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Where to live - Australia or Canada?
« on: April 24, 2011, 06:45:31 PM »
A question that frequently comes up on the BE forum is which of these two countries, Canada and Australia, is a more appealing place.This is a difficult question to answer.  There really is no "one size fits all" response.This article will provide some points for consideration.Canada and Australia  are the two largest countries currently using a points system to select potential skilled immigrants. Both countries have an enviable reputation around the world as places whose residents can find a high quality of life and a high standard of living.

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Re: Where to live - Australia or Canada?
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2011, 06:48:26 PM »
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Australia.

Better pay...
Isolated from the rest of the world
budget surplus' ;-P
Tax cuts.
strong economy
low unemployemnt 4.5% avg. QLD = 4% WA=3.6?
lots of area. only 20.8 million to it.
lots of beaches
can have hot climates ie, cairns, townsville, darwin or cooler in victoria (in summer it gets hot still)
Strong stock market
Large investments in infrastructure taking place. not only government but private too such as mining companies have $140 billion worth of infrastructure project happening at the moment in Australia.

Yeah it's got drought but drought period come and go. and during survivalist times you'll find water no problem.

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Re: Where to live - Australia or Canada?
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2011, 06:50:29 PM »
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in canada.
here is my view on canuk land.
pros
1 lots of water
2 lots of game deer, moose, bears
3 lots of fishing i personally caught a 30 pound catfish and a 20 pound carp on my first fishing trip in canada when i was 12
4 lots of trees which can be used for everything frombuilding houses to a good source of live protein ie bugs
5 friendly peoples who love a good beer molson lager
these is some of the reasons i suggest canda as a good resort to sit x

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Re: Where to live - Australia or Canada?
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2011, 06:53:04 PM »
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The provinces can be found here: http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/canada.html. Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta have the most jobs for English Speakers. If you speak French as well, you can look at Quebec. The other provinces have jobs, but unemployement is higher and less corporations are based there. Alberta is a big energy sector (oil and gas). Ontario is more manufacturing and banking. British Columbia has a lot of natural resource based industries. Quebec has banking and manufacturing as well as natural resources. Mining is big across Canada. All other industries are represented, but in small numbers than you would find in the U.S.

You can do a search of cost of living, but I think it's probably similar to Australia. Big cities in Canada are more expensive than smaller cities, with Vancouver and Toronto having the highest cost of living, but I understand that Calgary is catching up in that regard (but there is a lot of money their now with the price of oil recently).

Canada is very well developed with infrastructure, though public transit and rail transit isn't great. It's fly or drive, mostly. If you live right in the heart of a city, public transit is a decent option. But if you want to live in a house with a yard, you'll most likely need a car (or plan to live very close to a train station, which isn't always possible).

People in Canada are nice and accepting of immigrants. As I stated above, there are a large Russians immigrant population in Canada. Depending on your desire, you can either spend time within the Russian community, or make friends in the larger community. It's no problem either way.

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Re: Where to live - Australia or Canada?
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2011, 06:37:07 AM »
Australia - in particular, Gold Coast.  It's absolutely beautiful over there.  Plus, it's not far from the city life of Brisbane.  I must say, however, I do like Vancouver & Victoria in Canada also.

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Re: Where to live - Australia or Canada?
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2011, 07:00:52 PM »
In my own opinion, if you want a place where a summer vacation has the warm to be on the beach the whole season, I would choose Australia. Especially if you want a country that also have best beach spots for beach vacations.

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Re: Where to live - Australia or Canada?
« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2011, 08:34:18 AM »
According to me it would be better to live in Australia, esecially in Adelaide City.

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Re: Where to live - Australia or Canada?
« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2011, 11:14:39 PM »
Both the countries are really good from the point of economy and vacations. Its hard to compare both.
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Re: Where to live - Australia or Canada?
« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2011, 04:29:50 PM »
I think is the best option as it offers great lifestyle and there are many tourists destinations to explore in the free time........Australia is also growing in terms of economy as well as the emerging new cities offer various job options to work and reside in the continent.... .::KooL:.

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Re: Where to live - Australia or Canada?
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2012, 08:02:41 PM »
yeah, Adelaide is best.
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