Getting up, packing your shit, and Leaving.

[ppcock]

Australia or Germany

[kittah]

I just did.. sorta!
i had a job lined up and they wanted me to start earlier so i had to move my ass back to Nanaimo..
I did it a bit sooner as i had to get out of my sketchy situation. I freakin hate waking up at 8am to go to work and theres a bunch of sketchies sitting in my living room doing lines of coke and twitching, while my roommate wants to fight me because i make a sarcastic comment about licking all the coke up thats all over the computer desk. *shudders*
theres a reason why i've never touched the stuff, and this just made me not want to do it all over again!

[QuanNeur]

"I want to so badly right now pack up my bags and just leave"

... I would highly recommend it! What's the worst that could happen? You could fail to establish yourself elsewhere and have to come home, a little humbled, and a little broke, but if you balance that against what you could gain from such a life-changing experience then it's well worth the risk. one of the empowering things about moving to a Toronto or a New York or a London all on your own is that you leave all the influences and preconcieved notions people have of you and back home. You become completely anonymous and can define yourself and your life however you like, from scratch. It helps you to learn who you really are and who you want to be.

[Sue Bitch]

maybe Wagwag I just love saying the name and with the 5oclock wave I am sure I could pick up surfing really quick, and come on who does not love the aussies. Otherwise I love the city so maybe Florence or London the next place i want to spend some time at would be New York but i know i would be paying a arm and a leg to live in a shoe box.

[Skitzo_Style]

if i could, i would pack my backs and go to all of the following:

Rio and Sao Paulo, Brazil

Brisbane, Australia

Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka

Beijjing, Peking, shanghai, and Hong Kong (for kicks)

Bangkok, Thailand

Goa, India

Cairo, Egypt

Jerusalem, Israel

Athens, Greece

Naples, Venice and Rome

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Prague, Czech Republic

Moscow, Russia

Berlin, Munich, and Frankfurt

Paris, France

Madrid, Barcelona, and most of Portugal

London, Manchester, Liverpool,

Glasgow, Edinburgh, Falkirk

Dublin, Ireland

NYC

Atlanta

New Orleans

Miami

and........

i would end my trip in LA. haven't been there in 5 years and i baldy wanna go back.

[.anya]

lol @ listing Beijing and Peking separately (let me go back tooooooo 1948...)

If i could, i would move somewhere were I could do tropical surfing every day and yet keep going to school and have it be still a bit cosmopolitan. I'd go back to French Polynesia if I had money. Maybe try Australia?
If circumstances were different, I would go live in St. Petersburg.

[project.one]

Well... Im looking for dive work again. I just got back into B.C. and Id like to stay here, but I may just end up heading back over seas again somewhere!

[Skitzo_Style]

[quote=.anya;1736849]lol @ listing Beijing and Peking separately (let me go back tooooooo 1948...) QUOTE]

for sure! how sick would it be to be in china during it's peak years of communist leadership?

[Grapes]

^ For an answer, read Jan Wong's "Red China Blues"

No really, read it.

[Big Bank Hank]

Originally Posted by Grapes

^ For an answer, read Jan Wong's "Red China Blues"

No really, read it.

Thats a fuckin good book

[Skitzo_Style]

Originally Posted by Grapes

^ For an answer, read Jan Wong's "Red China Blues"

No really, read it.

i will.

[SEAN!]

London, U.K. Im planning on emmigrating in a year or two, I just need to get a few things done and to find a job with a decent firm.

[Séguin]

Originally Posted by decypher

Lhasa, Japan, Thailand, Peru, Brazil, Italy, Greece, London.

what he said. pick one

[t.bag]

mmm i'd go somewhere nice and warm with a tropical climate cause i'm sick of this coldness. Australia would be my place of choice. if i had the money right now i definatly would drop everything i have and move. like it was said earlier, being so very spontanious and move away by yourself would definatly help you find who you truely are and that's just what i need.

come on lotto 649!

[LeeBrat]

Originally Posted by baby-phat

Hmm.. not really sure where I'd go. Either London or maybe Toronto..

agreed
if i move from BC it will probably be school/work related...and would probably end up being Toronto, England/New York....

[nabs]

was thinking about Edmonton, but seriously reconsidering. Australia is an option open to me.

[tiedye]

looks like I'm doing it yet again.

[diva]

Originally Posted by Grapes

^ For an answer, read Jan Wong's "Red China Blues"

No really, read it.

OMG
I'VE READ IT

[SEAN!]

Originally Posted by QuanNeur

"I want to so badly right now pack up my bags and just leave"

... I would highly recommend it! What's the worst that could happen? You could fail to establish yourself elsewhere and have to come home, a little humbled, and a little broke, but if you balance that against what you could gain from such a life-changing experience then it's well worth the risk. one of the empowering things about moving to a Toronto or a New York or a London all on your own is that you leave all the influences and preconcieved notions people have of you and back home. You become completely anonymous and can define yourself and your life however you like, from scratch. It helps you to learn who you really are and who you want to be.

hey buddy how hard is it to find a place in london near a tube station....

[lithe]

athens is horrible, why would anyone want to live there? :\

at this point i would probably move somewhere European... either London, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, or Berlin. or maybe Copenhagen, but only if I was flush and there during the summer months.

i'm hopefully (Hopefully, HOPEFULLY) getting a job that will allow me to travel a lot very soon.

[QuanNeur]

Originally Posted by SEAN!

hey buddy how hard is it to find a place in london near a tube station....

not hard at all, as the tube network is massive, but you need to be prepared for the cost and the poorer quality of housing stock compared to Canada. A tiny, bottom-end studio apartment above a shop will run at least $1700 a month exclusive in Zones 1 - 2. The bed would likely be a pull down, a hide-a-bed, or hung in the ceiling to save space.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/pdfdocs/colourmap.gif

[diva]

Originally Posted by SEAN!

hey buddy how hard is it to find a place in london near a tube station....

check craigslist.
i did about two weeks ago and there seemed to be a lot of places. and eventhough most ppl say that london is really expensive, the places listed on craigslist didn't seem to be more expensive than places in downtown vancouver.

[QuanNeur]

diva, did you realise that rent on craiglist london is quoted per week rather than per month? vancouver's certainly expensive these days but London is another level altogether.

[mapleleaf4ever]

^ I heard that jobs actually pay somewhat decently though. Sure if you make the same amount here and pay London Rent it's expensive. But what if you work in London?

[QuanNeur]

it's certainly true that average salaries are higher in the UK. The cost of living greatly offsets this, though, and that needs to be taken into account when determining which nation's citizens are better off.

Economists use purchasing power parity (PPP) to do this. It basically weights per capita GDP against the cost of a standard basket of goods for different nations. The results of the IMF's 2005 PPP calculations can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...%29_per_capita

Canada is relatively high on the list at 7th whereas the UK sits 11 spaces behind. What these figures tell us is that an average Canadian can afford 12% more in Canada than an average Briton can afford in Britain.

And in fact things get even worse in London because there is so much wealth concentrated in the city, thus giving rise to $6 coffees, $15 bacardi and cokes, and $7 transit fares. Even just driving a car into central London costs $20. A cleaner in Westminster is still going to earn only $11 or $12 an hour... it's amazing that some people can survive.

And, of course, the lessoned to be learned here is that we should all be living in Luxembourg.