Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your
contribution is not tax-deductible.)
PayPal Acct: 
Feedback: 
Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):
| [ Login ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, [10] ] |
| Subject: Vancouver | |
Author: Dave (UK) | [ Next Thread |
Previous Thread |
Next Message |
Previous Message
] Date Posted: 14:00:36 10/29/04 Fri In reply to: Jim (Canada) 's message, "Hong Kong emigration" on 17:51:36 10/28/04 Thu Yes I noticed that when I was in Vancouver in August. There is quite a substantial Chinatown, and most of those I met had come from Hong Kong. It is interesting isn’t it that to this day, the peoples of the Commonwealth, and in this case, former Commonwealth, still share a sense of shared identity. They chose Canada instead of Europe for example. A good statistic as far as we are concerned, was an article in the Sunday Times magazine last week. The study concerned the emigration habits of Britons today. The study shows that while older people tend to retire to Europe, younger people and families still favour the Crown Commonwealth countries of Australia, Canada and New Zealand as their destination of choice to make a new life. The worrying aspect of the study was the statistic that nearly half of all Britons wanted to quit Britain, and nearly one-in-three were actively considering it. The main reasons given were cost-of-living, tax, crime, healthcare and weather. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Ha! | |
|
Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 19:00:45 10/29/04 Fri I was talking to some Euro-lefty in a little cafe the other day, wearing little glasses and sipping a thimbleful of espresso and saying "ciao" to everyone, and he told me that the fact that thousands of British people are moving to Europe is "evidence of a growing sense of solidarity and European-ness", and wasn't it nice that we were all one big happy family now. He didn't take kindly when I explained the economics of it (we have lots of money, you don't, your houses are cheap, ours aren't, so we're going to buy up all your villas and price you out of your own housing market, because we can) and postulated that it was just another example of good-old British colonialism in another form, and that, far from integrating with the local populations, the Brits Abroad merely form expat communities and open lots of fish and chip bars! [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Ha Ha | |
|
Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:37:32 10/30/04 Sat It wasn't that annoying journalist from Le Monde was it? He often appears on Dateline London on BBC News 24/World. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Nah | |
|
Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:48:14 10/30/04 Sat Don't think so... you never catch French reporters outside Paris, where they can use their subsidies to stuff themselves with ortolans and fois gras, plagiarise their stories off the BBC website, put a socialist gloss on them and insert the occasional reference to "cowboy Bush", shove them into their editor's in-tray in his absence (he's out to lunch stuffing himself with ortolans and fois gras), and then get back to the Restaurant Lipp on Boulevard St. Germain and stuff themselves with ortolans and fois gras... An American girl whom I know took up a post on the Herald Tribune's Paris offices, and a year later is reported to have put on about three stones and got Delerium Tremens... [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |