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8 hours ago, Torpar said:
We actually looked at the Oshawa/Pickering area as a place to move but like anywhere that's within 90 minutes of Toronto, the price of homes are ridiculous. Barrie is now the move expensive city to rent in Ontario, I like the South Barrie/Innisfil area a lot, especially near Lake Simcoe but it's out of our price range, even Brantford is getting expensive, so moving out of province looks more attractive at the moment.
I don’t doubt if I had kept the house there would have been good value in it. At least being at the top end of Oshawa it was a little more pleasant, but all in all not for me. Got relations in Collingwood which looked fine, but probably very expensive now.
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Just now, Torpar said:
Say no more..
Actually, I probably could have just written that one word and it would have been clear. Stayed with my Uncle in Whitby at first and bought a house in Oshawa as there were some new builds that looked good (Taunton to be precise).
I think if I had moved straight from Scotland to Canada it would have been a lot different.
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11 minutes ago, Torpar said:
Where did you move to and why did you hate it?
Doesn't happen too often, the racist gammons here tend to view white Anglophone immigrants as OK. I feel like if you are anti immigrant then Toronto isn't the city for you, over 50% of the population was born outside of Canada, so my wife is in the minority. We are looking at moving to small town New Brunswick or Saskatchewan, be interesting to see what the attitudes there are, my very basic French might be looked down in New Brunswick.
My mother in law used to have jokingly suggest I'm only marrying her daughter for a visa, not true, you don't even need to be married to get one! I would say it never bothered me but I think it's part of the reason I waited until I had my Permanent Residency before proposing. She also used to talk down about immigrants, seemingly forgetting both her parents were immigrants. My wife no longer has any interest in talking to her anymore anyway.
Yes, I don’t think it is a usual thought on Canada.
Several reasons I guess. I actually used to live in Canada as a kid and have a number of family members there. The ‘hype’ of Canada in the 70’s probably raised expectations too high.
As a kid we stayed in Whitby and when I moved myself it was to Oshawa, so not the best location.
The constant repetition of the same brand food outlets and shops also frustrated me. (The hype about Tim Hortons I’ll never understand) and I found everything generally bland.
The tipping point was the out right racism that existed that kind of scunnered me.
Having stayed previously in Hungary and travelled throughout Central Europe and the Balkans which I loved made it more attractive for me.
Considering all the places I have lived and worked, I maybe like imperfection and more ‘flexible laws’ than what exists in Canada.
Places like Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam and their culture, food and outlook on life is just more appealing for me.
A little ironic I say some of that from the comfort of Singapore. If it weren’t for my kids, I would not stay in Singapore and even had a thought about returning to Canada as an option for the family, bit not sure if they would have me a third time.
Its each to their own of course and I would definitely be in the minority.
Maybe just not enough risk and adventure for myself.
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1 minute ago, hk blues said:
They don't so much hate foreigners as class us all as Americans. I'd rather they hated us t.b.h.
Hey Joe or Kuya, you’ll give me a nose bleed.
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26 minutes ago, hk blues said:
Due for completion this year.
Not started yet!
And the San Mig International airport will now be in Bulacan?
It so hard to keep up.
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2 minutes ago, hk blues said:
Here, pretty much every sizeable business is owned by the Chinese in some way or other. Duterte has made it clear he'd prefer to get into bed with them than the Americans - what a choice to have!
The Chinese have a huge influence in the region, historically and more recently. Even in Singapore and to extent Indonesia its the same.
Has the pointless train to Clark been started?
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Moved from Scotland early 2000’s, initially on a secondment for one year to sort an issue my employer at the time had in Hungary. Then moved over to Canada, hated that, moved back to Hungary for another 5 years, spent a bit of time in Russia and China (Guangdong). Then moved over to Vietnam working for myself. Went from several roles that took me to Philippines-China (Jiangsu and Zhejiang) -Philippines - Indonesia over the years and now been in Singapore coming up in six years.
Many, many regrets, but leaving Scotland isn’t one of them. Only been back twice to Scotland since coming to Asia.
Got married along the way to an Indonesian and both my kids born in Singapore so consider South East Asia best Asia.
Not a particularly fantastic story as @SlipperyP but can relate to the attitudes of the people in the region to be absolutely great and humbling.
Love spending time in the rural areas with friends and family that leaves me no desire to return to Scotland.
There were a few things I missed from home at first, but like everything, through time these fade away.
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12 minutes ago, strichener said:
There are plenty of Muslims that have dogs as pets. The matter is not as black and white as you are making out.
If a grand mufti states that dogs and Islam are not incompatible then that kind of trumps Tight John McVeigh is a tit on P&B.
Many things in Islam, like any faith, is not black or white and what one Mufti states does not alter anything.
Of course the Mufti will know a lot more about Islam than myself.
What is 100% clear is that Blue bear is not a Muslim.
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6 minutes ago, strichener said:
You've made a bit of an arse of this tbh. Muslims can and do keep dogs for reasons out with those that you have listed.
Egypt’s grand mufti, Shawki Allam recently stated that "It is possible to coexist with a dog and still worship God.".
Nope, it is not permissible.
ETA: because a Mufti says recently that he believes it to be acceptable does no counter the belief and as Bluebear states he has kept dogs for quite some time.
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20 minutes ago, Tight John McVeigh is a tit said:
Funny you mentioned dogs.
Your post from the 3rd July below.
Awaiting to be embarrassed.
Yours
A Dug
By far, owners are the problem.
Whilst a dog is man's best friend, man is not always a dog's best friend.
I have kept dogs for many years and even done the dog show bit. Now have a Rotty and two Boxers all aged three and all bitches.
All trained on command to a tee, but can never let them off the lead in public. They would never attack unless attacked and I know the consequences of any that does. They have been attacked on the lead on occasion by other dogs off their lead, but I don't worry and just let them defend themselves and step in when I see enough.
Can't remember an owner ever apologising for their dogs behavior and some even blaming mine for the mauling their attack dogs got. I have every sympathy for the dogs but absolutely none for the owner.
When an aggressive attack dog gets a bloody nose, it learns that there is a pecking order and that it ain't the top of the pile. Might even do the owner some good, but I doubt that.
I’ll save you trying to find an excuse (frantically search google). Dogs are not permissible in Islam. As a Muslim you would be well aware that keeping dogs unless your a hunter or shepherd is just not acceptable.
As said, you have proven yourself not to be a Muslim indirectly as you had no idea.
Got my type indeed.
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3 minutes ago, BlueBear said:
As I said, nonsense.
Now we can play this all day. You levelled it, so now prove it with what I allegedly paraphrased "indirectly" and youll be embarassed accordingly. Got your type. .
Now prove to me your not a dug.
Funny you mentioned dogs.
Your post from the 3rd July below.
Awaiting to be embarrassed.
Yours
A Dug
By far, owners are the problem.
Whilst a dog is man's best friend, man is not always a dog's best friend.
I have kept dogs for many years and even done the dog show bit. Now have a Rotty and two Boxers all aged three and all bitches.
All trained on command to a tee, but can never let them off the lead in public. They would never attack unless attacked and I know the consequences of any that does. They have been attacked on the lead on occasion by other dogs off their lead, but I don't worry and just let them defend themselves and step in when I see enough.
Can't remember an owner ever apologising for their dogs behavior and some even blaming mine for the mauling their attack dogs got. I have every sympathy for the dogs but absolutely none for the owner.
When an aggressive attack dog gets a bloody nose, it learns that there is a pecking order and that it ain't the top of the pile. Might even do the owner some good, but I doubt that.
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Just now, BlueBear said:
As I said, nonsense
As I said, you have no idea how you confirmed it and by what you claimed you are 100% not a Muslim.
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3 minutes ago, BlueBear said:
Also nonsense!
Clearly you have no idea how you confirmed it do you?
Not only are you not a Muslim, you know little about it.
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8 hours ago, Moomintroll said:
But he was pretending to be one the other week in order to try & wind people up, a vile troll who is now on ignore.
Yes, I seen that, but, as you know, it's not true and he has actually confirmed that himself elsewhere without knowing it. In case anyone was buying that nonsense.
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18 hours ago, Moomintroll said:
No, you've got it wrong, he has no interest in the squabbles between Christian Religions. He's a Muslim don't you know .
@BlueBear is not a Muslim. He confirmed that on another thread indirectly.
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I worked with Idi Amins personal driver and bodyguard, who was ex-SAS, but couldn’t talk about that.
We were supplying kits for the military for their field artillery, this included a standard gunsight, which we were advised was the cheapest, shitiest gun sight on the market as it was only being used to ensure the barrel of the field gun wasn’t misaligned during transport.
Even when trying to buy them the suppliers kept trying to upsell saying they were shit.
This loonball asked to see one of the sights, making a show of looking it over and declaring that these were the best sights on the market and the same as the ones he used in the SAS.
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1 hour ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:
They probably stuck an ad break just before they reached the 18 yard line.
I was living in Canada in 1982 and during a Northern Ireland game with them on the attack, cut to an add break and missed the goal. Not only that, on returning to the game after the add, lazily announced Northern Ireland had scored and never even showed a reply.
Bizarre.
Toronto Blizzard had a cool strip though
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56 minutes ago, Elixir said:
I don't doubt there are cultural differences, but how can these places return to full economic activity with enforced social distancing measures and controls on movement?
In the case of Singapore and elsewhere they are. Sharperst decline in employment in over two decades, but borne by overseas workers. There has been a exodus of foreign workers the past 18 months, not necessarily a bad thing some locals may argue.
However, domestic employment is up, manufacturing output is up (significantly), GDP is up in Q1 against last year and expected growth is expected to be 4-6%.
All while wearing masks, social distancing, WFH, etc.
China has been growing for some time now, although June has slowed, but being blamed on raw material shortages.
I have a friend running a company in Dongguan and despite heavy restrictions he is doing more work now than ever before.
Our location has went from 70+ onsite staff to around 10 (warehouse & quality), we have about 10 people stuck in Malaysia and working from home since the start of the lockdown and the rest working from home in Singapore and we maintained our budget last year and growing this year. Our China location had a fantastic year last year and even our Filipino location is doing very well and our Indian locations are having month on month record sales (despite being in Pune with some of the heaviest restrictions).
Not all rosey, our Thai location is shit just now and Indonesia is pretty fucked.
There will be many factors to this of course, but the corloation between social distance measures and business output is not so clear.
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7 minutes ago, SlipperyP said:
News from Thailand.
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Our dear leader is in 7 day isolation, as someone tested positive on his Phuket jolly.
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Record high of deaths and positive cases yesterday 75 & 7058 respectively.
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Phuket on its first week has received 2113 tourists.
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1 tourist returned a positive result on arrival, and was taken to hospital.
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The other 14 passengers were all put in hotel quarantine for 14 days.
Even though they are double dunted and tested negative.
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The town of Mae Sot has called a curfew between 8pm-4am. This curfew is only for foreigners
- 4.5% of the population has had 2 doses.
Some quite astounding numbers from the Land of Smiles.
Where are your tourists mostly coming from China?
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Had an advert pop into my inbox from the Japanese Tourist board that seem to have been taken lessons from Bullseye, along the lines of:
You cannot enter Japan and this is what your missing (cue tourist pictures).
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Our dear leader is in 7 day isolation, as someone tested positive on his Phuket jolly.
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15 hours ago, Elixir said:
Of course there's a valid comparison - what do you think is going to happen unless there is near universal uptake of vaccination in places like Singapore? There will be a much larger pool of people in these places with no crossover prior immunity from natural infection who are susceptible. Transmission is cut by these vaccines, but it is not sterilising. When these places open up, cases will subsequently rise and the virus will find them. Furthermore, as good as the vaccines are, they are not 100% effective against death - meaning there will be more vulnerable people who haven't already succumbed in a population with largely only vaccine induced immunity, compared to those who have sadly already died here.
A reminder that in places like the UK where ~90% of the population now has antibodies to Covid (ONS), sky high 'case numbers' do not mean sky high severe illness and death any more - instead people will largely have little to no symptoms or be sick in front of the TV for a few days.
I think you answered the question in your first sentence regarding Singapore. Easing of restrictions and ultimately lifting restrictions will not happen until a universal uptake of vaccines is in place.
The vaccination process is clearly defined, managed and executed ensuring everyone has the ability to be vaccinated as per outlined procedures.
Applying Asian logic to a western problem or vice versa doesn't really work.
There is little resistance to mask wearing, social distancing and other measures as is apparent in the west.
Just completely culturally different.
Not to say there will be an exit impact, but due to local logic and strict process I doubt it to be significant.
For the rest of SEA, you are more likely to see variants develop as it is rife and under managed now than some exit explosion.
14 hours ago, Elixir said:Yup. The fact the UK is facing an exit wave, despite how much immunity there is in the population, shows that all these places in East Asia and Oceania are inevitably going to take a big hit eventually.
Oceania maybe, but doubt you will see and measurable data from East Asia either. You will never get the truth from China or North Korea. Japan will most likey be one of the last, if not the last country to open up. South Korea and Taiwan maybe, but who knows and there isn’t much else to factor for that region.
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1 hour ago, SoapMactavish said:
Its a basic infection control measure in the place you are probably most likely to pick the virus up short of walking into ITU. There is limited space in the ED’s due to having to still have red/green areas and the fact we are still getting significant numbers of Covid +ve folk into ED. You could still carry it and there may be folk in A&E who are neutropenic or on Chemo as well who are exceptionally high risk so its to protect them as well.
This is likely to always be the case in hospital for the forseeable and to be honest its actually a good thing as it stops maw, paw and the entire family appearing in as some folk seem to do. (not a dig)
Hopefully your wee one is okay.
Wife is in hospital having given birth. Due to the regulations I have had three swabs in 24 hours and will have at least one more. Only one visitor allowed and if you are staying overnight you need to pay for the PCR at $145. Kind of expect the excessive swabbing and costs for PCR are to discourage visitors.
Our other daughter is not allowed near the hospital, hence me having to come and go and have multiple tests.
Not ideal, but really not a big deal.
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2 hours ago, 101 said:
The sun is up at half 4 at the moment no chance 6:59am is still "night"
Obviously a popular P&B trope but the time should be shifted so the sun rise is at 6:30 am and sets at midnight.
Yes, HK Blues covered it.
The shift in sunrise and sunset throughout the year is minutes. Although a huge advantage against a ‘Scottish’ winter, it's a big miss not having long summer nights.
Swings and roundabouts though with everyday virtually guaranteed a blue sky day and a temperature unlikely to go below 24c and usually sits about 34c.
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1 hour ago, hk blues said:
Morning - 5am - 11:59am
Noon - 12:00
Afternoon - 12:01am - 5:59pm
Evening/Night - 6:00pm - 11:59pm
Midnight - 12:00
Early Morning - 00.01am to 4:59am
For me, evening and night are the same more or less, evening is just a more formal word. 5pm'ish is a difficult one, maybe it depends on how dark it is?
Being virtually on the equator can be simplified to:
7.01am to 7pm - Day
7.01pm to 7am night
The more troublesome thing is months/season. A little rain/a little more rain.
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1 hour ago, PedroMoutinho said:
Deepti has totally lost it now- talking about kids being permanently disabled
To be fair, she is right.
Children are a Chronic disability, maybe not permanently but circa 18 years of a parents life.
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Immigrants of P&B
in The General Nonsense Forum
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When introduced to the local butcher in Canada I was welcomed with enthusiasm and good to see ‘one of US coming in and not another raghead’.
When saying I was having dinner with a Barbadian family, I was quizzed if they were ‘white Barbadians’.
When sitting with a bunch of Poles, Hungarians and Lithuanians watching the football, I was asked why I was socialising with them.
Constant complaints that everyone employed at Pearson was a raghead or black and how terrible that was.
The casual racism was off the charts, a real frustration and on a daily basis.
As said earlier, I really hated living in Canada.
Having lived in Canada in the 70’s, all be it as a kid, the difference around 30 years made was astounding.
At least around where I lived, the entitlement, elitism and superiority was unbelievable.