Today saw our first steps towards immigration. I am totally overwhelmed with information now I am starting to look like this !!!
I am just time out from my research to say hi to all those that know what I am feeling like right now.
The messages on this site have been extremely useful and have certainly narrowed my searches from blind meanderings through google to definitive Canada based info-sites ... thankyou

We are: Jill & Stuart ... now living in Birmingham UK and hoping to move for many of the same reasons I have seen on the messages here ... although I will add one other - Stuart's ex-wife !!

I (Jill) am originally from Northern Ireland and moved to the UK when I joined HM Forces (where I met Stuart).
Since retired from service I am now a lecturer at a local college (bored out of my skull and facing kids with knives everyday) and Stu is a Programme Director at Warwick University.
Stu has two kids Sam (15) and Charlotte (13 next week).

We are looking for similiar jobs in British Columbia - as close to the snow as possible (we are both advanced skiers) and somewhere were we can indulge our other passion of cycling.

Look forward to hearing any suggestions and helpful hints.

Jill xx

Hi and a warm welcome to the forum
BC has some awesome cycling roads, with amazing scenery all around.
Hope you get to follow your dreams........best of luck

Just wanted to say Hello and welcome you to the forum.

Don't know much about BC but all the pictures and photos make the province look really beautiful.

Wish you all the best for the long journey ahead.

WOW - I was a lecturer in a Nottingham college and when a student left their bag in the computer room I took it to the staff room. When I put it on my desk there was a heavy thud and when I looked in the bag I discovered a gun. The police were involved and it turned out to be associated with a big drug ring. Not one of the nicer memories I have of teaching - and I was worried for quite a while after due to the arrests that followed and a lot of students knowing it was me that found the gun.

I hear you loud and clear

Good luck in following your dream!

Hi from one newbie to another!

Snow and cycling - yep, that's basically how we're narrowing down location.

Best of luck!

stu

Hi Jill,

We are the gibbo's family. and live in Birmingham. We to just staring the process. We fancy Calgary Alberta, very close to the Rockies and good fly fishing.

you are right about this site, great stuff and loads of help.

good luck,
gibbos1

Hi Jill,
We're also hoping to go to BC, to Vancouver Island, about 45 minutes from Mount Washington ideally, down in The Comox Valley where my brother and his family live. He is a ski patrol volunteer along with his wife and as a result they get a free annual family ski pass. They have to patrol twice a month each and attend all the training each year.

We have two kids aged 14 and 8 who have both been to Van. Island a couple of times already for 6 week summer vacations and are champing at the bit to live there to go skiing and snow boarding as well as all the fun summer activities that they've already experienced.

This is a fantastic site and you'll probably need a shortcut on your desktop to it because you'll be here often! It's a community full of helpful people who share a common bond - Canada.

Good luck and although I'm fairly new, if you need any info on BC then let me know, I might have researched it and saved it for future reference.
Welcome
Robin

Hi Jill,we,re fairly new to the forum aswell. We,re from Newcastle Upon Tyne.
We are a family of 5. Me(mandi),hubbie Darren,3 kids Ryan(15),Chloe(11) and Aaron(4).
We,re off to Calgary next month,Darren was lucky enough to find a job quite quick(plumber), so we,ve got our flights booked for 11th April
Very excited to go exploring,cycling etc in the summer.then have some ski lessons ready for the winter.
Wish you all the luck,anything you want to know,you,ll find on this forum.
The people on here are amazing,ive had more advice in a month from them than i got in 2 years from other sites tried
Plus you,ll meet some great friends for when you make your move.
Take care
Mandi

Hi Guys
We are just south of Calgary, Alberta and went through the emigration process last year. If any of you have any questions please do not hesitate to pm us.
Wallace

Hello Robin - just thought I would say hello. We have just bought a house at Merville outside Courtenay and hope to be there living by May. You're right - it is a great area. We have been there three times and are so excited to be going back for good. Still have a bit of work to do this end before we can go but hopefully we'll be there soon. Angela

Welcome

Welcome to BE - and very best wishes to you

Hi and Welcome

We've just arrived in Alberta and know what it's like to go through the process, but for us it was a little bit quicker due to PNP.

It's a huge rollercoaster of emotions but well worth it

Elli

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Congratulation on the house purchase hope everything is smooth sailing this end all the best
Also welcome to the forum for the O P