Has there been a worse time to emmigrate?
#31
slanderer of the innocent
Joined: Dec 2008
Location: Vancouver, BC
Posts: 6,695
Re: Has there been a worse time to emmigrate?
My 2p/2c:
I'm mid-late twenties, as is my fiancee. I own a joint share in a house which I'll be parting with early next year regardless of whether we're off to Canada or not as my friends and I who I bought it with have decided it's time to sell and do our own things. We want to start a family in the future and I'd prefer to do that in Canada. We're not worried about going a few rungs down the ladder and climbing back up again as we're still young. We don't have stacks of savings and equity but believe that longterm, Canada's a better shot for us and what we want from life than the UK. At this stage in our lives, it's definitely worth the (financial) risk.
All the best to you guys, whatever happens
I'm mid-late twenties, as is my fiancee. I own a joint share in a house which I'll be parting with early next year regardless of whether we're off to Canada or not as my friends and I who I bought it with have decided it's time to sell and do our own things. We want to start a family in the future and I'd prefer to do that in Canada. We're not worried about going a few rungs down the ladder and climbing back up again as we're still young. We don't have stacks of savings and equity but believe that longterm, Canada's a better shot for us and what we want from life than the UK. At this stage in our lives, it's definitely worth the (financial) risk.
All the best to you guys, whatever happens
#32
Re: Has there been a worse time to emmigrate?
I emigrated from the UK to Vancouver last September and I can assure you , I am no spring chicken and I have not landed with a lot of cash and assets because of the housing crash. I am a single parent with an 18 year old and we are very happy here. Fortunately my skills are in demand and three months after arriving I landed a permanent job with a very good school district. I believe in the good old saying 'Where there's a will, there's a way'. If this is where you want to be then - Feel the fear and do it.
Ruby
Ruby
#33
Re: Has there been a worse time to emmigrate?
I emigrated from the UK to Vancouver last September and I can assure you , I am no spring chicken and I have not landed with a lot of cash and assets because of the housing crash. I am a single parent with an 18 year old and we are very happy here. Fortunately my skills are in demand and three months after arriving I landed a permanent job with a very good school district. I believe in the good old saying 'Where there's a will, there's a way'. If this is where you want to be then - Feel the fear and do it.
Ruby
Ruby
#34
Re: Has there been a worse time to emmigrate?
I'm enjoying the cliche's in this thread. Keep 'em coming
#36
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Joined: Sep 2009
Location: Scotland
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Re: Has there been a worse time to emmigrate?
hi we have just had our medicals after 3years of waiting and we are having the twitches. We are in our 40's with 2 young kids aged 7 & 9 and all in all we do have a fairly good standard of living. we have two houses and a small business so we could come to canada with some cash but our problem is my wife is a primary school teacher here in the uk and they don't need teachers in canada so that is our dilema .I have two friends that are canadian and are willing to give me a job when we land .We dont want to get rich we just want a better quaity of life for our kids .If my wife gives up her job here she will not get a job that easy as positions are hard to come by, and she is expensive compared with someone straight out of college.We we feel like we are giving up everthing for the unknown.We feel this is our only chance to do it as we would not qualify under the new system, and we dont want in five years to say "what if!!".I want the best future for my children. Any advice, comments or thoughts are welcome.
#38
Re: Has there been a worse time to emmigrate?
I was trying to remember the anecdote I heard last week on Radio 2's 'thought for the day'. I liked its sentiment, but just couldn't remember it, until now.
It might fit under the cliche camp too. You decide.
Anyway, the guy said that FEAR was natural and healthy.
He gave an acronym for fear that gave a positive slant
- Face Everything And Recover.
It might fit under the cliche camp too. You decide.
Anyway, the guy said that FEAR was natural and healthy.
He gave an acronym for fear that gave a positive slant
- Face Everything And Recover.
#39
Re: Has there been a worse time to emmigrate?
Then you're completely mad. Well paid jobs in FE are hard to find in the first place and now you're considering chucking it all away just so you can be cold, eat fast food and drive a pick up truck?
#40
Banned
Joined: Oct 2008
Location: the GTA
Posts: 3,824
Re: Has there been a worse time to emmigrate?
So that's why you're always so miserable? What make/size truck you got, cowboy?
#41
Re: Has there been a worse time to emmigrate?
I was trying to remember the anecdote I heard last week on Radio 2's 'thought for the day'. I liked its sentiment, but just couldn't remember it, until now.
It might fit under the cliche camp too. You decide.
Anyway, the guy said that FEAR was natural and healthy.
He gave an acronym for fear that gave a positive slant
- Face Everything And Recover.
It might fit under the cliche camp too. You decide.
Anyway, the guy said that FEAR was natural and healthy.
He gave an acronym for fear that gave a positive slant
- Face Everything And Recover.
#43
Re: Has there been a worse time to emmigrate?
Radio two in the morning is Chris Evans - Terry Wogan for the twentytens. If you are listening to thought for the day, then presumably you are listening to the Today programme on R4. It's difficult to confuse Chris Evans and John Humphrys I'dve thought.
#44
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Jan 2008
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Re: Has there been a worse time to emmigrate?