N V

Hello Everyone!

Found this forum yesterday and amazed at the weath of information!!!! Sorry if I have made a bad booboo concerning forum etiquette - bit overwhelmed with all the info so please forgive me if I have!

My family and I have discussed moving to Canada as a pipe dream, but decided (after looking at building our own home here in the UK - in the future) to looking at what we would ultimately want - to immigrate to Canada permenantly. So beginning to look at how the process works and whats involved etc.

We are looking at Alberta and Red Deer, but have thoughts that anywhere in Canada will be a good place to start, bearing in mind job hunting. I will be a primary school teacher (which sounds like it will be a struggle to get a job) and my OH is an I.T. Engineer. So at the moment after reading some of the information on here and the CIC website that we may have trouble getting a visa and getting jobs over there.

Anyway - looking forward to researching a possible move to Canada!

Best
Nikkiy

Sherlock Holmes

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Alistair.

SDDep

Best of luck to you...

And there I was thinking you had seen a ten foot tall red deer or something...darn it!!

Piff Poff

Hi Nikkiy,

Welcome to BE and all that, we live in Red Deer if you have any questions at all on the area then ask away, we've been here for 5 years so have a pretty good feel of the area and of the city, we actually love living here for the most part and are very glad Red Deer chose us.

Couple of school websites for you to look at, also youtube Red Deer as Red Deer tourism have a couple of bits on there.
www.rdpsd.ab.ca
www.rdcrd.ab.ca

I will be away for the next couple of weeks but I'm sure my addiction will get me logging on to here at least next week

Piff

Aviator

Welcome to BE. Take a look through the Job Hunting and Quick Guide to Immigrating in the wiki as a starting point.

Out of interest what drew you to Red Deer?

N V

Thanks for your replies!!!

The links are great! Ta!

What was the draw to Red Deer = well my OH likes Edmonton and I always had a yen for Calgary - so we went in the middle! Plus my OH comes from Bristol and is a city lad and I'm a small town girl so Red Deer seemed a good spot to recce first. Alberta is where we would like to settle eventually but we'll go where the jobs are!

Aviator

Red Deer is a nice town, been there many times. We also have a member or two living out that way. Teaching unfortunately is very difficult to break into, even for Canadians. IT may be easier depending on what your OH is qualified in.

Good luck in your quest.

N V

Thankyou Aviator!!! We have a long way to go yet and many years of research ahead but this forum is helping us make a start

Hubby is completing a open degree with OU with software background - so hoping to branch out with web designing and software etc, as well as his current occupation as a IT engineer.

Thanks for your replies everyone - thanks for making us feel welcome!!!

jericho

Do people actually live in Red Deer? I always thought it was just the place to stop off to refill the coffee between Calgary and Edmonton.

Aviator

It's a nice little town, way more attractive than Calgary or Edmonton.

Steve_P

Somebody has to make the coffee.

Almost Canadian

Neither of which are little towns

smivers

It really doesn't compare to Calgary or Edmonton - Red Deer has a nice towny feel to it, but it's not so dead that there's nothing to do, and it seems to be growing all the time. My wife has lived here for three years and I've been here for 3 months now. We're hoping that once my residency comes through I'll be able to find a job here so we can stay rather than moving to one of the big cities. Feel free to PM me if you want to know anything, and I'll see what I can do.

Andy

smivers

There's so much more to Red Deer than just the coffee. Try the Little Ice Cream And Soda Shoppe on Ross (50th) St/40th-ish Ave next time ;o).

Aviator

Which is why it is way more attractive