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Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 2nd 2009, 7:23 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 1,684
Posted By achanginglife

Re: Canada advice please

Hi Denise,

We emigrated in 2003 and moved back to UK in 2005, because I was really homesick and had been offered a really good job back in UK. I missed my family, financial security, beautiful...
Forum: Canada
Dec 15th 2008, 3:29 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 723
Posted By achanginglife

Re: 3 points on license and moving to Alberta

Start over with a clean sheet. Although once you arrive watch the speed limits especially in rental cars. We have found they are much more likely to haul in rental cars for speeding than local plates.
Forum: Canada
Dec 15th 2008, 3:25 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 716
Posted By achanginglife

Re: Hi from Spain !

Welcome to forum Nick and Lesley, Spain with its balmy climate does appeal to me right now. Its -34C here this morning !! please see answers in red.

So do you think this will be a permanent move?...
Forum: Canada
Nov 9th 2008, 5:19 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 959
Posted By achanginglife

Re: Help, bin day tommorrow.

Sorry to butt in on post, this is interesting because these are the things you don't find out about until you are actually living there. And its not like you really think to ask this stuff...
Forum: Canada
Nov 9th 2008, 5:15 pm
Replies: 42
Views: 3,750
Posted By achanginglife

Re: What do you wish you had done before you landed?

Here here, the grass may be greener but its still got to rain.
Forum: Canada
Nov 9th 2008, 4:21 pm
Replies: 42
Views: 3,750
Posted By achanginglife

Re: What do you wish you had done before you landed?

that must be very tough, she is lucky you are able to support her in her decision.


Don't know the full story, but is it worth all the bitterness? you are here now and generally doing OK. Holding...
Forum: Canada
Nov 9th 2008, 2:01 pm
Replies: 42
Views: 3,750
Posted By achanginglife

Re: What do you wish you had done before you landed?

Do you think there was anything you could have done before hand that would have avoided your current situation? ie different research, trips, soul searching etc
Forum: Canada
Nov 9th 2008, 1:59 pm
Replies: 42
Views: 3,750
Posted By achanginglife

Re: What do you wish you had done before you landed?

Yes, although I still haven't learnt when Oliver was a baby we used to take loads of video and pisture, and now we never bother... but I love to see just the every day stuff from when he was little....
Forum: Canada
Nov 8th 2008, 8:57 pm
Replies: 42
Views: 3,750
Posted By achanginglife

Re: What do you wish you had done before you landed?

- We discovered after arriving we could have played all our UK DVD's and videos here but had boot sold them all at giveaway prices! Just nice to have a good collection of movies to watch, something...
Forum: Canada
Oct 30th 2008, 4:46 pm
Replies: 42
Views: 3,750
Posted By achanginglife

Re: What do you wish you had done before you landed?

Feeling for everyone with the current housing situation in UK at the moment. This thread has some great ideas about alternatives to selling.. that might be helpful....
Forum: Canada
Oct 30th 2008, 4:40 pm
Replies: 42
Views: 3,750
Posted By achanginglife

Re: What do you wish you had done before you landed?

Yes that's a good one, especially for the older gen! thanks Moondevil!
Forum: Canada
Oct 30th 2008, 6:10 am
Replies: 24
Views: 1,841
Posted By achanginglife

Re: in case you are thinking of settling in Quebec

Like to see that in UK!
Forum: Canada
Oct 30th 2008, 6:04 am
Replies: 42
Views: 3,750
Posted By achanginglife

What do you wish you had done before you landed?

With the benefit of hind sight, its easy to think of things I wish we had done before we arrived, that would have made life so much easier:
1. Got proof of no claims from car insurance companies....
Forum: Canada
Oct 30th 2008, 5:31 am
Replies: 38
Views: 2,716
Posted By achanginglife

Re: How much to save?

I agree with the $40k estimate. We moved over in 2003 and it cost about that, moved back to UK in 2005, and back to Canada again in 2007 and it cost about half ($20k) the second time.

This was...
Forum: Australia
Oct 30th 2008, 5:01 am
Replies: 153
Views: 15,565
Posted By achanginglife

Re: Any HELP, the Dream is fading

What a great post, this is exactly the attitude of successful migrants, flexibility, thinking outside the box, and determination to get there no matter what.... wishing you the very best of luck,...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 29th 2008, 5:04 pm
Replies: 45
Views: 1,889
Posted By achanginglife

Re: Baking...bread making etc etc

Where are you in Alberta? There is an altitude adjustment required here in Canmore. To get nicely risen bread.

http://southernfood.about.com/cs/breads/ht/self_rise_flour.htm - this link tells you...
Forum: Canada
Oct 29th 2008, 4:58 pm
Replies: 12
Views: 1,038
Posted By achanginglife

Re: Has anybody moved without having any real plans ?

I think there is a difference between having plans for when you arrive and the amount of research you do before hand.

Not doing the research is more likely to cause problems. After all why invest...
Forum: Canada
Sep 23rd 2008, 3:40 am
Replies: 208
Views: 22,266
Posted By achanginglife

Re: NOVA SCOTIA BACK TO UK

You made the decision and you need to focus on the future. Regreting what happened is not going to help, what can you learn from this? You know that you need to do more research, need a scouting trip...
Forum: Australia
Sep 14th 2008, 6:31 pm
Replies: 153
Views: 15,565
Posted By achanginglife

Re: Any HELP, the Dream is fading

Hey come on!

How helpful is it feeling this way?
Take charge of the situation, OK you have to re-evaluate and change your approach, but if it gets you the result you want is that so bad?

What...
Forum: Australia
Sep 14th 2008, 6:20 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 3,142
Posted By achanginglife

Re: What would you do in my shoes

I think everyone of the previous posts with advice has some good points and they have answered exactly what you asked.
But they are not you, and their answers are based upon what they value and what...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Sep 14th 2008, 5:37 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 1,549
Posted By achanginglife

Re: Not sure how tactful this is...but

We have a Aiwa VCR that plays both PAL and NTSC videos, records in either and has AV input.

Unfortunately we aren't selling it, but if you can get one of those you could plug your Playstation 2...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Sep 14th 2008, 5:30 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 1,801
Posted By achanginglife

Re: How Bad is the UK?

'Grant that I may not critiscise my neighbour until I have walked a mile in his mocassins'.
Native Indian prayer


I think emigration is a great way to...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Sep 14th 2008, 5:13 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 1,655
Posted By achanginglife

Re: opinions on this!!!

I was thinking the same thing, I much prefer to view houses that are empty, so you are not distracted by other peoples ideas. So that needn't be a deciding factor.

But really our opinions are not...
Forum: Canada
Sep 14th 2008, 4:37 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 1,389
Posted By achanginglife

Re: Canada EXPO

Every body seems to feel the same about this.
Can I ask why it was so bad?
What did you expect to get?

I was thinking of going and am wondering what they do have there....
Forum: Canada
Sep 14th 2008, 3:53 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 567
Posted By achanginglife

Re: 4 days in Bath near Kingston!!

Hi Sarah,

Sorry I'm not close enough to meet up, but just wanted to say hi and hope things are going well, after your first few days.
Wishing you well in your new venture. Louise
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