i ve been in france for a total of about 1 year and i went to england for vacation only but i have friends and families who live there, and i hear alot of shit that happens there.
This is why it is so important to travel and where possible live in a country for a while.
I am 'living' in Chiang Mai at the moment, just for a short time this time
But being here for a longer period I really get to know the place, the people, and the way of life.
I heard the complaints in England but fortunately it was mixed with humour.
They complain about the NHS, the waiting lists for operations etc, just like the Canadians complain about their health systems...
Except IMHO the Canadians have more right to complain, the British NHS is hugely better than the Canadian system... I've been in Vancouver area hospitals... You are lucky to come out of Surrey Memorial hospital alive!
I took a suffering Japanese girl into the Royal Columbian and it was quiet there, it's an understaffed hospital, she waited an hour and a half to be seen and was seen only after she had fainted with the pain.
I went into St Richards hospital in Chichester England after I overstressed myself swinging a prop on a C195 on a hot Sunday afternoon, I was seen immediately.
Here in Thailand they have very very good hospitals with well trained doctors, state of the art equipment, and high efficiency.
The first time I came here I took out BCAA insurance that would fly me back to BC should anything happen.
No way do I ever want to be flown back to BC for medical attention! Please leave me here, it's 1,000% better in that regard!... and the nurses are prettier, there's more of them, and they are all very sweet.
Girls like to be girls here, and some boys like to be girls too!
There's no place that's perfect in this World, everywhere has positives and negatives.
Here things have changed and I am not doing the flying I did 8 months ago.
They decided to restrict my validation to one club's aircraft, and the atmosphere has changed
But there are plenty of compensations.
One of Canada's problems is the nature of immigrants.
Many Brits who immigrated immigrated with chips on their shoulders... They complained about their country to the point of leaving it.
It's these people's nature to complain about everything, and so such people arrive in their new country to become negative about it as well.
I believe Canada suffers from too many complainative people as a result of the number of immigrants who came with this 'complaint'.
For me I had no option that first time.
I was 12 and in my second year at Grammar School (= High School)... In Pierrefonds was stuck in grade 7 Elementary School because of my age, 2 years behind in educational level, and with kids 5 years behind in maturity. It hurt me terribly.
At home I lived with one of the most negative complainative immigrants you could meet who fits in well with the complainative Canadian set.
I am lucky though.
At 19 I found myself in England, I started to learn to fly... In a letter my father told me to stay in England and make my own way...
Learning to fly was the way I got over a lot of the negativity I grew up with, and now it has mostly gone.
I often think about my decision to come to Canada again and do the CPL, in retrospect I now realise that it would have been better to have borrowed the big money at huge risk and done the British CPL instead.
But I made a decision and I stuck with it.
Now I go with the flow somewhat and seldom fight the current.
I make efforts in the direction I want to go and it seems to work out in the end.
Then there's the decision whether to take out Canadian citizenship or not.
In this I have sometimes come to the point, and then something happens and I don't feel like joining...
It might be Cretien's decision to cancel the EH101 costing Canada millions for nothing, taking away high technology jobs from Canadians, to eventually purchase the same helicopters built elsewhere.
The police taking action to close Vancouver during the Y2K celebration without the legal right to do so...
That young lad having a bullet put in the back of his head after opening a beer in public.
Canada's people are in danger of losing their care for their fellow human beings.
Canada might be the World's peace keeper, but I think that Canadians need to care for each other as much as they might care for those in Afghanistan.
, I liked the people I met, and I enjoyed my experiences there.
