sundaymorningstaple wrote:No. Never applied for SC. Now it's doubtful as I'm already past retirement age (according to the government, but my boss has more or less locked me in till 75 (which is only 6 years away anyway). No sense in them giving me SC now, that I'm older and actually likely to need medical care at some point, why give me SC so they can give me more subsidies for medical expenses. That's about all it's worth, frankly speaking.
40 years.. that was a different time I guess. They wanted people to come make up their now "cosmo" culture. It was commercially inclined then, it is even more so now. They'll keep you here as long as you can serve their national agenda. It's all nice the talk about being a seamless, "invisible hand" driven citizenship, but they talk about the fabric the country is made of, and that future is looking dreary, very dreary...