[quote="dadageer"]
I have got quite a few of my relatives including my sister living in Canada. My parents will soon move to Canada as well."
In this case you may want to move, irrespective of good or bad as all of your family will be there.
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I quite liked UK and being a footie fan I am not sure how I am going to watch all these EPL matches in Canada."
May be on internet. If you want to move, start liking Ice hockey.
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I can understand there are people who are dearly beloved but then I may be in few lucky ones who didn't face any beloved personally. All my colleagues and managers have been very nice to me."
Believe me or not direct or indirect beloved is every where. It even persist in Canada, however in different way, like, from immigrants who have been there before you.
People on various forums have said that the most common excuse not to offer you a job is "you don't have Canadian experience". I haven't found similar excuse in UK.
UK, NARIC accepts more educational degrees as equivalent than Canadian counter parts. In Canada, if you have Canadian degree or European degree than good chance, otherwise you may end up doing an unwanted further development course.
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Things I don't like about UK are small houses, small roads and expensive living."
UK is tiny compared to Canada, everything is small, however, must appreciate the management skills, be it roads, hospitals, garbage collection so on..... Just think with such small space and population double of Canada, are we not doing well. In Canada, you will miss our roundabouts, and definitely get frustrated with cross roads. They have wide roads with no road management in place, such waste of road space. The worst thing is the road signs, so tiny you can hardly read from a moving car. Lots of other things related to public transport as well, like no cushion seats, however transport is cheaper there.
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I think this is better in Canada but then I am not impressed at all by Canadian banks who charge on transactions and if you dont keep a minimum balance etc."
Definitely true, their banking system is at least 10 years behind. They have monthly charge for account, however there are some free like President's Choice with no minimum balance requirement. You will miss the option of withdrawing from any atm in UK, as oppose to Canada where you have restriction to use your bank's atm or get charged. Their bank systems are not well connected as UK. Just try to find the interest rate for a personal loan on any banks website, it will not tell the interest rate, you have to call and ask. Their banking is not as regulated as UK.
Retail industry, the worst of all is, all their checkout staff in supermarkets have to stand, no seats provided at all, that is all over America, still can't figure out why? Their serving speed is half that of check out staff in UK, understandably, due to being standing long hours.
you will miss the ready meals selection of UK, the variety, taste and so on.
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Mobile services are quite expensive as well in Canada."
The mobile infrastructure is not well developed until recently, they have to recoup the cost from a very small population, hence pay more.
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I have heard there are lot of IT jobs in Canada and as I have UK experience I would not find it difficult to land in a good place."
Depends where you go, unemployment in Canada is 7.2%, while UK is 7.8%, what does it tell you? Salary is higher in Canada, so you will save lot more.
Just think why is £ stronger than Can $, there must be something in the UK economy.
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I may return back if I don't like Canada but then I don't want to make a move if people say it's better here than Canada."
You are the best judge of your life, your decision must not depend on what idiots like me say on forums.
If you go there, don't settle well, then there is always option to move back at the most you will loose a year or two moving and settling again in UK.
By the way, why your processing took so long? It normally takes 18-24 months.
Good Luck.