You'd get mugged for them coupons up north.

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So no research about the potential rental market. No research about property costs. Nothing about expenses, tax rules, where and how to advertise....no research on tenancy laws, no involvement on repairs or replacing equipment, no advertising for tenants, holding viewings, no assessing how lenient to be when rent not paid timeously...

Certainly it can be an excellent thing to get into - after all, it has enabled me to to take a retirement at 47 for a $100k investment, but it's not doing nothing.

Coupons? Does someone use coupons? Do tell.

I shall rephrase then - you could do all that "work" in the outer hebredes - probably.

How did we get here anyway; comparing bristol with moncton wasn't it. I guess it makes as much sense as comparing any other couple of random towns in Canada and the UK.

Here's some news from one of Canada's nicest neighbourhoods.

"Vandal smashes car windows

There was a car window smashing spree overnight.
Oak Bay police have received with over 30 reports from residents who woke up to find their car damaged. Only one theft occurred.

Police say the damage was only done to one side of the vehicles, leading them to speculate that somebody walked down the road smashing windows as they went.

They believe it happened between 1 and 4 am."

Adding: I heard this on a local news radio station... where they report any little tidbit that comes their way. I doubt this news will even make the local paper and people will have forgotten about it by 8.30pm tonight... and that's why there is 'less crime' in Canada.

Because of short term memory loss ?

You believe it's normal everywhere where people wake up every weekend and have to sweep up broken glass to get the car out, and endure nightly noise disturbance from drunken kids. I believe that's bullshit.

I do agree with Bristol when he says that SOMETIMES you can upgrade life by moving to Canada. Now this would probably be the "lesser wanted" areas for immigrants which shows the relative cost of housing.

Well 65% of British Expats say there is less crime were they live now. Thats got to be a good thing aint it?

As for the ones who have seen more crime....4 people.....Are you guna move back to Blighty

About what?

I should hope so. Fancy moving all that way to live in a shithole

4 did, why?

But seriously, yes!

This stuff is just considered 'one of those things'... bothersome for a bit, considered a fact of living amongst other human beings, then forgotten. Not written up in histrionic newspaper about "Civilization Going to teh Dogs!!!!!1".

Mass indifference can be nice.

Ask them......

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Atlantic Xpat, brizzle, ducktastic, Oink Why move to a worst place, or as monkey boy said "A shit hole"?

Do you live in community housing, or just unlucky.

Lived in 3 great areas of Vancouver, in fact some of the most affluent, Kits, Deep Cove and now SoMa.

Within 2 weeks of living in Kits, someone was shot 2 miles from us.

Then in December 10 people were shot on Oak street, again about 20 min drive from where we lived.

In Feb another man was shot in the same area. At some public gardens that we had visited.

In March a man was shot in broad daylight in the afternoon outside the sky train station a few miles from my work,

Recently a man was shot on the highway Surrey way.

Lived in Cheltenham for 11 years, the only thing shot there is clay pigeons.

Not moving back to the UK because of the shootings, the question for the pole was has it affected my life, well if wondering if I will caught as an innocent by stander in some drug related shoot out, then yes that crosses my mind occasionally here, and never did once in the UK.