Given the % of income quoted it has to be Vancouver.

No one has to like Canada. Some do, some don't and some are indifferent. No one has to like Vancouver. Some do, some don't, though there seems to be fewer that are indifferent. Everyone's experiences are equally valid. However, if everyone's opinion is equally valid they are not equally valuable.

Our Calgary members get upset, and rightly so, if the rest of us who have never been to AB portray it as a right wing, red neck culture free dessert. Equally, I get annoyed whenever Vancouver is mentioned and somebody posts that it is crap because their second cousin, twice removed, went there once in '67 and it was raining. The opinion of someone like, say, dboy who has lived here for years is surely more valuable to a reader with a genuine interest or need to know.

One thing that does frustrate me form time to time is people posting from a position of ignorance. We are all ignorant about lots of things but surely the most basic self-awareness requires us to know what we actually know, and what we don't know. When posters post their misinformation as fact then they need to be corrected.

The OP's comments about Richmond are particularly unpleasant and unwarranted. He opens this thread by saying he wants to to give readers a rounded picture of life in Vancouver/Canada, but these sort of ill informed rantings seem to be motivated by anything other that a desire to be helpful (and I'm doing my very best to avoid the "R" word here).

Canuckroo's contention that you need a family income of $200,000 to survive in Vancouver may not be so unpleasant, but it is equally misleading. Yes, you can struggle on $200,000 if you chose to live that kind of lifestyle, but you can live a decent and comfortable life on a lot less. It is a bit like a new immigrant to London buying a waterfront flat on the Thames for UKP1M and then telling everyone that if you don't earn UKP200,000 a year don't bother coming to the UK.

thats what I must have done..........my apologies to everyone

Maybe the school system where you are isn't one of the best, but a different school district either in the same or a different Province make make a difference.

How can your child be going backwards? Have they forgotten everything they've learned? There's nothing to stop you helping your child challenge themselves at home, thus giving them an advantage over their peers.

It's too easy to blame something else when maybe there are other options.

I agree with R I C H. Canadian weather is different even within the same Province. Winter in Toronto feels warmer and milder to me than the same winter in more rural Peterborough or Belleville does, yet all three are in Ontario. I'm sure there are differences between winter in Vancouver and Whistler (B.C.), Montreal and Quebec City (Qc), Lethbridge and Fort McMurray (Ab), Ottawa and Windsor (On) and many other places.

If that much of your pay is going on household bills, it's time to either find a better paying job or somewhere the costs are lower. You've already started the latter with your comparisons, so instead of the expense of moving back to the UK right now, how about considering a move to Ottawa or Montreal. According to your figures, you'll be saving 30% which will help.

Even couples earning six-figure salaries each can have financial troubles, and even some of those that don't still divorce. If financial problems are the only reasons for breaking a marriage then it probably wasn't that strong in the first place.

Live within your means. If you're spending too much, work out what isn't absolutely essential and stick to it.

A positive attitude gets people through the arse end of life much better than a negative one, so do their friends. Even when we do tease them about driving off with the gas pump still in the fuel tank.

You know exactly what you did but accepted anyway

You dont need to go that distance, there is often a 2 degree difference between the SE and NW of Calgary. Canmore (to the west) and Okotoks (to the south) both have less blue sky than Calgary, I'm moving 2 hours east of Calgary and the average temp for December is 20 degrees lower





Oh shit I'd forgotten that one

Boll*cks both of you

Just to make you feel better.....................


Number of times the Cherokee has travelled from Cochrane to Banff/Sunshine with the fuel cap banging against the side >10

Number of times the Yaris as been driven off with the back door ajar (and the dog getting windswept) >5

Thats in the last 6 or so months

Thats okay then

It’s a great statement, but lacks any touch with reality

when you’re in the shit it’s very hard to focus on the positives as its the negatives that are giving you the problems and they need fixing, and in some severe cases it can be hard to find something positive that’s worth focusing on when you dealing with a crisis

I personally wouldn’t give a rats arse about the pretty mountains if I had hungry kids to feed

I’d suggest a pragmatic attitude will serve you better; looking on the bright side of life can be kept for singing whilst hanging around on crucifixes

JonboyE, you're beginning to sound dangerously like Donald Rumsfeld with his "known unknowns." It's a slippery slope....

I just want to know where they live. Vague references to "BC" or "Van" aren't helpful because it VARIES, people. It VARIES.

Sorry I just have to disagree, I'm not for one minute going to suggest we all handle 'being in the shit' the same was BUT that is still a very sweeping generalisation.

I though that's what we did on here

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nah sorry I cant give you that one, 75% of posts may be sweeping generalisations but it still doesnt make it right