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British Expats (https://britishexpats.com/forum/)

- Canada (https://britishexpats.com/forum/canada-56/)

- - When you first arrive (https://britishexpats.com/forum/canada-56/when-you-first-arrive-829268/)

Danny B

Mar 22nd 2014 11:41 am

Re: When you first arrive

We stayed at one of those 'self catering' motels for a couple of weeks. Bloody awful experience but they did have XXX cable so it wasn't all bad.

Tirytory

Mar 22nd 2014 1:36 pm

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Originally Posted by MillieF (Post 11185875)

Eddmac...where are you thinking of coming and when?

Tirytory...Samsung and my magnets stick. It never occurred to me that fridges might come without magnets:ohmy:

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Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat (Post 11186018)

First night in a hotel then straight into a basement apartment for 4 months before finding and buying a house. I had the advantage of the Mrs having moved back home some months previously who organised said rental though.

We have a Kenmore (sears) fridge. It has a stainless steel door to which magnets do not stick. The sides though are magnet friendly. Which is a relief.

I love how others are running with the magnet sub post :)

rivingtonpike

Mar 22nd 2014 1:52 pm

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Originally Posted by Tirytory (Post 11186141)

I love how others are running with the magnet sub post :)

I've taken a picture on my phone of one of the MANY fridge magnets on our crappy fridge and I can't work out how to post it!

rivingtonpike

Mar 22nd 2014 1:55 pm

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Fridge magnet

rivingtonpike

Mar 22nd 2014 1:58 pm

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Originally Posted by rivingtonpike (Post 11186163)

Fridge magnet

I bet you this is the first of - oh I don't know - 200 pics of fridge magnets! Curious to see what number we can achieve between us all!

Lychee

Mar 22nd 2014 1:58 pm

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Having been living in Vancouver for the past 30+ years, I have never seen a fridge here that is NOT covered in magnets. If you found a fridge where magnets aren't sticking, I would argue that's the abnormality, not necessarily a Canadianism.

Back to the original topic, you might also want to consider renting an apartment or suite via AirBnB, as an alternative.

Novocastrian

Mar 22nd 2014 2:07 pm

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Originally Posted by rivingtonpike (Post 11186166)

I bet you this is the first of - oh I don't know - 200 pics of fridge magnets! Curious to see what number we can achieve between us all!

Please, please don't.

Can I put this issue to bed? (And I have to admit that, although I'm a physical chemist, this was news to me), but here is the definitive answer to the Mystery of Magnetophobic refrigerators:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...gnets-work-on/

Who knew?

rivingtonpike

Mar 22nd 2014 2:11 pm

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 11186177)

I can't get the link to work. Is it something you have to subscribe to? or is my browser playing silly buggers again?

I like fridge magnets! I have many and they are varied....

Tirytory

Mar 22nd 2014 2:17 pm

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 11186177)

Still not a word;)....

So I started reading it and then it turned into gobbledygook... But I'm very glad someone has taken this very serious "Canadian" problem and come up with a reason (even if I don't understand what it is) !

Apologies to Eddmac and Lychee for derailing again....

Novocastrian

Mar 22nd 2014 2:20 pm

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Originally Posted by rivingtonpike (Post 11186182)

I can't get the link to work. Is it something you have to subscribe to? or is my browser playing silly buggers again?

I like fridge magnets! I have many and they are varied....

This.

Novocastrian

Mar 22nd 2014 2:21 pm

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Originally Posted by Tirytory (Post 11186187)

Still not a word;)....

So I started reading it and then it turned into gobbledygook... But I'm very glad someone has taken this very serious "Canadian" problem and come up with a reason (even if I don't understand what it is) !

Apologies to Eddmac and Lychee for derailing again....

Oh, I'll explain it all at the Yard (in the unlikely event that you'd like me to).

Tirytory

Mar 22nd 2014 2:38 pm

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 11186191)

Oh, I'll explain it all at the Yard (in the unlikely event that you'd like me to).

Hmmm what an offer, how could I refuse??? ;)

Novocastrian

Mar 22nd 2014 2:48 pm

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Originally Posted by Tirytory (Post 11186204)

Hmmm what an offer, how could I refuse??? ;)

Very easily. I'm boring enough even when I avoid talking about chemistry.

Zoe Bell

Mar 22nd 2014 11:33 pm

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I'm actually interested in this. Novo and I can be boring in a corner somewhere ;)

MillieF

Mar 22nd 2014 11:47 pm

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Originally Posted by Zoe Bell (Post 11186579)

I'm actually interested in this. Novo and I can be boring in a corner somewhere ;)

I'm rather taken by it too, but purely from a marketing perspective, why would they make a non magnetic fridge?

Eddmac, I think there are a number here who have moved and been faced with a bit of a dilemma for the first few weeks, if you have children or pets it can be a bit more trying. The whole thought of the 'this time next year I'll be on a different continent with a new home, job and friends'....is very scary, but if you mentally break it down into doable bits...'sell house, buy tickets, arrange for removals' it all starts to make more sense. We got here...relatively sane....I'm sure you can too...best of luck:thumbup:

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