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I used to buy Tesco's table salt, it was my family's favourite before I left for a new life. Can you get it over here? Any suggestions now I'm in Canada?


http://img.tesco.com/Groceries/pi/53...ot_225x225.jpg

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Thats a tough one and I feel your pain, longing for the familiarity of days gone by is totally normal.

You have a couple of options, you can either get some shipped over, or you can try Walmart - i'm sure they do free flow salt in a box - so whilst its not the same as a plastic tub - you can close your eyes, grab some lemon and tequila and pretend you are back there again.

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;)

Salt is salt, just go to your nearest store, buy some and then get on with your life.

Thread closed. ;)

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There's a British shop that's only 200km away. I might be able to get some there? I love living in Canada but some times no mater how much you persevere, you miss the benefits of civilisation. :(

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I've got some sifto salt - it's Canadian made and tastes fresher than that crap you get in your typical british supermarkets. It's one of the reasons I emigrated.

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The round trip for a 50p tub of salt would be worth it for your peace of mind. You might be able to pick up some toilet roll too.

Never underestimate home comforts.

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A low salt environment is better, for the children.

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That's one of the benefits of living in the prairies.

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Well this thread gave me a good laugh before going to bed.

...the sad thing is a while ago I did get slightly excited when I saw Sea Salt in a plastic container like that in Santa Barbara instead of the boxed salt you usually see in supermarkets here.

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You could always try licking it off the road in April. That would be novel.

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For a suitable donation I could ship you some over? Do you also need Marmite, Weetabix, and Cadburys etc?

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Oooh, rubbing it in a bit:)

How are things back in the motherland?

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Broken! (apparently)

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In the main they are bloody marvellous, loving being back here.
Issues with a seriously ill parent in France is not quite so good, so job hunting is on hold whilst I trot backwards and forwards.

That is a just a rumour, I am not finding it so bad, really!
I guess that could be the area I am in, but I have seen none of what is portrayed in the media.

I saw the same sort of thing in Canada, nowhere is Utopia, you make the best of what is around you.

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Pleased you are enjoying it, I would consider coming back to the UK when I am older, depends on what the children and grandchildren are doing. Of course I have to get to Canada first! It is all about the perception, for sure it is better than many parts of the world I have travelled, many out there would give there back teeth to live in UK.
I bet we have a shortage of salt in UK this winter, we ran out in the shops last year. Everyone was putting it down on the paths because broken britain councils ran out of rock/grit salt.
Enough of my rambling...

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I don't believe the councils are responsible for salting people's paths and driveways.

I don't believe it is about perception. I believe it depends on whether you came from craphole or a nice area, just like anywhere in the world.

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I confess to feeling occasionally jealous of my child who's packed up and moved to London. Last weekend Paris, before that Sardinia, lots of places one can visit from London.

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Yes, I'm with you there.

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Come on, great opportunities to travel the continent of North America from Canada, Pacific or Atlantic Coasts, Route 66, Caribean, Mexico. You too could travel to new and exciting locations from where you are, just do it! You still have a passport, you are allowed to come to Europe too.:)

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Once you've seen one strip mall you've seen them all.

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We're not hermits. This year we went riding at Bryce Canyon and on the North Antrim coast. Last year Arizona and Makinac Island. Still, from London one can easily visit Paris, from Toronto one can easily visit Buffalo NY or Erie PA. There's cause to look wistfully at London.

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Ok if you just won the lottomax I guess.

Clearly you have not yet found out about internal travel costs:( There aint no Easy Jet over here Im afraid.

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Oh dear. I foresee culture shock in your future.

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Hahahahaha. That's the best laugh I've had for ages.

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Some random dates on AC:

YYZ-LAX just under $600 return

LHR-LAX just over $700 return

So even if you want to visit places in the USA it's not much more expensive from LHR than YYZ (especially if you factor in the cost of a cab to YYZ).

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Pah!

Buffalo NY to Salt Lake City UT, $439 return
Buffalo NY to New Orleans LA, $323 return

A couple of hours drive to Buffalo, a relaxing night in the Holiday Inn before an early departure. They'll even keep your car in the car park, free for hotel guests. Now we're talking ;)

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It may seem like it's easy to experience those trips, funds however tell a different story. There none of these fifty quid flights to a beach somewhere warm deals y'know:huh: Then there are no cheap hotels or B&B's, even camping isn't cheap really. I was just reading a UK magazine that says you can camp for four quid a night! Pah! No chance, unless your out in the bush with absolutely no facilities and then you get into back country passes and stuff.

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London to Dubai for $550
London to Barcelona $86
London to Paris $100

And so on....

I miss that :frown:

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"Oh, we just hop on the DLR and we're at the City airport. London's so much easier than Toronto that way".

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Well, continue looking at London through rose tinted spectacles because - trust me, I lived there the past ten years - and it is not an easy place to live at all and is about to get a lot tougher. So, yes, accessibility to Yerp is great but what do you do when get home from your city break to a place that's crime ravaged, has shit public schools, high unemployment, inflation rising, and closing hospitals?

By the way, you can fly from Toronto to a world class city in NYC via Porter from the downtown airport. They recently had a 50% seat sale on all flights which we took advantage of.

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Not so sure about that. The daughter and her partner are both in the trauma business and both have jobs at expanding, unrelated, trauma units. You do need lots of money of course but, in return, it's a big exciting city. Toronto's alright but it's like moving to Harrow, slower, safer, a step into old age.

(And yes I was disingenuous in not mentioning NYC and Montreal, accessible big cities).

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I lived there too for quite a while. You must have lived in a right shithole :(

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/he...paid-work.html

This hospital was near us. It, like a few hospitals in the UK, will not last long without immediate action. Great that your daughter and partner work in a stable environment and good luck to them but this is a reality.

Toronto's not perfect, nowhere is. But I can say for sure that healthcare is pretty good here.

I did like a lot about London - culture, bars, galleries and my Spurs of course. But, living there day to day now? No chance.

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Not really, just like many places in North London - except your Hamsteads, Crouch End etc.

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I expect they'll have a few years of enjoying urbanism then move somewhere else in Europe. The only concern I've heard so far is the price of houses, a shock when you're used to Toronto, their rent on a two bedroomed flat is more per week than the mortgage was monthly for her house on the Danforth. Still, she couldn't walk to work from the Danforth.

I've always felt a bit far from any action in Toronto, that the place tries relentlessly hard but is really just another bland American city, Omaha but colder; hence my intermittent envy for them having moved somewhere exciting.

Good things I've found about healthcare in Toronto are:

- very good trauma units
- easy to get treated while in the country without documentation
- lots of walk-in clinics so little waiting

Less impressive things:

- no long term provision for the mentally ill
- drugs and surgical appliances expensive
- poor treatment for the disabled for the disabled for matters unrelated to the disability; if, for example, you have autism and a broken leg, it's a bugger to find anyone to take an interest in the leg

It's a good place to get shot. Not a good place to have cerebral palsy.

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Oh yes, so much culture, history and diversity :blink:

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I think Buffalo or most other US cities will provide a much better chance of getting shot if that's one's aim. 30 people or more die in London each year from knife crime, mostly kids.

Omaha but colder? Really, please. Just last week I went to Hockney's iPad exhibition at ROM; recently, I saw the AbEx of NY exhibition at AGO ...Lots more stuff going. Lots more. Don't paint this picture because it's all a bit abstract yourself.

We live off Danforth and rent a house out in London, so would entirely agree with you there.

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A good place to get shot in the sense of there being easy access to medical staff experienced in such matters at no cost.

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Ahh, I see...