I'll watch a couple of hours of Lewis Black this evening to put my mind straight. (If you haven't heard him, his routine on Rumsfeld shooting his hunting partner is very funny. As, BTW, is the "two starbucks".)

It might be hard to focus on positives, but if you don't then everything you focus on is negative. Then you risk going round in ever-decreasing circles of despair until you break.

Whilst you may not give a rats arse about the view, your kids are still something positive to focus on. Try some Bobby McFerrin if Monty Python isn't working for you!

I'd be impressed if we got 75% !

We may make at most about 10 % of sweeping generalisations and maybe up to 1% of specifics

The other 89%.... completly wasted bandwidth suitable for nothing more than flattering our own ego’s

which category is that in?

And your point is?

This is simply based on my own observations. I'm not having a dig at them but there IS a cultural difference which often comes out in their driving. I wish some of you would lighten up. Chinese drivers have an absolutely abysmal reputation with BC locals. Absolutely abhorrent.

The problem with the British (of which I am one to dispell any further rumours), is that we're so damned quick to take offense over things like cultural differences. Pretending they don't exist is just sticking your head in the sand.

Saying this I find the Chinese good people to do business with. Again it's a cultural thing and perhaps a personality match on my part.

Ok I'm asking for your edit of my original point to be struck off. This is unacceptable to me. I did NOT write "I blame the Chinese". This is an outrage

This is really REALLY amusing. Just because someone agrees with me it MUST be that I've gone in, created multiple IDs and written words of support to my original post. Because the very thought that ANYONE might find truth in what I write is preposterous. So clearly I'm that insecure in what I write, I have to create pseudonyms for moral support and because I clearly give a toss that one or two have differing views. Lord give me strength!

For once I agree with you. And the salary one needs depends largely on the size of property and its location. But saying this, Greater Vancouver is extremely expensive wherever you live compared with salaries. It's safe to say I simply cannot to support a family on any income I'm likely to make here. My mortgage is very low because I bought over 70% cash. It's not the property that is expensive. It's all the many things that in BC at least are unpredictable. But when they hit you, they're massively expensive. By this I cite medical and dental expenses as being the very worst of all.

I am not used to compromising on the health of my family but in BC I am forced to. This is not only extremely uncomfortable, it also gives me the sense that I'm somehow selling out on the health of my kids. I simply don't believe people experience this in UK in the same way.

I would recommend families be on around 120-150k and this isn't necessarily comfortable. My regular bills are not excessive yet cost me $70k a year AFTER TAX. So I need to be earning $100k at least to pay that. Yet who pays that kind of salary here? The market has seen a 30% drop but bills continue to rise. This is the reality of living in BC.

Yeah me too. Scenario 2 sounds like it's straight out of desperate housewives script

It's ok love, the thick skin has stopped the wound penetrating too deeply. Washed off like water off a duck's back

Except I KNOW the hypothetical person and Scenario 2 is genuine.

I thought both scenarios where the same thing with different attitudes when looking at them.

Oh my dear (welsh) boy, of course but the second one is the 'way' it was dealt with