View Poll Results: How long have you lived in Canada?
Not yet, but hopeful
41
17.23%
<1 Year
56
23.53%
1-3 Years
65
27.31%
4-6 years
29
12.18%
7-10 Years
17
7.14%
11-20 Years
8
3.36%
21+ Years
22
9.24%
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How long have you been here?
Jan 8th 2009, 12:15 am
#16
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Joined: Dec 2004
Location: Ottawa
Posts: 1,664
Re: How long have you been here?
Hit the three year mark at the beginning of Oct 08 - citizenship has been applied for, so now I wait ...... and twiddle my thumbs ......
Jan 12th 2009, 4:47 am
#17
little snowy owl
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 6,921
Re: How long have you been here?
In our family my OH doesn't need to as he is old enough, and my younger son doesn't cos he is young enough ..... so it's just me and elder son.
...... I should get onto that; been here over three years now!
Jan 13th 2009, 7:07 pm
#18
Just Joined
Joined: Apr 2008
Location: Canada.
Posts: 12
Re: How long have you been here?
Too Long.
Jan 16th 2009, 2:40 pm
#19
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Joined: Mar 2003
Location: Nova Scotia
Posts: 1,071
Re: How long have you been here?
Have you not applied? If you are over 55 years you don't even need to take the exam!
In our family my OH doesn't need to as he is old enough, and my younger son doesn't cos he is young enough ..... so it's just me and elder son.
...... I should get onto that; been here over three years now!
In our family my OH doesn't need to as he is old enough, and my younger son doesn't cos he is young enough ..... so it's just me and elder son.
...... I should get onto that; been here over three years now!
So your OH still has to do the paperwork and can skip the test.....right? I think the test would be the most fun unless you go to one of the swearing in ceremonies!
Feb 2nd 2009, 11:35 pm
#20
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Joined: Feb 2008
Location: St Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
Posts: 361
Re: How long have you been here?
6 months just passed, on the 26th Jan. Absolutely loving it! 
Feb 5th 2009, 1:13 am
#21
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 11,272
Re: How long have you been here?
10 years, still consider going back to old Blighty from time to time. 
Feb 6th 2009, 1:36 am
#22
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Location: Formerly Montreal now Oxfordshire, UK
Posts: 545
Re: How long have you been here?
3 years just about to the day, but we are going back to England in June for good
Feb 14th 2009, 5:37 am
#23
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Joined: Oct 2006
Location: BC
Posts: 1,361
Re: How long have you been here?
29 years this September
Yoong
Yoong
Mar 4th 2009, 3:28 am
#24
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Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 329
Re: How long have you been here?
52 years this August .
Mar 4th 2009, 5:13 pm
#25
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Joined: Mar 2008
Location: Canada
Posts: 206
Re: How long have you been here?
19 years next month. I still hate winters, last too long, and am really not sure I want to retire here. But where would one go? Must be damn hard getting the walker/zimmer frame to function properly in the bleeding snow
Still manage to clear up the snow after a storm but it does get harder the older I get
Still manage to clear up the snow after a storm but it does get harder the older I get
Mar 4th 2009, 5:55 pm
#26
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Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 329
Re: How long have you been here?
I'm with you on that one Luckyone. Had always intended to go back at some time, but life/fate put genuine obstacles in the way, and now I'm too old to return, though I'm still healthy at this point. Clearing the snow is a chore I would rather not deal with, but as long as I am able ,I will. I tell myself it is good exercise, and cheap too.
Soldier on,
Largo
Soldier on,
Largo
Mar 5th 2009, 2:25 pm
#28
Forum Regular
Joined: Nov 2007
Location: Fall River, Nova Scotia
Posts: 78
Re: How long have you been here?
Exactly one year today!
We landed at Halifax on a "6 month exploratory visit" according to our visitors permit.
I was lucky enough to have had 2 telephone interviews with a company in Fall River before we sold off most of what we owned and jumped on a plane with 2 suitcases each. The day after we arrived I had a final interview and was offered my job (which I'm still in).
The kids were enrolled in school by late March, we bought a lovely house in April and we got married in our own garden on 31st May 08.
The last year has been absolutely brilliant. The kids have settled in so well, and our eldest never wants to go back to Ireland. He's so many friends here and is involved in Army Cadets in Enfield and absolutely loves it. Our daughter has playdates every week, and does ballet and singing/dancing classes so she's in her element.
Both Steve and I have each had a short trip back to Ireland in the meantime, and in all honesty although we both enjoyed catching up with friends and family, neither of us could wait to come home!
So here's to many more wonderful years in Nova Scotia!
Lisa
We landed at Halifax on a "6 month exploratory visit" according to our visitors permit.
I was lucky enough to have had 2 telephone interviews with a company in Fall River before we sold off most of what we owned and jumped on a plane with 2 suitcases each. The day after we arrived I had a final interview and was offered my job (which I'm still in).
The kids were enrolled in school by late March, we bought a lovely house in April and we got married in our own garden on 31st May 08.
The last year has been absolutely brilliant. The kids have settled in so well, and our eldest never wants to go back to Ireland. He's so many friends here and is involved in Army Cadets in Enfield and absolutely loves it. Our daughter has playdates every week, and does ballet and singing/dancing classes so she's in her element.
Both Steve and I have each had a short trip back to Ireland in the meantime, and in all honesty although we both enjoyed catching up with friends and family, neither of us could wait to come home!
So here's to many more wonderful years in Nova Scotia!
Lisa
