British Expats

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- - YIKES! (https://britishexpats.com/forum/moving-back-uk-61/yikes-838890/)

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Originally Posted by pondhopper2014 (Post 11338551)

Okay. My first real wobbles.

Watching BBC1's immigration show "Too Many Immigrants"... is England really that adversarial towards people with a slightly different accent? I have a Canadian accent (obviously), and my British-born husband has a Canadian accent... are we really going to make people that upset with us, or is this really just propoganda? And if it is, why would BBC want to cause rifts?

Kinda nervous now, what if my neighbours hate me because I'm Canadian born? :ohmy: Really, this is very scary to me, we're jumping two feet in on this, giving up everything here in Canada... and what if we have no chance because we're considered "outsiders". Or is this more EU migrant workers or what? Is it an ethnic thing? I'm from the commonwealth, does that help?

ACK!!!

In my experience, most Brits don't even consider Canadians to be foreigners. The worst that will happen is that people will keep singing the Monty Python lumberjack song at you assuming that you haven't already heard it 10,000 times.

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Originally Posted by dgagitw (Post 11437279)

ROFL! Well, so far Hunny has had an interview with a company, very positive, and one with a recruiter that specialises in his line of work, also positive. So I'm counting that as a good omen. :) teehee, lunberjacks. Ironically our older daughter is in college and eventually wants to go into forestry management... Hahaha, how Canadian of her! ;)