Love and Marriage

Canadians and ex brits: Why should i emigrate to Canada from the UK, what do you love about Canada?

Ive pretty much decided that one day i want to move to Canada as i have never heard a bad word said about it and it looks like sucha beautiful country. But what is it that you love about your country?

Public Comments

1. It's got awesome people..generally "laid back", "sit on their hands" type, but when it comes to being a true Canadian, we all rise up at once! We took alot of your so called English habits from the days of Wolfe/Montcalm battles, but now I think we don't need the British influence anymore (the monarchy). We are more independent of others. We love hockey, beer, and have numerous immigrants who flock here such as yourself.. cause of our tranquilty..eh! :)
2. ive fallen out with my country too many rules regulations, the weather cold, as soon as my circumstances change im moving to a hot country, not canada thats cold there in winter -35degrees, no thanks expensive there, people friendly, food nice, houses ultra modern, certain areas folks there great.but i want to move to the sun.
3. free health insurance!
4. One of the best countries to live in.Highly industrialized with low unemployment, high literacy, low crime,very developed country with excellent working conditions,reasonable cost of living,an outstanding education system,a very high standard of living and health care system ranked one of the best in the world welcome to Canada in advance :)
5. eveyrone has their own opinions. I love Canada after travelling to many other countries it is the Best one I rather live in .My suggestion is take a trip.My aunt and uncle rented a mobile home and travelled one summer through the USA and Canada and prefer Canada:)
6. If I hadn't created a life for myself here I'd be off in a shot but I have a family and a good life for myself now. HOWEVER given the choice I'd return to the UK! I'm sick to death of the whole will Quebec go or stay and if you don't speak French you can't get move up in some organisations. I've found that no matter how good your French is if you are not from Quebec your French isn't good enough. I've never heard so much whining and moaning from governments and groups in my life! Everyone is offended by everyother group and everyone has to make accomodations for everyone else. No group is willing to say stop the madness. Do I like Canada you bet great place to live 6 months of the year, would I move if I could yes I'd be gone but it isn't in the cards so here I stay up to my ....... in snow.
7. I love the fact that we are a relatively laid back country, not overly stressed, with good health care, good social programs, good education system, low crime rate, a reasonable cost of living, and one of the best standards of living in the world. I love our geography, our CBC, our diversity, our multiculturalism and our bilingualism (though I am unilingual English but I have never been held back from anything I wanted to do in life because of that, and I have done just fine). I am reaching the point in my life where I really do not like our winters and I really do not want to shovel anymore snow. So I am sometimes one of those Canadians who spends winter in more southern climes. But our spring, summer and fall is awesome. For the most part, people anywhere are just people, mostly friendly and kind and good. Life anywhere is what you make it, and Canada cannot make anyone happy or satisfied with their lives. Unhappy people will be unhappy whereever they go. So if you can take life as you find it, and if you realize that happiness and contentment comes from within you and not from where you are, then do come to Canada. It is a wonderful place to live, and you will be most welcome. Best of luck with your plans.
8. Five myths about Canada you need to know about! 1. Free health care. Canada's health care is not free. It is funded by a heavy tax regime that takes hard earned money from even the working poor. If you make $C20,000 a year. You will be taxed. Make more? Like $C75,000 and up? Oh, you can bet you will get hit with taxes. In some provinces like Alberta, you also get the additional privilege of paying health care "premiums" on top of your taxes. The big hospital unions like the Registered Nurses and various so-called "para-professionals" have taken over the health care system and destroyed it. This is what happens when you create a a monopoly, and worse, a government owned monopoly. 2. High standard of living Huh? Since when? This country has one of North America's biggest drug ghettos. It's called Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Canadians have a lower per capita GDP than Americans. They also make less money than Americans, and ironically many other countries: Ireland, Germany, Switzerland to name just a few. 3. Peaceful Nope! There are just as many acts of violent crime, drug gangs, domestic murders in Canada as in the U.S. It's just never adjusted for per capita, ie. the actual population of the two countries and the size of the cities in each country. Canada has serial killers, drug shootings, pollution, gang violence. How come we don't hear much about this in the world's media, the way the U.S.'s problems are constantly brought up? 4. Strong economy No! Canadians just piggyback off the U.S. economy and they still can't manage to get their unemployment rate down to anywhere near to the U.S. rate, which was hovering in the low 5's most recently. Canada's rate has varied over the last decade or more from 11% to a low of about 7%. The country just sells off its raw natural resources rather than having a productive economy through strong innovation or research. Yet the Canucks complain about selling those resources to the U.S. Huh? 5. Canadians are polite self effacing and humble Whoa! Canadians are anything but polite and "European" as they like to tell the world. Most Canadians I've met are ignorant, boorish, self absorbed anti-American bigots. Go to a Canadian workplace: see how they treat you, especially if you are a brown or black person. Go to a restaurant or a store. The tone is very cold and "British" in nature. Look at how they drive. I have driven in Britain, the U.S. (San Diego, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Seattle area). Nowhere have I seen such stupid backward drivers as I have seen in B.C. and Alberta. Basically Canada needs to have its huge pompous self absorbed ego deflated. Canadians are hypocrites and they love to be delusional, and self absorbed about how great they are. The U.S. incidentally is the country where a lot of Canadians, (about 200,000 at last count), go to live well, retire and of course, for employment. Hypocritical or what?