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- The outdoor life......camping, hiking, long drives into the country
- Hi-speed internet at an affordable price
- Everything I need is available over the internet - from setting a driving test date to buying furniture, shopping for auto insurance quotes, getting a mortgage pre-approval.
- Pollution free environment
- Great professional environment to work in that has been challenging for me and helped me to develop in my profession.
- Reliable hotels in small town America, as I travel frequently......

Could go on and on, many more, these were just the few that came to mind right now.

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Indians are still untouched with this. They have to still know what internet or hiking is.!!! LOL

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BKB,

What about Led Zepplin, Don Henley, Def Leppard.......my favs'.


Deep

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The opportunity to see Metallica, Guns and Roses, Sting, Annie Lennox, Madonna, Eric Clapton, Prince, Santana, Ringo Starr, Grace Slick, Bob Weir,The Who, Shania Twain, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Justin Timberlake,The Guess Who, Neil Young, Judas Preist, Motorhead, The Boss, Scorpions, Leslie West, John Kay, Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night, Cheap Trick, Gloria Gaynor, Dolly Parton,Avril Lavigne, Ray Manzarak, Mark Knopler, Bryan Adams, Ian Anderson....tired guys and gals? All live in concert! Mind blowing! What a rush!
Yeah man, keep on truckin'
ROCK ON!
BKB
Hey guys there should be a smiley tokin' or trippin' or mainlinin'

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Chandresh,

20+ good points mentioned below defeats the purpose when " Chances of Good Job" for an immigrant is meagre.......everything else seems fine...


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Disclaimer: These are purely personal experiences and comments based on personal liking. Readers might have different experiences or different priorities/value systems, and so their views on the points mentioned below may be different, and therefore are NOT debatable.

Also, these comparisons are based on Canada vis a vis India (those parts that I have lived in). They might not hold good for any other country/ies.

The reason to migrate to any country is mostly on personal choice and sometimes forced upon due to various reasons. The people who are thinking of migrating, or have recently landed in Canada can look forward to various advantages/benefits, some of which are mentioned hereunder:

1. The factor of multiplication is a big benefit - 35 to 1. Due to this factor, a person doing similar job for same no of hours back home can get make roughly 4-5 times the money in Indian Rupee terms.
2. For many, if not all, a social status back home that - vo to phoren main rahta hai.
3. On landing in Canada, you stand in a carpeted or very clean lobby, with working toilets if someone needs to ......, and an officer who greets you with welcome to canada phrase.
4. After clearing the airport, you find working trolleys, which can take big bags, and not something that looks to be designed for keeping an overnighter.
5. When you come out, whether the first time, or nth time, taxi drivers, hotel reps etc. etc. don't crowd on you to make you feel you wanna go back inside!
6. A very clean air immediately hits you and suddenly you start feeling it was the first time you were breathing.

Life In Canada

1. First and foremost, you have constant supply of electricity and water, and blackouts are rare. You do not have to wake up early in the morning to fill up your buckets, tubs, tankees or take a shower. Similarly, you do not have to sweat in heat or live under candlelight in summers, or be disturbed by the noise and smoke of mini generators.

2. No visible pollution! You breathe better and your shirt collar does not become black by lunchtime. Infact, you can wear one set of clothes for 2-3 days without feeling bad.

3. The roads you travel on are good, infact great and you do not have to be on constant alert that someone might just decide to jump in front of you. In India, you might be driving a Honda or Lancer or Merc, but you have to drive on road full of pits, speed breakers and various sorts of vehicles. Here a motorcycle has right to the same space as a car, and it is illegal to overtake a mobike in the same lane.

4. The buses you commute on are cleaner, air-conditioned and the driver many a times greets you. For disabled persons, the bus lowers down, puts out a ramp on which you can place the wheelchair and lifts it back to sitting level. So a wheelchair bound person can easily commute on most of the routes without any help.

5. The roads have sidewalks, so people wanting to walk can do so without worrying for traffic. Similarly, a pedestrian's right of way is given due regard. You do not have to dash to the other side of the road to avoid a car hitting you on pedestrians crossing.

6. Govt offices - the ultimate sunvayi might be better or worse than India - but you get to wait in a nice and clean office mostly. And rarely would you find any sarkari mulajim talking to you as if he owned the place and did not have enough sleep at home (exceptions can be there but rare!)

7. The roads and sidewalks are clean mostly without any garbage on the road. If garbage is there, it is mostly packed in big plastic bags and kept there to be picked up by the municipality truck, sooner rather than later.

8. There are fines for traffic violations and applied too. If it is green light, you can safely speed up, without worrying that another vehicle might come from your right or left beating the red light (sometimes that happens, but unlike India, you do not have to be on the lookout for that!)

9. Coming from Gandhi's land, we actually do what he preached, here in Canada. We do our own dishes, we vacuum our floors and we also clean our toilets ourselves. For those who are idealistic about society and human rights, this has great meaning.

10. We do not work or live in buildings that are smothered with paan ki peek and other types of body wastes lying on floor which are so common in India. Nor do we come across graffiti on staircases/elevators in the office or residential buildings (exceptions are there), or on boundary walls (Prof Arora - rishte hi rishte ).

11. Eve-teasing in public is absent or rare, I hear there is, though I have not seen it. Buses are safe from that point of view.

12. Weather - that is the greatest thing. Summers are absolutely great with everything so lush green, the fields look like thick green carpet and flowers look extremely beautiful. Fall / Autumn is amazingly colourful, it seems some painter has actually painted the trees with wonderful imagination. Winters are harsh, but the snowfall is wonderful to watch and great for children to play. In Delhi, a +1 temperature might be killing with no proper heating but here one can easily survive in minus30 degrees with proper clothing, and enjoy the snow too. Spring really brings the springs live in you. The temperatures are great and you feel so energetic.

13. For an Indian, all kinds of Indian food is available and at most of the places, in a cleaner surrounding and with better ingredients than in India, because of strict laws. Vegetarians need not fear - unlike many other places on the globe where finding vegetarian food is like looking for a needle in bundle of hay, all kinds of veggie food is available and in abundance.

14. I have never seen my phone line go dead even when they were laying new pipelines/cables in the surrounding areas!

The above points about life in Canada makes me live in Canada with all its difficulties because though individually they might be small things, collectively they become the quality of life, and I value them more than other luxuries of life. I do not compare politics and politicians, because they are beyond me and do not directly affect my daily living. Nor does corruption or lack or more of it.

These are just some of the reasons why I feel one should want to migrate to Canada from India, or South Asia - but as I said earlier, they are my views and values.

And yes!!!

15. An advantage for being coloured and not good looking - when commuting by bus or train, I get a full seat unless it is difficult for the whites to find a better person to share it with!

Chandresh

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Chandresh,

20+ good points mentioned below defeats the purpose when \" Chances of Good Job\" for an immigrant is meagre.......everything else seems fine...


Deep

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Advice is free – lessons I charge for!!

BKB,

What about Led Zepplin, Don Henley, Def Leppard.......my favs'

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Man, I would give my tooth and nail to see Led Zep, but alas, 'tis not to be so. Ever since John Bonham died, Led Zep doesn't tour as a band. We only get to see Robert Plant and Jimi Page which in itself is Esp Page playing the guitar with a violin bow! Maha ekdum!
Yeah man, I'd give anything to see Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon,Bob Marley, Keith Moon, John Bonham, Sid Vicious, Jerry Garcia, Jim Morrison and a host of others who are with us no more in body.

But like the host on Q107 says, If there is rock and roll in Heaven, they must've one Helluva band!
ROCK ON!
BKB

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The white chicks are soooo cute man . Thats wonderful about Canada. Wish i was here 20 years ago Jawani mey.

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"Ever dance with the devil in the pale moon light?"
"I always ask that of all my prey."
"I just like the sound of it."

To North Alberta,

Hey you're as young as your heart- go for it!

BKB

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