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Yep!!!!! you are. :zzz:

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Well folks after nearly a month Giveusabreak has given us a break wonder if will ever hear how the really get on inthe future. Or will her life be really filling and rewarding.

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I was wondering the same thing, I'd really like to know honestly how it worked out. She reminds me alot of my sister and like my sister I'm not quite sure we'll get a truthful reply. The move part I'm sure went well but I suspect the marriage part didn't, to go 12 years with out a husband who then is home all day would drive one mad, particularly when your as independent as she is. I mean what is his role, husband, head of the house, father, pay cheque border????

anyways

I have to agree with R2D2 that forums like this are addictive, its nice talking to someone who has been through this before, even if for us it was Canada to Germany rather than UK to Canada. The attitude here is a nice change form britboard.de where complaining is the norm (of which I'm guilty as well :D )

If you've ever seen the show no going back you kinda of understand what givemeabreak is talking about, innumerable Brits spend a few days in the Sun decide to sell everything and move to warmer climate's with hardly a second thought regarding what they will do and then wonder why it didn't work out like it does on TV.

I also started another post on why and how did you move here, I love hearing stories like that

THM (its not for nothing that I choose that name).

BTW is Tim Hortons is huge in Ontario but what about the ROC (rest of the Canada)

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OMG..............is it ever. These people are obsessed!! They will sit in a traffic queue at the drive thru for easily 20 minutes during the commute to work ????????????? Which in itself amazes me. Wouldn't they rather have the extra time in bed, or at home with the family ???? You could make half a dozen flasks of the stuff in the time you spent sitting smelling other peoples car fumes!!!!
Maybe I just don't understand as I'm not a coffee drinker.......hate the stuff!!!

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Marinating in crappy caffeine and exhaust fumes might be the better option for a lot of folks!

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On Saturday I tried one of them Tim Horton's drive thru thingies. Never again. The problem is that once you're in the line there's no escape. The woman in front of me got into one of those prolonged arguments donut eaters so enjoy, "I wanted 13 brown bits and 7 lumpy mishapen ones with white glop, you've given me 12 and 8". I got out of my car, walked up to her and asked politely how long she'd be, she went into usually diatribe about how no one at Tim Hortons speaks English (which is true but no excuse for ordering bits of donuts and expecting specific ones). In a store I could leave but in the drive thru I was trapped while the fat old bat blathered on about wanting more milk or cream or whatever and the staff failed to understand her. I, being English, tried to translate her Canadian by amplifying it, but to no avail. Fifteen minutes of utter frustation.

Note that I would have preferred to go into an actual coffee shop but since TH's has the most misleading, one might say blantantly dishonest, signage of any firm, I only go into their stores when I can see them. The drive thru is visible from the highway, the signposted off highway store could be in Quebec, if it exists at all.

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According to an article in today's Calgary Herald:

"In the past five years, the number of Tim's outlets has jumped by nearly 50 per cent to more than 2,600 in Canada and nearly 300 in the U.S. Over the same period, sales increased 62 per cent so that, by last year. Tim's generated a staggering $1.2 billion US in revenue for its American owner, Wendy's International."

The rest of the article is here.

Not being a huge fan of coffee at the best of times I don't quite understand the popularity but who knows?

As for the doughnuts well I used to like them but haven't had more than a few in the last ten years.:(

Cheers
Steve

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I do like TH coffee, but no more than, say, Blenz or Second Cup. Hate Starbucks. But, I have come to the conclusion that this Tim Horton's thing is like a mass hysteria, and people line up for coffee just because it's there and they think they are expected to. They block intersections, for heaven's sake, for the a damned cup of coffee. I never go through a drive-thru, it's much simpler and quicker to park, go inside and get the coffee. I watch some of these people drive out onto the main road with a coffee in one hand, cell phone in the other, and driving with an elbow.

As for the level of staff intelligence - here's a funny story. Last year, in the middle of blueberry season, and living in blueberry-farming country, I had a blueberry muffin at Tim's that had not one blueberry in it. So I complained. And I was told there's a shortage of blueberries this year. I was so astounded I was speechless. Mind you, this is the same TH that the ice machine is always "down" so they can't make an ice-cap. Or is always out of strawberries when strawberry tarts are the feature.

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well firstly I must apologise for my first posts on this site, I was very rude, very forceful, very pig-headed and when I look back on it I'm quite ashamed. I think I was definately bored and antagonistic. Bored with waiting for so long for the PR to come through and antagonistic because I wanted to be in Canada and would quite happily replace anyone who wasn't enjoying it or taking it for granted. So sorry everyone for getting up your backs as someone quite rightly said "you are living it and have first hand experience of life in Canada as an ex pat". Mine is all theory at the moment. In case anyone is interested our state of play is this: had a job offer in Washington DC but after going out there again last week we turned that down for various reasons but main one being he would hardly be at home at all and the whole idea of this move is for a better quality of family life because contrary to someone else's view I adore my husband and we are very, very close and still very much in love. The children are suffering with his absences and I can no longer sleep with a 7 year old in my bed every night crying because he's missing his dad.

My husband has however been offered a fabulous job with a large satellite company based in Ottawa he is over there in 2 weeks time to finalise negotiations and sign on the dotted line this will then (I hope) help fast track our PR visa that has been in for 22 months now. So for curiosity's sake there you go thats what has happened to us and I hope you all forgive me for my very angry rants and hopefully \I shan't be one of those people that gives it 6 months and then returns to UK else I shall never be able to show my face again cheers xxx

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Well, I came into the original conversation rather late, so just went back and read your initial posting, and one later on - and I don't think you were at all rude etc. No need to apologise. I am glad to hear things are starting to work out for you and thanks for the update. Good luck!

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Well I wouldn't exactly call it that LOL!!

If you are used to moving around as much as this then it is feasible that YOU will be one of the people who CANNOT settle here. :)

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With her attitude, do you really give a s**t? Let her crash and burn!

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Alert, alert !

That's awfully sizist - the PC police will be informed and you will be taken to a dark place and beaten to within an inch of your life by recently immigrated hairy Lithuanian 18 stone retired lesbians who cannot speak English and who arrived here by way of sponsorship by a Federal Government official.

Bad man. :rolleyes:

Rich.

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I'm comfortable with being a sizist and, as it goes, with being beaten by lesbians. However, if you don't mind, I'd rather not have to look at a woman who weighs 18 stone, even if she is fully clothed (or wrapped or tented or whatever word one would use).

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No worries, and good luck in Canada... Having a job beforehand is a great way to make it work, sure you'll last longer than 6 months ;-)