time to emigrate? part 94

[gadgetman]

All other considerations aside, from a practical point of view we found health/dental in the US to be a nightmare.

We are heading for Oz in January, hope its not as bad there.

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

[dang65]

The latest "green credits" brainwave and increasing tax on older vehicles will just make them worthless pieces of scrap.

So it will be possible to pay an extra 50 quid a year in VED, but buy the vehicle itself for a couple of hundred? Doesn't sound like too bad a deal really. How is someone financially better off if they only pay 35 quid for VED, but have to pay 15k+ to buy a qualifying vehicle in the first place?

[rootsnall]

We are heading for Oz in January, hope its not as bad there.

A bit of a mess I'm afraid. The tax system forces you take out medical insurance which in its basic form is next to useless and you have to shell out again if you ever need treatment. The state dental system has gone and in its place is very expensive private treatment where the dentists charge what they want.

[TimberWolf]

A bit of a mess I'm afraid. The tax system forces you take out medical insurance which in its basic form is next to useless and you have to shell out again if you ever need treatment. The state dental system has gone and in its place is very expensive private treatment where the dentists charge what they want.

Are you talking about Oz or here?

[mrdonuts]

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".[/QUOTE]

The way i heard it they werent the "original settlers", theres lots of evidence to show that those currently described as the original settlers "got rid of" the previous encumbents, the last of which were believed to be two little women at the bottom of south america.