Why do you want to move to Canada
Oct 31st 2009, 11:49 pm
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Oct 31st 2009, 11:56 pm
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Re: Why do you want to move to Canada
Sometimes it gets screwed up if you bold/italic things dodgily - tho I wish people would go back and put the [] in the right places. I've no idea who's quoting who in half of this thread. It's as if fledermaus and dboy have merged into some weird hybrid opinion machine.
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Re: Why do you want to move to Canada
Sometimes it gets screwed up if you bold/italic things dodgily - tho I wish people would go back and put the [] in the right places. I've no idea who's quoting who in half of this thread. It's as if fledermaus and dboy have merged into some weird hybrid opinion machine.
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Re: Why do you want to move to Canada
Sometimes it gets screwed up if you bold/italic things dodgily - tho I wish people would go back and put the [] in the right places. I've no idea who's quoting who in half of this thread. It's as if fledermaus and dboy have merged into some weird hybrid opinion machine.
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Nov 1st 2009, 12:00 am
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Re: Why do you want to move to Canada
Thank you all for your replies I really appreciate you taking the time to reply to me.
My SIL has been there for just over a year and loves it, says if she won the lottery she wouldnt come back to UK to stay.
I dont know why im reluctant, its my nature to worry anyway, so its probably just me. Ive told my husband I would like him to have a job to go to, as he has an occupation which is on the "list", but we dont know how we start the ball rolling.
My BIL has given us the name of the emmigration lawyer that he dealt with, so I suppose we should start there.
Oh decisions decisions.
Think I will be on this forum alot over the next few months.
Jackie
My SIL has been there for just over a year and loves it, says if she won the lottery she wouldnt come back to UK to stay.
I dont know why im reluctant, its my nature to worry anyway, so its probably just me. Ive told my husband I would like him to have a job to go to, as he has an occupation which is on the "list", but we dont know how we start the ball rolling.
My BIL has given us the name of the emmigration lawyer that he dealt with, so I suppose we should start there.
Oh decisions decisions.
Think I will be on this forum alot over the next few months.
Jackie
My other uncle stayed the UK, had a decent job took his family to lots of European holidays. The children prospered because they had the comfort and stability of their family and familiar culture. Both cousins went to university, one to Oxford the other to the LSE and now have lovely homes in the country, great jobs and lovely families. Unless there's a war, stay in your own country.
Nov 1st 2009, 12:03 am
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Re: Why do you want to move to Canada
My uncle moved to Canada in the early seventies, had to take a lower skilled and paid job. The schools his children went to were not very good to say the least. One cousin eventually went to a community college but left to have a baby, her truck driver boyfriend when he's at home beats her constantly but she can't leave him because she has no money, the other cousin worked in construction until he lost an arm in an work accident, got hooked on pain killers and is now homeless. The uncle died of stress related heart attack.
My other uncle stayed the UK, had a decent job took his family to lots of European holidays. The children prospered because they had the comfort and stability of their family and familiar culture. Both cousins went to university, one to Oxford the other to the LSE and now have lovely homes in the country, great jobs and lovely families. Unless there's a war, stay in your own country.
My other uncle stayed the UK, had a decent job took his family to lots of European holidays. The children prospered because they had the comfort and stability of their family and familiar culture. Both cousins went to university, one to Oxford the other to the LSE and now have lovely homes in the country, great jobs and lovely families. Unless there's a war, stay in your own country.
Nov 1st 2009, 12:05 am
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Re: Why do you want to move to Canada
My uncle moved to Canada in the early seventies, had to take a lower skilled and paid job. The schools his children went to were not very good to say the least. One cousin eventually went to a community college but left to have a baby, her truck driver boyfriend when he's at home beats her constantly but she can't leave him because she has no money, the other cousin worked in construction until he lost an arm in an work accident, got hooked on pain killers and is now homeless. The uncle died of stress related heart attack.
My other uncle stayed the UK, had a decent job took his family to lots of European holidays. The children prospered because they had the comfort and stability of their family and familiar culture. Both cousins went to university, one to Oxford the other to the LSE and now have lovely homes in the country, great jobs and lovely families. Unless there's a war, stay in your own country.
My other uncle stayed the UK, had a decent job took his family to lots of European holidays. The children prospered because they had the comfort and stability of their family and familiar culture. Both cousins went to university, one to Oxford the other to the LSE and now have lovely homes in the country, great jobs and lovely families. Unless there's a war, stay in your own country.
I've read so many stories about people who've gone out there with the best of intentions and full of optimism - only to return within a year (even those who've done the research). Then again, there are those who go and make a roaring success of it. Like anything else... you can't know for certain until you try. The best way to approach it, probably, is as a calculated risk. Again... do the research. Don't just go because 'other people' think it's the right thing. 'Other people' are just that!
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Nov 1st 2009, 12:06 am
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Re: Why do you want to move to Canada
My uncle moved to Canada in the early seventies, had to take a lower skilled and paid job. The schools his children went to were not very good to say the least. One cousin eventually went to a community college but left to have a baby, her truck driver boyfriend when he's at home beats her constantly but she can't leave him because she has no money, the other cousin worked in construction until he lost an arm in an work accident, got hooked on pain killers and is now homeless. The uncle died of stress related heart attack.
My other uncle stayed the UK, had a decent job took his family to lots of European holidays. The children prospered because they had the comfort and stability of their family and familiar culture. Both cousins went to university, one to Oxford the other to the LSE and now have lovely homes in the country, great jobs and lovely families. Unless there's a war, stay in your own country.
My other uncle stayed the UK, had a decent job took his family to lots of European holidays. The children prospered because they had the comfort and stability of their family and familiar culture. Both cousins went to university, one to Oxford the other to the LSE and now have lovely homes in the country, great jobs and lovely families. Unless there's a war, stay in your own country.
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Nov 1st 2009, 12:07 am
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Re: Why do you want to move to Canada
I'm sure there are many families that have prospered by moving abroad. It's equally as shortsighted to assume that staying put will afford a good life as it is to assume that things will improve abroad. I did alright without shared culture and family as I'm sure many others have.
The UK is not all big houses in the country you know
The UK is not all big houses in the country you know
