View Poll Results: Would you do it again?
No
11
27.50%
Yes
29
72.50%
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Let's be honest
Sep 17th 2006, 1:22 pm
#16
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Re: Let's be honest
Originally Posted by willmore
Some yes....others just prefer to complain about their new life every chance they get! 
I wander in here twice a year and this is the abuse that I get??
I'll find a better place to waste m time in future
Hang on ... I tried that already ... I set up a forum for happy immigrants and nobody visited.
Hmmmm... I guess trainwrecks have a certain fascination .... looks like I have to put up with the angst of being a successful immigrant for another generation.
Where's Calgaryblade when you need him?
Sep 17th 2006, 1:27 pm
#17
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Re: Let's be honest
Originally Posted by Calgal
Would I do it all over again? With hindsight, definitely NOT! The cost is just too darned, high (and I'm not talking financially).
Ask me tomorrow and the answer might be different.
Ask me tomorrow and the answer might be different.
Nothing to do with altitude, is it?
Sep 17th 2006, 2:12 pm
#18
Thinking the unthinkable.
Joined: Mar 2005
Location: Guelph, Ontario
Posts: 2,136
Re: Let's be honest
Five weeks in now and at this particular moment; this frozen instant in time; this point in the journey.... I'm leaning towards no.
Ask me again next week at the same time and who knows, it might be yes?
It's cost a heck of a lot more financially than I would ever have believed. Emotionally it's been an interesting way of finding new forms of depression, anger, sadness, euphoria and hope. Maybe it will make me stronger and gain a new found appreciation of what I had back in Scotland and have now in Canada? I'm not a philosopher and can't go down that route.
One thing I'm sure of now is that I'm unsure of most things.
I'm glad we've done it as I know that I would always regret it if I turned the chance down.
So, I'm now going to take the blue pill.......and press the No button.
J
I'm leaning towards no.Ask me again next week at the same time and who knows, it might be yes?
It's cost a heck of a lot more financially than I would ever have believed. Emotionally it's been an interesting way of finding new forms of depression, anger, sadness, euphoria and hope. Maybe it will make me stronger and gain a new found appreciation of what I had back in Scotland and have now in Canada? I'm not a philosopher and can't go down that route.
One thing I'm sure of now is that I'm unsure of most things.
I'm glad we've done it as I know that I would always regret it if I turned the chance down.
So, I'm now going to take the blue pill.......and press the No button.
J
Originally Posted by Cowtown
Ignoring forum members who are students, spouses of students, people on work visas and spouses of people on work visas ... which admittedly rules out a fair chunk of the forum membership ... of the forum members who actually came to Canada as bona fide independant immigrants (ie. no existing ties in Canada, no freeloaders) and had to actually work to establish themselves, who would do it again?
Sep 17th 2006, 2:13 pm
#19
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Location: Victoria, BC Canada
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Re: Let's be honest
Originally Posted by Cowtown
Eh??
I wander in here twice a year and this is the abuse that I get??
I'll find a better place to waste m time in future
Hang on ... I tried that already ... I set up a forum for happy immigrants and nobody visited.
Hmmmm... I guess trainwrecks have a certain fascination .... looks like I have to put up with the angst of being a successful immigrant for another generation.
Where's Calgaryblade when you need him?
I wander in here twice a year and this is the abuse that I get??
I'll find a better place to waste m time in future
Hang on ... I tried that already ... I set up a forum for happy immigrants and nobody visited.
Hmmmm... I guess trainwrecks have a certain fascination .... looks like I have to put up with the angst of being a successful immigrant for another generation.
Where's Calgaryblade when you need him?
PMSL - at least my feeble attempt at sarcasm wasnt totally wasted.
That comment was NOT directed at you by the way! 
Sep 17th 2006, 2:16 pm
#20
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Re: Let's be honest
Originally Posted by Cowtown
Nothing to do with altitude, is it?
Sep 17th 2006, 2:23 pm
#21
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Re: Let's be honest
Originally Posted by willmore
PMSL - at least my feeble attempt at sarcasm wasnt totally wasted. That comment was NOT directed at you by the way!
That comment was NOT directed at you by the way! Keep working on the sarcasm, some day you'll master it
Sep 17th 2006, 2:24 pm
#22
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Re: Let's be honest
Originally Posted by Calgal
No, I don't think so.............assuming you did mean altitute, and not attitude?
Sep 17th 2006, 2:37 pm
#23
Born again atheist
Joined: Jul 2005
Location: Europe (to be specified).
Posts: 30,259
Re: Let's be honest
Would I do it again? You mean immigrate to Canada? Or leave the UK? Or have all night sex with Rachel Welch?
Sep 17th 2006, 2:43 pm
#24
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Re: Let's be honest
Originally Posted by Novocastrian
Or have all night sex with Rachel Welch?
Stops the fun when you have to search the black satin sheets for her false teeth ...
Sep 17th 2006, 2:58 pm
#25
Born again atheist
Joined: Jul 2005
Location: Europe (to be specified).
Posts: 30,259
Re: Let's be honest
Originally Posted by Cowtown
Dude ... isn't she like your granny's age?
Stops the fun when you have to search the black satin sheets for her false teeth ...
Sep 17th 2006, 3:02 pm
#26
little snowy owl
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 6,921
Re: Let's be honest
I certainly wouldn't apply to emigrate as a skilled worker applicant now. The timing with a two year wait when we applied in 2003 meant it fitted us perfectly. If it had been 4 years back then we'd probably never have started the whole business.
Also, had we known how the cost of housing and living would rise in Calgary since 2003 we might have not ended up here at least. I dunno. It's a bit horrifying, and I can see how moving here might not suit everybody.
That said, I have absolutely no regrets that we came. The boys have metamorphosed and are tremendous, and I really could not see that happening had we remained in the UK. The move has been stupendous for us!
We have just come back from a weekend trip to the mountains, made it to Moraine Lake and then to Golden, BC today. The beauty of it moved my OH to tears! (Not me, I'm made of sterner stuff! )
Also, had we known how the cost of housing and living would rise in Calgary since 2003 we might have not ended up here at least. I dunno. It's a bit horrifying, and I can see how moving here might not suit everybody.
That said, I have absolutely no regrets that we came. The boys have metamorphosed and are tremendous, and I really could not see that happening had we remained in the UK. The move has been stupendous for us!
We have just come back from a weekend trip to the mountains, made it to Moraine Lake and then to Golden, BC today. The beauty of it moved my OH to tears! (Not me, I'm made of sterner stuff!
)
Sep 17th 2006, 3:06 pm
#27
Born again atheist
Joined: Jul 2005
Location: Europe (to be specified).
Posts: 30,259
Re: Let's be honest
Originally Posted by Morwenna
I certainly wouldn't apply to emigrate as a skilled worker applicant now. The timing with a two year wait when we applied in 2003 meant it fitted us perfectly. If it had been 4 years back then we'd probably never have started the whole business.
Also, had we known how the cost of housing and living would rise in Calgary since 2003 we might have not ended up here at least. I dunno. It's a bit horrifying, and I can see how moving here might not suit everybody.
That said, I have absolutely no regrets that we came. The boys have metamorphosed and are tremendous, and I really could not see that happening had we remained in the UK. The move has been stupendous for us!
We have just come back from a weekend trip to the mountains, made it to Moraine Lake and then to Golden, BC today. The beauty of it moved my OH to tears! (Not me, I'm made of sterner stuff! )
Also, had we known how the cost of housing and living would rise in Calgary since 2003 we might have not ended up here at least. I dunno. It's a bit horrifying, and I can see how moving here might not suit everybody.
That said, I have absolutely no regrets that we came. The boys have metamorphosed and are tremendous, and I really could not see that happening had we remained in the UK. The move has been stupendous for us!
We have just come back from a weekend trip to the mountains, made it to Moraine Lake and then to Golden, BC today. The beauty of it moved my OH to tears! (Not me, I'm made of sterner stuff!
)Good for you Morwenna. Always enjoy your posts. (Well, not exactly always, but almost always
).
Sep 17th 2006, 3:06 pm
#28
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Re: Let's be honest
Originally Posted by Novocastrian
Well actually, no. She's more my wife's age.
I'm a 60's child and I feel old enough as it is ....
Originally Posted by Novocastrian
Nonsense. You should try it.
Sep 17th 2006, 3:36 pm
#29
little snowy owl
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 6,921
Re: Let's be honest
Originally Posted by Novocastrian
Good for you Morwenna. Always enjoy your posts. (Well, not exactly always, but almost always ).
).
Sep 17th 2006, 3:38 pm
#30
mañana is my busiest day
Joined: Mar 2004
Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Posts: 2,636
Re: Let's be honest
Originally Posted by Cowtown
How long would that all night be??
