Info needed for Canadian moving to UK/Manchester
Jan 15th 2011, 9:47 pm
#46
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Re: Info needed for Canadian moving to UK/Manchester
Get a real estate agent in Toronto then.they have access to all property in Toronto and won't charge you a penny unlike uk letting agents. People seem to think that realtors in Canada are only for buying but we used one to get our rental apartment and she was fantastic. They will be interested in your business as they get commission from it. They have a smaller pool of properties to pick from but there are no costs to you and I found it was good when we had no history in Canada and she could explain our situation to them.
Re Manchester I lived there for 3 years before moving to Toronto and while its not the most memorable of cities it certainly has some nice areas to live in.a good place to research potential places is www.upmystreet.com gives you the profile and make up of a post code.feel free to pm me for any info
Re Manchester I lived there for 3 years before moving to Toronto and while its not the most memorable of cities it certainly has some nice areas to live in.a good place to research potential places is www.upmystreet.com gives you the profile and make up of a post code.feel free to pm me for any info
Jan 15th 2011, 9:48 pm
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Re: Info needed for Canadian moving to UK/Manchester
Well I work in IT so I'm told that Toronto is the best place to find work really and I've already spoken to a few of the other guys on here about that I'm slightly more comfortable on that subject now but the rental market in TO seems like a real minefield compared with what I'm used to.
If I contact a letting agent or private landlord about a property in Manchester then 9/10 times they will come back to you within 24 hours and try to arrange a viewing. We emailed a few landlords on Craigslist and Kijiji about apartments for rent and not a single one of them even had a decency to reply.
If I contact a letting agent or private landlord about a property in Manchester then 9/10 times they will come back to you within 24 hours and try to arrange a viewing. We emailed a few landlords on Craigslist and Kijiji about apartments for rent and not a single one of them even had a decency to reply.
You might also have a look at the Classifieds in Toronto's major daily newspaper and I would suggest, if you can afford, that you look for a condominium rental as they tend to be better appointed/maintained.
http://www.thestar.com/classifieds
Jan 15th 2011, 10:02 pm
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Re: Info needed for Canadian moving to UK/Manchester
Are you contacting them from Manchester? If so then I suspect that's part of the problem, insofar as you're not here to view any units so they probably think 'Why Bother'.
You might also have a look at the Classifieds in Toronto's major daily newspaper and I would suggest, if you can afford, that you look for a condominium rental as they tend to be better appointed/maintained.
http://www.thestar.com/classifieds
You might also have a look at the Classifieds in Toronto's major daily newspaper and I would suggest, if you can afford, that you look for a condominium rental as they tend to be better appointed/maintained.
http://www.thestar.com/classifieds
I've actually signed up for a Canadian email address now as I thought that may be the problem but I will probably just wait until I get there now before I contact any more since we have some temp accomodation sorted out anyway.
Jan 17th 2011, 6:02 pm
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Re: Info needed for Canadian moving to UK/Manchester
Sadly there many areas of the UK where it hasn't worked out as well. Many areas have been completely taken over by immigrants of a single culture. They have built their own micro-country that exists inside the UK but has little interaction with it. That's not multiculturalism - multiculturalism is the interaction of multiple cultures not the creation of an exclusive enclave for just one culture.
Here in Vancouver, they are always prattling on about multiculturalism, but it isn't, it's white & SE Asian in the main. It's interesting to see the percentage of S.Asians in major UK towns (although figures are getting out of date with census' due in UK & Canada this year):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Asian
Blackburn: 20.6%
Bradford: 24.3%
Preston: 11.6%
Slough: 27.9%
Manchester: 9.1%
Birmingham: 22%
Leicester: 29.9%
In Vancouver the percentage of SE Asians is 27.9%, with 47.1% being from visible miniorities. Essentially, Vancouver has proportions of SE Asians, similar to what Slough, Bradford, Leicester has of S.Asian people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Vancouver
