I think this is an iaink credited concept - aka 10 months in, thinking "wtf have I done"....

Coming up to 8 months now - what are the danger signs to look out for?

I do occasionally think "why did I bother", but then partly put that down to not having PR yet and being uncertain about the future....

Do you really think, why did I bother? How would having PR change that?

If we had to go back, an insane amount of money wasted on stuff we couldn't take back, not to mention money lost on getting here in the first place - selling stuff etc.

But it is only money, would still have the experience and would have scratched an itch that would have otherwise still be itching....

EDIT: Just noticed 2000 posts too - must be something going on in my subconscious

Congrats on reaching the big 2000!

My thoughts would be your already hitting the 10 month danger zone - just 2 months early..lol

If your already thinking what a waste of money it has all been if you have to move home - the question is....do you want to go back to the UK, would you be sad if you lost your job and you couldn't find anything else so HAD to go back?

Yep, I get that feeling a lot..............would we have been better off in the UK, blah blah blah. Its becoming less and less frequent, but it still happens, but I just think to myself that if we did go back now we would have wasted a lot of money and would be in a similar position of starting all over again.

That's the kind of thing I often ponder, usually in the wee small hours. I'm not sure I would be that sad - other than we'd have to return to a house that was so small you could probably fit it in our basement here. Non materialistically, I can see that the lifestyle for our son (and any future kids) would probably be better here, but at the expense of family. For myself, career wise it's more limiting for me unless I went to the US, other than that, as iain would probably say "same shit, different bucket" for me...

Oi shurrup, gerrout an take sum pitchers.

Congrats on the post count.

Id love to take the credit, but I think "culture shock" and "home sickness" are far from new concepts.

This time of year it could be cabin fever of sorts too...its been a long winter...

Could well be. I was on Brighton beach in February. There were primroses in my mum's garden. My daffs came out only two days ago.

Have only been here since dec and am having the WTF thoughs - really missinf family at themo - BUT - am starting a part time job at the local IGA market place next week =so that should help - -

However, am going to get the dogs bloods done this week - IN case i decide thats it its only money I am going home!

for me myself, i have little tolerance for regret and just more determination to make the most of the bed i find myself lying in.

this mentality might sound bullish, but really, many things in this life are a waste of money / time..... smoking fags, get plastered only to feel ill the next day, chasing a career in a company that makes you redundant, etc etc etc.

whether your long term, wishful aspirations are realised when emigrating or not, the time and money you wasted would have been spent on something else that ultimately gave you very little to show for it..... but by moving to a whole new country, even if you return 'home' with tail firmly between your legs, you will have gained a huge dose of life experience which most people have neither the time nor inclination to even attempt; to their loss!

i have already invested more money than i would have liked and 5 years in this plan of going to Canada until i die. when the chance finaly arrived to move there, it came with economic turmoil, 21C sunny days in April and this week i have been playing ice hockey every day for the last 5 days! twice for free!

the life i wanted to go to in canada, has come to me in the UK!!!!!!

do i stay or do i go?

despite everything, this question remains a 'no brainer'.

even if all the cyncial bastards and nay sayers are right in their predictions that my move to Vancouver will result in doom and gloom, i will forever be able to look back knowing that i gave it a fair whack and at the very least, it gave me something to do for a while. tis what life, for me, is all aboot.

Well put. My decision to move was made in a matter of minutes from the time when the subject first came up. If I'd gone for the stay-home option, I think I'd have regretted it for the rest of my life. Then again, I picked a person, not a country.

Thanks - a good kick up the arse to remind me that just by being here I've achieved something that some people never will....

Exactamundo...now go get a Timmies to celebrate...lol

I could have written that If I hadn't met my OH I don't think it would have crossed my mind to move to Canada, and even though I'm back home and happy I'm glad I had the experience of living in another country.