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Old Oct 1st 2013, 6:35 pm
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Originally Posted by not2old
come & get it ... Badfinger or was that The Beatles?

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.n...256DE5002F5F9E
Badfinger.
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Old Oct 1st 2013, 6:44 pm
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Default Re: When are doubts more than that?!

So far we can sum up this thread:

Some replies are making fun of you
Some replies are deliberately misleading
Some replies are completely barking
Some posters are projecting their own personalities onto you
Some (many?) posters are offering sincere and genuine advice.

All you have to do is decide which is which.

All pretty standard on here. If you ask a question about Canadians you get to learn a great deal about the British.

You come across as a fairly level headed person (well, apart for expecting some sense from us lot). FWIW I think you will be fine. Relax, come with low expectations and a sense of time. Once here get out and meet people. Get involved. You might meet a lifelong friend the first day. It might take a year or two. Give it a least a year or two. It might never happen. So what? You are with your family and doing what you think is best for them. Things have a way of working themselves out. And, if they don’t, it doesn’t have to be forever.

After all, you are going to find it much easier than an English family moving to rural mid Wales.
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Old Oct 1st 2013, 6:49 pm
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Default Re: When are doubts more than that?!

Originally Posted by JonboyE
So far we can sum up this thread:

Some replies are making fun of you
Some replies are deliberately misleading
Some replies are completely barking
Some posters are projecting their own personalities onto you
Some (many?) posters are offering sincere and genuine advice.

All you have to do is decide which is which.

All pretty standard on here. If you ask a question about Canadians you get to learn a great deal about the British.

You come across as a fairly level headed person (well, apart for expecting some sense from us lot). FWIW I think you will be fine. Relax, come with low expectations and a sense of time. Once here get out and meet people. Get involved. You might meet a lifelong friend the first day. It might take a year or two. Give it a least a year or two. It might never happen. So what? You are with your family and doing what you think is best for them. Things have a way of working themselves out. And, if they don’t, it doesn’t have to be forever.

After all, you are going to find it much easier than an English family moving to rural mid Wales.
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Old Oct 1st 2013, 7:11 pm
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Default Re: When are doubts more than that?!

Originally Posted by Tirytory
It won't be a low paid crappy job . Husband is a GP. Off to Bracebridge approx 15, 000, although we're used to a city and it's amenities.
Okay, that's not absolutely the sticks, they won't be completely inbred.
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Old Oct 1st 2013, 7:14 pm
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Originally Posted by jossie
Really??
Yep, in Bracebridge. But at least she'll be able to see the sky during the winter once in awhile.
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Originally Posted by Tirytory
The NHS is a wonderful thing but it is failing, and while my job exists in a sort of a bubble due to the type of department it is, it is a really hard place to work.
Yeah but that's because of the economy, one of my relatives works for the NHS, the schedule they gave her was barking mad, made no allowance at all for travel time.

Ontario is deep in debt too and I do wonder how much better off you would be working for OHIP.

Personally I think, how much can healthcare systems change country to country so there will be issues, they'll just be different ones.
Exactly.
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Old Oct 1st 2013, 7:16 pm
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Default Re: When are doubts more than that?!

Originally Posted by Steve_
Okay, that's not absolutely the sticks, they won't be completely inbred.
yes it is - its in the boonies, no two ways about it
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Old Oct 1st 2013, 7:27 pm
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Originally Posted by not2old
yes it is - its in the boonies, no two ways about it
The OP is from Wales so she should be able to cope!
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Default Re: When are doubts more than that?!

Originally Posted by Shard
The OP is from Wales so she should be able to cope!
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Old Oct 1st 2013, 8:50 pm
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Default Re: When are doubts more than that?!

Originally Posted by Shard
The OP is from Wales so she should be able to cope!
but there are less sheep in Bracebridge

I think somewhere in the thread the OP said something along the lines of being worried or having to adjust to living in smallville Ontario compared to her city in Wales.

After all is said & done I'm sure they'll be fine moving to Canada by the fact that her DH has a good job to come to & it'll be interesting to read any comments the OP has about life in Canada this time next year
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Default Re: When are doubts more than that?!

Originally Posted by not2old
but there are less sheep in Bracebridge

I think somewhere in the thread the OP said something along the lines of being worried or having to adjust to living in smallville Ontario compared to her city in Wales.

After all is said & done I'm sure they'll be fine moving to Canada by the fact that her DH has a good job to come to & it'll be interesting to read any comments the OP has about life in Canada this time next year
Fewer, FFS.
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
Fewer, FFS.
Tee Hee.......
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
Fewer, FFS.
Pedent.
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Originally Posted by Oink
Pedent.
Did you do that on purpose?
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Default Re: When are doubts more than that?!

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Did you do that on purpose?
Apparantly so.
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