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Forum: Canada
Apr 30th 2015, 4:48 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 944
Posted By Drax

Re: Thoughts on completing a Canadian University Course online?

It's perfectly feasible. I spent a year running the online learning system at UBC and about 7-8% of the students never set foot on any of our campuses, that was about 3000 of our users.
I didn't get...
Forum: Canada
Feb 18th 2015, 9:31 am
Replies: 141
Views: 15,118
Posted By Drax

Re: Back in the UK for 9 months and decided we made the wrong choice!

I guess it all comes down to did you trade up or did you trade down when you moved ? And that in turn is determined by what you want in life.
Forum: Canada
Jan 8th 2013, 8:01 pm
Replies: 57
Views: 6,452
Posted By Drax

Re: Vancouver or London, UK

I wish it was that easy RubyRose. Vancouver's my wifes hometown and my 20 month old son has spent almost all of his life here. We are basically looking at divorce here.
Nice smiley though.
Forum: Canada
Jan 7th 2013, 9:33 pm
Replies: 34
Views: 2,362
Posted By Drax

Re: Renting in BC - What did you take?

I'm afraid that's wrong on just about every point.
I bought my PS3 in Canada a few years ago and I've been using it quite happily in the UK. Now I've settled in Vancouver and it works just fine....
Forum: Canada
Jan 7th 2013, 7:17 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 926
Posted By Drax

Re: Deals back to U.K

I've been shuttling between London and Vancouver every few months for about eight years now. Air Transat (Canadian Affair) are usually about half the price of BA and considerably cheaper than Air...
Forum: Canada
Jan 7th 2013, 7:06 pm
Replies: 37
Views: 3,315
Posted By Drax

Re: Cheaper to ship from UK or buy out there in BC?

I've just moved over to Vancouver and I'm definitely in the ship-all-you-can team.
With the exception of domestic electronics that is. TVs, laptops, games consoles etc are quite a bit cheaper over...
Forum: Canada
Jan 6th 2013, 12:57 pm
Replies: 57
Views: 6,452
Posted By Drax

Re: Vancouver or London, UK

So.... on the whole London kicks Vancouvers ass into orbit.
Forum: Canada
Jan 4th 2013, 7:39 am
Replies: 57
Views: 6,452
Posted By Drax

Re: Vancouver or London, UK

I was about to make an almost identical posting. My wife's a Vancouver girl, very family orientated, and we'd been together 8 years in London but the plan had always been to settle in BC.

For me...
Forum: Canada
Nov 29th 2012, 2:05 am
Replies: 19
Views: 1,680
Posted By Drax

Re: (very) small movers ?

Cheers mate, that's exactly what I needed.
Forum: Canada
Nov 28th 2012, 12:05 am
Replies: 19
Views: 1,680
Posted By Drax

(very) small movers ?

Hi Folks,

I have two or three boxes of effects to move over to Vancouver from London,UK
in addition to two large suitcases when I land there in a couple of weeks.
Sizewise the boxes are "book...
Forum: Canada
Nov 23rd 2012, 1:54 am
Replies: 44
Views: 4,286
Posted By Drax

Re: Any IT contractors out there ?

Thanks for the heads up, appreciate it. Sadly I was contacted by three different agencies about the same role and Teksystems were first so I went with them, I'll try one of the other guys now.
...
Forum: Canada
Nov 20th 2012, 8:48 pm
Replies: 44
Views: 4,286
Posted By Drax

Any IT contractors out there ?

I'll be landing in Vancouver in mid December on a spousal sponsored CPOR. I've been an IT contractor in the UK for over 15 years and I'm wondering if I can do the same in Canada.

I've been talking...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Nov 1st 2011, 5:12 am
Replies: 3
Views: 1,664
Posted By Drax

Re: When do I need to surrender my passport ?

Many thanks for that :)
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Nov 1st 2011, 3:55 am
Replies: 3
Views: 1,664
Posted By Drax

When do I need to surrender my passport ?

Hi,
I'm about to fire off a spousal application for permanent residency, at what stage in the process do the Canadian authorities need to hold on to my UK passport, is right away ?
I'm hoping to...
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