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Canada or Australia?

  • 10-06-2020 06:20PM
    #1
    NinjaRambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭


    I was thinking about getting a work visa for Canada or Australia. I have a few family members in Canada who told me to not bother because in Canada you will get nowhere, mainly due to the high taxes and you won't be able to save up much money.

    So Australia came to my mind. Which would be the more wise option?


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  • #2
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    The deal breaker for Australia is it's full of Australians.


  • #3
    NinjaRambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭NinjaRambo


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    The deal breaker for Australia is it's full of Australians.

    What's wrong with Australian's?


  • #4
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,871 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    The deal breaker for Australia is it's full of Australians.

    Similar story for Canada - the driest sh1tes i've ever met


  • #5
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,708 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    NinjaRambo wrote: »
    What's wrong with Australian's?

    Every single one I have ever met has been a fcucking annoying twat . Every single one!


  • #6
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    I couldn't be dealing with the Australian accent.

    Fook that.


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  • #7
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,956 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    NinjaRambo wrote: »
    What's wrong with Australian's?

    Is it a test?

    There shouldn't be an apostrophe in Australians?


    Is that what you were looking for?


  • #8
    PARlance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,638 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    retalivity wrote: »
    Similar story for Canada - the driest sh1tes i've ever met

    I'd take a dry sh1te over an annoying sh1te any day.


  • #9
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    NinjaRambo wrote: »
    What's wrong with Australian's?

    They’re a bunch of cultureless swines with an accent that would cut glass. A country of weak beer, blinding heat, and thousands of things that want to kill you.


  • #10
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,504 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    If only there were more than 2 options :(


  • #11
    doctorchopper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 918 ✭✭✭doctorchopper


    You'll have a tough time finding a job in Canada at the moment, country is in Bad shape thanks to Trudeau


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  • #12
    PARlance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,638 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    They’re a bunch of cultureless swines with an accent that would cut glass. A country of weak beer, blinding heat, and thousands of things that want to kill you.

    To its credit, it has taken in some of our finest village idiots. Most acclimatise very well there. It has been and continues to be a good dumping ground.

    Tight, obnoxious, racist and a frat/lad culture that would make the US/UK look good at times.


  • #13
    kildare lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭kildare lad


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    The deal breaker for Australia is it's full of Australians.

    Hahaha.... Was nearly gonna write the same thing. God they're hard work . Kiwis are sound enough tho


  • #14
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    PARlance wrote: »
    Tight, obnoxious, racist and a frat/lad culture that would make the US/UK look good at times.

    You don’t like the aussie bloke culture?
    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    The deal breaker for Australia is it's full of Australians.

    There’s a reason for that ..


  • #15
    Sarcozies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭Sarcozies


    Canada is a beauty but can be expensive.


  • #16
    happyoutscan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,117 ✭✭✭happyoutscan


    Australia.


  • #17
    LiquidZeb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭LiquidZeb


    Just move somewhere like Germany or France or Austria. As good a standard of living and 10x the culture. Win win.


  • #18
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,574 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Irish people
    Canada or Australia

    Eh London?
    Berlin?
    Zurich?

    I just don't get it, unless you want to be somewhere that you can't get home from easily, maybe it's a discipline thing, that if you were in London you'd be home a week later as you'd never give it a chance, go to Australia you'll stick it out, can't just pop home in first week.


  • #19
    buried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


    Just go halfway between the two of them and go to Sentyabrskiy in Russia

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • #20
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Irish people
    Canada or Australia

    Eh London?
    Berlin?
    Zurich?

    I just don't get it, unless you want to be somewhere that you can't get home from easily, maybe it's a discipline thing, that if you were in London you'd be home a week later as you'd never give it a chance, go to Australia you'll stick it out, can't just pop home in first week.

    Berlin for me by a country mile but if I had to choose between Australia and Canada, I'd pick Canada, next choice, which city? I'd choose Montreal over the more obvious Toronto or Vancouver.


  • #21
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    australia for me


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  • #22
    Undertow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭Undertow


    I looked at the same options 10 years ago. Chose Australia. Ended up in New Zealand. Go to New Zealand!


  • #23
    Hego Damask
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Hego Damask


    Norway OP!!!!

    Highest standard of living on Earth!!!


  • #24
    Figel Narage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 479 ✭✭Figel Narage


    Gotta be OZ, Canada is great as well but I'd prefer OZ


  • #25
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    PARlance wrote: »
    To its credit, it has taken in some of our finest village idiots. Most acclimatise very well there. It has been and continues to be a good dumping ground.

    This.

    I was in Bondi a few months ago and they were everywhere, you could tell by the heads on some of them that they were the kind of eejits we're better off exporting. Aggressively proud of their Irishness while pissed, telling anyone who'll listen that Ireland is a kip when sober.

    I'd say the more level headed of locals think we're an absolute shower of dopes.


  • #26
    the purple tin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    If you have people in Canada they can get you a job and give a leg up and lodgings.


  • #27
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    Canada all the way- easygoing people, decent wages (although cities are pricey to live in) and good healthcare.

    Plus marginally less animals that want to kill you.


  • #28
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,757 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    New Zealand!, its just like Australia except nicer in every way, the animals aren't all trying to kill you and not everyone is a thief


  • #29
    old_aussie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,409 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    They’re a bunch of cultureless swines with an accent that would cut glass. A country of weak beer, blinding heat, and thousands of things that want to kill you.

    That's just a screensaver to keep the undesirables out!


  • #30
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    New Zealand!, its just like Australia except nicer in every way, the animals aren't all trying to kill you and not everyone is a thief

    Kiwis ( not the birds) are the only thing I didn't like about new Zealand


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  • #31
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    'Stralia mate, but not Sydney


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