JonboyE

There are a lot of eagles around Boundary Bay this year. Quite a few over-winter here. Easy pickings at the municipal waste transfer site.

dasalcedo

I went to Toronto last December to activate my PR and spent a month at my brother's place in Etobicoke. Saw lots of squirrels everyday, everywhere and anytime!!! it was very cool.

I live in Adelaide and I'm waiting for my wife to pass the Physio tests in order to make the move to Canada soon.

scrubbedexpat091

When I got to Ontario from BC in 2012 for my short stint there, I could not believe the amount of squirrels, they were all over, everyplace I went, I saw the buggers.

I rarely see any in BC.

But I see more bears here then I did in ON.

beckiwoo

Question for the OP...

I see from your original post you have held PR status for 2 years...

Did you come out beforehand on an IEC or TWP to get an idea if you would like to live here permeantly?

rivingtonpike

It seems she did a 2 year IEC applied for PR and got it back in November, 2 months ago. Why she went to the trouble and expense of getting PR status for a country she's about to leave is beyond me. The IEC visa would have given her exactly what it is purposed for - a 2 year holiday working visa and then she'd have gone home by now anyway.

Siouxie

Perhaps she will change her mind when she's been back for a short while and return to a different area. I think it's called keeping your options open - chances are she applied quite early on if she's just got PR.

To each their own.

plasticcanuck

When people write on here that they're proposing to return to the UK they are almost always advised to obtain their PR/Citizenship status before leaving. She has just done the same thing, lest her return to the UK isn't all she expects it to be. I suspect a romance or a job has gone tits up and for a reason known only to herself she's decided that it's the fault of this horrible country.
If she needs a ride to the airport on departure day I'm more than happy to accommodate her, free of charge.

Haylee32

I suggest you stop suspecting and start reading.
My job is fine, no romance went tits up. I'm way too level headed to be getting emotional over a man to the point id actually leave a country. To suggest such thing is rather sexist especially that I have already explained my reasons.

Is it really so hard to believe that someone might not like living in Canada? Impossible, right? Because you love it so much your tiny teeny brain could not possibly comprehend that someone might feel differently.

Haylee32

I came here on IEC and it got my PR within 4 months of applying, it was a cheap and easy process since they introduced express entry procedure.

I wanted to get PR since I came here, that was the plan. Prior to moving here I've never been to Canada.

MrHyperPants

Check out this book.

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Shirtback

I'd venture to say that quite a lot of us aren't overly enamoured about living in Canada. Some of us neither love nor hate the place, even after many years. I can bitch 'Til the cows come home about Canada, AND several other countries I've lived & worked in. I'm usually to be found in the "same sh*t, different bucket" crowd.

If you've decided you don't like it, aren't happy here & are going back to the UK, fine. At least you tried it & well done for doing so (sincerely).

I'm not getting your animosity at OPs who have picked out & are discussing the points you originally mentioned from their personal viewpoints.

Finally: Toronto /= Canada, just as London /= UK.

Shard

Ditto.

rivingtonpike

You are just plain rude. This is in no way a mature way to further your opinion. Your arrogance that someone might not agree with you is no reason for insults; regardless of who might be right or wrong.

caretaker

British people just fight all the time. Their history proves it.

scrubbedexpat133

There are also those of us who are just in the wrong part of the country and would probably be better suited to another part. I completely agree with the Toronto Canada London UK point.

I think a lot of what the OP said about Canada is true in very broad strokes but there is good bad and ugly everything everywhere. I for one would prefer to remove various body parts with a rusty bread knife than live in London. But that is me and my preference.

Good luck to the OP going to London.