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-   The Maple Leaf (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/)
-   -   how was your "settling in" experience in Canada? (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/how-your-settling-experience-canada-827925/)

Aviator Mar 8th 2014 12:44 pm
Re: how was your "settling in" experience in Canada?
 
Any regrets about coming to Canada?
No
Anything you missed strongly and couldn't live without?
No

Any difficulties finding a job? - Thousands of job interviews and no success?
One and success.

Has your standard of living improved?
No

Was it all worth it?
Yes

JamesM Mar 8th 2014 1:13 pm
Re: how was your "settling in" experience in Canada?
 
Originally Posted by Shard (Post 11164402)
Really good post, the only thing I would point out is that Britain is not necessarily cheaper for family fun. Swimming is £20 (£16 off peak) for a family ticket and the Zoo (London; family of four) is £75 for a day!
Yours is a bad post. You provide no comparison.

JamesM Mar 8th 2014 1:14 pm
Re: how was your "settling in" experience in Canada?
 
Originally Posted by Cabbagetown (Post 11163972)
Any regrets about coming to Canada?

Anything you missed strongly and couldn't live without?

Any difficulties finding a job? - Thousands of job interviews and no success?

Has your standard of living improved? Was it all worth it?
It was a rollercoaster.

In the end it will be worth it for the children.

Shard Mar 8th 2014 1:18 pm
Re: how was your "settling in" experience in Canada?
 
Originally Posted by JamesM (Post 11164626)
Yours is a bad post. You provide no comparison.
Comparison to what? Are you in the dive bar?

JamesM Mar 8th 2014 1:20 pm
Re: how was your "settling in" experience in Canada?
 
Originally Posted by Shard (Post 11164634)
Comparison to what? Are you in the dive bar?
Just left the dive bar.

It talks of the price of family swimming and the price of a trip to the zoo.

These are no use with out a local price for one to compare too.

Shard Mar 8th 2014 1:25 pm
Re: how was your "settling in" experience in Canada?
 
Originally Posted by JamesM (Post 11164637)
Just left the dive bar.

It talks of the price of family swimming and the price of a trip to the zoo.

These are no use with out a local price for one to compare too.
Dashie gave the local swimming price ($25) I just threw the London Zoo price in because it's outrageous.

JamesM Mar 8th 2014 1:34 pm
Re: how was your "settling in" experience in Canada?
 
Originally Posted by Shard (Post 11164643)
Dashie gave the local swimming price ($25) I just threw the London Zoo price in because it's outrageous.
I stand corrected.

There is a zoo somewhere round here. One day I will go.

BristolUK Mar 8th 2014 2:00 pm
Re: how was your "settling in" experience in Canada?
 
Originally Posted by JamesM (Post 11164649)
I stand corrected.

There is a zoo somewhere round here. One day I will go.
The zoo here
http://i61.tinypic.com/2yma893.jpg

Martin the cdn expat Mar 8th 2014 6:12 pm
Re: how was your "settling in" experience in Canada?
 
Originally Posted by MillieF (Post 11164159)
I don't regret coming to Canada...I regret coming to this 'bit' of Canada...I just can't take the climate.

Cheer up Millie, it's almost over ! :D

MillieF Mar 8th 2014 9:11 pm
Re: how was your "settling in" experience in Canada?
 
Originally Posted by Martin the cdn expat (Post 11164800)
Cheer up Millie, it's almost over ! :D
It really really is....things are starting to melt!

The price of theatre and music tickets is a sadness to me here. For some amateurish bit of something at the 'playhouse' here they want $40 a ticket ditto for 'string quartet' things here...so all the tickets seem to be corporate jollies and there are some quite good bands that go to Moncton, but I can't qualify with travel spending 250$ on a night out with my sprog, so he's becoming a cultural heathen!

bats Mar 9th 2014 4:01 am
Re: how was your "settling in" experience in Canada?
 
Originally Posted by JamesM (Post 11164649)
I stand corrected.

There is a zoo somewhere round here. One day I will go.
Peterborough Zoo is free, run by Peterborough Utilities.

Swimming is around 50 a month for an adult. The river is free.

Sealaig Mar 9th 2014 5:44 am
Re: how was your "settling in" experience in Canada?
 
Originally Posted by Cabbagetown (Post 11163972)
Any regrets about coming to Canada?

None at all.

Anything you missed strongly and couldn't live without?

I remember things sometime and will say "oh I wish I had that now" but I find stuff I like here that replaces those things also. Or just reminisce about stuff, but not enough to care really.

Any difficulties finding a job? - Thousands of job interviews and no success?

I had a job before I moved over.

Has your standard of living improved? Was it all worth it?
It has improved and it could be way better, but I do have more here than I would/had in the UK, and it was totally worth it.

Shard Mar 9th 2014 6:09 am
Re: how was your "settling in" experience in Canada?
 
Originally Posted by bats (Post 11165246)
Peterborough Zoo is free, run by Peterborough Utilities.

Swimming is around 50 a month for an adult. The river is free.
I think zoos, to the extent that we still have them or need them, ought to be free (or near free). Like museums and galleries.

bats Mar 9th 2014 8:02 am
Re: how was your "settling in" experience in Canada?
 
Originally Posted by Shard (Post 11165379)
I think zoos, to the extent that we still have them or need them, ought to be free (or near free). Like museums and galleries.
Yes, paying for State owned museums and galleries is anathema to me. When they are free or at least have free days I can usually drag a philistine friend along with me and more often than not they find something to interest them.

That and college/university fees just leads to national ignorance.

christmasoompa Mar 9th 2014 10:44 am
Re: how was your "settling in" experience in Canada?
 
Originally Posted by Shard (Post 11164643)
Dashie gave the local swimming price ($25) I just threw the London Zoo price in because it's outrageous.
Free if you use Clubcard tokens though. Don't remember the last time we paid for a family day out, we either get freebie tickets (Clubcard etc), or just go to free places e.g. London museums.

Even swimming's free using our 'recycle points'.


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