Should I move to Canada?

[SpookyFrank]

Are there jobs? Is the government less right wing than the UK? Is everybody racist? Is there a decent health service? What's the cost of living like? Can you get proper beer and Indian food? What are my chances of getting eaten by a bear/gored by a moose/turned into a zombie by white walkers?

Will I learn to tolerate the accent?

 

[Belushi]

Live the dream Frank! Join the Mounties!

 

[Belushi]

Can you get proper beer and Indian food?

I haven't visited Canada but all my Indian friends seem to have family there.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Live the dream Frank! Join the Mounties!

I hate both horses and policemen, so I'm not sure that would work out.

 

[JimW]

Can you wring oil out of sand?

 

[bi0boy]

Perhaps you should visit it first and have a look, rather than just move there forthwith.

 

[cesare]

It's MASSIVE. Whereabouts were you thinking of?

 

[Belushi]

Perhaps you should visit it first and have a look, rather than just move there forthwith.

Ignore Captain Sensible here. The British way is to plunge in with no exit plan and then spend the next 25 years complaining :thumbs :

 

[SpookyFrank]

It's MASSIVE. Whereabouts were you thinking of?

I dunno, a city probably. Lets say Montreal.

 

[Belushi]

I dunno, a city probably. Lets say Montreal.

How's your French?

 

[SpookyFrank]

How's your French?

Tolerable to good, Canuck French is a different kettle of fish though init?

 

[cesare]

I dunno, a city probably. Lets say Montreal.

Hmmm. Never been to Montreal but as Belushi says there's a form of a french spoken there.

 

[cesare]

Ignore Captain Sensible here. The British way is to plunge in with no exit plan and then spend the next 25 years complaining :thumbs :

I nearly did that myself

 

[SpookyFrank]

Ignore Captain Sensible here. The British way is to plunge in with no exit plan and then spend the next 25 years complaining :thumbs :

I thought it would be more fun that way. And I'm doing research aren't I?

 

[Orang Utan]

All the Canadians i know are lovely people, but they're all over here.....

 

[bi0boy]

The main advice I can give you having been to Canada is that you must tip 20% if you don't want to be chased down the street and that ice hockey is called hockey, not ice hockey.

 

[19sixtysix]

I hate both horses and policemen, so I'm not sure that would work out.

Aversion therapy.

 

[DotCommunist]

In 20 years time when a succesion of water-wars and continued unbridled capital has turned america into a fragmented wasteland, the precarious middle classes will live and work in gated compounds. The american rich will have fled to europe to direct their business from afar. Sick, starved, armed and righteous the urban and rural poor will become increasingly vicious. Burning, assasinations, kidnappings. Amongst it all the cartels still trading in narcotics and peopl and weaponry.

When the first of the gated communities is overrun, a social levee will break. A tide of the terrified will jump into their SUV's, they'll be massing at the canadian border desperate to escape the twisted land they once called free.

I wouldn't want to be in canada at this point would you frank. Probably best to stay in good old blighty.

 

[JTG]

What has Canada done to deserve you?

 

[not-bono-ever]

every accountant i have even known has holidayed in canada. interpret that as you wish

 

[SpookyFrank]

What has Canada done to deserve you?

Bryan Adams

 

[SpookyFrank]

In 20 years time when a succesion of water-wars and continued unbridled capital has turned america into a fragmented wasteland, the precarious middle classes will live and work in gated compounds. The american rich will have fled to europe to direct their business from afar. Sick, starved, armed and righteous the urban and rural poor will become increasingly vicious. Burning, assasinations, kidnappings. Amongst it all the cartels still trading in narcotics and peopl and weaponry.

When the first of the gated communities is overrun, a social levee will break. A tide of the terrified will jump into their SUV's, they'll be massing at the canadian border desperate to escape the twisted land they once called free.

I wouldn't want to be in canada at this point would you frank. Probably best to stay in good old blighty.

In 20 years I'll have perfected my genetically engineered cyborg polar bear army and I will fear no mortal man.

 

[Part 2]

I went to Toronto when I was 18, well return flights were £139 and I'd planned to go to Europe on my mates scooter but it broke down so we went there instead. Probably drank our fares worth in beer on the plane.

I say my mate but I didn't know him that well. Anyway it turned out was a football hooligan and debt collector and every conversation we got into he managed to shoe in a tale of slashing someone with a 50p coin and two stanley knife blades or of the gun he kept in the boot of his car. I lasted 6 days and came home, he met an Australian woman and stayed. Nice Hot Dogs, beer was expensive.

 

[Fez909]

holidayed

 

[skyscraper101]

why not, its beautiful, vast, safe, you can always move back if its not for you, I guess? I lived in America for 3 years which was a laugh but it wasn't for me long term. Short term it was good, and undoubtedly a good thing for some perspective on where you may be happier living in the long term. Perhaps Canada could do the same for you.

I'd go to Vancouver personally cos its more pretty. Toronto is cool, closer to NYC/Buffalo, a bit more gritty urban and closer to fly back home from. Never been to Montreal but it strikes me as more culturally interesting than either. I think in the end, the weather and the north american style culture would eventually push me back to Europe.

 

[EastEnder]

Are there jobs? Is the government less right wing than the UK? Is everybody racist? Is there a decent health service? What's the cost of living like? Can you get proper beer and Indian food? What are my chances of getting eaten by a bear/gored by a moose/turned into a zombie by white walkers?

Will I learn to tolerate the accent?

I lived & worked in Canada for 6 months, way back in 1996. I lived in downtown Vancover. Lovely place, very nice people, loads to recommend it, but it's also a big city & not wholly dissimilar to other such places.

Cost of living is high in the metropolitan areas, much less so if you live in a rural backwater, usually dominated by the logging industry & populated mainly by moose. Each to their own...

Canada is sort of like "USA-lite", the saccharine, diet version of the full-fat north American evilness.

Back when I lived there, you could only buy booze from government appointed off licences (never forget your passport if you want to buy anything stronger than Ribena), but overall it's a far less of a puritanical hypocrisy than the states.

It has its pros & cons, like every other place on the planet, but in Canada's case I'd argue that the pros outweigh the cons. Having said that, be realistic - the grass is always greener. Life can be great anywhere, or it can be crap anywhere, it's the specifics that matter.

 

[DotCommunist]

be realistic - the grass is always greener. Life can be great anywhere, or it can be crap anywhere, it's the specifics that matter.

 

[abe11825]

Ignore Captain Sensible here.

There's such a thing round these ways?

The main advice I can give you having been to Canada is that you must tip 20% if you don't want to be chased down the street and that ice hockey is called hockey, not ice hockey.

Something similar to that (being chased down the street) happened to me and frogwoman one day. It was a good laugh, albeit an awkward laugh. Hockey is literally the only sport to come out of the country. You must pick a side (team).

In 20 years time when a succesion of water-wars and continued unbridled capital has turned america into a fragmented wasteland, the precarious middle classes will live and work in gated compounds. The american rich will have fled to europe to direct their business from afar. Sick, starved, armed and righteous the urban and rural poor will become increasingly vicious. Burning, assasinations, kidnappings. Amongst it all the cartels still trading in narcotics and peopl and weaponry.

When the first of the gated communities is overrun, a social levee will break. A tide of the terrified will jump into their SUV's, they'll be massing at the canadian border desperate to escape the twisted land they once called free.

I wouldn't want to be in canada at this point would you frank. Probably best to stay in good old blighty.

No one is gonna break it to Canada. They'll go north west to Alaska. To the point where Russia can still be seen quite clearly from a multi million dollar cabin in the woods...

 

[SpookyFrank]

There's just no way I can pretend to give a fuck about ice hockey, no way in hell.

 

[EastEnder]

There's just no way I can pretend to give a fuck about ice hockey, no way in hell.

Neither can many Canadians! It may be the national sport, but it's no different to football over here - many love it, many couldn't give a crap!