From Belfast to Calgary
 

Hi there Im pretty new to this forum Im a 28 year old from a little village outside Belfast in N.Ireland relocating this year to the Calgary area with my Canadian husband whos been playing ice hockey in the U.K and with a 7 year old boy (Jakob) & 10 month old girl (Avah Rose) we have decided to give up the hockey life and take up an offer from a hockey friend of the hubbys and go and work for his business in Calgary.

Im a trained Make Up artist and mainly concentrate on weddings, functions and photographic is there a market for me in Calgary do you think? Also Im really nervous about leaving my friends and family although my husbands originally from Winnipeg (all his family are there) I only really know the couple we are friends with who my husband is going to work for and members of their family. Im waiting for my mother in law to send us our sponsorship form and hopefully I will be out there for the start of the summer and maybe at least feel like I have had a summer this year.... Has anyone used any particular shipping companies from Belfast?

Also would you advise shipping or should we just sell what we can. Im so stressed at the moment as Ive been left to organise the whole move as Im based in N.Ireland and my husband is in England with his team! So not only am I at work, kids etc etc Im trying to organise everything to make this move as easy as possible for us all. Ive heard Calgary is a pretty young city is it easy to meet new people etc? Sorry for the long post but any info about Calgary would be wonderful!

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Hi Khuppe

Firstly welcome to BE - you should be able to get answers to most/all your questions here.

I know how daunting the process is - but it's worth it in the end.

I would imagine that you would be able to find work in your profession here. There is a wedding fair taking place in Calgary at the TELUS Convention Centre this weekend, might be worth googling it to find out who the exhibitors are as a starting point for building up your contacts.

Calgary is a fairly young city and is growing at a fair pace. As you have kids I am sure you won't have any problems meeting like minded parents and if your OH did something like get involved in coaching hockey you would be able to build a circle of friends around that.

Summer is a great time to be hitting Calgary, although if you are planning to stay in a hotel when you first get here and end up arriving during Stampede you might want to book now! :)

HTH - good luck with all your preparation

Julie

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Hi

Gook Luck with the move.

Check out all the WIKI Articles there are on this site about both moving and differrent locations!

Hope things get clearer for you!

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Hi Khuppe

I think, as someone else said you will meet people through your kids. I would suggest that picking a school where the majority of children are not bussed in makes it easier!

Gryphea

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thanks for all the words encouragement!:thumbsup:

We will see what happens

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hi hows things we are at present from little town outside Belfast and we hopeflully will be goin to Calgary in March ive tried quite a few removal companies and I found so far MCGIMPSEY BROTHERS IN BANGOR have been the best so far and as for what to take it is quite hard to know we keep changing our minds about some of our stuff .LET ME KNOW HOW YOU GET ON TAKE CARE email [email protected]

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Thanks very much for that info about the wedding fair I had a look and seen that only 4 people exhibited for Make Up so thats refreshing to know. I dare say the Canadians would love to hire someone who has trained in Europe

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I'm sure they would! Good luck! :thumbsup:

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hi hope u got some good answers i left wrong email address its [email protected]

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Hi all

With any luck we will be moving from Belfast to Toronto in May once my work permit is approved.

I have found McGimpsey Bros and they seem to be quite good, who else has anyone got quotations from?

Has anyone used McGimpsey?

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If you dont mind me asking roughly how much were you quoted? I havent called any just yet but intend to on Friday thanks

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Hi Khuppe, welcome to the boards.

Which small village outside Belfast are you from? I'm from Comber, and we have someone around here from Kilkeel.

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we are from Newtownards and we are heading to Calgary

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Hi we were quoted £2100.00 for 300 cubic feet and this included our three piece suite so we have decided to leave suite behind which has brought the price down to £1640.00 thats working out as it would be 500 pound to bring our suite over and we could prob by one in Calgary for that price as this was the suite for the basement anyway

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Hi Kuppe,

Heading to Calgary myself in March from Lisburn. MCGimspeys from Bangor seem to be the best and a friend used them them before to move to England and said they were great. All the best for the future and glad to see a few people from home making the trip.

Rob