In the UK we are taught to perceive USA as a baddy and Canada, which would drown itself if the English asked them to, as a goody. However, I am english reared and look first to English speaking countries if I seek escape, as all good english people do, once I was too old-last time, I was 68- to be taken on by China to teach anymore - though I still give tuition here. I did get a post from a canadian University, however I stupidly told them that St Barths human Research have me in a corridor and watch who and what I teach, so I lost the job I was so looking forward to,/allowed to employ till 75/ and put out a notice they would never employ me, so guys don't tell people the truth, every, it works against you. But in for a penny, in for a pound. I went over, twice, thinking to settle. I couldn't go through the Canadian Embassy as all my post is taken by the lab st barths out of the post office, so being me, I just went over, twice. I had written to some of my dad's friends as a girl, and my dad was well known there, so I wanted to find them in Toronto. Canadian Embassy had given me permission to Emigrate when I was 17, lovely man, but back then I was a bit windy about it on my own and then got married. The first time I went out was to find out how much life there would cost, as I am on my own and my sons were still young, the second I intended to stay. As I am qualified college lecturer with cards etc and many Canadians seem to understand Refugees situation, when I told them about looking for my dad's friends, all hard working with nice homes, they were fine about it and the local MP told me :come in every two years and we will stamp you another two years. As an international teacher I am cleared by CID before I can teach! So I stayed. One of the things I do is always go in the winter, no point in going to a harsh climate in the summer. But that was ok I had a room in a Serb's rooming house thanks to a friendly French taxi driver who told me about it and took me there. The cold did not bother me at all. It was fun, I walked many miles each evening but I did not find my dad's friends, they had passed away and their children all gone to the USA. what I did find, however, was homeless people, in the photo is a woman in her fifties, sitting in the snow. I chatted to them, to find out what it was all about. Why was no one helping them, sitting up to their knees in snow? Eventually some housewives put on a hot-potatoe in a sock run for them. But I enjoyed my life, an indian family befriended me and the girl worked in a milk bar, so each evening I went for a milky drink and my church was smashing, Sherbourne. I went to everything they ran!! Then I bought a tv, nightly they showed fires in the city, people burning to death from cheap stoves. Then I began looking at the cost of flats, and the newspapers were filled with reports from people who could not afford to heat them on one wage!! Allan Lieberman Cross of st barths human Research had gone over to Ontario Human Research and began pressing my heart all night. So I had no doctor if anything went wrong. They flashed across my tv: it is not us, it is one of your lot. In the USA -NO ONE TOUCHED ME, no one! It is the only country where that was the case. The English cannot bribe them to do evil, so looking at these poor homeless people in the snow, with no help, and lax Ontario Human Research, I decided against Canada and understood why so many of our friends' children had crossed the border to the other side.