I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
May 25th 2011, 5:33 pm
#46
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
The recipe for success in Canada is to get a job that a) pays the bills and b) you like. Most other things are secondary to that.
May 25th 2011, 5:37 pm
#47
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
Long gone are the days when Oh and I would say Bloody Canadians.
May 25th 2011, 5:38 pm
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
If my family and friends all move to NS then maybe I would consider it
Canada works for a lot of people. Best of luck with your move.
May 25th 2011, 5:43 pm
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May 25th 2011, 5:43 pm
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
It's the less tangible things that make immigration a success or not - creating friendships, not feeling isolated, getting a job, finding an area that you like and feel at home in. No matter how many recce trips, holidays, forums, books etc that you've invested time in, until you're actually here and trying to make a living, they only scratch the surface of reality.
I think forums like this can sometimes be unhelpful - it's too easy to stop thinking and researching for yourself, and rely on anecdotes, vague generalities and misinformation (all given in good faith, no doubt). Ultimately someone else's life is not your life, and you need to be able to weigh up pros and cons for yourself.
May 25th 2011, 5:47 pm
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
When I visited it was to visit my then fiance, not to recce per se. BUt he also visited me in Oz/NZ. I ended up here because between the two of us, my skills were more transferable as the industry he's in is much much smaller in oz/nz. Inititally we didn't plan to stay here, but best laid plans and all that...
Last edited by ExKiwilass; May 25th 2011 at 5:52 pm.
May 25th 2011, 5:52 pm
#53
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
I agree. All the worry about car insurance, healthcare or whatever, though understandable, is, IMO the least of the immigration issues. Canadian's make a living here working in professional and menial jobs, so a reasonably educated well informed European can survive too.
It's the less tangible things that make immigration a success or not - creating friendships, not feeling isolated, getting a job, finding an area that you like and feel at home in. No matter how many recce trips, holidays, forums, books etc that you've invested time in, until you're actually here and trying to make a living, they only scratch the surface of reality.
I think forums like this can sometimes be unhelpful - it's too easy to stop thinking and researching for yourself, and rely on anecdotes, vague generalities and misinformation (all given in good faith, no doubt). Ultimately someone else's life is not your life, and you need to be able to weigh up pros and cons for yourself.
It's the less tangible things that make immigration a success or not - creating friendships, not feeling isolated, getting a job, finding an area that you like and feel at home in. No matter how many recce trips, holidays, forums, books etc that you've invested time in, until you're actually here and trying to make a living, they only scratch the surface of reality.
I think forums like this can sometimes be unhelpful - it's too easy to stop thinking and researching for yourself, and rely on anecdotes, vague generalities and misinformation (all given in good faith, no doubt). Ultimately someone else's life is not your life, and you need to be able to weigh up pros and cons for yourself.
One of the advantages to being woefully ill prepared, is, I think, being totally open to whatever comes. When i see people trying to pick an area from the UK - and often they are trying to find similar-to-UK-village-life or the opposite of what they have the in the UK cos they don't like it there... I kinda want them to stop and try not to analyze so much. It's just so very different here.
May 25th 2011, 6:01 pm
#54
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
I agree. All the worry about car insurance, healthcare or whatever, though understandable, is, IMO the least of the immigration issues. Canadian's make a living here working in professional and menial jobs, so a reasonably educated well informed European can survive too.
It's the less tangible things that make immigration a success or not - creating friendships, not feeling isolated, getting a job, finding an area that you like and feel at home in. No matter how many recce trips, holidays, forums, books etc that you've invested time in, until you're actually here and trying to make a living, they only scratch the surface of reality.
I think forums like this can sometimes be unhelpful - it's too easy to stop thinking and researching for yourself, and rely on anecdotes, vague generalities and misinformation (all given in good faith, no doubt). Ultimately someone else's life is not your life, and you need to be able to weigh up pros and cons for yourself.
It's the less tangible things that make immigration a success or not - creating friendships, not feeling isolated, getting a job, finding an area that you like and feel at home in. No matter how many recce trips, holidays, forums, books etc that you've invested time in, until you're actually here and trying to make a living, they only scratch the surface of reality.
I think forums like this can sometimes be unhelpful - it's too easy to stop thinking and researching for yourself, and rely on anecdotes, vague generalities and misinformation (all given in good faith, no doubt). Ultimately someone else's life is not your life, and you need to be able to weigh up pros and cons for yourself.
May 25th 2011, 6:33 pm
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
Why do you think that is? Could it be that Canada is not as good as it was when others arrived? (I arrived in 1998 and somedays I would still happily get on the first plane back to the UK).
May 25th 2011, 7:03 pm
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
Hope you can speak Polish and other eastern european languages then.
May 25th 2011, 7:07 pm
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
So what makes you think you won't find the same immigrants here?
May 25th 2011, 7:11 pm
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May 25th 2011, 7:18 pm
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
or is it you just get off on being so grumpy 
As for the issue of my other posts, I think you need to read them more carefully. I find life in the city of Vancouver, while a little dull in the winter, very pleasing. I like the mixture of urban and ocean that the city has to offer. I think the misunderstanding comes from the fact I'm little more sophisticated and cosmopolitan that most so the thought of living in a slightly impoverished small Canadian town, where mono-cultural parochialism mixed with drug and alcohol abuse is rampant doesn't fill me with a sense of joyousness.
May 25th 2011, 7:20 pm
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Re: I've hit the moving-to-Canada wall.
Oh for sure, infact last time I visited I thought China had invaded (joke) just the doo-gooders here are changing all the signs to Polish. I thought visiting Wales was bad enough