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Forum: Canada
Jan 11th 2009, 2:23 am
Replies: 23
Views: 1,732
Posted By sara76

Re: GTA: Whitby, Ajax, Pickering

Hi,

We rented in Ajax for the first 18 months of living here. 6 months in North Ajax & a year by the lake. Our son was 8 when we arrived & settled in well, although I have to say that I had that...
Forum: Canada
Nov 5th 2008, 1:49 am
Replies: 118
Views: 10,166
Posted By sara76

Re: Some advice after 2 years in Canada

No idea then as I was driving a school bus at the time & my friends knew nothing of it.
Forum: Canada
Nov 5th 2008, 1:05 am
Replies: 118
Views: 10,166
Posted By sara76

Re: Some advice after 2 years in Canada

Um, actually it was Fledermaus who created the fake account & her who took someones story of how they got out of hear & targeted it. Just a pity I never got the chance read it & neither did the...
Forum: Canada
Nov 4th 2008, 4:49 pm
Replies: 118
Views: 10,166
Posted By sara76

Re: Some advice after 2 years in Canada

No he said he house was bigger then that in Scotland. How do you know he did not live in a 1000sq ft 2 bed terrace? Also, who exactly would bother having a pool if they lived in Scotland?

Also...
Forum: Canada
Nov 4th 2008, 3:53 pm
Replies: 118
Views: 10,166
Posted By sara76

Re: Some advice after 2 years in Canada

Nope, don't think it was ever mentioned that you would end up with a huge house with a swimming pool & a big salary.
Forum: Canada
Nov 3rd 2008, 11:14 pm
Replies: 23
Views: 1,480
Posted By sara76

Re: travelling from toronto to ottawa - options?!

If you want to fly then I would suggest Porter Airlines https://www.flyporter.com

However they are generally about $100 per person each way, but they fly from the Toronto Islands Airport by the CN...
Forum: Canada
Nov 3rd 2008, 10:36 pm
Replies: 118
Views: 10,166
Posted By sara76

Re: Some advice after 2 years in Canada

W never said it was easy to get a well paid job here, Canada is known for not paying the best wage in the world. Here are a few websites to give you the general idea.
...
Forum: Canada
Nov 3rd 2008, 6:17 pm
Replies: 118
Views: 10,166
Posted By sara76

Re: Some advice after 2 years in Canada

If it was that decent then why did you move?
Forum: Canada
Nov 3rd 2008, 6:16 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 1,069
Posted By sara76

Re: are our plans realistic??

Hi Melanie,

My first concern would be the baby, I know that my lawyer was stressing about the birth of my daughter. Basically I found out I was pregnant just as we got our call for our medicals....
Forum: Canada
Nov 3rd 2008, 4:43 pm
Replies: 118
Views: 10,166
Posted By sara76

Re: Some advice after 2 years in Canada

There are plenty of jobs if you have the right attitude & don't mind taking job for $10 an hour to gain that all important Canadian experience, & you don't look at it as it is only 5 quid an hour,...
Forum: Canada
Nov 3rd 2008, 3:13 pm
Replies: 118
Views: 10,166
Posted By sara76

Re: Some advice after 2 years in Canada

No you are mis understanding again.

If you would like me to explain it to you, I moved here with my husband, two kids & the dog in June 2006, yes we were lucky as we wanted to move to Canada & my...
Forum: Canada
Nov 3rd 2008, 2:02 am
Replies: 118
Views: 10,166
Posted By sara76

Re: Some advice after 2 years in Canada

We have invited a few people, normally from the post which is more area specific, in fact we met a fair few if not most of them through this site one way or another. I don't have much time to post...
Forum: Canada
Nov 3rd 2008, 1:17 am
Replies: 50
Views: 3,705
Posted By sara76

Re: driving licence

Hi,

All you need to do is take your UK licence (Card & Paper part) to a MTO issuing office, they do a brief eye test, basically you look in this thing & they ask you what eye you can see it in &...
Forum: Canada
Nov 2nd 2008, 4:54 pm
Replies: 118
Views: 10,166
Posted By sara76

Re: Some advice after 2 years in Canada

Minimum wage for a server in Ontario as of March 2008 is $7.60, as of March 2009 it rises to $8.25.

http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/guide/guide_4.html
Forum: Canada
Nov 2nd 2008, 4:05 pm
Replies: 118
Views: 10,166
Posted By sara76

Re: Some advice after 2 years in Canada

If you fancy yourself as a Homer Simpson then Durham is a good area with the huge power plant expansions planned.

Also as HairySnotter has posted, if you are prepared to take any job until the...
Forum: Canada
Nov 2nd 2008, 3:15 pm
Replies: 13
Views: 1,273
Posted By sara76

Re: Any brits in Whitby/Oshawa Ontario?

Must have missed that one, cheers guys!
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Apr 14th 2008, 10:00 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 1,269
Posted By sara76

Re: worried with questions (cross posted sorry)

Thank you, that is very helpful & alot less complex then the British Consolutes website. So I take it that a passport is all you need to prove your a dual citizen, they do not get some certificate...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Apr 14th 2008, 8:59 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 1,269
Posted By sara76

Re: worried with questions (cross posted sorry)

Hi Julie,

We were in a similar situation to you. We came here in June 2006 on the back of my husbands WP. We got our AOR in Aug 08 & we landed on the 8th April 2008 (last week). Yes it really did...
Forum: Canada
Apr 14th 2008, 8:25 pm
Replies: 46
Views: 3,644
Posted By sara76

Re: The Sutherlands Landing

lol, just seen this thread & your first week here sounded exactly the same as ours apart from the job thing as we had that before we got here.
See what would these husbands of ours do without us...
Forum: Canada
Dec 23rd 2007, 4:35 am
Replies: 167
Views: 11,151
Posted By sara76

Re: Oh My God!!!!!!!

lol, I do like donuts, just nothing frome Tim Hortons, apart from a tasted bagel with cheese as you can't really go wrong with that. lol My husband is partial to their coffee & the cinnamon danish...
Forum: Canada
Dec 22nd 2007, 8:08 pm
Replies: 167
Views: 11,151
Posted By sara76

Re: Oh My God!!!!!!!

Hi Charlie, I just started reading your thread today & glad I didn't have to wait like the rest of you for a result. lol
We went through a similar thing. We were looking at Toronto as my husband...
Forum: Canada
Dec 22nd 2007, 7:25 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 1,753
Posted By sara76

Re: UK to Canada?

Hi, I don't think it is all that hard to do, but I imagine expensive. I used to work for an international show jumper in the UK when I was younger & it was done all the time, obviously I never saw...
Forum: Canada
Nov 15th 2007, 6:11 pm
Replies: 36
Views: 5,511
Posted By sara76

Re: Hi -just moved to Whitby Ontario

Hi Susan,
We don't have any family here as yet. They did come over to stay here with us for 6 months to wait out their process, however it all got to much (on the verge of mass murder). I have to...
Forum: Canada
Nov 11th 2007, 4:31 pm
Replies: 36
Views: 5,511
Posted By sara76

Re: Hi -just moved to Whitby Ontario

I would do it yourself, it is pretty straight forward, they only require you to have the rabies shots & micro chip. All the info is on the airtransat website & the vet helped with the rest, thats why...
Forum: Canada
Nov 11th 2007, 3:02 pm
Replies: 36
Views: 5,511
Posted By sara76

Re: Hi -just moved to Whitby Ontario

Hi we bought our dog over as excess baggage on the flight that we came on. It was a bit of a challenge pushing a Rhodesian Ridgeback around Gatwick Village in a Pet Cargo 900. We parked him up & had...
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