View Poll Results: How much money ($CAD) did/will you arrive with (per family)?
between $0 and $25,000
16
21.05%
between $25,000 and $100,000
10
13.16%
between $100,000 and $250,000
24
31.58%
between $250,000 and $500,000
14
18.42%
between $500,000 and $1 million
7
9.21%
over $1 million
5
6.58%
Voters: 76. You may not vote on this poll
How much money did/will you arrive with?
Aug 17th 2007 | 5:11 am
#1
Thread Starter
Immigration Consultant
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 2,144
From: Halifax, Nova Scotia
How much money did/will you arrive with?
The subject of much debate on other threads: how much money are British immigrants to canada arriving with? Is it a fortune or a pittance?
Please do the poll. It is anonymouse - everyone only gets to see the overall results not your own individual net worth!
The amounts are per family, not per person.
Please do the poll. It is anonymouse - everyone only gets to see the overall results not your own individual net worth!
The amounts are per family, not per person.
Last edited by Paul Wildy; Aug 17th 2007 at 6:29 am.
Aug 17th 2007 | 5:23 am
#3
Thread Starter
Immigration Consultant
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 2,144
From: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Re: How much money did/will you arrive with?
Aug 17th 2007 | 5:25 am
#4
Slightly Canadian
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 10,146
From: St. John's, Newfoundland
Re: How much money did/will you arrive with?
I think the question could be slightly better phrased as 'how much money did you bring over to start your new life in Canada?' Many arrive with not much but transfer a sum over at some point, usually connected to sale of a property in UK. For us this was a year after arriving.
Aug 17th 2007 | 5:27 am
#6
Assimilated Pauper
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 40,070
From: Ontario
Re: How much money did/will you arrive with?
The problem with the "per family" figure is that we then need to know how many people are in each family in order to arrive at an average figure per immigrant. I suppose we could just assume six or eight.
Aug 17th 2007 | 5:33 am
#7
Thread Starter
Immigration Consultant
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Posts: 2,144
From: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Re: How much money did/will you arrive with?
I think the question could be slightly better phrased as 'how much money did you bring over to start your new life in Canada?' Many arrive with not much but transfer a sum over at some point, usually connected to sale of a property in UK. For us this was a year after arriving.
Aug 17th 2007 | 5:34 am
#8
Thread Starter
Immigration Consultant
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From: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Re: How much money did/will you arrive with?
I would go with AX's suggestion and use the concept of the amount of money you brought in total to start your new life rather than what you had with you the day you landed. If everyone else is okay with that?
Aug 17th 2007 | 5:35 am
#9
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Immigration Consultant
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Posts: 2,144
From: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Re: How much money did/will you arrive with?
I think there are some figures on that somewhere though. Both numbers of people coming in and the average family size. I will see if I can find them.
Aug 17th 2007 | 5:40 am
#10
Assimilated Pauper
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 40,070
From: Ontario
Re: How much money did/will you arrive with?
Aug 17th 2007 | 5:45 am
#11
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 9,606
Re: How much money did/will you arrive with?
I want to know who the green people are and if they have comely daughters.
Aug 17th 2007 | 5:54 am
#12
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Joined: May 2007
Posts: 1,739
From: Okotoks and settled.
Re: How much money did/will you arrive with?
. For Green I'll make an exception
Aug 17th 2007 | 6:26 am
#13
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Immigration Consultant
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 2,144
From: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Re: How much money did/will you arrive with?
And did you move to Canada with the aspiration of becoming a millionaire (i.e. by doing the currency conversion)?
Last edited by Paul Wildy; Aug 17th 2007 at 6:30 am.
Aug 17th 2007 | 7:01 am
#14
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Re: How much money did/will you arrive with?
