Originally Posted by Bevm

True, but your suggestions did seem weird to me. Far better to try a move to Halifax, IMO, which is a great small city with lots of good features. Much easier and cheaper than moving to TO or Van, too.

Have you ever spent time in Halifax? Despite your liking for big cities, I think you'd like it quite a bit.

BTW, just a comment about countryside from another of your posts. You're right. It's so different here. No public footpaths through countryside, so country walking is always along roads, often with fast traffic zooming along now and then. Look what happened to Stephen King! (Yes, I know that was the US, but same system.)

You can live in a small country town in some places. Very nice. But still nowhere to walk except along the roads. There are more walking paths, bike paths, and parks in cities

You usually have to go a fair way out of a town to a wilderness park to hike, and that's not the same thing. Can be grand, but it's not the same. We have friends who live on a lot of land in NS -- all rough treed land, not agricultural -- and they built paths all over it. I asked why and they pointed out there was nowhere to walk except roads.

I'm not down on Canada at all. Been here 30 years, after all. But it's very different. People thinking about emigrating here need to grasp that. It's not England with a lot more space.

Bev

Originally Posted by Jules Europe

Disagree with the last point because it is England with a lot more space......You just have to go a lot further to find it.

Originally Posted by WestLABoy

Very well explained it Jules. A+
I know more than 20 people that have moved to different countries and they all went straight to live in big cities of their new country. In regards to Canada, I know 4 people that went to live in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Again I think Jules explained it very well as why.

Originally Posted by dingbat

Canada is nothing like England. If recreating Little Britain is a person's aim, go to Benidorm.

Originally Posted by LouiseD

I know Dunroving everyone's experiences are individual and for some people, it just takes time to settle down after the initial culture shock. I wasn't taking exception to your reply at all - you weren't professing to be an expert - you were merely expressing your opinion based on your own experiences - to which you have every entitlement.

I just had to point out to JAJ that no-one can be an expert on other peoples lives - hell we can't even be an expert on our own lives otherwise we wouldn't all be posting on here

Hope all goes well for you too

Originally Posted by sim2point4

Since moving to Canada it has really made us assess the possibilities for the rest of our working lives. Hubbie has been offered a plumbing lecturers job in just about any part of England that we fancy, with the bonus of being paid while going through teacher training, 50 days holiday and a final salary teachers pension, as oppose to a couple of years of taking plumbing/gas licences and building things up in Canada and 2 poxy weeks off and not much of a pension to speak of, this plus lots of other reasons we have discovered are not so good, has made us come to the conclusion that overall a move back to the UK is best for us.

A previous poster mentioned that there are 900,000 in the queue for PR, well we were part of that figure and waited our 3 years before we were allowed to come to Canada, so I feel that we did our time, we have made a mistake, are human beings not allowed to make mistakes, we are pretty fed up that our dream is not what we thought it would be, and will be going back to the UK minus thousands of pounds and will have to start again, only this time we will appreciate things a whole lot more.

Originally Posted by sim2point4

Since moving to Canada it has really made us assess the possibilities for the rest of our working lives. Hubbie has been offered a plumbing lecturers job in just about any part of England that we fancy, with the bonus of being paid while going through teacher training, 50 days holiday and a final salary teachers pension, as oppose to a couple of years of taking plumbing/gas licences and building things up in Canada and 2 poxy weeks off and not much of a pension to speak of, this plus lots of other reasons we have discovered are not so good, has made us come to the conclusion that overall a move back to the UK is best for us.

A previous poster mentioned that there are 900,000 in the queue for PR, well we were part of that figure and waited our 3 years before we were allowed to come to Canada, so I feel that we did our time, we have made a mistake, are human beings not allowed to make mistakes, we are pretty fed up that our dream is not what we thought it would be, and will be going back to the UK minus thousands of pounds and will have to start again, only this time we will appreciate things a whole lot more.

Originally Posted by Elaine B.

After reading that it's clear that it makes no sense for you guys to stay in Canada sounds like it's time to move on. That's exactly how we felt when we decided to leave. It's also a blessing that you both feel the same way my OH took a little convincing but now he wouldn't live in Canada again if you paid him, and he's Canadian

Originally Posted by sim2point4

Yes I suppose it is a blessing that we both feel it is for the best, must be a nightmare if opinions are divided!

Originally Posted by Jules Europe

I was the poster that mentioned the 900.000 plus queue. The only thing I find puzzling is why did you leave the UK in the first place, if your husband is in such demand there work wise, or were things different before you left there?

By the way I think Canada`s immigration policy is the pits making people wait 3-4 years before letting them in, after all you not waiting to go to the Garden of Eden but a frozen wasteland.

Given the way house prices are falling in the UK, you may be surprised what you can buy there.

Originally Posted by sim2point4

Work here hasn't been the problem, just frustrating for hubbie that he has to go through so much red tape to reach his full earning potential here, and as we have major doubts about staying it is now more a question of can he be bothered to sift through the red tape if we are not really happy and our lives in England would be better anyway.

The house prices at the moment would be a bonus upon our return, will be nice to be in a good position in this recession, as the last one was not so good for us.

Originally Posted by Elaine B.

Yeah you just have to read through some of the thread on here to see what a difficult time some people have.

So when does the For Sale sign go up?

Originally Posted by sim2point4

It is already up, had first viewing last week, apparently the comment was that it was not big enough, made me laugh as it has 3,500 square feet of space! Was going to go for sale by owner, but decided to go with a realtor, don't really know the system here, and I have heard that people usually expect you to drop the price if you a selling yourself, so will probably be for the best.