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Forum: Canada
Sep 5th 2008, 4:59 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

Try reading some of the other 13000+ posts then.

I wont say what you come across as for the sake of 1; Its a family forum and 2; you arent worth wasting the electrons on.
Forum: Canada
Sep 5th 2008, 4:48 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

Im not alone in thinking this place is losing its original appeal, and If I dont like what this forum is in danger of turning into, then Im certainly going to post my views on that, having been...
Forum: Canada
Sep 5th 2008, 4:42 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

Hmm, Im the one passing on my experience of living here in Canada, and you are the one throwing cheap shots from the peanut gallery, and you think I'm the one who needs to get a life? 'Nuff said. ...
Forum: Canada
Sep 5th 2008, 4:39 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

^^^
Thats exactly the kind of mindless drivel I was talking about I guess. I hope you feel really big and clever now.
Forum: Canada
Sep 5th 2008, 4:36 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

I'm used to the constant dissapointment that comes from that by now, so thats not it...
Forum: Canada
Sep 5th 2008, 4:31 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

No, that's DEFINITELY not it.
Forum: Canada
Sep 5th 2008, 4:28 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

I've been away from the site for a while and perhaps Im looking at it now with fresh eyes.

Im not particularly unhappy, but I used to find this a fairly evenly opinioned forum, with a lot of...
Forum: Canada
Sep 5th 2008, 4:24 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

The false optimism is largely from the Grass is greener brigade who havent yet experienced life here, and yes, it does require balance...but that blade has two edges, there has to be a balance...
Forum: Canada
Sep 5th 2008, 4:17 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

Point taken about access, but that in itself does not result in a bias either way for positive / negative feelings about the move.

Cliches, as any psychologist will tell you, often have some truth...
Forum: Canada
Sep 5th 2008, 4:07 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

Obviously not you. Not every post is directed at you.


Someone at some point said that looking at the posts here most expats are not particularly happy. I was refuting that. You cant judge the...
Forum: Canada
Sep 5th 2008, 3:57 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

Im not whining about whiny brits per se, let them whine if they want to. Im whining about the idea that people taking BE as a "normal cross section" of opinion will be wildly misguided as to what...
Forum: Canada
Sep 5th 2008, 3:33 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

So miserable people in the cities choose to post here, but those in the country are unable or unwilling. Interesting, very interesting. And yet in the first few months of enthusiasm there are no...
Forum: Canada
Sep 5th 2008, 3:10 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

I agree, but isnt that where most of the happy immigrants dissapear to? Seems to me that many people who used to post here a lot in the build up to immigrating to my neck of the woods post here for...
Forum: Canada
Sep 5th 2008, 1:59 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

You also have to take into consideration that the vast majority of happy immigrants have no desire to hang out at the whine fest that BE has become.

Ive been a long term contributor (is that the...
Forum: Canada
Sep 5th 2008, 1:55 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

Happy parents are perhaps the MOST important thing for kids?
Forum: Canada
Sep 5th 2008, 1:42 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

As I said, it comes down to income. Its much more affordable to do that in Canada I would say.

I have never seen any stats that said Canadian crime levels were similar to UK crime levels, and,...
Forum: Canada
Sep 5th 2008, 1:37 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

Money can be made in other ways (especially with your skills and experience I suspect), and business partners sell their shares all the time, so really that's just inertia thats stopping you I think....
Forum: Canada
Sep 5th 2008, 12:48 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

Here being Brampton presumably? There is more to Canada that the GTA.;)


I think a lot of the choice comes down to income. If you have a good income, the unpleasantness of the UK can be largely...
Forum: Canada
Sep 4th 2008, 4:02 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

Ho Ho, "Only a plane journey away"

How many times have I heard that one. The reality is that people will not visit often once their initial curiosity is satisfied, and air travel is an...
Forum: Canada
Sep 4th 2008, 3:28 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

Why get upset about it, its a public internet forum. The nature of these forums is that anyone can send off any configuration of electrons that takes their fancy without worrying about the...
Forum: Canada
Sep 4th 2008, 2:57 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

I woke up very drunk one morning on a University hockey tour to Holland, and was very confused to find that the view I had was of a ski slope....
Forum: Canada
Sep 4th 2008, 2:42 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

You have first hand experience and certainly know more about the legal side of this, but to me that approach is simply morally wrong.


Morally it has nothing to do with access to the child, you...
Forum: Canada
Sep 4th 2008, 2:23 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

Utter nonsense, he was still responsible for the creation of those kids, so he should still have partial financial responsibility, whatever the frequency of contact. You aren't paying for the...
Forum: Canada
Sep 4th 2008, 2:04 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

Yes, it does.

Do they cease to be his kids? Of course not. He should (continue to) stand up like a man and accept responsibility for the consequences of his (1)5 minutes of unprotected fun.
Forum: Canada
Sep 4th 2008, 12:45 pm
Replies: 120
Views: 5,459
Posted By iaink

Re: good news re my post yesterday

RUN, dont walk, to a LAWYER, and get it in watertight writing AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
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