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Forum: The Trailer Park
Jun 1st 2008, 8:04 am
Replies: 25
Views: 2,145
Posted By annie3-4

Re: Really horrible homesickness

Life is far too short to feel this way. I felt the same to-ing and fro-ing with my feelings. Then my mind was made up for me when my 18 yr old (back in UK) tried to take her own life. I left my...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jun 1st 2008, 7:56 am
Replies: 16
Views: 1,101
Posted By annie3-4

Re: just want to say..

Thanks all.... my advice to would-be expats is.. do not underestimate the pull of "home". The bigger house/car etc really dont count for anything.
Forum: The Trailer Park
May 31st 2008, 5:05 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 1,101
Posted By annie3-4

just want to say..

We moved back to the UK in March this year fom Ontario. Long story, but both daughters came home and then I realised that I didnt want my family to be at each side of the Atlantic.
I dont think that...
Forum: Canada
Mar 12th 2008, 12:42 pm
Replies: 57
Views: 3,275
Posted By annie3-4

Re: well...i am at the crossroads now but no end to probs!

Good for you Julius.... sounds like you made the right choice. It would have been horrendous for your wife to have been left in that situation.
If it is your house Julius then start charging rent...
Forum: Canada
Mar 12th 2008, 3:48 am
Replies: 57
Views: 3,275
Posted By annie3-4

Re: well...i am at the crossroads now but no end to probs!

Yes.... he needs to pray for the balls to stand up to his parents and be a husband to his wife and a parent to his kids, instead of chasing a life which he didnt like last time he was here.
Forum: Canada
Mar 11th 2008, 11:15 pm
Replies: 57
Views: 3,275
Posted By annie3-4

Re: well...i am at the crossroads now but no end to probs!

Good advice Julian
Forum: Canada
Mar 11th 2008, 3:54 pm
Replies: 57
Views: 3,275
Posted By annie3-4

Re: well...i am at the crossroads now but no end to probs!

You are probably right...
maybe he has made up his mind to leave and just wants someone to say its OK.
I dont think he will be happy though...
Forum: Canada
Mar 11th 2008, 2:49 pm
Replies: 57
Views: 3,275
Posted By annie3-4

Re: well...i am at the crossroads now but no end to probs!

oh that sounds a bit harsh....
julius was not happy here in Canada when he had his family with him, so I fail to see how he thinks he can be happy here without them.
i think he has to put his kds...
Forum: Canada
Mar 11th 2008, 2:33 pm
Replies: 57
Views: 3,275
Posted By annie3-4

Re: well...i am at the crossroads now but no end to probs!

he doesnt have to stay in bloody Tooting... just move away from parents.
i just dont think he will be happy in canada ( or anywhere else ) on his own.
He hates the situation he is in.. running away...
Forum: Canada
Mar 11th 2008, 2:15 pm
Replies: 57
Views: 3,275
Posted By annie3-4

Re: well...i am at the crossroads now but no end to probs!

Life isnt all about Canada. If you lose your PR then so what, you can make a life for yourselves in Britain somewhere apart from Tooting. Whats more important, wife and kids, or living in Canada?
...
Forum: Canada
Mar 11th 2008, 2:01 pm
Replies: 57
Views: 3,275
Posted By annie3-4

Re: well...i am at the crossroads now but no end to probs!

The kids are not doing medicine... they are 16 and 18, doing A levels, they have a long way to go before that, they need excellent A level grades, they need to get accepted to do medicine.. not easy....
Forum: Canada
Mar 11th 2008, 1:29 pm
Replies: 57
Views: 3,275
Posted By annie3-4

Re: well...i am at the crossroads now but no end to probs!

How can you even contemplate going without your family?
You really shouldnt be turning your major life decisions into a poll.
That fact that you are asking these questions means you are not...
Forum: Canada
Mar 11th 2008, 1:13 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 877
Posted By annie3-4

Re: Persuading the missus....

My advice.... dont do it unless everyone concerned is 100% committed to the idea.
Its easy to say "well we can always come home" ..in reality it is not easy at all.
Stress, upheaval, financial...
Forum: Canada
Mar 10th 2008, 11:05 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 479
Posted By annie3-4

Re: mental health nurse

Hi
It depends where you are headed. No good in Ontario, I have the same qualification... not worth the paper its written on
OK in BC I think.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 9th 2008, 1:55 pm
Replies: 93
Views: 10,004
Posted By annie3-4

Re: Best and worst Boys names.

Oh God I wouldnt have married him... or I would have kept my maiden name.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 9th 2008, 12:23 pm
Replies: 93
Views: 10,004
Posted By annie3-4

Re: Best and worst Boys names.

When I had my daughter, the woman in the next bed called her daughter Tiffany... but her last name was Potts... I dont think it dawned on her that the child would be T.Potts.:)
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Mar 9th 2008, 12:18 pm
Replies: 46
Views: 3,139
Posted By annie3-4

Re: Teenager

Great news. I think you are doing the right thing by trying not to discuss it too much. It can get overwhelming for everyone.
Also I think that the more you try to persuade teenagers the more they...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 8th 2008, 9:26 pm
Replies: 93
Views: 10,004
Posted By annie3-4

Re: Best and worst Boys names.

I like Kevin... tis a good old irish name:)
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 7th 2008, 6:26 pm
Replies: 34
Views: 3,132
Posted By annie3-4

Re: What I will miss about Canada!

Ill miss the big washer..
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Mar 7th 2008, 6:19 pm
Replies: 46
Views: 3,139
Posted By annie3-4

Re: Teenager

Thanks Rosie,
Yes it is soo hard to leave them behind, even though the eldest has a flat, job and a place at uni for Sept, I worry about her all the time.
I am frantic about the youngest one..
I...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Mar 7th 2008, 6:00 pm
Replies: 46
Views: 3,139
Posted By annie3-4

Re: Teenager

Thanks... im not saying it will be the same for you, hopefully she will love life here in Canada.
Our younger daughter, to be fair, did not "act out" while she was here, For eight months she went to...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Mar 7th 2008, 5:44 pm
Replies: 46
Views: 3,139
Posted By annie3-4

Re: Teenager

be careful here...
We have two daughters.. now 18 and 19. Prior to our move to Ontario they both decided that they didnt want to come. Much heartache.... initially they didnt come.. stayed in UK...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 6th 2008, 4:04 pm
Replies: 33
Views: 3,545
Posted By annie3-4

Re: Thinking of Returning to U.K. from Canada

"Some of you are very rude...."
This coming from a bloke who said .....
Too many people here fail to accept that the U.K is a third rate power whose reputation is based upon its' past rather than...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 6th 2008, 3:56 pm
Replies: 76
Views: 3,829
Posted By annie3-4

Re: the language barrier!!!

Dont watch it then Howard.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 6th 2008, 3:49 pm
Replies: 76
Views: 3,829
Posted By annie3-4

Re: the language barrier!!!

I dont find it difficult and frustrating, just annoying when Brits adopt a pretendy false Canadian twang which sounds completely ridiculous
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