If you could do it ALL over again ...
Mar 3rd 2012, 6:20 pm
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If you could do it ALL over again ...
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?
What would you do differently to make the big move smoother and less of a crash landing?
Mar 3rd 2012, 6:45 pm
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Re: If you could do it ALL over again ...
Mar 3rd 2012, 6:51 pm
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Re: If you could do it ALL over again ...
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. 
Mar 3rd 2012, 7:57 pm
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Re: If you could do it ALL over again ...
Id have married a different Canadian woman 
Mar 3rd 2012, 8:00 pm
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Re: If you could do it ALL over again ...
I wouldn't have changed anything. No crash landings here.
Mar 3rd 2012, 8:20 pm
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Mar 3rd 2012, 9:19 pm
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Re: If you could do it ALL over again ...
Meet a woman from a different country where there wasn't so much damn snow. 
Preferably from the south of France.
Preferably from the south of France.
Mar 3rd 2012, 10:37 pm
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Re: If you could do it ALL over again ...
I am Desperate to visit Devon!
Mar 3rd 2012, 10:40 pm
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Mar 3rd 2012, 11:01 pm
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Re: If you could do it ALL over again ...
sickeningly wouldn't change a thing, all that happened then , led to where I am now x
Mar 3rd 2012, 11:09 pm
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Re: If you could do it ALL over again ...
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 wouldn't change anything - things have been crazy at times, but you live and learn from them all!
Mar 4th 2012, 10:19 pm
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Re: If you could do it ALL over again ...
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.
Mar 5th 2012, 2:10 am
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Re: If you could do it ALL over again ...
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.
Mar 5th 2012, 12:26 pm
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Re: If you could do it ALL over again ...
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
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