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Forum: Canada
Aug 15th 2023, 1:57 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 3,710
Posted By mogscat

Re: Canada move

I Must Go Down to the Sea Again

I must go down to the sea again
to the lonely sea and sky
I left my shoes and socks there -
I wonder if they’re dry?

Spike Milligan
Forum: Canada
Aug 11th 2023, 5:28 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 3,710
Posted By mogscat

Re: Canada move

Well my prairie pal, I’ll shake my head and you can shake your own hand because I have made an error there- the border with Montana is certainly a lot closer to Red Deer than than 2,000kms.

If the...
Forum: Canada
Aug 10th 2023, 2:35 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 3,710
Posted By mogscat

Re: Canada move

New Brunswick borders on the US, NS, Quebec and you can drive to any of these in less than a day, should you wish. We also have a coastline.
From Fredericton to Maine is a couple of hours. In...
Forum: Canada
Aug 9th 2023, 4:17 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 3,710
Posted By mogscat

Re: Canada move

Relaxed, family focussed, outdoor lifestyle etc. Maybe you’d like to consider New Brunswick or Nova Scotia? I’m in Fredericton, NB. The pace of life is really slow, and family is everything to most...
Forum: Canada
Aug 7th 2023, 11:35 pm
Replies: 13
Views: 1,523
Posted By mogscat

Re: looking for some east coast advice

Fredericton is within 2 hrs of Halifax/Toronto international airports if you fly from our ‘international’ airport, and similar travel time to various beaches. We have two man made beaches on the city...
Forum: Canada
Aug 7th 2023, 9:15 pm
Replies: 23
Views: 2,227
Posted By mogscat

Re: UK trained Nurse

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New Brunswick have sped up the process for UK...
Forum: Canada
Mar 31st 2023, 5:35 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 1,943
Posted By mogscat

Re: Nurse looking to relocate from uk to canada

UK nurses can now work in New Brunswick, it was announced this month. UK nursing quals are being accepted,at last. A few other countries’, too.

Contact the IEN Navigation Service. ...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jun 29th 2022, 12:05 am
Replies: 5
Views: 646
Posted By mogscat

Re: Residency requirement PR

. Thankyou Christmasoompa.

I have another related question I’ve posted separately…but it looks like the most sensible low risk option is for her to cut her trip short.
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jun 29th 2022, 12:02 am
Replies: 2
Views: 628
Posted By mogscat

Canadian Citizen ‘parent’ definition for residency requirement

Time spent outside Canada with a parent who is a Canadian Citizen counts towards the 730 day residency requirement for dependent children.

Does anyone know if this includes step parents?

In our...
Forum: Canada
Jun 27th 2022, 9:59 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 1,183
Posted By mogscat

Re: GP Waiting List in NB

Be aware that the waiting list is a lot longer than 2 years. Five years and longer and still waiting is very common here in Fredericton. Waiting list for GP currently around 65000, up from 40000 last...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jun 27th 2022, 9:38 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 646
Posted By mogscat

Re: Residency requirement PR

She lives in canada now…but is currently out of the country to attend her graduation.

It seems she had miscalculated and didn’t realise the shortfall until after she’d left Canada…

We will be 5...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jun 27th 2022, 8:31 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 646
Posted By mogscat

Residency requirement PR

Is residency counted for the five years prior to the date of applying for new PR card?

Or do the 730 days have to be in the five years from first landing?

Daughter with PR lives and works in...
Forum: Canada
Nov 18th 2021, 12:55 am
Replies: 109
Views: 7,402
Posted By mogscat

Re: RichMitch's questions about cost of living

We also considered Calgary and Fredericton when we moved here 2 years ago. We could afford a nice house in Fredericton. In Calgary, we could not. House prices aside, the cost of living here does not...
Forum: Canada
Jun 1st 2019, 7:30 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 4,330
Posted By mogscat

Re: Things you’re glad you brought to Canada..?

Art in tubes and carry on the plane rather than ship. Good idea. I have lots of artworks by my girls and their artistic friends that I couldn't replace if they got damaged in transit.

Most...
Forum: Canada
Jun 1st 2019, 7:23 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 4,330
Posted By mogscat

Re: Things you’re glad you brought to Canada..?

V good idea...
Forum: Canada
Jun 1st 2019, 3:15 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 4,330
Posted By mogscat

Things you’re glad you brought to Canada..?

Am starting the process / existential crisis of sorting out what to take/ leave behind.
I have tried the Marie Kondo approach (‘does this cruet bring me joy?’ and the William Morris technique (‘is...
Forum: Canada
Apr 22nd 2019, 3:54 pm
Replies: 61
Views: 12,731
Posted By mogscat

Re: Fredericton - a good word

Crikey! Over 6,000 views. Who'd have thought a little expat chat about Fredericton could be so interesting..? Or perhaps there's an imminent immigrant influx?

I have been looking through numbers...
Forum: Canada
Apr 21st 2019, 12:37 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 1,301
Posted By mogscat

Re: New Brunswick and Employment

You could try contacting nbta.ca for info on teaching in NB.
I have just been to Fredericton where I visited the education dept at UNB and an employment counsellor. Both said that there is a...
Forum: Canada
Apr 19th 2019, 10:41 pm
Replies: 61
Views: 12,731
Posted By mogscat

Re: Fredericton - a good word

Coming from a country where a great deal is controlled by a single extended family (you might have heard of them, they go by the name 'Royal') or that bunch of old school chums who are The...
Forum: Canada
Apr 19th 2019, 9:40 am
Replies: 61
Views: 12,731
Posted By mogscat

Re: Fredericton - a good word

It certainly looked that way, Bristol! But perhaps all the clean air went to our heads? Or the aliens who experimented on us interfered with our higher reasoning powers? The rednecks were out in...
Forum: Canada
Apr 18th 2019, 11:54 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 962
Posted By mogscat

Re: Teaching in Calgary

Hi
I went through the teaching qualifications validation process with Alberta Education in the past year. The process took 10 months and costs a couple of hundred CAD.
The end result for me was, I...
Forum: Canada
Apr 12th 2019, 6:50 pm
Replies: 61
Views: 12,731
Posted By mogscat

Re: Fredericton - a good word

So here we are in Fredericton! We’re doing an exploratory. Visited The Hive this morning , met many recent immigrants and local city people connected to city, Ignite etc. Was fascinating. also been...
Forum: Canada
Mar 20th 2019, 9:21 am
Replies: 48
Views: 7,111
Posted By mogscat

Re: Calgary questions

Thanks very much Laois. I will make a note of those areas. Good to hear firsthand from someone who uses transit a lot. We still haven't decided on which city, we are really struggling! But all...
Forum: Canada
Mar 19th 2019, 11:29 pm
Replies: 48
Views: 7,111
Posted By mogscat

Re: Calgary questions

Wouldn’t know about Canada but there’s been a big shift in U.K. towards drugs rather than drinking among teenagers in just the last couple of years. I work with older teenagers and they rarely roll...
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