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Moving to Canada or Australia?

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#1 ·
I'll try and make this as short as possible. I'm 20 years of age, and I'm 5 months away from finishing a BTEC Level 3 full time diploma in travel and tourism at college. I live in Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom), and here I am asking a specific question. I guess I may add why I'm asking this here. I'm a friendless hermit. Nothing is really keeping me where I live, and I'd like to move away. Life isn't going to get better for me here, and I'd like to move. My brother's friend said that when he was my age, and doing an ICT level 3 course in BTEC, he moved away to Australia for 2 years, then Canada for a year, before returning to Northern Ireland. He claimed it really helped him 'find himself', and has recommended me to do something similar, and 'go and live life whilst you still can'.

He explained to me that the wages in Australia/Canada were quite good, and he received specific payments, but told me as things might have changed since then, to surf the internet for specific questions. So how would this all work?

I'm guessing I'd need to seek a job? How much money would I need? Visas? How do I get there? etc. Sorry. I'm just lost. Thanks.

Also, would I perhaps receive specific payments for leaving? Thanks.
 
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#5 ·
I lived in Australia for two years, albeit in the early 1970s. Despite the "MAN EATING KOALAS" I loved that country.

I've been to Canada a few times and can't say anything bad about it, especially if you like fishing. They've got some monster Northerns in those waters!

It's a toss up, although Australia seemed bigger for some reason. It was like a never ending sky and land stretching forever in the Outback.

Either way, I don't think you can go wrong.

- Mike
 
#6 ·
Being from Ireland you would obviously cope with colder weather in Canada. Australia obviously has a warmer climate, especially in some parts.
Also, Australians tend to have quite a similar sense of humour to people from the UK and generally get along with them well.
 
#20 ·
:what?
How?

I'd rather turn on a heater and throw on some layers of clothing than need an airconditioner on literally all day to keep the house under or around a comfortable 25 degrees.
Being cold > being hot.

As for the OP, if you're doing something in education maybe you should go where there is better education, not where there is better sightseeing.

Australia is a boring mess of a country. There's things to do where? Queensland. What do you do there? Go on fucking theme park rides. What else? See an architectural abomination in the Sydney Opera House? See a BIG FUCKING BRIDGE? Or are you here for all those "dangerous spiders" and "dangerous snakes" you're incredibly unlikely to find inside any of the cities?
Or is it to sightsee the BIG FUCKOFF ROCK IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE? Or all that amazing, dry ass bushland? Or the dying barrier reef?

My point is, our tourist attractions are awful. I don't know any Canadian tourist attractions but even if I disliked Canada as much as I do Australia, I'd still want to go there because I'd be close as hell to the US of A.
 
#8 ·
I'm from the coldest part of Canada and I get through it pretty easy to be honest. Dress warm, buy a snowmobile and have some fun. It rained 3 times last summer up north and we had some insane forest fires that lasted a few months due to lack of rain. Summers get very warm, though, there's only like 3-4 months of it. Climate can be pretty rough at times, but I really do enjoy it here.
 
#9 ·
Canada is primarily a French-speaking country, if you're going to get a job there you need to be able to speak French at an advanced level, the occasional bonjour and merci won't cut it. On top of that, many Canadians are still mad about being forced into the British empire and there are horror stories of Britons being assaulted after unwisely revealing their nationality to Canadians. I'd go with Australia.
 
#10 · (Edited)
I was born in Ontario, Canada and currently reside in Iowa.

I don't know if it's Iowa's low cost of living but I have to say that wages are actually higher here than they were back home when I compare the two.Minimum wage is lower in Iowa but most comparable jobs seem to favor living in the US without even taking the exchange rate into account. The exception to the rule is Alberta but with plummeting fuel prices I'd be a tad nervous when looking to that area as a salvation.

Also, if you're not living in Ontario you'll rarely find anyone that speaks much French at all. It's less prevalent there than Spanish is in the United States.

Don't get me wrong, I love Canada and will likely move back some day just based upon a little of the general populations attitude and a cleaner, safer overall feel in major cities. But moving there for financial reasons alone would be silly.

Anyway, I was more or less of less using Ontario as an example. What part of Canada are you looking at?
 
#12 ·
Why not New Zealand? The forgotten child. Nobody ever talks about New Zealand :jose

Great scenery and stuff :lol
 
#28 ·
I've lived in Australia for all my 23 years. Right now I can't wait to leave.

Employment is horrible, the government is even worse, everything is way too expensive, public transport is a mess and when it comes to tourism, it's quite average.

They said Melbourne was the world's most liveable city but whoever voted that obviously never visited here, and majority of people here will say the same thing.
 
#35 ·
Sorry I'm a big wean so I go to the beach when I want to, fuck the weather, if it's raining, if it's snowing, idgaf I've got sandcastles to build.

But yeah Australia is a fun place to live and i've never been to Canadia, but i would like to.
 
#40 ·
we got a couple of redbacks in our pool filter a couple of weeks back. seen them in the shed a few times.

brown snakes are down here, never seen one in my life but they have been known to be in suburban yards. very rarely though, and usually only in the peak of summer
 
#42 ·
I've always wanted to go to Canada and the other night I was watching some NHL trash talk videos and it just reaffirmed my wish. Hearing swear words and trash talk in the Canadian accent is one of the greatest things ever

I could wake up every morning and scream "YOU WANNA GO EH??" out my window at a moose

Real jelly of you Canadians right now :mj2
 
#43 ·
This thread is about choosing Canada or Australia and half of it is taken up with discussion of life in MURICA.

MURICA, we still smother you like one of our many obese single mothers!
 
#44 ·
Canada, you have many more places to visit easily and without trouble. In Australia you'd be on the other side of the world and only close to Papua new Guinea and New Zealand. The only time you'd be able to go on long drives is only when you're traveling from one city to another within Australia. If you come to Canada, you'd be able to travel not only all of Canada but all of the United States as well.

Plus as nice as Australia is why would you want to isolate yourself?
 
#45 ·
Thanks for all suggestions thus far.

Just to clear up some confusion though - I don't know when I'd go. It could be this year, it could be next, it could be the next. It all depends on education really, and what can get me the best job possible in Canada or Australia in the future. How I could get there (in terms of whether I need to do a 'working holiday' or whatever) is also a factor.

In conclusion, tourist attractions and such don't mean an awful lot to me, personally. I'd just like to go somewhere where I could possibly get employment lined up, and somewhere which isn't Donald Trump expensive (obviously, things like this will be expensive...but not OVERLY OVERLY expensive). I don't mean to sound like a douche here, but I've already discussed the idea with my mother, and as my father is considerably quite financially well off (being overly 'tight' has paid off, it seems ha - though he does have a very good job), they'd cover any costs, or most anyway.

Again, it all depends on how well I do in education, my pathetic personal life aside. Terms and conditions too (such as do I need to learn another language, do I have to work in a certain job for a few months, will I be required to drive, do I need this qualification, do I need this, that etc.)
 
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