Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
#241
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Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
Merry Christmas to everyone!
My husband has a job in Halifax and he will be going in the next couple of weeks. I will be staying in England with our 2 boys 3 and 8 years old. None of us have ever been to Halifax. Hubby will hopefully rent cheaply and we'll visit with the aim of heading out to join him permanently after a year.
Could do with some help and advice!
We're trying to work out if it's cheaper to pay for extra luggage on the flight or to ship - he wants to take 2 suitcases and his bike when he goes out intiallly. Any ideas on small item shipping costs?
Is it possible to rent all bills included fully furnished for can$750-800? It can be 1bed?
Has anyone else done the move as we're planning to? Any advice welcomed!!
My husband has a job in Halifax and he will be going in the next couple of weeks. I will be staying in England with our 2 boys 3 and 8 years old. None of us have ever been to Halifax. Hubby will hopefully rent cheaply and we'll visit with the aim of heading out to join him permanently after a year.
Could do with some help and advice!
We're trying to work out if it's cheaper to pay for extra luggage on the flight or to ship - he wants to take 2 suitcases and his bike when he goes out intiallly. Any ideas on small item shipping costs?
Is it possible to rent all bills included fully furnished for can$750-800? It can be 1bed?
Has anyone else done the move as we're planning to? Any advice welcomed!!
Graham
#242
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Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
Trying to help you, you MUST watch exchange rates. When in Canada 2013 we only got $1.52 to UK £, today $1.80 BUT if your husband has to send money back to the UK it will hurt big time. Credit cards, it will take 12 months to obtain, UK references mean nothing. Use any other ATM except your own bank they charge unlike UK. Canada may glitter but is not gold I can assure you.
Graham
Graham
#243
Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
Trying to help you, you MUST watch exchange rates. When in Canada 2013 we only got $1.52 to UK £, today $1.80 BUT if your husband has to send money back to the UK it will hurt big time. Credit cards, it will take 12 months to obtain, UK references mean nothing. Use any other ATM except your own bank they charge unlike UK. Canada may glitter but is not gold I can assure you.
Graham
Graham
#244
Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
#245
Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
I'm not sure the Eggman has a very high opinion of Canada in general (ironic when he applied to stay but was refused). Our experience has been a positive one. We find costs are cheaper (for us). We haven't been back to the UK. Everyone of any importance has wanted to visit us here. The cost of milk isn't a deal breaker for us. We pay $4.87 for 4 litres (2%).
#246
Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
I'm not sure the Eggman has a very high opinion of Canada in general (ironic when he applied to stay but was refused). Our experience has been a positive one. We find costs are cheaper (for us). We haven't been back to the UK. Everyone of any importance has wanted to visit us here. The cost of milk isn't a deal breaker for us. We pay $4.87 for 4 litres (2%).
Btw we did get a five figure credit card within 6 months of being here on a twp.....just saying Gman
#247
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Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
Life and regulations and climate and prices and laws and geography, etc. in Nova Scotia differ from life and such in Alberta, or BC, or Ontario, etc. It's entirely inaccurate to take a regional phenomena (rural Nova Scotia) and extrapolate it to a national one (Canada). It's like trying to paint all of Europe with the same brush after a miserable experience in the Orkney Isles.
#248
Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
I think there's perhaps $4500 worth (at least) of resentment that Canada apparently didn't want him.
#249
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Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
Our experience was rather different (just for perspective). We had Canadian bank accounts, credit cards and a line of credit about 3 months before we moved here. We were also able to get partial credit on a new car (we put down 50% of the cost). We weren't coming here with jobs either (we established our own business over the next 2 years).
First Canadian and US banks will not pass credit info' between themselves nor are they interested in your UK info'/credit score.
#250
Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
Nothing special. We were HSBC Premier customers with good UK credit ratings which everyone that mattered, or needed them, were happy to take into account. Using their global banking facility we could set up Canadian, US and offshore accounts well in advance of arriving. They also gave us a substantial line of credit - should we have needed it. Credit cards were also provided with a reasonable 5 figure limit. In my naivety I sort of assumed this was the norm! Maybe we were just lucky. I suppose, having been in business for so many years I expect that the bank is there to work for - or at the very least with - me as a minimum level of service. If they don't, I guess I'd look for another bank. They appear to want to keep us on board!
#251
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Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
My partner and I moved to Nova Scotia in 2013 and both got credit cards within a month of landing. The bank didn't accept our UK credit history, and neither of us had jobs lined up. We went to RBC, I think they had some kind of newcomers package... all I know is it took a couple of weeks but that was it!
#252
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Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
Wrong, I like Nova Scotia but on reflection I would not want to live there and our lawyer would charge us nothing if we reapplied, we won't. Why, a Canadians words not mine repeat not mine. The Provincial Government has to much control of too much and were 50 years behind the US/EU in so many ways, we complain yes but get no where.
#253
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Rbc Gave us credit cards straight away too, they were very interested in our UK credit history which we provided to them.
GTE - I think many have different experiences to you, maybe the personal circumstances are different.
GTE - I think many have different experiences to you, maybe the personal circumstances are different.
#254
Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
It was providing my credit records that persuaded the Canadian bank to give me a credit card after they had originally turned me down for lack of a credit record.
#255
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Re: Potentially moving to Halifax, NS
Nothing special. We were HSBC Premier customers with good UK credit ratings which everyone that mattered, or needed them, were happy to take into account. Using their global banking facility we could set up Canadian, US and offshore accounts well in advance of arriving. They also gave us a substantial line of credit - should we have needed it. Credit cards were also provided with a reasonable 5 figure limit. In my naivety I sort of assumed this was the norm! Maybe we were just lucky. I suppose, having been in business for so many years I expect that the bank is there to work for - or at the very least with - me as a minimum level of service. If they don't, I guess I'd look for another bank. They appear to want to keep us on board!