Griff

oh gosh bettyboo67, $27K that is ridiculous isn't it? Yes makes my figure seem cheap! This whole business has been expense expense expense...I totally echo what you say - rent first. We bought because we wanted to be 100% comitted and we did not want the children to be here in a rental on the basis of providing them stability...now 3 years on do I think they would have cared ...no...would I have thought differently then...no, hindsight is a wonderful thing!

hang in there we will get out, are you in for a meet up early November??

The4BellsLondon

oh lord - sounds just like me!!

sans

We did rent first .....We hated being in a rental and bought after 5 mths. We thought buying would be cheaper ( it wasn't), we also thought we would be more stable and be able to move on ( It didn't). Three wks after moving in reality set in and the realisation of just how hard it was all going to be for us there, came down on us like a ton of bricks......

It was the $21000 realtor fee's that blew us away In 7 mths our house had sold for $29000 more then we paid for it and we came out $2000 out of pocket
We lost so much going to Canada, we now have dble the morgage we had before we went to Canada.....But we are still far better off financially and emotionally then we were over there..

We are in N/Lincolnshire...No regrets quite the opposite ...........

In fact i would like to Thank Canada for making our lives so difficult ....that we now realise just how wonderful the UK really is.....

ann m

You know- that's all you can wish for. Despite the expense and stress, it's a huge learning experience and if you are happier than ever - well, I'd say it was worth it.

sans

It certainly brought out feelings, we wasn't aware we had Their was afew things that happened in Canada that i/we could of done well without....

But know point in dwelling, you have to close the door and move on

Anyway the foods better here

bettyboo67

Sans that first paragraph could have been written by me, BTW can anyone tell me how to pick out lines or paragraphs rather than putting the whole post in?

bettyboo67

Absolutely

Auld Yin

BTW can anyone tell me how to pick out lines or paragraphs rather than putting the whole post in?

Just Copy and Paste.

Aviator

Select the bit you want to use and use the 'quote' button while the focus is on the bit you want to quote. If you want to multi quote, keep doing this.

If not, select the bits you want to get rid of and hit delete or back space when the focus is on the bits you don't want.

Aviator

Canada did not make your lives difficult, you did that on your own. One makes ones own bed and it's how each adapts or does not. Canada is what it is and many do just fine, without blaming the country when it does not work out how they expected.

sans

Didn't it ? And what would you know about our lives......And yes i have quite successfully made my own bed for the best part of 50yrs.....Oh before i forget that was of course in the UK.

shelley748

I hear you- thats how I feel...we are going to make sure that anyone who wants to come to Canada knows the things that no one told us before we came- we definitely would not have come.

Aviator

A country cannot make anyones life difficult, how could it do that? People do that, usually to ourselves by the choices we make. Unfortunately to few people ever want to take responsibility for their choices, its easier to blame someone or something else. Every experience is a lesson, one chapter ends we move on having learned something, but is was still as a result of our own choices and character.

sans

So where are you? And are you happy with your choice ?

sans

Shelley their are lots of us ......Some of which are now stuck in the Country and carn't leave because they carn't afford to leave. And had we of stuck it out longer then we did, we would of been in the same boat......But its our own faults apparently