View Poll Results: Are you staying here for X-Mas, going home or something else?
Remaining in Canada
85
88.54%
Back to Blighty
4
4.17%
South of the Border
5
5.21%
Somewhere Else
2
2.08%
Voters: 96. You may not vote on this poll
For those of you in Canada....
Dec 7th 2007, 9:50 pm
#16
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Joined: Jun 2007
Location: Cobble Hill, Vancouver Island
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Re: For those of you in Canada....
Here at home on Vancouver Island and we are hoping for a White Christmas
Dec 7th 2007, 10:15 pm
#17
I'm a girl, dagnabbit! :)
Joined: Apr 2005
Location: Ottawa, ON.
Posts: 1,120
Re: For those of you in Canada....
Staying here - it's my home, even if I'm not a citizen. 
Dec 8th 2007, 3:04 am
#18
spring is coming yeha
Joined: Oct 2005
Location: wasaga beach ont
Posts: 494
Dec 8th 2007, 7:32 am
#19
Bristolish expat
Joined: Aug 2004
Location: Bristol ~ Nanaimo, BC ... It's a bit like Salem's Lot!!
Posts: 1,699
are you 
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Dec 8th 2007, 10:22 am
#20
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Posts: 18
Re: For those of you in Canada....
would love to spend xmas in Canada as i miss my kids so much there in Okotoks,Calgary so so much
Dec 8th 2007, 3:20 pm
#21
yeah....I can do that !
Joined: Dec 2006
Location: Kingston , Nova Scotia
Posts: 78
Re: For those of you in Canada....
How's this for something exotic.......I'll be spending christmas in Africa....Angola to be precise . Bummer.......but got to earn money to pay ludricous taxes in Nova Scotia somewhere..........:curse:
Dec 8th 2007, 4:45 pm
#22
little snowy owl
Joined: Nov 2004
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Re: For those of you in Canada....
b) have you never heard the expression "Home is where the heart is"? ... or possibly "... where the hearth is!"
We are "Permanent Residents" of Canada. We plan to apply for citizenship in due course. My OH went back to UK to visit family and friends this year .... he felt like a "visitor" there, and could not wait to get back HOME to Canada.
Dec 10th 2007, 6:16 pm
#23
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Location: Toronto (thank goodness)
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Re: For those of you in Canada....
a) it's often foolish to make assumptions
b) have you never heard the expression "Home is where the heart is"? ... or possibly "... where the hearth is!"
We are "Permanent Residents" of Canada. We plan to apply for citizenship in due course. My OH went back to UK to visit family and friends this year .... he felt like a "visitor" there, and could not wait to get back HOME to Canada.
b) have you never heard the expression "Home is where the heart is"? ... or possibly "... where the hearth is!"
We are "Permanent Residents" of Canada. We plan to apply for citizenship in due course. My OH went back to UK to visit family and friends this year .... he felt like a "visitor" there, and could not wait to get back HOME to Canada.
muu-ah-ahha-hhaa.
I should have perhaps made the Poll: "Are you planning to spend Christmas in Canada or are you returning to the country of your birth?"
Dec 10th 2007, 6:30 pm
#24
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Location: Abbotsford British Columbia.
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Re: For those of you in Canada....
We will fly to Salt Lake City, to spend 2 weeks in Lindon Utah with our oldest son's family, 6 kids from ages 5 to 18, We have 3 kids and 13 grand kids, they compete to have us for holidays. It makes us feel all warm and fuzzy.,
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Dec 10th 2007, 6:32 pm
#25
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Re: For those of you in Canada....
Is he LDS per chance? Beautiful part of the States.
Dec 10th 2007, 6:40 pm
#26
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Re: For those of you in Canada....
[B]Very much so, in the Lindon 7th Ward, 1st counselor. . Dave Sherwin. /B]
Dec 10th 2007, 7:06 pm
#27
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Dec 10th 2007, 9:11 pm
#28
little snowy owl
Joined: Nov 2004
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Re: For those of you in Canada....
Or is Canada "home" only until you start getting home sick and miss M&S enough to eventually return with your tail between your legs to a chorus of "I told you so's" from friends and family?
muu-ah-ahha-hhaa.
I should have perhaps made the Poll: "Are you planning to spend Christmas in Canada or are you returning to the country of your birth?"
muu-ah-ahha-hhaa.
I should have perhaps made the Poll: "Are you planning to spend Christmas in Canada or are you returning to the country of your birth?"
I don't miss M&S. I wouldn't dream of bothering with trying to get M&S stuff here, I was only advising those who might. I seriously do not miss anything about the UK enough to even complain about!
None of my friends and family suggested that we would get homesick and return. Yes, you could have made the poll re birth country if that's what you meant.
Dec 10th 2007, 9:16 pm
#29
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Re: For those of you in Canada....
Sigh.
I don't miss M&S. I wouldn't dream of bothering with trying to get M&S stuff here, I was only advising those who might. I seriously do not miss anything about the UK enough to even complain about!
None of my friends and family suggested that we would get homesick and return. Yes, you could have made the poll re birth country if that's what you meant.
I don't miss M&S. I wouldn't dream of bothering with trying to get M&S stuff here, I was only advising those who might. I seriously do not miss anything about the UK enough to even complain about!
None of my friends and family suggested that we would get homesick and return. Yes, you could have made the poll re birth country if that's what you meant.
Dec 11th 2007, 6:33 pm
#30
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Location: Kamloops
Posts: 21
Re: For those of you in Canada....
This is my 5th Xmas in Canada, we're heading back to the craziness of Calgary for nearly two weeks, and visiting friends in Strathmore and Drumheller. Spending a few days in Waterton National Park, off to the Flames game on New Years Eve.......then back to Fruitloops on the 2nd! Busy, busy, busy!