Canada Immigration Visas

Popular Canadian magazine Muchmor Canada recently conducted a survey analysing the various reasons why newly-arrived British migrants chose to make the move across the Atlantic, as well as what they thought they would miss once they had migrated to Canada.

As many would suspect, the British weather was cited as a primary reason amongst new migrants seeking a better quality of life, claiming that Britain did not have a proper summer, had far too many rainy days and even lacked an adequate amount of snow.

Furthermore, the government also came under fire, with respondents largely claiming to have lost faith in Gordon Brown and his party whom they do not believe can make Britain a better place.

Another major factor in several migrants’ decision to migrate to Canada was the extremely huge cost of living in the UK, with the prices of housing, petrol and tax reaching extortionate levels. People also claimed that there was a strong feeling of having to “keep up with the Jones’s” in terms of jobs, houses and cars.

The NHS also took a hammering in the survey, with people complaining heavily about long waiting-lists as well as the risks of being treated in public hospitals, such as the possibly contracting the MRSA virus.

Moreover, migrants also claimed that Canadian people were generally speaking much more laid back and friendly that people back home.

Further reasons for the constantly growing number of Canadian visa applications from British citizens who have had enough of life in the UK included: chav-culture, yob-culture, congestion, too many asylum seekers, easy access to drugs, rising crime rates, litter, graffiti and the country’s binge-drinking culture.

When asked what they would miss most about Britain, the former UK residents suggested, naturally, that family, friends and pets top the list, however, beyond this, it seemed that all other answers given were all of a seemingly trivial nature, such as fish and chips, Irn Bru, Coronation Street, football, British beer and ‘decent newspapers’.

Generally speaking, the results of the survey showed that people, by and large, no longer feel that Britain offers the quality of life it once did, and is not the sort of place that parents wanted their children to grow up in. The vast majority of people who have made the move to Canada stated that they have absolutely no regrets.