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Old Sep 3rd 2014 | 7:16 am
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We are wanting to move away from NB Canada.
Our Son has now gone to Memorial Uni in NFL, and frankly, there is nothing here for us now.
We are considering a move to the rock too, even going back to the UK..
Is the rock really as expensive to live as we hear?
and what job opportunities are there in NFL at the moment?
Any feedback is welcome!
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Old Sep 3rd 2014 | 9:30 am
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Originally Posted by ALinCanada
We are wanting to move away from NB Canada.
Our Son has now gone to Memorial Uni in NFL, and frankly, there is nothing here for us now.
We are considering a move to the rock too, even going back to the UK..
Is the rock really as expensive to live as we hear?
and what job opportunities are there in NFL at the moment?
Any feedback is welcome!
AL
Paging AXPat among others. We have several NFL posters but they aren't going to know you want to know about The Rock from your thread title.

You're new so I'll ask a Moderator to change the thread title for you.

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Old Sep 3rd 2014 | 10:48 am
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
Paging AXPat among others. We have several NFL posters but they aren't going to know you want to know about The Rock from your thread title.

You're new so I'll ask a Moderator to change the thread title for you.
See what a summer in France does for you? You return all decontracte and helpful.
 
Old Sep 3rd 2014 | 11:06 am
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Originally Posted by bats
See what a summer in France does for you? You return all decontracte and helpful.
Possibly. Although nobody has changed the title yet.
 
Old Sep 3rd 2014 | 11:14 am
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Tis done.
 
Old Sep 3rd 2014 | 11:53 am
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Ask and ye shall receive.


Is there work here? Yes, lots, depending upon what it is you do for a living. Probably pays better than NB and lower provincial taxes. On the flipside property is much more expensive. Probably cheaper than UK though!

It's an Island so travel off it is more expensive than the mainland. Food is also probably more expensive but not prohibitively so. (We're not talking, Labrador or NWT prices here.) The weather can be "interesting" but we manage to survive. Natives are friendly & St John's is quite the buzzing little city with more in the way of culture and nightlife than many larger Canadian cities IMHO.

What else do you want to know?

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Tis done.
Thanks. Was just trying to be décontracté.
 
Old Sep 4th 2014 | 5:47 am
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
Thanks. Was just trying to be décontracté.
I don't have my glasses on and thought bats said "See what a slummer in France can do.."
 
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I don't have my glasses on and thought bats said "See what a slummer in France can do.."
I wish I had.
 
Old Sep 4th 2014 | 1:42 pm
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Originally Posted by bats
I wish I had.
Since the OP, to whom I was so immensely helpful, seems to have disappeared into the ether, let me add that slummer might have been equally appropriate,
 
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"My Sojourn in a Normandy Slummer" your autobiography title.

Not that your French place sounds slummy at all, dammit
 
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Originally Posted by bats
"My Sojourn in a Normandy Slummer" your autobiography title.

Not that your French place sounds slummy at all, dammit
Chateau Neuchatel innit?
 
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Haway les garcons
 
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Not sure this is working for me?
Plenty being said, very little making sense?
 
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Originally Posted by ALinCanada
Not sure this is working for me?
Plenty being said, very little making sense?
Quite usual for BE, don't sweat it.

Pose your questions either here or by PM as you already have and answers will follow.
 


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