Best place in Canada to move to?
#91
Re: Best place in Canada to move to?
Although we do love Devon and Cornwall it still just isn't what we want. Part of going to Canada too is to get away from this country in which I have had a lot of bad things happen, so one of the reasons is to start afresh and put the past behind.
Plus it's too grey and cloudy in England I know many areas in Canada have over 300 days of sunshine, and as I am not good with very hot weather, it's perfect! Canada has the scenery, friendly people, community feel, clean air in places and the weather. We can't resist, just need to find the best places to visit on holiday next year as obviously we can't go around everywhere!
Plus it's too grey and cloudy in England I know many areas in Canada have over 300 days of sunshine, and as I am not good with very hot weather, it's perfect! Canada has the scenery, friendly people, community feel, clean air in places and the weather. We can't resist, just need to find the best places to visit on holiday next year as obviously we can't go around everywhere!
#92
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Joined: Feb 2012
Location: Devon- via Liverpool - Now Shawnigan Lake Bc
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Re: Best place in Canada to move to?
Stay away from BC then, its pretty much a rubbish place.
And there's the drugs. Apart from a few BE members I've met, I usually socialize in rarified and exclusive company and even then most of the people are smoking drugs a lot. Think of the tv programme Shameless and multiply it by ten.
And there's the drugs. Apart from a few BE members I've met, I usually socialize in rarified and exclusive company and even then most of the people are smoking drugs a lot. Think of the tv programme Shameless and multiply it by ten.
#93
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Joined: Feb 2012
Location: Devon- via Liverpool - Now Shawnigan Lake Bc
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Re: Best place in Canada to move to?
Although we do love Devon and Cornwall it still just isn't what we want. Part of going to Canada too is to get away from this country in which I have had a lot of bad things happen, so one of the reasons is to start afresh and put the past behind.
Plus it's too grey and cloudy in England I know many areas in Canada have over 300 days of sunshine, and as I am not good with very hot weather, it's perfect! Canada has the scenery, friendly people, community feel, clean air in places and the weather. We can't resist, just need to find the best places to visit on holiday next year as obviously we can't go around everywhere!
Plus it's too grey and cloudy in England I know many areas in Canada have over 300 days of sunshine, and as I am not good with very hot weather, it's perfect! Canada has the scenery, friendly people, community feel, clean air in places and the weather. We can't resist, just need to find the best places to visit on holiday next year as obviously we can't go around everywhere!
#94
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Joined: Mar 2013
Location: Newbury - UK
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Re: Best place in Canada to move to?
All I want to do is to start a new life afresh so I don't think I will be sad. Every time I put money away every month and scrape together pennies to live off otherwise, I get more and more excited about starting a new life. Yes it may be miserable, there may be crime, and it may be just like the UK in some ways, but it is such a vast country I don't doubt for a second that there will be somewhere that is 100% better and perfect for me.
Really helping to hear people's opinions!
#96
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Joined: Jul 2012
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Re: Best place in Canada to move to?
That is true yes...
All I want to do is to start a new life afresh so I don't think I will be sad. Every time I put money away every month and scrape together pennies to live off otherwise, I get more and more excited about starting a new life. Yes it may be miserable, there may be crime, and it may be just like the UK in some ways, but it is such a vast country I don't doubt for a second that there will be somewhere that is 100% better and perfect for me.
Really helping to hear people's opinions!
All I want to do is to start a new life afresh so I don't think I will be sad. Every time I put money away every month and scrape together pennies to live off otherwise, I get more and more excited about starting a new life. Yes it may be miserable, there may be crime, and it may be just like the UK in some ways, but it is such a vast country I don't doubt for a second that there will be somewhere that is 100% better and perfect for me.
Really helping to hear people's opinions!
#98
Re: Best place in Canada to move to?
That is true yes...
All I want to do is to start a new life afresh so I don't think I will be sad. Every time I put money away every month and scrape together pennies to live off otherwise, I get more and more excited about starting a new life. Yes it may be miserable, there may be crime, and it may be just like the UK in some ways, but it is such a vast country I don't doubt for a second that there will be somewhere that is 100% better and perfect for me.
Really helping to hear people's opinions!
All I want to do is to start a new life afresh so I don't think I will be sad. Every time I put money away every month and scrape together pennies to live off otherwise, I get more and more excited about starting a new life. Yes it may be miserable, there may be crime, and it may be just like the UK in some ways, but it is such a vast country I don't doubt for a second that there will be somewhere that is 100% better and perfect for me.
Really helping to hear people's opinions!
I don't mean to seem factitious but have you thought about buying a shed and brewing our own cider instead?
#99
Re: Best place in Canada to move to?
[QUOTE=AbbieClements;1058276/ as I am not good with very hot weather'[/QUOTE
Well that lets Oliver out then as it gets very warm in summer.
Well that lets Oliver out then as it gets very warm in summer.
#100
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 14,227
Re: Best place in Canada to move to?
That is true yes...
All I want to do is to start a new life afresh so I don't think I will be sad. Every time I put money away every month and scrape together pennies to live off otherwise, I get more and more excited about starting a new life. Yes it may be miserable, there may be crime, and it may be just like the UK in some ways, but it is such a vast country I don't doubt for a second that there will be somewhere that is 100% better and perfect for me.
Really helping to hear people's opinions!
All I want to do is to start a new life afresh so I don't think I will be sad. Every time I put money away every month and scrape together pennies to live off otherwise, I get more and more excited about starting a new life. Yes it may be miserable, there may be crime, and it may be just like the UK in some ways, but it is such a vast country I don't doubt for a second that there will be somewhere that is 100% better and perfect for me.
Really helping to hear people's opinions!
#101
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 14,227
Re: Best place in Canada to move to?
I'm thinking of brewing my own beer again. I haven't done it for nearly 20 years now, but as you can buy all the stuff you need in the supermarket so it might be worth a go.
#103
Re: Best place in Canada to move to?
That is true yes...
All I want to do is to start a new life afresh so I don't think I will be sad. Every time I put money away every month and scrape together pennies to live off otherwise, I get more and more excited about starting a new life. Yes it may be miserable, there may be crime, and it may be just like the UK in some ways, but it is such a vast country I don't doubt for a second that there will be somewhere that is 100% better and perfect for me.
Really helping to hear people's opinions!
All I want to do is to start a new life afresh so I don't think I will be sad. Every time I put money away every month and scrape together pennies to live off otherwise, I get more and more excited about starting a new life. Yes it may be miserable, there may be crime, and it may be just like the UK in some ways, but it is such a vast country I don't doubt for a second that there will be somewhere that is 100% better and perfect for me.
Really helping to hear people's opinions!
Sometime the move just makes the bad things worse.
#104
Re: Best place in Canada to move to?
I thought that when I moved to Calgary just over five years ago I would become an outdoor-loving skiing whizz. In reality, I am stuck indoors with two rambunctious kids and haven't even managed to get a sniff near a ski hill, and in the mean time my knee caps are degenerating at an alarming rate.....
Having said that, Calgary will give you good access to the outdoors, blue skies even in winter when it's cold, bearable weather all year round (chinooks that give you respite from the cold in winter, not too humid in the summers), a few months of pesky mozzies, and reasonably good employment opportunities. If you like the ocean then head further west to the Okanagan (mountains AND lakes) or even further west to the BC coast.
As some others have suggested, do the ice visa first - you can get two times one year visas and with one year of qualifying work experience you could then apply for permanent residence under the Canadian experience class. Remember when you come over on holiday that if you end up living here you will not be swanning about all the time in lovely hotels and tootling round the nice tourist honeypots. You'll be commuting to work (hopefully) in a minus thirty windchill, the bus/train will be delayed, your boss may be a complete tosspot, you'll be complaining about the price of cheese/booze/availability of marmite like the rest of us
#105
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Joined: Feb 2012
Location: Red Deer, Alberta
Posts: 243
Re: Best place in Canada to move to?
Alberta is beautiful, plenty of work some lovely smaller cities. Red Deer where we are isn't overly exciting as a city because it's only small but there are lovely trails and parks, great cross country skiing i'm told, ski canyon 5 mins up the road if you fancy trying down hill before you go into the mountains, lots of lakes close by, 2 hour drive and you're into Banff National Park. An amazing place I would recommend to anyone
And as a bonus......although there is a lot of snow and it can get pretty cold the blue skies and sun shine almost all year round make it well worth a little cold.
And as a bonus......although there is a lot of snow and it can get pretty cold the blue skies and sun shine almost all year round make it well worth a little cold.