Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !
#121
Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !
What i'm saying is that unless you move to an exact replica of where you lived, comparisons will always be skewed. Most people choose to emigrate to a nicer, and more often, different type of area.
#122
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Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !
Who's talking about Oxshott or Maidenhead? I'm talking Dulwich, where you lived and had issues and i didn't see any.
What i'm saying is that unless you move to an exact replica of where you lived, comparisons will always be skewed. Most people choose to emigrate to a nicer, and more often, different type of area.
What i'm saying is that unless you move to an exact replica of where you lived, comparisons will always be skewed. Most people choose to emigrate to a nicer, and more often, different type of area.
Good for you. And I don't live in dissimilar area now. And there is significantly less crime.
#124
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Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !
I believe this is partly due to the rough end of town and the posh end of town in the UK running across each other as both will use the centre of town for evening entertainment, in north e America the evening hangout of different types tend to be in spate parts of town, meaning the groups don’t run into each other and become less visible to each other.
The other reason I believe the street crime is higher is partly due to the higher drug issues here, along with the organized crime aspect that goes with the many biker gangs, and in some cities the disenfranchised native issues, many Brits will never even get close to the areas where these groups operate, much of it is so common it no longer makes headlines, apart from maybe aggregate number of deaths etc
#125
Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !
I used to watch some British TV when I first moved here over the internet, don't bother anymore. Anything that is actually good gets bought by a network over here anyway. The time difference makes it pointless as well.
#127
Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !
I'm not trying to convince myself, the area of the UK where I'm from had really bad crime problems. No doubt I could have moved to an area of the UK that had less crime, I don't dispute that point, but overall the UK definitely has worse problems with property crime and general public disorder (e.g. drunks) than Canada.
#128
Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !
Agree on that one, also I think it depends on the context of why you are there. I usually go for business purposes so it's a different experience than some nice family visit or whatever.
#129
Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !
But based on my recent visit there was nothing much on that I liked, but then I never was keen on British TV even when I lived there.
#130
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Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !
The only way to make a direct comparison is to watch both. Local TV is mainly shit. You think otherwise which is fair enough; each to their own and all that.
Only if you watch live - and who does that now-a-days?
Only if you watch live - and who does that now-a-days?
#131
Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !
I give up and wait for it to show up on Netflix or Blinx.tv I also think Canada only bought 5 episodes of Law and Order - UK it's ALWAYS one we have seen already
I sometimes wonder if it would be more cost effective getting rid of the cable TV and upping the broadband to unlimited; and watch everything online instead!
#133
Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !
Which means you're not watching it, you're watching bits and pieces of it via the internet and mainly watching Canadian TV from the sounds of it. The internet is the internet, TV is TV. (Even if you happen to be using the internet on your TV).
My experience is from sitting down of a night in front of Canadian TV provided by Shaw cable that it is superior to being sat in front of a TV with service provided by Sky or the supposed "freeview" which isn't free.
My experience is from sitting down of a night in front of Canadian TV provided by Shaw cable that it is superior to being sat in front of a TV with service provided by Sky or the supposed "freeview" which isn't free.
#135
Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !
Is Modern Family any better on Shaw than Sky?
Is Boardwalk Empire more exciting on Shaw than Sky?
And so on....
I thought the argument was Canadian TV Versus UK TV, not TV in Canada Versus TV in the UK.
The latter is pretty much the same.