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Forum: Canada
Dec 22nd 2010, 3:50 pm
Replies: 28
Views: 2,605
Posted By Couture

Re: Where to start?

I wont, thanks.

For a so called epxats website, the bull**** dished out here is phenomenal. As for my own responses - you mean that ONE single response where I asked someone to stow the...
Forum: Canada
Dec 22nd 2010, 2:15 pm
Replies: 28
Views: 2,605
Posted By Couture

Re: Where to start?

yup, like i say we are going to go down the FSW route, do it as by-the-book as possible and just try to ride out the year. Its pretty annoying though when you spend a whole day researching,...
Forum: Canada
Dec 22nd 2010, 12:30 am
Replies: 28
Views: 2,605
Posted By Couture

Re: Where to start?

Im not really sure what to make of your post Alan, but I can only assume its sarcasm. If you had experienced the sheer quantity of life changes we have in the last 4 years in 3 countries, sarcasm...
Forum: Canada
Dec 21st 2010, 10:23 pm
Replies: 28
Views: 2,605
Posted By Couture

Re: Where to start?

Im a realist for sure, I have moved enough times to know not to let my imagination run away with me :)

The thing about the Federal Skilled Worker (permanent residence) Visa is that it takes a year...
Forum: Canada
Dec 21st 2010, 9:20 pm
Replies: 28
Views: 2,605
Posted By Couture

Re: Where to start?

Another quick question. Immigration for ANY country is not an easy subject im finding.

Ok. I was under the impression that I would enter canada under the FSW visa, but it this really the case? ...
Forum: Canada
Dec 21st 2010, 4:06 pm
Replies: 1
Views: 675
Posted By Couture

Recruitment Consultants

Hi guys,

Just throwing a quick one out there - Can anyone recommend some Recruitment Consultants in Ontario? In the UK, Architects tend to find jobs through these guys so I am wondering if its...
Forum: Canada
Dec 15th 2010, 12:51 pm
Replies: 28
Views: 2,605
Posted By Couture

Re: Where to start?

Thanks guys. Yeah i trawled through the whole Canada section to try and do the usual groundwork we all do before we make a move, you know...to see how i feel about it.

Being on the eligible...
Forum: Canada
Dec 15th 2010, 12:01 am
Replies: 28
Views: 2,605
Posted By Couture

Where to start?

Hi guys

I have been posting in the UK forum lately but after receiving a job alert from Canada it got me to thinking, could my Mrs and I feasibly look at going to Canada instead?

With the UK...
Forum: Working Abroad by Profession
Dec 7th 2010, 11:30 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 4,767
Posted By Couture

Re: Architects - Where is the hot spot to work now?

There actually isnt a great place currently. Australia is fairly well off but the problem is, as an architect, you are now part of a worldwide migration of other architects following the work so...
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Nov 29th 2010, 10:21 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 1,274
Posted By Couture

Re: Americans are still relocating to Mexico

just gave me ideas for 1) moving out of DF for a year before moving home to UK and 2) where to retire.
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Nov 29th 2010, 10:14 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 15,513
Posted By Couture

Re: I Love Mexico/I Hate Mexico

pretty funny, and a brilliant summary of the ignorance of a lot of people who have never even been to Mexico.

Ach, as much as i moan about living in D.F. it is still the plan of me and the mrs...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 9th 2010, 4:26 am
Replies: 87
Views: 9,189
Posted By Couture

Re: Think long and hard, and then think again!

I dont think its very polite to claim people rarely listen to advice. Did it occur to you Seneca that maybe people like to have their options listed in order to help them make a decision on their...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 8th 2010, 11:04 pm
Replies: 87
Views: 9,189
Posted By Couture

Re: Think long and hard, and then think again!

...everyone's different. If you know it's not for you, it's not for you. IMO as long as ample thought has been put into it and an effort has been made to give it a go aside from typical...
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Nov 4th 2010, 10:22 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 15,513
Posted By Couture

Re: I Love Mexico/I Hate Mexico

yeah the media tend to make it worse by continually posting pictures of bodies on the front page of the newspapers...

south lanarkshire lad myself so i like to think it affords me some kind of...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 4th 2010, 12:57 am
Replies: 35
Views: 4,332
Posted By Couture

Re: Nearly Home

I have always stood by my realisation that when someone says a place has gone to the dogs, it is merely a reflection of the dissatisfaction that person had with the life they led.

Everywhere has...
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Nov 3rd 2010, 11:39 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 15,513
Posted By Couture

Re: I Love Mexico/I Hate Mexico

Ah i dunno that one... is that over in Mazatlan?

It has been pretty hairy for a bit now here - with all the bicentenario celebrations and now day of the dead etc, theres been a whopping great...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Nov 3rd 2010, 8:46 pm
Replies: 227
Views: 27,029
Posted By Couture

Re: "Inbetweenies" Thread:For those who are definitely returning, but not for a while

*sigh*

I swear I cant go 5 minutes without losing my concentration and drifting to thoughts of things I am going to do when I get back. Lately I did a rough breakdown of costs for my partner, to...
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Nov 3rd 2010, 1:51 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 15,513
Posted By Couture

Re: I Love Mexico/I Hate Mexico

where were you?
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 2nd 2010, 9:14 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 3,357
Posted By Couture

Re: Off back to wonderful cold Aberdeen..

Ach youll be fine. It would have been better had you gotten to the stage first where you wanted to go back but this is fine too no? Sometimes being given no choice is as good as anything to get you...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Oct 29th 2010, 6:44 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 4,825
Posted By Couture

Re: A return perspective

Yeah a lot of people go on and on about how expensive it has become to live in the UK when in reality the cost of living in the UK can be relatively cheaper or as cheap as anywhere. Ive come to...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 26th 2010, 8:18 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 1,591
Posted By Couture

Re: Getting started on the move - Tips on Spouse's Visa appreciated

cheers

We wouldnt move without work to go to, I know we could with some savings but with the state of our profession it isnt wise! That was really just a cherry on top to make sure she has no...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 26th 2010, 6:51 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 1,591
Posted By Couture

Re: Getting started on the move - Tips on Spouse's Visa appreciated

im british, we are trying to move to the UK. We both lived in Ireland before (working for the same company who has offices in London) and I was wondering if it held any relevance that she held a...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 26th 2010, 4:46 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 1,591
Posted By Couture

Getting started on the move - Tips on Spouse's Visa appreciated

Hi guys, I posted on the immigration boards earlier but I thought with the friendly buzz in here it might be worth running this past you guys also. Basically my partner and i (who are due to get...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Oct 20th 2010, 11:40 pm
Replies: 227
Views: 27,029
Posted By Couture

Re: "Inbetweenies" Thread:For those who are definitely returning, but not for a while

Hiya! :)

You know, thats such a huge thing to deal with, it is affecting us too at the moment and we both feel like we are half here, half in the UK mentally. This is a problem in more ways than...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Oct 19th 2010, 2:19 am
Replies: 227
Views: 27,029
Posted By Couture

Re: "Inbetweenies" Thread:For those who are definitely returning, but not for a while

Wow, I saw this thread yesterday and havent been able to stop reading it in my sporadic spare 5 minutes. This is great, well done to OP.

Its striking, as some have said before me, just how many...
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