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Forum: Canada
Sep 6th 2005, 3:03 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 1,789
Posted By ksct97

Re: winter clothing

don't have exposed flesh... the cold will really bite... and get a couple of pairs of gloves for the kids... you don't want to be losing one and going without!

have a blanket in the car at all...
Forum: Canada
Aug 16th 2005, 4:05 am
Replies: 17
Views: 10,061
Posted By ksct97

Re: Renewing my UK passport in Canada. Do I need my birth cert?

i just renewed my passport... took 6 weeks from sending it and finally getting it back.

you can supposedly expediate the process, you need to check the website.
Don't bother trying to call, as...
Forum: Canada
Aug 14th 2005, 12:04 pm
Replies: 13
Views: 1,134
Posted By ksct97

Re: Here at last!

congratulations... at least you've had a lovely summer to contend with!

all the best... here's to winter! :eek: :)
Forum: Canada
Aug 13th 2005, 5:11 am
Replies: 97
Views: 5,324
Posted By ksct97

Re: Gas Prices - what are you paying

probably because quebec is "special" and doesn't want to be lumped together with the rest of north america!
Forum: Canada
Aug 13th 2005, 4:39 am
Replies: 97
Views: 5,324
Posted By ksct97

Re: Gas Prices - what are you paying

great site... shame it doesn't cover quebec! :(
Forum: Canada
Aug 13th 2005, 4:37 am
Replies: 97
Views: 5,324
Posted By ksct97

Re: Gas Prices - what are you paying

$1.02 along the Decarie Blvd (Montreal) this morning, down from $1.08 which we saw earlier this week. Hoping to see it lower to below a $1!!!
Forum: Canada
Aug 10th 2005, 4:31 am
Replies: 8
Views: 997
Posted By ksct97

Re: Building a Credit rating

this is the way i went to... just get a secured credit card and build your credit history with that. The money used for the security is still yours and you earn interest on it, just cannot touch it...
Forum: Canada
Jul 29th 2005, 2:38 am
Replies: 37
Views: 2,901
Posted By ksct97

Re: Anyone tried Google earth ?

yeah its alot of fun... montreal is well mapped out... but it doesn't work on a Mac (yet) so i begrudgingly was checking it out on a PC...
Forum: Canada
Jul 28th 2005, 1:02 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 4,708
Posted By ksct97

Re: Toddler at drive-in movie?

can't see why not... drive-ins are a bit of a dying breed... and i think the couples who want to... well you know... have better places to go nowadays than a drive-in...

so take your toddler......
Forum: Canada
Jul 28th 2005, 12:58 pm
Replies: 0
Views: 468
Posted By ksct97

passport renewal

Has anyone got any experience getting a UK passport renewal? Mine needs updating, and having gotten the forms and read through their website it says it will take 6 weeks... how true is this? I would...
Forum: Canada
Jul 28th 2005, 12:46 pm
Replies: 12
Views: 875
Posted By ksct97

Re: Armchair anthropology of childhood question.

My childhood came from the 80's and have always done chores. Both parents were working, and so both I and my sister would do simple things around the house, like washing up, putting dishes away,...
Forum: Canada
Jul 10th 2005, 3:46 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,613
Posted By ksct97

Re: need some advice

true... i need no french for where i work... but i came here due to my work, not came to montreal and then found work... without french, it's narrowing your options... not impossible, you maybe...
Forum: Canada
Jul 10th 2005, 3:44 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,613
Posted By ksct97

Re: need some advice

i didn't say it was a country... all i meant was that quebec likes to do its own thing... now if that is right or wrong, not for me to say...
Forum: Canada
Jul 10th 2005, 3:16 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,613
Posted By ksct97

Re: need some advice

ahhh, but this is quebec...
Forum: Canada
Jul 10th 2005, 1:18 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,613
Posted By ksct97

Re: need some advice

If you're coming to Montreal without a job, you're gonna found it hard to impossible without a reasonable fluency in french. As a visitor, you'll get by fine... but even to work at the local Walmart,...
Forum: Canada
Jul 9th 2005, 10:24 am
Replies: 8
Views: 1,142
Posted By ksct97

Re: working hours in canada

i work long-ish hours... from 9-10am until 7-9pm, and some weekends (like today!)... but i have fairly flexible timetable and am not the norm!

the admin staff here work from 8.30am until 5pm... no...
Forum: Canada
Jul 1st 2005, 8:08 am
Replies: 8
Views: 755
Posted By ksct97

Re: Canada Day - How Are You Celebrating?

working here too (must be a quebec thing?! ;))... and surprise, surprise also about 30 with high-ish humidity... basically same as souvenir said!

hope the thunderstorm holds off though...
Forum: Canada
Jun 30th 2005, 2:23 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 1,446
Posted By ksct97

Re: Canada Day

ahhh yes Canada day in quebec is also the unofficial moving day... is that the same else where in the country?
Forum: Canada
Jun 30th 2005, 2:16 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 1,446
Posted By ksct97

Re: Canada Day

errrr... i'll be working, much like last friday which was quebec day!!! :(
Forum: Canada
Jun 30th 2005, 7:11 am
Replies: 3
Views: 508
Posted By ksct97

Re: Hostels in Montreal...

There's La Maison du Patriote in the old part of montreal which is very nice, and there's HI-Montréal, which is in downtown Montreal, and this i've heard is very good.
Forum: Canada
Jun 29th 2005, 9:14 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,883
Posted By ksct97

Re: driving in Canada.

lucky you... my wife will have finsihed the 8month course in december!!! here's hoping for a late winter...
Forum: Canada
Jun 29th 2005, 8:00 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,883
Posted By ksct97

Re: driving in Canada.

my wife is here on a working permit and she is taking driving lessons as she hasn't got a license. Here in quebec it's 8months with a registered school or 12months without before you can take the...
Forum: Canada
Jun 29th 2005, 5:19 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,273
Posted By ksct97

Re: Most expensive cities worldwide

oh... that's a shame... i must say my experience here is based just for living in montreal... people on the whole are friendly and a little effort gets you quite far...

hope things turn around for...
Forum: Canada
Jun 29th 2005, 3:46 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,273
Posted By ksct97

Re: Most expensive cities worldwide

does seem your situation isn't playing into your hands for making friends... but are the neighbours really so prude... maybe all they need is a bit of a (figurative) kick to get things started, how...
Forum: Canada
Jun 29th 2005, 2:31 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,273
Posted By ksct97

Re: Most expensive cities worldwide

we've been in montreal since last september, and making friends isn't easy. I have my work buddies who on the whole were like me and moved to montreal recently after a relocation, and my wife has...
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