ork

Also to Delboy: Thank you both for your replies earlier. I would have responded sooner but I've been offline!

ork

I hope that it is okay to ask a quick question here rather than starting a brand new thread - as I don't mean it to be a full-on big topic and none of you have bitten my head off (yet) when I post.

I haven't been over the border to the states since I've been here. We are planning a quick trip this weekend. However my official PR card still hasn't arrived. I have my UK passport containing my canadian visa and the official piece of paper stapled inside my passport - that should be enough at the border...

...shouldn't it?

G77

This has been covered recently - there's no requirement to present your PR card, but it can speed things up is the official line.

In my experience they quite often don't even take ANY documentation off me to get back into the country, so can't imagine it will be a problem.

Butch Cassidy

What the whippersnapper from windsor said is true

ork

Thank you!

ork

Thank you too!

canadiangrape

Wow! I never knew there was so many unhappy people in the same situation. We have moved back to UK now I got a job within a week of being home earning as I thought twice the amount I was in Canada. I am very glad to be back where things make sense, Living in Vancouver was the most expensive thing I have ever done! Now to start remaking the money wasted on moving to such an unfriendly and one sided country.

Im so glad to be no longer in a situation where I should feel grateful for a job way beneath my qualifications and experience. My family are much happier now we are back and so is my wallet!

To anyone thinking of moving to Canada, expect to work in a dead end job and get paid nothing and treated like dirt by Canadian employers.

dboy

Hope that wine and cheese is working out for you.

i moved to vancouver, don't work in a dead end job, and get treated smashingly thank you, and get paid a lot more than I would in the UK doing the same job. Each to his own. Would you like a piece of cheese with that whine?

el_richo

Well at least you're not bitter

Just out of curiosity, what work did you do in Vancouver and what do you do in the UK?

joepublic

That's because this poxy country's full of raging alcoholics and the more you buy the cheaper it gets

I hardly drink anything (unusual for a squaddie I know, but true nonetheless) but I'd pay $50 a bottle if it meant getting out of this sh#t hole

Alan2005

You'll soon be living the dream then.

R I C H

I'd offer some karma, but it appears you've had it already.

joepublic

I think I'm a realist (although my wife calls me a pessimist). I don't anticipate things being 'a dream' but hopefully a little better than here. I think the year we spent living there was enough to get a feel for the place, people and environment, and we all seemed to thrive on it. To be honest, I'll be happy with a decent sized affordable house and a reasonable amount of traffic, anything else beyond that is a bonus for me. The biggest hurdle from now on in is what CiC decide with respect to my daughter. She has Asperger's as you probably know. We had our medicals last week and are now expecting a long and tense few months while we wait for the outcome.

Canada/UK both have their pluses and minuses; one man's meat is another man's poison as they say, but I know which one suits us better

airbornesapper

Quality....

Yours aye....K

ExKiwilass

Hmm. I see lots of Brits in senior management in this company Lots working in their profession, too. Maybe it depends what industry you're in.

FYI my brother has found the same as you in the UK. His qualifications aren't recognised and he's basically had to start again, finds it's who you know not what you know etc. etc. He's thinking of emigrating to Canada.