problems, the root cause of which are that there are too many people living too close together.

Just on the basis of how quiet it is in Canada I think it is worth moving here. Took me three months to be able to sleep properly because it was so weird that it was quiet at night.

Originally Posted by orly (Post 10862325)

What I did is stop drinking/using as much milk ;)

Originally Posted by lyn1972 (Post 10862533)

:thumbsup: very true, and cant wait to start our new life :)

Originally Posted by lyn1972 (Post 10862148)

Thank you :thumbsup: we just want to live a life..... right now we cant even afford to take our kids out ..... the cost of fuel, or public transport is ridiculous before we start.... and after everything is paid we have £40 a month left ....... it just gets you down

Originally Posted by Steve_ (Post 10862483)

It's called "Thrifty's" in Vancouver.

Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 10862679)

Average wages in Canada, Stats Can.

From what I can tell you will be a pretty average Canadian if stats Can is correct in their numbers.

Originally Posted by YoshiPal2010 (Post 10862748)

To be honest, the $28 per hour quoted by the OP is really not anything to write home about, especially for a skilled worker. A temporary custodian, with the Edmonton school board, earns $22 per hour. Now I am not saying they shouldn't -- I work for the Calgary board, as a Facility Operator; boiler ticket, Applied Management Certificate through SAIT School of Business, Facility Management Certificate, etc -- and earn $26 per hour. However, the tradesmen we employ are on $38 per hour and up. So, the $28 per hour offered to the OPs husband, is decidely average, and only really reflects the cost of living in Edmonton. Not really gonna "live the life of Riley".

Originally Posted by JimandBettina (Post 10862180)

Having just arrived in Canada in January this year, I feel I am qualified to comment on the relative cost of living in both countries

Originally Posted by Aviator (Post 10862289)

Unfortunately, many compare the cost of living in the UK to Canada and this in my view is unrealistic, as it is dependent on the FX...When we arrived it ranged from $2.25 to $2.60 to GBP, so Canada seemed really cheap. It makes no difference once here.

Originally Posted by JimandBettina (Post 10862316)

..... but comparing is inevitable when one is living on a UK pension paid in £ or by a UK company in £.

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 10862155)

In Ontario there are four publically funded school systems:

- Catholic English
- Catholic French
- Other English
- Other French

FI operates within the Catholic and Other English language systems and is unrelated to the French systems. Practically, the difference is that, in a FI school only the lessons are in French, in a French system school the school operates in French and it's not uncommon for the staff (and pupils) to be new immigrants who speak no English.

The French school systems are very well funded. I don't know about the general case but the school my children attended, Le Collège français in Toronto, provided an ib program and cramming sessions for the SATs. I don't think pupils at English language schools in Toronto are routinely entered in SATs, nevermind coached for them. The school operates sports teams that compete against privately funded English language schools such as UCC, thus the students are exposed to a side of Canadian life (that of the pampered elite) that they might not even know existed had they attended English language schools.

It seems to me that the school, and I believe other schools in that system, offer their brighter pupils opportunities that would be available to them elsewhere only if they had affluent parents commited to funding their academic lives. All this and drugs and prostitution right on the front steps!

Originally Posted by YoshiPal2010 (Post 10862429)

Sounds like you really want the UK!

Originally Posted by Piff Poff (Post 10862916)

Erm not necessarily, we are not discounting the possibility, but it is very low on the scale. We used to drive US muscle cars in the UK, Mustangs, challengers firebirds and the like, thing is you go to a US car show in the UK and there is untold amount of stuff, from your tin lizzy to the latest cadillac, and all manner of hotrods and custom vehicles, we've not seen one tot rod since we've lived here. Then you can to places like the Enfield Pageant etc and see a whole different set of cars, not the same 1/2 dozen you get here.

One example I can give you, mm it was sort of our epiphany, out of interest in April I Googled show and shines Ontario and already 356 were advertised, I Googled the same for Alberta and there were 12. That's a huge difference.

Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 10862940)

What about BC? Not sure what the culture is like for your hobby though.