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Feb 6th 2009 | 10:30 am

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Re: Canada advice please

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Originally Posted by old fat biker bloke

Hi Dorothy - We're actually in Port Colborne. Ended up here as we had no other contacts in Canada but we knew a couple of people in town. When we came over in '06 it seemed like a nice place. Indeed it is not too bad, nice people, quiet etc etc but lots of oldies presumably left over from the 'boom' times - since been described to us as a town for 'the newly wed and nearly dead'....

Sadly don't have the capital to keep relocating, if only we did (sigh...) - our time here has made us realise what we left behind. Need to get back while kids are still young enough to re-adapt. No regrets however!

Hey best of look on your return ......when you hoping to head back

Feb 6th 2009 | 10:30 am

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Re: Canada advice please

You should expect to make sacrifices for a few years.

I get back to the UK quite frequently (usually a couple of times a month), and am always pleased to get back home to Canada. Don't miss the UK, never have, don't anticipate that changing now.

Feb 6th 2009 | 10:58 am

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Re: Canada advice please

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Originally Posted by old fat biker bloke

If you go back to Canada for holidays you should really check out some of the nicer areas. I've said a number of times that if we were ever to leave Australia to go back to Canada I would live in Montreal even though most of my family is in S. Ontario.

Good luck back in UK. It's a great attitude that you'll have no regrets.

Feb 6th 2009 | 11:55 pm

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Re: Canada advice please

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Originally Posted by old fat biker bloke

Yes, the mosquitoes, they weren't something I even considered!! We're near Niagara Falls (20 mins away) a place described to me by a Canadian chum who's lived here all his life as "living in a depressed swamp". I don't mind the winters but the humidity in the summer where we are gets unbearable.

We arrived in Nov 06 & are returning as soon as house sells - Any one wanna buy it??!!

I miss the Family first & foremost!!, BBC (wont ever moan about the licence again I swear!!), High Streets, villages, public transport, REAL bacon, decent cheese, ale, variety in food clothes & the like, NOT paying tax when I buy a second-hand car (you do here, in Ontario at least) - I could go on & on.

Best advice I can give is rent your UK house DON'T SELL IT!!! Come over and give it a go, you may love it but have a fall back plan firmly in place if you find you don't!!

Good luck with the tough decisions you're going to make.

We are making the move back to the UK in June, we have been in Canada for 3 years. At first a lot of stuff about Canada annoyed me but I've got used to it and I'm not really homesick anymore. However the UK at the present time is better for our family and set of financial circumstances.

Jon