I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
May 25th 2011, 7:32 am
#17
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
(Can I just have a little rant, please?)
Okay, today I'm not excited. Today I'm peed off that my house is on the market and I have to keep it clean with four children who make no effort to help (surprise!) and every morning I run about like a maniac hoping we might get a call for a viewing and not a sausage. Not helped by the fact that the estate agent put it in the paper last week with the wrong town as the title, meaning that nobody looking for houses in our village would even see it, and anyone who called about it would be put off when they discovered it was in a village, not town.
And I'm peed off that the Canadian arm of my husband's company seem to work slower than the slowest things ever, meaning we've been waiting weeks and weeks for an alteration to the wording of the contract, meaning our move still isn't 100% certain, meaning my 11 year old is driving me mad asking what's happening and our 3 boys (9, 7 and 4) are picking up on my stress and behaving like monsters.
Okay, today I'm not excited. Today I'm peed off that my house is on the market and I have to keep it clean with four children who make no effort to help (surprise!) and every morning I run about like a maniac hoping we might get a call for a viewing and not a sausage. Not helped by the fact that the estate agent put it in the paper last week with the wrong town as the title, meaning that nobody looking for houses in our village would even see it, and anyone who called about it would be put off when they discovered it was in a village, not town.
And I'm peed off that the Canadian arm of my husband's company seem to work slower than the slowest things ever, meaning we've been waiting weeks and weeks for an alteration to the wording of the contract, meaning our move still isn't 100% certain, meaning my 11 year old is driving me mad asking what's happening and our 3 boys (9, 7 and 4) are picking up on my stress and behaving like monsters.
and we have done nothing yet oink a question for you ..... If you hate it so much in Canada (you obviously are not happy ive read some of your other replies ) why are you still there and not back in the UK
or is it you just get off on being so grumpy 
May 25th 2011, 7:56 am
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
Was just thinking the same thing but he's not alone as I've noticed a few on here who's opinion of Canada is a negative one and to call the place a S***hole is just being rude.
May 25th 2011, 8:18 am
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
My husband asked me to stop reading the posts on this forum, because he said it would make me anti Canada! He gets sooo cross when posters are quite so negative about his country. ALL countries have their pros and cons, and unless you are talking about an oppressive hellhole, they all weigh up pretty much the same. I LOVE, lots of things French, and will miss it oodles, but I know I'll find lots of great things in Canada that will make up for the bits I miss - and probabaly some not so great bits too, that I'll just have to accept! I love England whenever I visit, it's super, in many ways, but in many ways Not too.
May 25th 2011, 8:22 am
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
(Can I just have a little rant, please?)
Okay, today I'm not excited. Today I'm peed off that my house is on the market and I have to keep it clean with four children who make no effort to help (surprise!) and every morning I run about like a maniac hoping we might get a call for a viewing and not a sausage. Not helped by the fact that the estate agent put it in the paper last week with the wrong town as the title, meaning that nobody looking for houses in our village would even see it, and anyone who called about it would be put off when they discovered it was in a village, not town.
And I'm peed off that the Canadian arm of my husband's company seem to work slower than the slowest things ever, meaning we've been waiting weeks and weeks for an alteration to the wording of the contract, meaning our move still isn't 100% certain, meaning my 11 year old is driving me mad asking what's happening and our 3 boys (9, 7 and 4) are picking up on my stress and behaving like monsters.
Okay, today I'm not excited. Today I'm peed off that my house is on the market and I have to keep it clean with four children who make no effort to help (surprise!) and every morning I run about like a maniac hoping we might get a call for a viewing and not a sausage. Not helped by the fact that the estate agent put it in the paper last week with the wrong town as the title, meaning that nobody looking for houses in our village would even see it, and anyone who called about it would be put off when they discovered it was in a village, not town.
And I'm peed off that the Canadian arm of my husband's company seem to work slower than the slowest things ever, meaning we've been waiting weeks and weeks for an alteration to the wording of the contract, meaning our move still isn't 100% certain, meaning my 11 year old is driving me mad asking what's happening and our 3 boys (9, 7 and 4) are picking up on my stress and behaving like monsters.
Im sure skara things will suddenly all fall into place. Just keep smiling!
May 25th 2011, 10:02 am
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
Skara, I'm so glad you started this post. I've been feeling so disillusioned recently. Our house is up for sale and we've had no viewings since November. We have no news on our visas and have had no reply to our 8 month since AOR query. We have even been discussing staying and getting on with our lives. It really feels like living in a bubble.
I laughed when you mentioned people's eyes glazing over. I must admit that I try not to talk about it too much as I must seem like it's the only thing I can talk about, especially since it's been 3 years since our first reccie. This is the best place to rant and most people will be supportive.
MillieF, I love reading your posts as I lived in France for 9 years. I loved it for the first 5 years and hated it for the last 4. When I moved back to England I felt like a foreigner so I'm used to feeling like an outsider even in my own country. You will adapt as you already did in France. You seem like you are so committed to your new life that I'm sure it will be a success.
I laughed when you mentioned people's eyes glazing over. I must admit that I try not to talk about it too much as I must seem like it's the only thing I can talk about, especially since it's been 3 years since our first reccie. This is the best place to rant and most people will be supportive.
MillieF, I love reading your posts as I lived in France for 9 years. I loved it for the first 5 years and hated it for the last 4. When I moved back to England I felt like a foreigner so I'm used to feeling like an outsider even in my own country. You will adapt as you already did in France. You seem like you are so committed to your new life that I'm sure it will be a success.
May 25th 2011, 10:19 am
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
Admittedly, we do have quite a few anti-Canada posters at the mo because a lot of forum members that moved last year are returning to the UK having discovered that Canada is not for them, but even so it's hardly 'rude' to express a dislike of a place!
May 25th 2011, 10:39 am
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
It's not being rude - it's just expressing an opinion.
Admittedly, we do have quite a few anti-Canada posters at the mo because a lot of forum members that moved last year are returning to the UK having discovered that Canada is not for them, but even so it's hardly 'rude' to express a dislike of a place!
Admittedly, we do have quite a few anti-Canada posters at the mo because a lot of forum members that moved last year are returning to the UK having discovered that Canada is not for them, but even so it's hardly 'rude' to express a dislike of a place!
May 25th 2011, 10:50 am
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
It's not being rude - it's just expressing an opinion.
Admittedly, we do have quite a few anti-Canada posters at the mo because a lot of forum members that moved last year are returning to the UK having discovered that Canada is not for them, but even so it's hardly 'rude' to express a dislike of a place!
Admittedly, we do have quite a few anti-Canada posters at the mo because a lot of forum members that moved last year are returning to the UK having discovered that Canada is not for them, but even so it's hardly 'rude' to express a dislike of a place!
May 25th 2011, 10:59 am
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
i completely agree with you. I also find that some people do seem to want to hear only good things about Canada and not the bad , ive even been guilty of that myself and im sure many other posters on here would admit that too, but ive yet to find a reply from oink , and i do apologise to you oink if im wrong , that is good and upbeat . If oink is really hating being in Canada sooo much maybe its time to leave. I and everyone else who is planing on coming to Canada to start a new life knows that its not going to be easy , or they should anyway , but oink does seem to have a constant down on everything , im sorry if it seems im being rude to you oink but maybe my friend its time for you to find somewhere else to live
May 25th 2011, 11:19 am
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
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May 25th 2011, 11:31 am
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
Thanks everyone for taking the time to read and reply
Sometimes you just need to get things off your chest to people who get it - it's a bit like being pregnant - when you are, it's all you can think of, but even your closest friends and family start to glaze over when you start obsessing over it for the millionth time that week.
And Oink, I ran a marathon last year - bloody glad you weren't in my support crew, because if you had been I'd have given up and gone to the pub when I hit the wall.
Sometimes you just need to get things off your chest to people who get it - it's a bit like being pregnant - when you are, it's all you can think of, but even your closest friends and family start to glaze over when you start obsessing over it for the millionth time that week.
And Oink, I ran a marathon last year - bloody glad you weren't in my support crew, because if you had been I'd have given up and gone to the pub when I hit the wall.
May 25th 2011, 1:58 pm
#28
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
hopefully oink will read this and maybe tell us i feel sorry for people who build there dreams up of moving to Canada only to find that its so bad that they have to move back . I know its easy for me to say , im still in England , but surely people who move out and return within a few months havent given it time to work i would have thought you would need more time , a move to another town is going to take time to get used too but another country , another continent well Thats a different ball game altogether as we all know . I just hope it works for us aswell as anyone else who goes for it , it seems such a shame otherwise, so much work , time and money wasted .
May 25th 2011, 2:34 pm
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
What you also need to bear in mind is that new posters such as the OP live in the dream whereas those in Canada live in reality
But that's easy for me to say as i sit on my couch writing this, drinking a nice coffee, enjoying the picture perfect snow capped mountains, and watching the dragon boaters paddle along the water grunting like a 50 year old fat man tying his shoelace.
May 25th 2011, 2:38 pm
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
Your smug level is still lower than average for a Vancouver resident.