Yep, watch out for appliance prices. We were out selecting appliances for our new build house a couple of weeks ago and were horrified by the prices of these. If you want a front loading washing machine and drier, be prepared for heart failure when you see the prices.

Yep, don't blame the Calgary increase on the Brits. Calgary is booming at the moment and people are flocking from all over Canada to take advantage of it. The housing market is absolutely ridiculous, with land in such short supply that the wealthy are buying $800k properties and demolishing them straight away just for the land.

I must be one of the obsessed. I have never, ever got my laundry as clean or as bright white as I did back home. I hate doing laundry here and yes, after ten years, I still iron. I don't iron socks or underwear, but I do iron sheets, T shirts, shirts and some trousers. I love crunchy towels and defy a bylaw to have an outside laundry whirly-gig for the warmer months. I even invested in a top of the range front loader washer/dryer team the minute they (eventually) came out here and while there is a slight improvement, I am limited to two types of HE with nothing between them! OK the men in white coats are coming.... :scared:

I don't want to come across as racist which I am not, but how on earth do most of these immigrants form SE Asia qualify. A large number of the points for a skilled worker application come from English/Freanch language ability .....
As an engineering graduate whose mother tongue is English, I only just qualify with 67 points .............

We're feeling grumpy after a trip to the Harry Hayes building in Calgary on Friday to get my wife's SIN card. We were stuck in the queue at the reception for 20 minutes behind a younf professional looking oriental couple who could only just communicate in English. We then had to wait another 30 minutes while they applied for their SIN cards, because of communication problems with the officer. If they had not held us, and everyone else, up we would have been in and out in 5 minutes instead of the best part of an hour we had to spend their.

Fume

Try:

http://www.superstore.ca/

Cheap and crappy, but for tinned goods and non-perishables, who cares. Meat and produce is utter rubbish, so is most of the generic dairy. Average shop for me is well over $300 a week - usually nearer $400. There are seven of us, including a baby, whose nappies are excluded from that total.

There are lots of immigrants who don't have to pass an English/French test, refugees, family class...etc. Good luck to them. We've got such a head start with our mother tongue, and you're complaining about being held up a little?!

And of course if you want a double oven - and I do - you can be lookng at nearly double the price than for the single oven modles.

I do find the cooker thing quite annoying and wish I could take my english one. I know they are bigger but they are so basic unless as I said you want to spend a fortune.

Pennyhp

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Family Class

here in Bramladesh we have family class 'east Asians' whose last job was on a basic farmstead and only speak their 'local dialect' so it not unusual to see groups on the construction sites with translator/foreman and workmanship that still belongs on a third world farm!!!

We were not helped by the fact that we wanted nice shiney built in stainless steel appliances. We did managed to get a double Fridgidair oven for the same price as most singles. At the recommended appliance shop, it was not part of the primary display, but "around the corner". The sales person grudgingly admitted that with since my wife is not heavily into baking cakes there would no point at all in buying one of the more expensive ($1500+ more) models.

It is a well known fact that my spelling is the worst on this forum.

That's probably where you dropped the points on your application.

You know the ads at the bottom of the threads...they pick up keywords and link to advertisers...bear with me...am I the only (evidently) sad git who noticed Smeg Kitchen Appliances? Am I the only person left in the universe who still giggles at that word?

Nope.

It's only because they are so expensive, and therefore only bought by the sophicated and rich who are above such giggling, that they manage to do any business at all in the english speaking world.

A lot of SE Asian immigrants speak perfectly good English, are increadily wealthy and/or are incredibly well educated. It's as simple as that.