British Expats - How much money did/will you arrive with?

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- - How much money did/will you arrive with? (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/how-much-money-did-will-you-arrive-474865/)

steve666

Aug 17th 2007 9:17 am

Re: How much money did/will you arrive with?

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Originally Posted by hot wasabi peas (Post 5203933)

Having children is both environmentally, and financially, unfriendly. ;)

Children are also a sexually transmitted disease.

Madmac

Aug 17th 2007 9:18 am

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Originally Posted by iaink (Post 5203768)

Maybe? You are the only one who sees it..and it does say at the bottom that "you have already voted on this poll" Before you vote there are no italics. If you hadnt have asked, we would have been none the wiser.

I came with nothing. Can you lend me a tenner:D

Have you got any of it left? ;)

iaink

Aug 17th 2007 9:22 am

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Originally Posted by Madmac (Post 5203953)

Have you got any of it left? ;)

Im now married with two kids, and begging tenners from complete strangers.

What do you think?

hot wasabi peas

Aug 17th 2007 9:22 am

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Originally Posted by steve666 (Post 5203945)

Children are also a sexually transmitted disease.

Ah yes, crotch droppings. I've strong immunity to that. :thumbup:

steve666

Aug 17th 2007 9:26 am

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Originally Posted by hot wasabi peas (Post 5203973)

Ah yes, crotch droppings. I've strong immunity to that. :thumbup:

So, um, you're a crotch dropping?;)

boxerdog03

Aug 17th 2007 9:27 am

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Originally Posted by hot wasabi peas (Post 5203973)

Ah yes, crotch droppings. I've strong immunity to that. :thumbup:

What a fab name, I'll have to remember that one when boss comes back from Mat leave:rofl:

Novocastrian

Aug 17th 2007 12:38 pm

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Hallo playmates. I have just (truthfully) italicized the lowest category above. However I must also admit that I've just bought a second home in France for cash. I hope you're all very happy for me and dead impressed like.

acer rose

Aug 17th 2007 3:22 pm

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To throw in another complication, we arrived with one job lined up. Made a big difference to our comfort level about the relatively (apparently) meagre funds we had available.

Mountain Girl

Aug 17th 2007 5:13 pm

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Originally Posted by NSpaul (Post 5203159)

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.

ok so here's my opinion the amount of money you have dont mean shit. Its the attitude that goes with it.

mclauchlan35

Aug 18th 2007 12:10 am

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What about the over 1 million club, I see there is 4 members already any chance of all their details whilst I prepare my begging letters:rofl:

And maybe add a -0 to -1,000,000 for me I'm skint:D

Danny

dbd33

Aug 18th 2007 3:35 am

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Originally Posted by JimandNic (Post 5203858)

We could use the average UK (non-retired) household size from this link it's from 2003-2004, but won't be that far-out. There is another link that includes retirees too - but IMO I thought the non-retiree households would be more representative of UK household immigrating to Canada.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBAS....asp?vlnk=8235

So from the link it's 2.7 people per household. To make the maths even easier :thumbup: - just divide the $$$ by 3 to get an approximate per-person figure.

Nic

That sounds reasonable. Is that approach ok with you NSPaul?

Robski

Aug 18th 2007 5:24 am

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Hhmmm, but i came out as just me, unless i need to allow a portion of the money for the cat?? So that will mess with your figures for such a small sample. sorry.

Paul Wildy

Aug 20th 2007 1:06 am

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 5206192)

That sounds reasonable. Is that approach ok with you NSPaul?

Fine with me - we don't need to know the actual maek-up of the families who came here - an average family size will do fine.

dbd33

Aug 20th 2007 1:28 am

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Originally Posted by NSpaul (Post 5211598)

Fine with me - we don't need to know the actual maek-up of the families who came here - an average family size will do fine.

Ack. Even I'm a bit bored with this. Let's suppose someone arrived with ten million bucks, that'll provide a nice high average.

What might be interesting to know is how things work out over the long term. Of the people who started with nothing, Novo, Howard and I all seem to have had a big pile of money at some point (I squandered mine), I wonder if zero-to-lots is more typical of immigrants or lots-to-zero.

Paul Wildy

Aug 20th 2007 1:59 am

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 5211699)

What might be interesting to know is how things work out over the long term. Of the people who started with nothing, Novo, Howard and I all seem to have had a big pile of money at some point (I squandered mine), I wonder if zero-to-lots is more typical of immigrants or lots-to-zero.

It seems that moving here, buying a fancy house (from which the realtor pockets $20-30k), buying newish cars, replacing all your furniture you sold for a pittance in the UK, buying new electrical appliances and then discovering that everything isn't as you hoped it would be, the cost of living is much higher than you thought etc, OH misses family and friends and then deciding to go back to UK, selling house and cars at a loss (Realtor pockets another $20-30k) giving away useless Canadain electrical applicances, buying everything again in UK etc. etc. is a seriously effective way to go from lots-to-zero. I've seen a couple of people do it.

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