Recent content by tomydoom

My wife is also a US Citizen and also has no interest at all in ever moving to the US. We’ve been living in Ireland for the last 7 years on the back of my Dutch citizenship (through my dad). She recently applied for Irish citizenship and the current plan is to retire to Spain for a hole bunch...

Lets not forget Catalan separatism.

Since current polling in the UK shows Labour leading by between 18-22%, national service has nearly nil chance of coming to pass in the UK. Though I don't doubt Trudeau will try to paint our Tories with this irrespective of the fact that Labour is in power in Westminster.

As I recall, this was already done once before. The third tranche of CPFs were cancelled to pay for SSNs and in the end the then Maritime Command got neither. Hopefully the good idea fairy was not listening.

Glad to be doing my part then. :D

I think he means this

I stand corrected. The point still remains that it may be politically desirable to be seen doing something for a Quebec based company.

I would guess that the SAAB GlobalEye would be the politically obvious choice, as the airframe is built in Quebec by everyone's favourite corporate welfare recipient. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalEye

Probably cheaper than in Canada. I’ve lived in Europe for the last 6 years and I am shocked at how expensive everything in Canada seems to have gotten.

Being a Protestant living in Dublin can be an enlightening experience at times.

Ireland enters the chat.

Dominion of Canada. 😝

Last summer, I found that out the hard way.. I was driving from Mississauga to Petawawa via Huntsville (dropping the kids off at summer camp for the week) and was in desperate need of a caffeine break. Unfortunately it was 4pm.

Even more off topic, Barry's Bay must have the only Tim Horton's in the world that closes at 3pm.

I shared the link to more illustrate how out of hand the Canadian housing market is. A couple of months ago, we considered moving back to Canada from Ireland. But a standard 3 bedroom detached house in nearly anywhere in southern Ontario was running at least 800k. Here in Dublin, my...