Went to Canada last year after being offered a job out there.

Me and the wife had a good look around, we even viewed a couple of houses, money was good ,not early retirement good, but more than enough to live a decent lifestyle (65,000 CAD) bearing in mind we'd not have a mortgage to contend with due to the house price difference.

Almost went until circumstances beyond our control with the wife's company changed everything but the one thing that raised a few eyebrows with me was the 10 days a year holiday.

Eh? What? 10 days and that's after 12 months service!

We get at least 25 days holiday here in the UK and that's from day one with most companies, not forgetting the 8 public bank holidays on top of that.

I'm currently on something like 36 days holiday at my current employer, the strange thing is though I never take a fortnight off, haven't had a week's holiday since March 2007 but it's just good to know you've got them in ya locker when you feel the need to get away from it all for a long weekend bender I suppose?

I'm strictly more of an odd day here and there type of person and even then I'm bored shitless by lunch time, I'm usually looking forward to getting back to work.

Just for the record though, 10 days holiday wouldn't of stopped me going, just some friggin Swedish furniture store decided to smash my plans to bits!

I never liked anything Scandinavian!

;)

My two penny's for what they are worth would be if your young enough do it.

What's a couple of years out of your life trying somewhere different, if it doesn't work out so what, come home.


Good luck!