Hiya!

Hope everyone is good out there. What a fab website! We currently live in Cheshire, England but we are hoping to move to Ontario in a couple of years. My husband works for a company that has offices in Toronto so he can get a transfer. I am a newly qualified teacher so I am wanting to get a couple of years experience in that before moving over. I also have family who live in Orillia, Ontario so they are a useful source of information. So hopefully it should work out but I know how difficult the process is especially after reading lots of posts! Good luck to everyone we hope you all get there and it works out well for you.

We are going over again for Christmas and can't wait!!

Take care everyone.

Hi and a big welcome to you. We were from Cheshire, moved here a little over two yrs ago.
Good luck with your journey

Hello and welcome to BE

Thanks R2D2 i expect you don't miss rainy Cheshire much!

Thank you Lorna! Are you moving to Regina permanently in Sept?

Mal's work permit is temporary for 6 months but we will apply for immigration through SINP when we get there. Hopefully everything will go well and we'll stay for ever and ever.

That's fab good luck!

Hello The Grizzlies and welcome to the nuthouse. After a few years on here and waiting to immigrate you will have completely lost it.

Funnily enough we did..........................that was until our first trip back there this summer, which made us realise we didn't really miss it all as much as we thought ! Strange world of emigration !

Hi We are also from Cheshire and are just sending off our SW application. (i know it takes for ever.) Do you like it in Canada? I love where I live now but so many people profess that moving to Ca is the best thing they ever did. Is it really so different to UK?

Alvic is the nutty one on here and the rest of us are sanewelcome to Alvic's nut house

I truly think it depends on what 'life' you had before back in the UK and what expectations you have for your new life.
For us, we never left the UK coz we didn't like it. We had a good life there, lived in a nice part of Cheshire. (I grew up in Tarporley and we lived in Alsager/Sandbach) For us, it was simply the opportunity for an adventure. It was the right time in our lives, so we figured, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Here, we have a better 'life-style' In terms of more money in our pockets at the end of the month, but a nicer home too. We have a greater outdoorsy lifestyle, with tons of leisure opportunities. The weather, although a tad chilly in winter, is sunny and bright, and we are most definatley more relaxed.
The one big thing that struck us going back to Cheshire this summer, was the hassle factor in day to day life. We just don't have the same degree of it here. In the UK its traffic jams, queues in the supermarkets, just driving around trying to find parking spaces...........just little things that make up day to day life, but affect how you feel. We felt instantly more relaxed once we got back to Canada for sure.

This is just 'our' experience though. Everyones will be different. Cheshire is and always will be special to us, and the countryside was amazingly beautiful, but as one friend said to me...........'don't come back just for trees'

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