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Forum: Canada
May 4th 2011, 3:22 am
Replies: 185
Views: 16,252
Posted By wilderness pete

Re: Now you live in Canada ...

I agree, if you are an outdoors kind of person, well you have to love it here, even when it snows.

Still not seen a bear yet, and I assume your using the badgers for forum fishing. :sneaky:
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
May 4th 2011, 3:13 am
Replies: 10
Views: 1,904
Posted By wilderness pete

Re: UK based immigration consultants

It is important to do your preparation before you come out, Linkedin, which is a professional version of facebook is exceptionally good for making contacts, and as we know, Canada is about contacts...
Forum: Canada
May 4th 2011, 3:02 am
Replies: 185
Views: 16,252
Posted By wilderness pete

Re: Now you live in Canada ...

and dont forget the bacon.

Booze has become slightly better priced since I arrived, though even $10 a bottle for red plonk still seems too much to me, though I was used to french prices.

TV I...
Forum: Canada
May 3rd 2011, 1:31 pm
Replies: 185
Views: 16,252
Posted By wilderness pete

Re: Now you live in Canada ...

Sorry everyone, but when you consider the differing social cultures of UK and Canada, I find the question perfectly sensible.

I also find it a bit irksome some of the hostility shown to some one...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
May 3rd 2011, 1:16 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 1,904
Posted By wilderness pete

Re: UK based immigration consultants

If you want to screw up your application so that it will take years longer, cost an arm and a leg, and still probably not ending up here, by all means get a UK based consultant.:ohmy:

Sorry but I...
Forum: Canada
May 3rd 2011, 12:52 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 2,479
Posted By wilderness pete

Re: Dress code

I am dealing with a lot of bankers and government people and nobody wears suits, at least not in Nova Scotia, very few even wear a tie.

Quite annoying really when I have gone to the trouble of...
Forum: Canada
May 3rd 2011, 12:44 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 2,249
Posted By wilderness pete

Re: Do UK printers, etc. work in Canada?

Simple answer is that unless it is an unique or expensive piece of kit, dump it in the UK and buy new here.

Why go through the hassle of making something work when you can just buy new, and dont...
Forum: Canada
May 3rd 2011, 12:28 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 3,976
Posted By wilderness pete

Re: Interested in relocating to Nova Scotia from Okotoks Alberta

Industrial or residential electrician?

Jobs are available and rates are rising, but taxes are high.
Winters are lighter than most. Halifax ok, as are a few other places but as always depends on...
Forum: Canada
Dec 14th 2007, 12:30 pm
Replies: 28
Views: 2,250
Posted By wilderness pete

Re: Hobby Farms.

hi

just bought 394 acres without any probs or conditions, and i was looking at anything between 10 and 600 acres in NS.
Depending on what animals you want to keep, you need to look at winter...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 14th 2007, 12:23 am
Replies: 37
Views: 2,976
Posted By wilderness pete

Re: "Major winter storm potential"

Very true Steve:thumbup:

I should have elaborated, I was thinking of the fixed type that has a flue to the outside.
I saw them when I was looking at property over there, so I know they are used...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 13th 2007, 11:42 pm
Replies: 37
Views: 2,976
Posted By wilderness pete

Re: "Major winter storm potential"

If you are thinking of a windmill, think back to all of those really still frosty cold winters when there was ice hanging from the tree.
Do you remember?
Well do you remember how still it was,...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 13th 2007, 11:11 am
Replies: 37
Views: 2,976
Posted By wilderness pete

Re: "Major winter storm potential"

Hi

I have just come back from buying some land near Weymouth and have been out drinking with some linesmen. The guys who put the poles and cable back up when they blow over!
I work for National...
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