Bye Bye Blighty.

[AJW]

Tommorrow I join the ranks of the expat & overseas forumites. I'm emmigrating to Newfoundland, Canada. Not for any great hatred (although fairly active dislike) of Bliarite Britain but because I met a girl from Newfoundland and it all went downhill from there. So bye bye Essex, the M25, Traffic jams, "Chav" culture, decent beer and riverside pubs and hello space, fresh air, affordable housing, untouched boating area's, snow and Labatts Blue!

I've not made any of the forum meets but do know a few peeps who also post on rib.net and boatsad.com so bye to them and to the rest of you, forgive the laughter when 2cm of snow brings the south east of England to a halt!

Alan

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[powerskipper]

Good luck and enjoy your new life.

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Julie

 

[tcm]

ooh, this sounds exciting. I spect you will be able to chase whales on your RIB. You wil have to just ignore the anti-canada gags in the simpsons. I hope it is a bit more interesting than the windswept image as in that film ("shipping news"?) but anyway, have a nice time. You'll probaly have loads of spare time without theM25 so yer could praps pop in and tell us how many trees yerv chopped down etc.

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[itsonlymoney]

All the best my forumite friend.......

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[PhilF]

there is a story in my family that a great great uncle did some favour to someone and was given Newfoundland as a gift. Must follow it up one day - have fun
Philf

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[LittleShip]

Your going to miss those Southern soft smoggy evenings /forums/images/icons/wink.gif Good luck with the shorter sailing seasons!

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[britemp]

Good luck and enjoy - 1.75 times the size of GB with 500,000 inhabitants!

Add to that just about the worst weather in the world detailed below, you must really love her a lot! /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

'St. John's (Newfoundland) is the foggiest (124 days, next to Halifax's 122), snowiest (359 cm, next to Quebec City's 343), wettest (1514 mm, next to Halifax's 1491), windiest (24.3 km/h average speed, next to Regina's 20.7), and cloudiest (1497 hours of sunshine, next to Charlottetown's 1818 hours'

No wonder the boating areas are untouched! /forums/images/icons/wink.gif


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[PaulF]

Well done you having the courage to go. Hope you and your lady have a great life together. A friend of mine in Edmonton Alberta, the other side of Canada, told me they had first snow over a month ago!
Apart from loads of space, not much positive has been said on here about Newfoundland, but for definate the huge dogs by the same name, have big hearts and are amongst the best of mans canine friends.


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[Dave_Snelson]

Good luck matey

Good luck Alan. I'm not quite as fair-minded as you when it comes to Blair's Britain and I fly out to the south of France tomorrow house-hunting...

Holiday home initially..

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[BrendanS]

You lucky bugger. What a wonderful place to live!!!!!

I believe they have some sort of rudimentary internet access there, so if you send smoke signals to the nearest civililisation, someone there can post here on your behalf! Stay in touch, let us know how you get on

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[Dave_Snelson]

Yes indeed, I forgot to say...

(very rude of me!)...stay in touch, and all the best. I've only ever heard good about Canada.

Fantastic!!

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[ArthurWood]

Good luck AJW (my initials, too!). You will probably find that for all its shortcomings, Blighty is a great place to visit after you've been away in foreign places for some time.

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[britemp]

Re: Good luck matey

Hmmm. . . . swapping Bliar for Chirac and a country that very nearly elected Mr Le Pen and his far right racism as President?!?!?! The question of the presidential election was put to the french as the crook or the nazi! /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

They say the grass is always greener! /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[DepSol]

Say hi to Ed when you meet him for me please.

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[AJW]

Moose powered internet access

Its taken a while but I've managed to coble up parts from valve radios, commodore pets and mechanical adding machines to get internet access....

(Or actually I've started work so now am online again)

Been here two weeks today. Didnt see the sun for a week but its gorgeous today. Weather doesn't overall seem much worse than blighty yet. Natives are very friendly and for some reason dead impressed with my RP accent. I've eaten moose (sorry moose) which is good and salt cod which isn't.

The local drink is rum (comes from the days when cod was traded to the caribbean and rum brought back) which I am finding suprisingly easy to get used too!

Petrol is of course free compared to UK so in the process of buying monster 4x4 to consume my share of it before the US use it all.

Alan

PS. Dom, by co-incidence Eg was on the same flight out so had a bried chat but he was in the comfortable seats and I was in cattle class!

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