Originally Posted by hmac (Post 10332182)

Hi Zippy666

We landed in March 2012.

Me and her made a decision that we would do 2 years no matter what. As it happens things are going ok so far, no homesickness or food cravings :fingerscrossed:this last.

Hope its second time lucky for you.

Originally Posted by beautiful050278 (Post 10332222)

+1

Hope all goes well this time round for you:fingerscrossed:.

We have just celebrated our 6 months and love it here.

We are here on the TWP and just started the PR process.

Originally Posted by zippy666 (Post 10331933)

The heating systems are weird - big vents blowing warm air that goes nowhere - have they never heard of a radiator?

Originally Posted by hmac (Post 10332252)

I took all our forms home last Friday for checking and signing. :eek:

Originally Posted by Steve_ (Post 10332359)

Radiators freeze during the winter, I assume, which is why they're not common here. I actually grew up in a house in England that did have a forced air system, they're not that uncommon. You usually seem them in older houses that had a furnace in the basement. A lot of people replaced them with boilers and radiators but not everyone did, you can run them on oil or natural gas instead of coal, which is the case in Canada obviously.

Originally Posted by Steve_ (Post 10332359)

Radiators freeze during the winter, I assume, which is why they're not common here. I actually grew up in a house in England that did have a forced air system, they're not that uncommon. You usually seem them in older houses that had a furnace in the basement. A lot of people replaced them with boilers and radiators but not everyone did, you can run them on oil or natural gas instead of coal, which is the case in Canada obviously.

Originally Posted by zippy666 (Post 10331933)

Hi, well we went through the whole skilled worker app, took us just over four years in total and we landed on PEI in September 2011 but we were back in April 2012.

We did have special reasons - a bereavement meant we had to come home, but we still deeply regret leaving and want to share our feelings to help anyone else just starting in Canada.

Homesickness is a real condition, you miss everything - we missed walkers Cheese and Onion crisps and Hollands meat and potato pies!! The food was strange, cuts of meat had different names, cereal was different, we ended up eating out so much at places like mcdonalds just because it was familiar!

The heating systems are weird - big vents blowing warm air that goes nowhere - have they never heard of a radiator? Is our accent really that hard to understand? Being looked and pointed at when out shopping when we were talking never failed to creep us a out just a little!!

Well - everything is different but it does not make it bad, after being bmack six months we have booked our flights to return to Canada next September, we urge anyone to give it at least a year before making any rash decision to return, just as we came home the homesickness was passing and we starting to get used to everything, our situation was complicated but I think we should have held on and just come back temporarily.

We now can not wait to go back, everything we thought we missed we have had and it was a really disappointment, the saying true absence makes the heart grow fonder but it also greatly misleads you, so to everyone just about to go or just about to land, keep smiling, keep hoping and stay strong - it will be worth it and it does get better, we can not wait to get back,

Good luck to all and hopefully in a few years we will have our own real canniversary:D

Originally Posted by spam-marie (Post 10362747)

Do they have Marmite in Canada? That was what made me homesick when I lived abroad before. I'm hoping I can cope with almost everything else!