Oblaaspop,
Since you're feeling frisky about airing the laundry, here's the thing that rings false about your little rant.
You like to fancy yourself as having "balls" in leaving the UK because it has, as you eloquently put it, gone "down the ****ter".
When the reality is, you DIDN'T have the ability or balls to actually stand and fight to "make the changes" to the things you bemoan in your home country. So like over 100,000 others stampeded out to feed, and feed off of, a developing, oppressive regime. Hardly the image of courage. Hopping on a flight for eight hours to take some tax-free money. But don't worry, that government back in the "****ter" is still looking out for you even as you tell yourself how happy you are!
Britain Forms Plan for Gulf Evacuation
I think you'll find most Canadians came to Dubai out of economic necessity due to a small and unstable aviation sector at home. Not because they felt the entire country was a write-off. We don't see ourselves as grandiose pioneers, we're just trying to make a living out of necessity, in frankly, a pretty awful place, now matter how you whitewash it. (It's "Canuck", by the way, with a "c"...and people say the Yanks are ignorant!) You won't find Canadians bragging about their country, because the truth is, we don't want more people to know the secret and trying to immigrate, otherwise we'd become just like the UK...lol (Not that it isn't happening anyway...)
Happy New Year to all my PPrune buddies who observe the "Gregorian Calendar" as those ass-licking managers on the portal call it!
