el_richo

**** me, if emigrating to areas equivalent to Milton Keynes is this hard, i'd really not bother and focus on life in the UK.

I feel quite lucky it only took me 3 months from start to finish of a very straight forward application to move to a much nicer part of Canada with a job in hand

Good luck Alcat2010 but hopefully more realistic expectations are being reset. You remind me of my wife in that when she has something in her mind, she can't let it go until she does/buys it. It can be a very expensive mindset

alcat2010

Ouch, that hurt..

You play nice now

Dbd33 will be along to back me up though...
I actually made him "laugh out loud".. true story

JamesM

But there is a Hooters......

R I C H

Does not compute.

Fail to see how squeezing 4 bedrooms into 2,000 sq/ft and having adequate living accommodation for 6 people is 'very appealing'.

Oink

Me too. That's less than the size of our condo.

Tony-the-Tigger

Okay then. Suggest a useful and realistic alternative? Bearing in mind, of course, that Toronto is experiencing it's highest property prices since the mid 90's. It's hardly a squeeze either by the way, unless you are horizontally challenged?

Atlantic Xpat

For many in the UK a 2000sq ft house of any number of bedrooms seems like an impossibility. One forgets quite how small UK houses are as one sits back in the echoing vastness of ones family room in Canada.

R I C H

I wouldn't spend a chunk of money and think that emigrating to such a compromised living space was appealing at all, so my solution would be to live elsewhere in Canada (given Barrie's less than glowing appeal within this thread), or stay in the UK.

To my mind emigrating should deliver the least amount of compromise possible. It's a choice to improve lifestyle, environment, salary or whatever else motivates you. The scenario you picture would offer me no reason to think I'd be happier or willing to invest in the process.

Tony-the-Tigger

Couldn't agree more. The OP. stays in a flat in Glasgow and has a young family. All I was trying to say is that Barrie could be a good starting point for them as house prices are reasonable and the recent hospital expansion could be a good opp for his wife.

Tony-the-Tigger

as expat said, it all depends on what and where you are coming from (or getting away from). Your expectations could be someone else's dream.

fletcher m

yes, but he is deranged, i am sure he laughs out loud when he snaps the heads off kittens!

R I C H

Yes, it's all relative to expectations. A few years ago I built a 2,000 sq/ft house here, with 3 bedrooms for my wife and I. It was perfectly big enough for 2 of us and all our clutter. Would I have wanted another bedroom fitted in, and 4 more people living there with all their possessions? That'd would have driven me nuts.

Tony-the-Tigger

Maybe if you had less clutter you would fare better. The majority of houses built in the GTA over the last 10 years so (which are affordable to mortals) are around 2000 to 2500 sqft. Not including the basement.

R I C H

You assume clutter to be a negative - I mean just household stuff, possessions. I think I actually live pretty free of extraneous crap (see pic), but that doesn't mean I'd have wanted my stuff 3x over in the same space.

A 2,000 sq/ft house with basement is completely different - storage becomes far easier to manage.

Tony-the-Tigger

Nice looking room.