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Is like...……..

Attending the highly anticipated and promoted mansion party of the year, the one everyone says they would love to go to..

You have daydreamed for years to get the invite.

You sell a few things, use all your savings to buy the most expensive suit you can afford. And to pay the admission fees.

Only when you get there it's overcrowded, music is crap, room full of fake laughter and pretentiousness, food is bland, the temperature is excessively humid inside the main hall but freezing outside in the garden which you also must pay an fee to sit in. You take a sneaky peek around the mansion only to discover it is like a cartoon background reel where every room is decorated exactly the same.

You are disappointingly underwhelmed. You sit in the corner looking at this charade by the mass crowd thinking, get me out of here

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Moving to Canada is an awful lot like moving to anywhere else, really. Some things are similar, some things are different, it takes a couple of weeks to get used to the small stuff, a bit longer to get used to the big stuff, but the constants in life remain pretty much constant.

I can see that for people who have never lived anywhere else than the village they grew up in it must be a bit of a shock to the system, but there's no aspect of life in Canada that's not so dissimilar to life in Europe that it's an insurmountable obstacle.

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See, that last sentence is where you start to lose sympathy. Get up out of your corner and hit the dance floor. Or at least talk to the people sitting next to you. If you hide in the corner and mope, it's hardly surprising that you don't enjoy the party.

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A party like that might as well be advertised as pretentious, I call author of his own misfortunes.

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Well put...I"ve met expats like that who complain about how everything isn't like it is 'back 'ome' etc and frankly it gets tiresome quite quickly. If you don't like, leave and if you can't leave stop complaining so much and dragging everyone down around you.

A few years ago, I was considering joining a new old timers footie team and went to watch them ahead of time. Three of the players (all subs at the time) and all ex-pats (Chelsea fans) were complaining about the 'immigrant' nature of the opponents (all Vietnamese guys) and how they couldn't understand what they were saying to each other. I had a beer with the guys after the game and frankly their ironic complaints about immigrants was not for me and I didn't join the team.

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I don't find that. I work in a room with ex-pats and find it interesting how things are not like home for them. I suppose if two of them had the same home it'd be less interesting but I haven't had to deal with that circumstance.

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going back in time if you live in rural area's like we do! Having to rely on shite internet provider like Xplornet.

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What's the problem with xplornet?

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I was going to ask the same thing.

We get download speeds of around 30 meg. I accept the upload speeds aren't particularly great, but then I don't need to post videos to YouTube.

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You honestly struggled to find a fishing spot in Scotland?? C'mon mate

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Except house prices in Oakville

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Oh I have. I've been to invites, dinners, gyms, lunches, coffees, bbq's, pubs, propped up a bar or two, had a hangover or two, spoke to many locals, many non locals from many backgrounds, heard many stories.. I haven't hidden

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Not at all. Fished all over the UK but much more costly and access to many waters outrageously expensive and access (legally) often denied. I guess you have to have experienced fishing in both countries to fully appreciate where I am coming from relative to my post regarding Ontario in comparison to the UK generally regarding accessibility and cost.

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The one criticism I have is that the service is a bit "weathery". In ferocious storms it doesn't work at all. At such times I switch to using Bluetooth to the phone (Bell), that's agonisingly slow by comparison and costs about $300 per day to use. I'm less keen on Bell than xplornet.

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We must be lucky then as we can always achieve around 3 mb. I can't recall ever being disconnected in the 6 and a half years we have been here. Of course, it doesn't compare with the 300/600 mb they get 15 mins up the road.