Canada calling?
i like to think i'm nomadic, hearing the distant shores calling, following the wide open road, and watching the the horizon fading and all that. The conundrum is that more and more often lately i have been thinking about settling down. I know you are thinking its just age and it happens to everyone: sooner or later you just have to accept that you won't be young forever and blah. Sometimes i think its because i am now married and am simply responding to social programming, being a "mindful" citizen and wishing to contribute to society and community and whatever.
I'm thinking more along the lines of "i'm just tired of moving all the time!" which is the simplistic, and thus preferred, analysis.
So i thought about where to settle down and making plans in that direction. It would have to be an english speaking place, with reasonable property prices and, if at all possible, with reasonable weather.
I currently live in the UK, in Scotland. Winter here is nasty, and this is only my first. The English winter wasn't much better. I think I could handle the temperature but not the rain!
Somewhere warm? Australia has too many poisonous snakes, spiders, insects, worms, etc and way too much skin cancer potential. Southern USA? hurricanes and hillbillies.
So that reduces my options somewhat. Its a toss up between new zealand and canada. I took a preliminary look at the Canadian immigration system. For skilled workers, the system works on points which you get from the following categories:
education - up to 25 points
language skill - up to 24 points
work experience - up to 21 points
age - 0 or 10 points
arranged employment - 0 or 10 points
adaptability - up to 5 points
For a minimum of 67 points, you can go there. Not too hard for a skilled, english or french speaking, experienced worker. Oh, you have to have roughly $13000 canadian for a two person family as well.
turns out that i could immigrate there (except for the damn money, as usual!), but i also heard they had one of the highest suicide rates and a very conservative society.
oh dearie me. i guess it'll be london again :(
I'm thinking more along the lines of "i'm just tired of moving all the time!" which is the simplistic, and thus preferred, analysis.
So i thought about where to settle down and making plans in that direction. It would have to be an english speaking place, with reasonable property prices and, if at all possible, with reasonable weather.
I currently live in the UK, in Scotland. Winter here is nasty, and this is only my first. The English winter wasn't much better. I think I could handle the temperature but not the rain!
Somewhere warm? Australia has too many poisonous snakes, spiders, insects, worms, etc and way too much skin cancer potential. Southern USA? hurricanes and hillbillies.
So that reduces my options somewhat. Its a toss up between new zealand and canada. I took a preliminary look at the Canadian immigration system. For skilled workers, the system works on points which you get from the following categories:
For a minimum of 67 points, you can go there. Not too hard for a skilled, english or french speaking, experienced worker. Oh, you have to have roughly $13000 canadian for a two person family as well.
turns out that i could immigrate there (except for the damn money, as usual!), but i also heard they had one of the highest suicide rates and a very conservative society.
oh dearie me. i guess it'll be london again :(
posted by O_O at 4:51 AM
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