If you had the chance to travel back in time to when you were all sweaty palms and palpitations at the prospect of emigrating ...

What would you do differently to make the big move smoother and less of a crash landing?

I'd move to Devon instead.

I should of gone to Devon too,which is where i am hoping to be within the next 3-4 months

It all went pretty smoothly anyway so probably wouldn't change anything. From the first thought about emigrating to actually moving over with PR status was less than two years with no real problems. I guess we were just lucky.

Id have married a different Canadian woman

I wouldn't have changed anything. No crash landings here.

Agreed!

Meet a woman from a different country where there wasn't so much damn snow.
Preferably from the south of France.

I am Desperate to visit Devon!

I wouldn't. Can't wait to GTFO of it.

sickeningly wouldn't change a thing, all that happened then , led to where I am now x

My OH's answer - actually say goodbye to everyone, rather than just leave..lol I know he would not!

I wouldn't change anything - things have been crazy at times, but you live and learn from them all!

I've never once been "all sweaty palms and palpitating" at the prospect of moving between countries. I think if you are, you maybe shouldn't do it. You haven't done the planning.

We should have looked at emigrating earlier in life so that our children would have had the chance of being with us without all this immigration crap that our youngest is going through now.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing!!!

If I could turn back the clocks I would have applied sooner. From having the idea to actually arriving in NS it took us about 5 years!!! We're still only on TWP so roughly 6 years total until PR! That meant 5 years of day dreaming about a different life rather than just getting on with it!!!

Also I would think more carefully about the distances between places as we're a long way from where we originally planned to settle and it takes so long to go there