Of all countries,why move to Canada?
May 9th 2007, 12:57 pm
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Re: Of all countries,why move to Canada?
There's no internet grocery shopping in Canada anyway so rural living doesn't affect that.
What no internet how will i get my shopping now, no no i will survive i'll just have to get off my fat a__ and go there never know could be an adventure LOL. 
May 9th 2007, 1:30 pm
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Re: Of all countries,why move to Canada?
Just joking about the internet but sure i can live with a limited amount of it.
Nice place you got there dbd33 mate looks great, im not showing the wife she will want one for her dogs and horses and who knows what.
LOAFY...
Nice place you got there dbd33 mate looks great, im not showing the wife she will want one for her dogs and horses and who knows what.
LOAFY...
May 9th 2007, 1:50 pm
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Re: Of all countries,why move to Canada?
We also have a book but we've both read it.
May 9th 2007, 1:55 pm
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Re: Of all countries,why move to Canada?
Thanks. We do have internet there, by satellite, and it's much better (and cheaper) than I'd expected. Unfortunately the time it goes out is when the weather's really bad and it would be sensible to work from home. We don't have TV but I hear that's much the same; fails during storms.
We also have a book but we've both read it.
We also have a book but we've both read it.
May 9th 2007, 2:00 pm
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Re: Of all countries,why move to Canada?
Thanks. We do have internet there, by satellite, and it's much better (and cheaper) than I'd expected. Unfortunately the time it goes out is when the weather's really bad and it would be sensible to work from home. We don't have TV but I hear that's much the same; fails during storms.
We also have a book but we've both read it.
We also have a book but we've both read it.
May 9th 2007, 2:12 pm
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May 9th 2007, 2:19 pm
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Re: Of all countries,why move to Canada?
There is a library in town, maybe five miles from us. Alas, I've never been in.
Last night I met a woman from up the street, also the owner of a disobediant dog. She has a nice looking house, maybe 4000 square feet, triple garage, four stall barn. Turns out that she's from Windsor but has been here for yonks. She works in a flower shop and her husband is a long distance trucker. That interested me because, in the UK, someone with a house like that would probably drive a jumbo jet, not a truck. She talked about some snags to trucking I haven't seen mentioned here:
- like me, the husband officially gets the US holidays off and not the Canadian ones. Practically speaking this usually means he gets neither.
- on driving days he's at the wheel from 6:00am to 11:00pm. She said she worries "it's one thing to work around the system, another to kill yourself".
- he was expected home at midnight, to be gone for 6:00 and is out until May 25th, when we're to go over there for a barbecue. I expect I'll find out more about trucking then.
- she has satellite TV and satellite internet and even books because "really I live alone, he's never here".
Trucking sounds to be a lonely and dangerous business but well rewarded.
May 9th 2007, 2:29 pm
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Re: Of all countries,why move to Canada?
anything for a quiet life eh.
May 9th 2007, 2:47 pm
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Re: Of all countries,why move to Canada?
There is a library in town, maybe five miles from us. Alas, I've never been in.
Last night I met a woman from up the street, also the owner of a disobediant dog. She has a nice looking house, maybe 4000 square feet, triple garage, four stall barn. Turns out that she's from Windsor but has been here for yonks. She works in a flower shop and her husband is a long distance trucker. That interested me because, in the UK, someone with a house like that would probably drive a jumbo jet, not a truck. She talked about some snags to trucking I haven't seen mentioned here:
- like me, the husband officially gets the US holidays off and not the Canadian ones. Practically speaking this usually means he gets neither.
- on driving days he's at the wheel from 6:00am to 11:00pm. She said she worries "it's one thing to work around the system, another to kill yourself".
- he was expected home at midnight, to be gone for 6:00 and is out until May 25th, when we're to go over there for a barbecue. I expect I'll find out more about trucking then.
- she has satellite TV and satellite internet and even books because "really I live alone, he's never here".
Trucking sounds to be a lonely and dangerous business but well rewarded.
Last night I met a woman from up the street, also the owner of a disobediant dog. She has a nice looking house, maybe 4000 square feet, triple garage, four stall barn. Turns out that she's from Windsor but has been here for yonks. She works in a flower shop and her husband is a long distance trucker. That interested me because, in the UK, someone with a house like that would probably drive a jumbo jet, not a truck. She talked about some snags to trucking I haven't seen mentioned here:
- like me, the husband officially gets the US holidays off and not the Canadian ones. Practically speaking this usually means he gets neither.
- on driving days he's at the wheel from 6:00am to 11:00pm. She said she worries "it's one thing to work around the system, another to kill yourself".
- he was expected home at midnight, to be gone for 6:00 and is out until May 25th, when we're to go over there for a barbecue. I expect I'll find out more about trucking then.
- she has satellite TV and satellite internet and even books because "really I live alone, he's never here".
Trucking sounds to be a lonely and dangerous business but well rewarded.
