so I thought Id better do one too!

Theres not much to say really. My boyfriend and me are living in London at the moment but we have been talking about emmigrating for a while. Want to do it while we're young I guess. We're not really 100% sure where we want to go at the moment, we've been looking at Canada and Australia, but Im leaning towards Canada because its closer to home, and because Im not sure about moving to a country with snakes and spiders and...

Anyway, I found this site and hoping that it will help us make our minds up and find out some more about moving. So hi!

- Bunny

Hi

welcome to BE, lots of friendly people on here

Good luck with your research, any ideas of whereabouts in Canada you would like to go?

What line of work are you both in, this will help people to give you some further info

Hi and welcome to BE. It's been a good day for new arrivals. Hope you find the answers you're looking for here.

Kind regards,

Eamonn & Janet.

We have both, so you made the wrong call there.

R.

We have the Mississauga rattler in Ontario, quite dangerous, plus lots of spiders in my basement.

http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/field...-rattlers.html

Big shakes. We had a nest of 250 black widow.

And a rattlesnake ate my homework

R.

Homework is nothing. I lived in South Africa and we had pythons that would swallow people.

That's lame. A bear once ate my truck.

R.

Welcome!

Forget about snakes and spiders, and even bears and cougars! You first consideration should be whether or how you might be admissable here.

I suggest you start by reading the wiki pages ..... http://britishexpats.com/wiki/Category:Canada

Eek...

I was only half kidding about the snakes and spiders, but now Im not sure!

As far as our jobs go, Im in IT (programming mainly). My boyfriend is still studying, he's in his final year of mechanical engineering. From what Ive been reading about emmigrating, I think we're in the right kind of industries, only we don't have that much experience (esp my boyfriend) so I think that might be a bit of a problem.

Well engineers are in demand everywhere although he'd obviously be applying at entry level, and would be competing with canadian grads ..... maybe somebody who is engineering will be able to offer more advice.

Perhaps you might consider the BUNAC visa to start with and get some Canadian experience under your belts?? http://www.bunac.org/UK/workcanada/

Take a look at the BUNAC 1 yr working holiday visa.

The bunac things looks pretty good. Only Im not sure...would people want to give us a job in our areas if we could only be there for 12 months? Looks like Id better do some investigating.

PS. Thanks for all the help everyone! This was just an idea but now with all this info I feel so much more interested in actually doing something.

It might be the only option given your (limited) work experience.
Plenty on here (including me & the mrs) who came over on BUNAC, got work and then managed to stay. It's not easy though...

Big plus it gives you a year to decide if you can handle all the snakes and spiders we have over here