Atlantic Xpat

In the context of staying back in Scotland, it's absolutely great info and worth considering.

deltadeliquent

When I was 15 I visited the UK for the first time. I felt like I had come home. I loved it. I spent the next 30 years wishing that I lived there instead of the US. I married, had kids, got divorced... the whole catastrophe. All through this I had that nagging feeling...
Kids are grown up, I have a new husband who is a almost perfect partner. ANd I managed to move to the UK. I am happy here, and have had lots of opportunity I never would have had in America. I feel that I belonged in the UK and somehow my intuition knew that.
I followed my dream and I was right to do so.
Later this year I will be preparing to move to Canada because my husband wants to. I am happy to be able to make this happen for him. I love the UK but Canada feels right at this time in my life. My mother used to say that I was born with itchy feet!

If you have or will have kids they will be British because of you, Canadian because they will have lived there long enough or where born there. Two passports, two visas they never have to apply for, worry over, hope for. That opens up two continents of experience and opportunity to them. And the US is pretty easy to get to from Canada. To visit or to live.
Who knows what they will want to be doing with their lives when they are older, middle age, or old (like me!). How many people on this forum would give their eyeteeth to be able to move easily?

I say: follow your intuition. If you can't get Canada off your mind, then you just might belong there. Might be forever, might be for a long while might be a short while. Either way you followed your dream. (And maybe its not your dream you 're moving for...)

alcat2010

+1

deltadeliquent

Maybe you could be a smokejumper, or concentrate on wildfires instead of urban or suburban firefighting. You would have to live in nicer part of the country than Barrie....
I know nothing about the industry,but wanted to get the OP to think sideways, as being creative might make the move more successful.
Good luck!

Tangram

You can't eat the scenery.

deltadeliquent

I'm not suggesting they eat the scenery...
I'm suggesting they look at other opportunities. Being stuck in one mindset eliminates the possibilities around you.
My sister has been out of work for 3 years because she refuses to look for a position in industries different to the one she has always worked in. Her skills are very needed in all sorts of sectors, but she is stuck in the old one.
I'm just suggesting that one actually looks around the landscape before deciding something is not possible.
And what is possible might be better than what you were originally looking for.

Tangram

I didn't quote you and therefore was posting to the thread and not necessarily in reply to your post.

alcat2010

Tangram

What don't you understand about that ?

deltadeliquent

ok, sorry. I jumped the gun.

Aviator

Depends what you're looking at, if its a berry crop or veggies - you can eat it!

Tangram

I don't class either as scenery.

ExKiwilass

I hear bear is quite good. I've only tried cariboo - it was really gamey.

Tangram

Hmmm not tried either. You could probably get both in Moncton.

ExKiwilass

really? Moncton just gets better and better.

BTW they do the Debaters on CBC there a lot.