Depends where you are, Vancouver is warmer than London in winter.
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Depends where you are, Vancouver is warmer than London in winter.
How's the snow with you today?
Hmmm - their work ethic is a bit more severe than ours. Private companies generally have longer working hours and offer much less statutory paid leave than we are entitled to in the UK. Better pay though generally.
Nice vibe also - the people are very nice, very friendly. My partner and I seriously considered going out there to live as her sister had emmigrated to Ontario about 10 years ago. I enjoyed visiting as a tourist, but when we left at the end of our holiday we kind of decided it wasn't really for us. It didn't quite have the effect on us that we imagined. We were suffering from a big case of greener grass syndrome I think.
I'm pretty sure you could cope with the weather, you'd just adapt.
I can only comment on Ontario, but to be honest, I found Ontario to be a bit depressing in winter when I visited, the area is predominantly flat and grey. Towns like Niagara on the Lake are nice and the wine region is nice but Niagara Falls town is an unadulterated **** hole and even the falls themselves are not that impressive.
Toronto is a fairly long way to a decent ski resort. It's not exactly all on your doorstep. The place is massive, distances are so much bigger than the UK. People often say, "yeah but you can go to the boonies and ski at the weekend, hike and fish". Well yeah you can, if you don't mind driving for hours and hours. Kind of defeats the object of a nice weekend away for me, personally.
It wasn't that cheap either, at least not as cheap as it supposedly used to be. Diamonds are cheap though. I proposed in Canada and nearly choked when I saw how cheap rings were. I'd bought mine in the UK!
Oh yeah - The locals watch hockey ALL THE TIME. The teams play something like 3-4 games a week during the season. I was there for a week and I was sick of hearing about hockey.
Just do it though if you haven't got that much to lose. You can always go back to the UK. We are almost certainly moving to Houston, Texas later this year, and that's the attitude we're adopting.
The healthcare is true to an extent but doesn't really apply to an expat. If you are living in the USA then you are working in the USA with a company who sponsored a work visa, any job where this is likely will give full health insurance and probably dental and vision cover as well. So from a personal point of view it is irrelevant.
as for your selfish as the yanks, makes no sense at all and is completely contradictory to the truth of the matter.
Whereabouts in Quebec? Montreal is a really nice city.
However, the city is covered in underground tunnels so people don't freeze to death in winter.
