15 years
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15 years
Passed my 15 years the other day
Nothing to add to my 10 year post really except that I'm over looking enviously at other places that get less snow than we do but might get other problems we don't get here.
Still not been back to UK and don't care to but want to do other parts of Europe again. Maybe next year.
Nothing to add to my 10 year post really except that I'm over looking enviously at other places that get less snow than we do but might get other problems we don't get here.
Still not been back to UK and don't care to but want to do other parts of Europe again. Maybe next year.
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Re: 15 years
Congratulations!
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Re: 15 years
Had it all planned for the family years ago, but my wife's health got too bad and then she died.
Couple of years ago started planning it for me, stepkids and mother in law but decided I wasn't up to it health-wise but now thinking maybe we could just do Nice. At least I can show the others a bit of Europe and there's a fair amount within reach by train and bus. And tram too now.
Couple of years ago started planning it for me, stepkids and mother in law but decided I wasn't up to it health-wise but now thinking maybe we could just do Nice. At least I can show the others a bit of Europe and there's a fair amount within reach by train and bus. And tram too now.
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Re: 15 years
Congrats on your Canniversary! 15 years without going back to blighty, you deserve to have a trip and perhaps a jaunt back to the old country whilst you are in Europe
Here's to the next 15 in Canada, where ever it may be.. perhaps around the 1000 islands area? Somewhere you can get around without needing a vehicle of your own, anyway! Has anywhere taken your fancy?
Here's to the next 15 in Canada, where ever it may be.. perhaps around the 1000 islands area? Somewhere you can get around without needing a vehicle of your own, anyway! Has anywhere taken your fancy?
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Re: 15 years
Including Blighty would have been a massive inconvenience. Now it's likely to just be Nice and area if anything - I just don't have the energy or fitness for anything more - I'm afraid I still view visiting the UK as a massive inconvenience. Terrible isn't it.
Here's to the next 15 in Canada, where ever it may be.. perhaps around the 1000 islands area? Somewhere you can get around without needing a vehicle of your own, anyway! Has anywhere taken your fancy?
For something permanent, though, not anymore. However I do think that downsizing might be worth looking at in the future, if only to make it easier for the remaining two to manage. And I've always taken the view that if you have to go through the selling up and moving on, then maybe it could be a complete change rather than just up the road or across town.
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Re: 15 years
Congratulations on your 15 year anniversary
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Re: 15 years
15 years, a huge milestone Bristol! Just a trip to Nice would still be lovely, and I've always thought that it's even more enjoyable when there's someone else along who hasn't seen a place before.
Wishing you good health and many more years in your adopted country - may all those years be the happy ones you deserve
Wishing you good health and many more years in your adopted country - may all those years be the happy ones you deserve
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Re: 15 years
I just did the math, seems we arrived the same year, only been a PR 13 years though, my application had a delay in processing.
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Re: 15 years
Congrats JS, that's a good long number of years! Do you think Canada's been good to you overall, or would you rather move back to the US?
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Re: 15 years
I'd rather be in the US, specifically California to be near family, and everything that is familiar for me, if I had the resources and ability to do so.
I've never really connected here, and I never made friends, and in many ways I just feel like I am on a long term vacation/visitor to Canada, it doesn't feel like home for me.
I've never really connected here, and I never made friends, and in many ways I just feel like I am on a long term vacation/visitor to Canada, it doesn't feel like home for me.
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Re: 15 years
I'd rather be in the US, specifically California to be near family, and everything that is familiar for me, if I had the resources and ability to do so.
I've never really connected here, and I never made friends, and in many ways I just feel like I am on a long term vacation/visitor to Canada, it doesn't feel like home for me.
I've never really connected here, and I never made friends, and in many ways I just feel like I am on a long term vacation/visitor to Canada, it doesn't feel like home for me.