Alberta_Rose

If somebody has already posted this then feel free to delete it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/exp...e-to-live.html

Will this provoke a new flood of people wanting to move here I wonder?

Although, they only have to read this site to realise that not everybody agrees with this article

JonboyE

So 90%-92% think their life is very good or excellent. You certainly wouldn't get that impression reading this site.

magnumpi

why?

I love it ere, and so do 90% of posters on here, incl yourself. Its the same few grumpy extpats who hate canada but cannot be arsed movin back to blighty.

Alan2005

Who hates Canada? I bet you can't name one single poster that does and are just raging against perceived slights to your adopted country.

magnumpi

so people coming here for a better life are not off their rockers then? As previously stated by yourself.

supergirly

Alan2005

Hmm, looks like I touched a nerve.

I can assure you that I don't hate Canada. So come on either post the name of a poster who does hate Canada or admit that you were mistaken and these 'extwats' of yours don't actually exist except in your head.

magnumpi

You dont hate canada? But you would rather live in the uk!

Even though on your jollies you most likley did not do a full weekley house hold shop, attempt to get a job, sell or buy a house, go further north than watford gap? ect.

Not every one who lives in the uk spends all week drving around admiring the scenery and sitting in pub beer gardens.

magnumpi

Agreed

Stupid of ma making an issue of it too mr 2005. Hopefully no one will ever again post a negative statement regarding Canada.

(i read what you wrote and its nice to hear you went up toward the great north sth border)

Tangram

So who are these canuck-haters, we should hunt them down like curs.

magnumpi

there are none, i sexed up my post to make it sound like that

We all love Canada. Dont we? Period. !

Novocastrian

Well according to the article, the survey is based on a poll of 1000 expats, presumably (if the poll was well designed) mostly in Australia, the US and in EU countries, especially Spain.

I'd think of those 1000, perhaps 100 are in Canada. In Canada: so that's maybe 10 per province.

C'mon, it is a Telegraph article. Just ignore it.

Greenhill

How can we be sure the demographic data used to make the poll is even derived from a fair representation of all types of British "expats"? It might just be an advert for "NatWest International" (whatever that is...), for all we know.

+1 on "ignore it".

MarylandNed

The happy ones are out enjoying life. Maybe the moaners are more likely to spend their time indoors at their computers complaining about their lives!

Tangram

I don't think that theory holds water, even if it was offered tongue in cheek.

I love it here, enjoy many activities away from my mac, but as you can see have a reasonable amount of posts since joining, as do you ( in fact you have a higher post rate than I do ).