Reply to: time to emigrate? part 94

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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?

[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.

[HairyArsedBloke]

But I'm not in Switzerland; when I'm not in the UK, I am the other side of the Atlantic.

[NotAllThere]

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.

[HairyArsedBloke]

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.

[lilelvis2000]

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".

[lilelvis2000]

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.

[NotAllThere]

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?

[Churchill]

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?

[BrilloPad]

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.

[Churchill]

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!

[snaw]

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 ...