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I lived & worked in Vancouver for a yr up until last year, i've also been back for 2 holidays in 6 months, and my boyfriend is canadian and lives there.
I consider Vancouver as my 2nd home, and everytime i come back to the UK I find it tough....i love the place.
But please do not be under any illusion, property in vancouver is extremely expensive and they are not obsessed at owning their own homes like we are.
Food is expensive and the variety is not there like we have here. As far as im concerned this would not stop me from moving back, in fact i am about to embark on nurse training in the uk so that in 3 yrs time i can emigrate.
Personally, I think you really need to have along-term desire to live abroad with a firm idea of where exactly so as to be full-on with committing to emigrate.
One word of advice though, please avoid Surrey in Vancouver it is a very undesirable area, Richmond is fine, but like anywhere there are reasons to avoid but for reasons not politically correct to mention on this discussion forum.

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I suspect what you really mean is that you don't want to come across as racist.

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Basing an emigration decision on a holiday is rather risky. The Canada you will see during two weeks in August isn't the Canada you'll see in February.

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Hi, Just book a hoilday and bring her here and let her see for herself. It is a beautiful country to live, you can look out of you window and just see the mountains. You do not have to go far to be one with nature. Winter sports- sking Grouse mountain, Seymore mountain and cyress mountain are the local mountains to ski. Then you have Whistler 2 hours from Vancouver. :thumbup:
Hiking in the summer time. Canadians are outdoor people.

Alison

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Why don't they listen to you?
We know though don't we.

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Hey I'm 42 and have been dreaming since I was 18 when my parents brought us back to the UK after a 7 year stint in Canada. I'm now married with two kids and want to leave more than ever for them more than myself(now that I'm at this age). Have been trying to convince my wife virtually since I met her.

My advice.....Take her there at least a couple of times first on extended holidays. Do plenty of research listing pros and cons and make sure you've convinced yourself first that it is the right thing to do before presenting the facts to her. If home life, relatives, etc are too much of an overriding factor for her, don't push it. Pressure will make her dig her heals in even more. Take it from there. Even though it is frustrating for you, it may be better in the long run to take it slowly and let her work things out for herself and come to a decision by herself in her own time. Gently does it is the key.

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Because they want to believe that they'll spend the year skiing in Banff, even if they'll actually spend most of the year on the QEW.

It works both ways. Souvette spent four years in London and would move back like a shot. Of course she would. She had almost free housing in a vast Sloane Square flat that would have made £1500 per week in rent (ten years ago); her son had free private schooling etc etc. She was basically on an all expenses paid luxury holiday for four years. I have to remind her of that sometimes.

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I take it you two don't get along...

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C'mon gimme a break, Most people will give the same advise about certain areas of Vancouver, just stating a fact.

Although I'm not, it would be difficult to live in Vancouver and be racist wouldn't it.

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HWP Is winding you up

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Oh, we get along fine. The point I am making is that she bases her view of living in the UK on what was a rather artificial experience. Not all people live like that; in fact very few do. Not all people live in Chelsea and work in Mayfair.

If I had my way, the CIC would include two extra questions on the application form.

1) Have you walked up Yonge St from Front to Bloor in February?

2) Still wanna come here?

These questions would, of course, need to be tailored to the intended destination.

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[QUOTE=Souvenir;4778598]Oh, we get along fine. The point I am making is that she bases her view of living in the UK on what was a rather artificial experience. Not all people live like that; in fact very few do. Not all people live in Chelsea and work in Mayfair.

If I had my way, the CIC would include two extra questions on the application form.

1) Have you walked up Yonge St from Front to Bloor in February?

2) Still wanna come here?

No to all those questions.

But I will be on the opposite river to you because my wife and kids demand it.

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What is 'the fact'?

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[QUOTE=steve666;4778627]
Which side of the river do they intend living on?:D

The question scenario for Ottawa would be this.

"For several months of the year the last thing you do before going to bed is shovel lots of snow off your driveway. You will get up really, really early and do it again, so you can drive to work. When you get home, the plough will have been past, leaving a big wall of snow at the entrance to your driveway. You will need to shovel this to get to your front door. If there has been freezing rain during the day (this only happens once or twice a week), you will do the shovelling with a pickaxe. What, now, are your views on moving to the National Capital Region?".

A) Can't wait; sounds very Canadian and I want to be a part of it.

B) Melbourne looks nice.

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Oh dear, I can see this turning into one of those discussion forums they have on the bbc website.

All i'm saying is, being English which this chap obviously is, im sure him and his wife would like to live somewhere eventually in which you can mix with others who can speak the same dialect, particularly if his wife needs convincing of how nice it is.