Buying a house in - Canada - with cash ( edit to title)
Oct 14th 2019, 12:06 am
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I think the Pat Buchanan reference is spot on. It's a Republican term for the socialist nation to the north.
Oct 15th 2019, 6:13 pm
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IF you were here in the early 1990s in BC, then it was being used as a term, but actually more a term of fear ............ Sikh extremists from India were then fighting for separation and having their own homeland, Khalistan. It got very violent over there, and then immigrants brought the fighting to Canada, and most specifically to BC, with bombings and assassinations not only planned here and carried out overseas but also in BC.
Google Air India bombing in 1985, which was also accompanied by a bomb exploding early in Narita Airport, Japan. There was an assassination attempt on a Indian government Minister on Vancouver Island, attacks on moderate Sikhs in the Lower Mainland, etc etc. The bombs used in the Air India flight and the Narita flight were made in the Lower Mainland and tested on Vancouver Island.
That's when the term Canuckistan came into use, and yes, it might have been in use in certain circles, but not out of any reference to being a cold country.
We were in Toronto Airport at the same time as the people waiting to board the Air India flight that later was blown out of the sky off the west coast of Ireland. Their flight was boarded and left before our domestic flight was called. It's a vivid memory for me, as we saw mainly women and children, all happy to be going "home" for a holiday.
Now you know where I was coming from.
Google Air India bombing in 1985, which was also accompanied by a bomb exploding early in Narita Airport, Japan. There was an assassination attempt on a Indian government Minister on Vancouver Island, attacks on moderate Sikhs in the Lower Mainland, etc etc. The bombs used in the Air India flight and the Narita flight were made in the Lower Mainland and tested on Vancouver Island.
That's when the term Canuckistan came into use, and yes, it might have been in use in certain circles, but not out of any reference to being a cold country.
We were in Toronto Airport at the same time as the people waiting to board the Air India flight that later was blown out of the sky off the west coast of Ireland. Their flight was boarded and left before our domestic flight was called. It's a vivid memory for me, as we saw mainly women and children, all happy to be going "home" for a holiday.
Now you know where I was coming from.
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Oct 16th 2019, 4:47 am
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Note here: It is not such a good idea to bite the hands that will reach out to help . It is also easy peasy to simply just be kind and look to cause no harm. Things still get done but perhaps more smoothly.
Oct 16th 2019, 3:53 pm
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I , on the other hand, regardless of the rights/wrongs - meaning / intention, have no wish for Canadians & the good peoples of this Canadian forum to feel rubbished about their country.
Note here: It is not such a good idea to bite the hands that will reach out to help . It is also easy peasy to simply just be kind and look to cause no harm. Things still get done but perhaps more smoothly.
Note here: It is not such a good idea to bite the hands that will reach out to help . It is also easy peasy to simply just be kind and look to cause no harm. Things still get done but perhaps more smoothly.
It comes down to this. This is an obsessively sensitive narcissistic world that we have to navigate... If you get out of bed these days someone will get offended so I CHOOSE not to get offended by anyone or worry if I offend. I have a life to live and accomodating such people is a waste of that life. And (sigh) this comment will most likely offend someone LOL
Oct 16th 2019, 4:06 pm
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It comes down to this. This is an obsessively sensitive narcissistic world that we have to navigate... If you get out of bed these days someone will get offended so I CHOOSE not to get offended by anyone or worry if I offend. I have a life to live and accomodating such people is a waste of that life. And (sigh) this comment will most likely offend someone LOL
But while choosing to not bother if you do offend someone, then someone who is offended by something you said previously may choose not to assist you. And if that turns out to be the only person who had something to offer, then you've lost the assistance when all you had to do was maybe change a word or two in the way you ask a question.It's not like you have to swallow a load of principles, doff a cap, touch a forelock, sell out, arse lick or anything like that, just be uncontroversial.
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Oct 16th 2019, 4:14 pm
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I doubt this post will offend someone. But while choosing to not bother if you do offend someone, then someone who is offended by something you said previously may choose not to assist you. And if that turns out to be the only person who had something to offer, then you've lost the assistance when all you had to do was maybe change a word or two in the way you ask a question.
It's not like you have to swallow a load of principles, doff a cap, touch a forelock, sell out, arse lick or anything like that, just be uncontroversial.
It's not like you have to swallow a load of principles, doff a cap, touch a forelock, sell out, arse lick or anything like that, just be uncontroversial.
Look at the comment above yours, some one took offence LOL.
Honestly I get what you're saying but there's a point where I draw the line. I know, implicitly, what my motivations are with respect to what I say and do, and for the most part they are good and or innocent, so I will continue to be me, and if that offends, well, oh well.
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Oct 16th 2019, 4:30 pm
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Re: Buying a house in - Canada - with cash ( edit to title)
It comes down to this. This is an obsessively sensitive narcissistic world that we have to navigate... If you get out of bed these days someone will get offended so I CHOOSE not to get offended by anyone or worry if I offend. I have a life to live and accomodating such people is a waste of that life. And (sigh) this comment will most likely offend someone LOL
You might want to adjust your thinking slightly if you want to be relatively successful in Canada....... if you give people attitude - and that's the way you are coming across, unfortunately.... they likely will choose not to accommodate you, assist you, befriend you - and instead will tell you to take a hike, not bother to help you with a problem etc.. no offense meant
All joking apart, Canada is very much a country of 'not what you know but who you know' - making connections and taking the time not to cause offense unnecessarily will bode you well - there's a lot of good advice and help available from the members of this forum, perhaps not alienating them would be a good start to your journey..
Moving swiftly on................
Oct 16th 2019, 4:59 pm
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Oh dear. You are right there - you have most definitely stirred the pot..
You might want to adjust your thinking slightly if you want to be relatively successful in Canada....... if you give people attitude - and that's the way you are coming across, unfortunately.... they likely will choose not to accommodate you, assist you, befriend you - and instead will tell you to take a hike, not bother to help you with a problem etc.. no offense meant
All joking apart, Canada is very much a country of 'not what you know but who you know' - making connections and taking the time not to cause offense unnecessarily will bode you well - there's a lot of good advice and help available from the members of this forum, perhaps not alienating them would be a good start to your journey..
Moving swiftly on................
You might want to adjust your thinking slightly if you want to be relatively successful in Canada....... if you give people attitude - and that's the way you are coming across, unfortunately.... they likely will choose not to accommodate you, assist you, befriend you - and instead will tell you to take a hike, not bother to help you with a problem etc.. no offense meant
All joking apart, Canada is very much a country of 'not what you know but who you know' - making connections and taking the time not to cause offense unnecessarily will bode you well - there's a lot of good advice and help available from the members of this forum, perhaps not alienating them would be a good start to your journey..
Moving swiftly on................
LOL. And moving swiftly on, you hit the close this thread button... No one had the answer before the bun fight started so it ain't gonna come now...
On a side note. I'm planning to move to the centre of the red neck world, outside of the good ol USofA that is. They'll probably label me a snowflake LOL. Can't win can I !!!
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Oct 16th 2019, 5:22 pm
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One person sought clarification as to whether you literally meant cash or just without a mortgage and two confirmed they had indeed bought without a mortgage. Within a day of your question.
Unless you literally meant cash - the folding or chinking kind - that did answer it.
I was going to chime in as a third example of buying without a mortgage but given the way you asked the question I held back.
Oct 16th 2019, 5:55 pm
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It comes down to this. This is an obsessively sensitive narcissistic world that we have to navigate... If you get out of bed these days someone will get offended so I CHOOSE not to get offended by anyone or worry if I offend. I have a life to live and accomodating such people is a waste of that life. And (sigh) this comment will most likely offend someone LOL
Oct 16th 2019, 5:55 pm
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We bought ours outright too. As part of the anti terrorism and money laundering legislation you will likely be asked where the money came from and what it will be used for. I collected a bank draft, dropped it off at the lawyers and they paid the other side on closing exactly as if the funds had come from a mortgage.
LOL. And moving swiftly on, you hit the close this thread button... No one had the answer before the bun fight started so it ain't gonna come now...
On a side note. I'm planning to move to the centre of the red neck world, outside of the good ol USofA that is. They'll probably label me a snowflake LOL. Can't win can I !!!
On a side note. I'm planning to move to the centre of the red neck world, outside of the good ol USofA that is. They'll probably label me a snowflake LOL. Can't win can I !!!
Yes, you can purchase with cash - though you might be asked some difficult questions as to where the money came from, so make sure you can document it..
Always remember that you must declare if you are bringing in more than $10,000 - cash, cheques, letters of credit, etc (and the banks will ask the same questions when you transfer over that amount too).
https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/travel-v...d-vdd-eng.html
Oct 16th 2019, 10:23 pm
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The OP has recd very helpful answers but the rest of it is going nowhere really.
So yes. Thread closed.
So yes. Thread closed.
