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Don't hold your breath
The grass isn't any greener in North America, believe me. (well with one exception, British Columbia is a stunningly beautiful rainforest of a provice and the grass is VERY green here 
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This is far from the land of opportunity it used to be though. Class separation has been takign place over the last 10-15 years and it's really visible now. Just as with the UK except the less fortunate are just left on the streets to fester.
I hear of more and more people heading home to the UK and Europe these days.
i have worked back and forth a great deal, not so much in the last two or three years but I am still in daily contact with people in the UK, some of which moved from Canada and the US, NONE of them would move back here.
As for being PC, it was a trend in the late 80's and early 90's in Canada, the new uzz word. But I find that it has only just sorta taken on in teh US over the last few years, so the annoying people we had to deal with in Canada are now mirrored in the US, and it just gets bloody tiring.
In this case, I was shocked as hell to read two replies from brits with no sense for sarcasm or dry humour, it simply blew me away. I grew up on Monty Python's, Fawlty Towers, The Two Ronnies etc (okay...and Magic Roundabout, BIll & Ben, The Wombles and of course the Klangers) so I never knew anythign but dry sarcasm when I came here. Boy did that every go over well in school! Got me in a lot of trouble and got me out of a lot too.
) This is far from the land of opportunity it used to be though. Class separation has been takign place over the last 10-15 years and it's really visible now. Just as with the UK except the less fortunate are just left on the streets to fester.
I hear of more and more people heading home to the UK and Europe these days.
i have worked back and forth a great deal, not so much in the last two or three years but I am still in daily contact with people in the UK, some of which moved from Canada and the US, NONE of them would move back here.
As for being PC, it was a trend in the late 80's and early 90's in Canada, the new uzz word. But I find that it has only just sorta taken on in teh US over the last few years, so the annoying people we had to deal with in Canada are now mirrored in the US, and it just gets bloody tiring.
In this case, I was shocked as hell to read two replies from brits with no sense for sarcasm or dry humour, it simply blew me away. I grew up on Monty Python's, Fawlty Towers, The Two Ronnies etc (okay...and Magic Roundabout, BIll & Ben, The Wombles and of course the Klangers) so I never knew anythign but dry sarcasm when I came here. Boy did that every go over well in school! Got me in a lot of trouble and got me out of a lot too.
Posted by Oz_Media
Updated - 13th Nov 2009
