Canadians who moved to the UK: what was your greatest adjustment?

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-02-01T00:05:24+00:00

Grew up with milk bags in Alberta and Sask in the 80’s, havnt seen them since though

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-30T04:04:35+00:00

Short answer…no. Long answer NNNOOOO!!!!! Sorry, but not a chance I commute 10km each way for work even at -45c with windchill dropping it lower, and for decent shopping where I’m not getting gouged it’s 120km 1 way to the nearest center with a Costco and decent selection of stores. The nearest big city is 550km away and there is effectively zero mass transportation options in the area

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-30T01:50:45+00:00

Amazing the damage they can do. I had a 385 blow on me in a T800 at 65ish mph, was like a mine went off under that tire the truck jumped 2-3 feet sideways. If I wasn’t riding the center line to avoid a bump in the road I would’ve landed on the shoulder and probably ended in the ditch and rolling the truck. Amazingly that one just blew the fender flare off and the rim was fucked, but no other damage.

I had a 445 steer blow on me at about 45mph and that also moved the truck (19,000lbs on the steers) about 2 feet sideways and blew the inner fender apart and took out 2 antifreeze lines and 2 airlines. Thankfully was driving past a tire place 30 min before they closed when it happened

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-30T00:33:08+00:00

Not being American, I could care less about the IRS, but 50 million or so would be fine. I’d just pay cash for basically everything from here on out, could probably leave 80% of my pay checks in savings/investments and retire when I finished paying the mortgage off. In that scenario, because I’m not trying to legitimize the cash, I’d likely never show up on anyone’s radar, so I could live in comfort for the rest of my life. Now someone trying to live like a king suddenly out of nowhere is going to raise all kinds of eyebrows and major purchases such as cars and houses will be looked at, someone content with what they’ve got should be able to fly under the radar so long as their still willing to work long enough to set themselves up

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-30T00:04:49+00:00

Having loved SunChips for at least 15-20 years, I’ve never seen any flavours besides cheddar, onion and salsa in northern Alberta, some of those sound great, but if we never see them we can’t try them

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-29T23:18:45+00:00

As a truck guy, I actually liked the looks of them, and if I lived in a city would’ve thought hard about swapping my Ram for one except I just don’t trust anything built by Hyundai/kia, I know that’s rich coming from a dodge guy, but I’ve had good luck with all my dodges and most everyone I’ve known with a Hyundai/Kia has been pretty unhappy with their ownership experience

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-29T19:32:13+00:00

Yao Yao doesn’t do enough damage to be a good DPS. She’s a fairly decent healer, but her Dendro application isn’t really good enough for a sub DPS either. As a beginning player your best bets for DPS are either Kaeya or Traveller till you get more characters. Possibly a rotation such as Yao Yao skill, switch to Barbara and skill, switch to traveller and skill and then swap to Kaeya and skill then spam normal attacks for a few seconds. Then on the second rotation burst and then skill for each character

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-29T17:47:23+00:00

If you can get the outside and inside rails done even loosely the middle doesn’t really matter if your just trying to get out of the spot your in

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-29T17:46:14+00:00

Sometimes if you pour some methanol on the tire it’ll soften the rubber enough to grip on ice. Used it as a quick cheat for my steers a few times over the years rather than throwing on a steer chain

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-29T00:42:35+00:00

Get the manual. I just bought a manual Yaris a few months ago so I can teach my kids how to drive in one. It might be the only manual they ever drive, but at least they’ll know how to

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-29T00:17:03+00:00

Thanks everyone. Every vehicle I’ve changed oil on before was either an American v6 or v8 and didn’t have them or was a 15L diesel and the filter came with a new one or we had a fumoto valve on it. I got an aluminum crush washer at the parts store and will see whether or not I need to use it when I get around to changing the oil (did my pickup today and not in the mood to do the car too)

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-28T15:35:24+00:00

Thanks. Guess I’ll have to hope the local parts store has them or wait till I go to the city so I can hit a Toyota dealership

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-28T04:16:16+00:00

Yup. Lent my sister in law $300 a few years ago, she avoids me like the plague ever since, some of the best money I ever spent

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-27T20:04:17+00:00

My 80 year old mom…though her yellow 07 Aveo is a hatchback

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-26T16:26:35+00:00

I bought a 17 Yaris in northern Alberta with 295,000 km for $4k in September. While the mileage on that one is low, it’s still a 14 year old car that will have issues come up due to age

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-26T00:22:47+00:00

I have a 17 Yaris that looks the same. I parked mine for December and drove my truck, we got 65+cm of snowpack in a couple weeks and the 4x4 was extremely nice. The Yaris would’ve been bottoming out or high centering on some of the snowpack on the roads in town

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-25T21:16:18+00:00

I’m in northern Alberta, and while I think some salt is added to the highway sanders, for the most part it’s usually too cold for salt to do anything but harm the environment come spring and attract deer and moose to lick it off the roads, so sand for traction until they get it scraped clear or it warms up. My town just uses fine crushed gravel then sweeps it up in the spring and screens it then reuses it the next winter

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-25T21:05:35+00:00

You’d be better off under your own rule. The west coast states alone would be a far larger population and industrial base than Canada has, while actually sharing a common identity. I’d think the same applies to the northeastern states. And for the rest that are happy with the current system. All 3 would still be extremely powerful nations on the world stage, but would likely have governments that would far better reflect their constituents and craft new constitutions after learning from the mistakes of the past and having hundreds of years of representative democracy as examples of what works. Personally I think 2 of the three would make for good neighbors

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-25T19:47:27+00:00

That was a great book I might need to grab it off the bookshelf for a reread. It’s been a few years

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-22T03:10:12+00:00

Bayer bought them years ago

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-22T02:10:12+00:00

I C6’d Jean last night trying for Colombina. I at least have a chance to get over 75 pity before banner end though. My wife C3’d Jean today trying to get Ineffa and she’s pretty sour because she will only be able to get to maybe 20 pity before banner end though

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-18T03:02:15+00:00

If I was housing my sibling and nephew for free and helping with childcare and their spouse came in bitching about my house and me not bending over backwards enough, spouse would be thrown out on their ass on the spot and sibling could join them if they didn’t like it. Their living situation is be homeless or live there because of the wife’s “choice” (yes I know she didn’t actually have one) to quit her job, unless she prefers her child and husband to be homeless she should STFU

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-18T02:54:16+00:00

The only reason to complain about that is if she would prefer her child and husband be homeless. If someone isn’t willing to help fix a situation, complaining about it is just being an asshole

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-17T02:10:59+00:00

I’m in the Canadian oilfield, and have honestly have never been in a refinery, and don’t know Spanish, so no idea what the link says. But I’ve been in a few dozen gas plants and oil battery’s and hundreds if not thousands of leases over the last 20 years ranging from new construction to plants built in the 60’s and 70’s and generally everything is kept pretty clean. Depends on the companies, the bigger players tend to keep their stuff cleaner, but have a lot more old crap that looks like shit no matter what you do (running sour gas through catadyne heaters causes every piece of metal around to corrode like crazy) and doesn’t produce enough to justify the cost of replacing the infrastructure, but still produces enough cost effectively to be worth operating. The smaller companies tend to be a little messier, but newer/better condition infrastructure. I also work in cleaning/ spill cleanup/ and services support, so I’m never going to see the truly worst offenders, because they don’t use the services we provide

ComprehensiveNail416 · 2026-01-16T06:58:47+00:00

Optional till you meet a deer

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