Ok i messed up a little on the last poll about age. So i thought i would ask how long people have been in Canada?

How long did it take to settle?

or is there such a time?

have you settled?

what would you suggest to help others with the re settlement process?

are you here daily for your fix until you can get here?

25 years in April.

I'm not settled.

8 years

18 months

Take a trip back to the UK after a year or so to compare. Worked for me anyway. Join in local clubs with common interests. Try not to gravitate towards other expats too much, misery loves company.

I think settlement/ homesickness are an ongoing process. While I feel more settled at the moment, I still have a personal gripe with myself about the lack of lamb and decent healthy ready prepared meals. Oh and the fact that if I order take out Chinese, there's always enough for say, four other meals.

Not to mention the lack of decent shoes or underwear in my size.

However I see these issues as being more about slight tinges of homesickness. On the whole life is pretty good. I have great friends, and I'm still loving my car and my house...

Oh and this year two of my Canadian adventure...

Lack of lamb ?

Lots of lamb on offer at the market, we eat it better than once a week. If you want your lamb served then, from time to time, La Maquette offers very nice Colorado lamb. Otherwise they've usually some sort of rack.

Loblaws do a nice pre-marinated frozen rack.

I tried the Loblaws frozen lamb steaks. Very expensive and tasteless.

Apparently there's a very good organic butchers on Church in TO that has very good lamb.

I intend to try it out the next time I drive into the city with a car...

As opposed to what? taking the tank? Driving the pony and trap? Driving the hogs downtown

lol funny

I don't know that one but, at Christmas, we bought a rack from each of the stands in the market so as to compare. We wanted to see if Whitehouse's staggeringly expensive lamb was worth the price. We think not. We liked the one from Manos Meats.

Haven't tried the steaks. The rack is nice, though (esp. on the BBQ).

Too funny and so true!!! well apart from my one Brit freind who's a doll! but any other brits ive met are all miserable buggers

maybe I should get myself a Hummer... with a block heater natch...

Usually I get driven in by the nice train driver who drops me at Union Station, and the nice subway driver who lets me out at Davisville...

'Ang on a minute, you live in ON, centre of the world in Canada and you're complaining about not being able to buy decent food? You should try living out here in the wild East!

Not being able to get lamb is something I've resigned myself too as our local Dominion seems rarely to carry it. They did have some in the other day which was from NZ and seemed Ok. Its expensive compared to beef though.

Hence why I think I'm suffering from a mild bout of homesickness. Normally I'm quite happy to have veal instead these days...