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time to emigrate? part 94

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    #21
    http://www.cic.gc.ca/EnGLIsh/immigra...sess/index.asp

    Link to the calculator.

    BTW Just so people are informed, people there pay an awful lot of tax, there's loads of immigrants and they're more greeny/left than here.

    Australia is kind of similar ...
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      #22
      Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
      Myself I am very keen on Sydney and Hong Kong. I recekon Asia will soon take over.

      If my ex would just do the decent thing and kark it...
      FILTH!

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        #23
        Originally posted by Churchill View Post
        FILTH!
        I already have several work colleagues there and a few friends - plus the gf lived there for 3 years(she was a carer for the woman who broke the story of Germany overrunning Poland and causing WW2).

        The air is certainly unclean - but you cant have everything? Go to Oz and you have to put up with thick people.

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          #24
          Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
          I already have several work colleagues there and a few friends - plus the gf lived there for 3 years(she was a carer for the woman who broke the story of Germany overrunning Poland and causing WW2).

          The air is certainly unclean - but you cant have everything? Go to Oz and you have to put up with thick people.
          Failed
          In
          London
          Try
          Hong Kong

          But, you knew that, didn't you?

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            #25
            Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View Post
            One tip for those that are considering this: make sure that there is a way that you can still get access to UK health care.


            Never visited a first world country then?
            Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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              #26
              Originally posted by zeitghost
              It's also got the advantage that it's too far away for all the illegals to sail their boats there... though I suppose they could try sailing across the Bering Straits to Alaska...
              Uhhh..illegals arrive almost daily by boat. They also sneak across the border where there are native reserves. But everyone, more or less, gets along. Plus, the place isn't full of CCTV and parking tickets are reasonable. Can't say the same for property taxes though...my parents were paying $12,000 pa.
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                #27
                Originally posted by snaw View Post
                http://www.cic.gc.ca/EnGLIsh/immigra...sess/index.asp

                Link to the calculator.

                BTW Just so people are informed, people there pay an awful lot of tax, there's loads of immigrants and they're more greeny/left than here.

                Australia is kind of similar ...
                Tell me about it. The top band is I recall 55% and it starts at only $60K. But the gov't is in the black and I think taxes have been slowly falling. It is overall more left of centre than right..even if the current govt. is a conservative on - with some out and out relegious whackos.

                And Oh..BTW the only natives in Canada are the aborigines (including the inuit)...everyone else is an immigrant - or descendant from one. But then I suppose you meant "new immigrant".
                McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
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                  #28
                  Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post


                  Never visited a first world country then?
                  Yeah. But it's far cheaper to get treatment for something in the UK than in the US.
                  How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

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                    #29
                    The US is probably one of the worse examples of supposed 1st world health care.

                    In Switzerland I pay less for my family's health insurance + equivalent eenic and ernic, than I did just for my eenic contributions in the UK. When I needed an MRI scan, I had it the next day. Not 12 months later.
                    Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                      #30
                      But I'm not in Switzerland; when I'm not in the UK, I am the other side of the Atlantic.
                      How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

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