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If you had your pick of locations in Ontario... Where would you choose to live??

Old Nov 14th 2014, 9:07 pm
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Originally Posted by Kaylawayla
By sending emails, filling in applications, maybe a few phonecalls, which will hopefully lead to an interview in Canada which will require us getting on a plane and carrying out a recce trip at the same time.
Generally this only happens in extremely specialised fields where the employer has little other option, or with truly exceptional candidates with world class experience.

Im not saying it doesnt happen occasionally for others, but I wouldnt count on it.
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Old Nov 14th 2014, 9:13 pm
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Default Re: If you had your pick of locations in Ontario... Where would you choose to live??

Originally Posted by not2old


Pleased to read your post & trust life in the boonies continues to work for you both.

Now that you've experienced it, are you planning to be in Canada for a number of years?
Well we are certainly putting plans together to stay- husband has done one exam, one exam to go. We'll apply for PR with Express Entry in January. I miss home, but with a new dog and a new baby on way it feels we have moved life on that we will never "go back" even if we do go home if you see what I mean
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Old Nov 14th 2014, 9:17 pm
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Default Re: If you had your pick of locations in Ontario... Where would you choose to live??

Originally Posted by Kaylawayla
Ok. I did not say anyone was prying? tritroy stated they had to 'prise' info out.. I asked why they felt they had to

Nor do I mind well intentioned people asking questions. Id be glad to give any info to anyone who feels they need it on order to give us a point in the right direction.

I'll point out again, and as I said earlier, the thread was to generate ideas for possible locations for my wife and I to research, based on peoples preferences / opinion on what would be their ideal place to live...

The way the question is worded, I don't feel there should be a need to know things like "so you will be the main breadwinner"... "are you male or female"

True, expat CAN be a great source of information as you pointed out. But I am sure you also know, some 'members' cant help but 'do' sarcastic , patronising and negative. But hey, Im big and ugly enough to take it.
Just hate wasting my time... Obviously some people have more of it than others..
But you didn't answer the question about what job you do? I wasn't being sarcastic or unhelpful, I believe it's an entirely pertinent question. I'm sorry you don't!
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Old Nov 14th 2014, 9:19 pm
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Default Re: If you had your pick of locations in Ontario... Where would you choose to live??

Originally Posted by Kaylawayla
By sending emails, filling in applications, maybe a few phonecalls, which will hopefully lead to an interview in Canada which will require us getting on a plane and carrying out a recce trip at the same time.
For the vast majority of wannabe immigrants to Canada (even those holding PR already), this approach rarely works (sometimes but rarely). Unless you think I'm prying, it might help to focus your original question if you explained what your profession is and why you think you'd be viewed as outstanding compared to Canadians at your level.
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Old Nov 14th 2014, 9:25 pm
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Default Re: If you had your pick of locations in Ontario... Where would you choose to live??

Originally Posted by Kaylawayla
Geez. Eh I know it is paramount to the whole potential migration!!

To the point where we have even agreed that we might not even do it should we not secure decent jobs..
Not nowadays with two young children to consider
Originally Posted by Kaylawayla
By sending emails, filling in applications, maybe a few phonecalls, which will hopefully lead to an interview in Canada which will require us getting on a plane and carrying out a recce trip at the same time.
to add to post 76

OP, you are dreaming surely?

Think of it in terms of a Canadian or someone from another country outside of the EU trying to find a job first before emigrating to the UK

Why do you believe a Canadian employer in Ontario would hire you or your spouse over a local qualified person that has the same qualifications & experience?

Add to that the many immigrants as well as Canadians here currently unemployed.

Unless you or your spouse have something unique that a local candidate doesn't have, I would not consider to or invite you over the pond for an interview never mind hiring you.

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Old Nov 14th 2014, 10:28 pm
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Default Re: If you had your pick of locations in Ontario... Where would you choose to live??

from post 50, to allow us to help you better,if you would please answer each point.

In case I missed any of the personal bits about you & your family you may have posted elsewhere on BE, would you mind responding to the following?

Why do you want to leave the UK to come to Canada, why not some place else - have you applied to emigrate anywhere else - if so, what were the results?

Other than vacations, have you or your spouse traveled much or worked for extended periods outside the UK?

How do you or your spouse feel about leaving any friends or relatives behind in the UK or wherever they're scattered?

If you have PR to come to Canada, why is it now (or is it just now) that you are trying or looking in deciding to pick the place to live [Ontario for this thread], other provinces from your other posts?

Have you been to Canada & done the recce, if so, when & how many times?

What do you know about Canada other than what a bunch of half wit Brit expats living here post about?

couple of added points ...

- what is your & your spouse specific profession, qualifications and skills that make you suitable immigrants to Canada? (something the CIC would ask you)

- why do you believe you have what it takes to be an immigrant & what value do you believe you both bring to Canada?

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Old Nov 14th 2014, 11:26 pm
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Default Re: If you had your pick of locations in Ontario... Where would you choose to live??

Originally Posted by not2old
from post 50, to allow us to help you better,if you would please answer each point.

In case I missed any of the personal bits about you & your family you may have posted elsewhere on BE, would you mind responding to the following?

Why do you want to leave the UK to come to Canada, why not some place else - have you applied to emigrate anywhere else - if so, what were the results?

Other than vacations, have you or your spouse traveled much or worked for extended periods outside the UK?

How do you or your spouse feel about leaving any friends or relatives behind in the UK or wherever they're scattered?

If you have PR to come to Canada, why is it now (or is it just now) that you are trying or looking in deciding to pick the place to live [Ontario for this thread], other provinces from your other posts?

Have you been to Canada & done the recce, if so, when & how many times?

What do you know about Canada other than what a bunch of half wit Brit expats living here post about?

couple of added points ...

- what is your & your spouse specific profession, qualifications and skills that make you suitable immigrants to Canada? (something the CIC would ask you)

- why do you believe you have what it takes to be an immigrant & what value do you believe you both bring to Canada?
Talking about half-wit Brit expats.....................
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Old Nov 14th 2014, 11:28 pm
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Talking about half-wit Brit expats.....................
well, yer know it goes with the territory eh!

Call 'a spade a spade'
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Old Nov 15th 2014, 2:26 am
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Default Re: If you had your pick of locations in Ontario... Where would you choose to live??

Originally Posted by Kaylawayla
Are you currently in alberta? Why are you looking to relocate to ontario if you don't mind me asking?

Our next 'choice' is alberta..
To cut a long story short, the winters are too long and there is a lack of choice. After 9 years we are ready to move along, but we are taking our time about it.
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Old Nov 15th 2014, 3:15 am
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Default Re: If you had your pick of locations in Ontario... Where would you choose to live??

Originally Posted by MarylandNed
Yeah, downtown Guelph must put downtown Toronto to shame!
I don't know about that. Guelph, for the little I'm there on my own time, seems like a pleasant enough small town. It has a university and all that entails. It's a lot like Madison, WI or East Lansing MI. There's no touchdown Jesus but, in every other way, it's better than South Bend, IN.

Toronto has more restaurants and it has the St. Lawrence Market so, if you're an eating kind of person Toronto's better. Neither is going to set one's heart on fire; we're not talking Brightonian levels of excitement here, maybe we're talking Bournemouth.
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Default Re: If you had your pick of locations in Ontario... Where would you choose to live??

I'd go back to Whitby, Port Hope or Cobourg. I liked all 3 during my short stint living in Ontario.
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Old Nov 15th 2014, 10:54 am
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Default Re: If you had your pick of locations in Ontario... Where would you choose to live??

We have just returned from our recce and are pretty much settled on the Caledon region. Possibly Erin / Guelph also. We will be working from home with possible meetings downtown once or twice a week so the commute is not a daily issue for us.

More space, bigger properties, small town living all appeal.

We did look at Oakville etc. Lovely if you can afford the waterfront but you are talking $millons. But we don't have that budget so too built up for us.
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The recruitment process in Canada typically follows the below route:

1. Do we have a friend who can do it vaguely competently?
2. Do we have a friend of a friend who can do it vaguely competently?
3. Is there a local who has been doing the same job locally for 7 years vaguely competently?
4. Get HR to advertise and see who responds.
5. Get HR to advertise a second time and see who responds because we forgot we had told them to do it the first time.
6. Look at their resumes for companies we've heard of. Skill sets not necessary if it's a company we've heard of we may know someone who knows them.
7. Interview everyone 3 or 4 times over a two month period convenient to ourselves.
8. Offer the job to 3 or 4 people on the way to keep them excited and also frustrate them as they know we hold the cards.
9. Finally hire but when you do throw out an offer that is $10 to $20k below what the person asked for.
10. Sack off person because they are unhappy with our cheap negotiation tactic of lowballing them on what we told them the role paid at the beginning of the process. Perform same cheap tactic with the other 2 offers.
11. Sap has taken job but we've taken so long we actually realise we no longer need it filled we need something else now. Revert to point 1.

Yup. Good luck applying from the UK.

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Old Nov 15th 2014, 2:21 pm
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Us too. Help us to help you
I have no real problem having my time wasted on here when I'm at work.

On weekends it's all business.
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Old Nov 15th 2014, 2:29 pm
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JamesM post #88..

You'd have to have walked in the shoes of an immigrant

A wannabe immigrant would never believe Canadian employers would do what you posted, even to their own, never mind outsiders?

I'm sure there are many that could equate to that, then others just seem to fall into place & muck in, settled, jobs, nice house, neighbourhood, kids in school .... never an issue?

Tough world when you consider many outsiders living a nice life 'back home' settled in a job or familiar surrounding they've had for the past 10 - 20 years would want to emigrate, then on doing so, find the grass is not always greener or 'slippery slopes'.

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