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Forum: Canada

May 22nd 2006, 4:23 pm

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When did you tell your rellies and friends?

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Posted By Investor

Re: When did you tell your rellies and friends?

Unfortunately if you tell them right at the beginning and then 2 years later you don't get accepted, they still have that knowledge that you WERE going to abandon them but someone else stopped it. ...

Forum: Canada

May 22nd 2006, 3:25 pm

Replies: 55

When did you tell your rellies and friends?

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Posted By Investor

Re: When did you tell your rellies and friends?

Thats how I/we are too! Although I would always be the first to tell other people to 'go for it' I suspect that not everyone will see it that way.

Still, you only have one life, and if as a...

Forum: Canada

May 20th 2006, 2:59 pm

Replies: 55

When did you tell your rellies and friends?

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Posted By Investor

Re: When did you tell your rellies and friends?

Jungle drums beat very quickly !!! They all want to be the one to spread the word.

What's amusing for us is that in our small town a rumour started six years ago that we were moving to the U.S.A....

Forum: Canada

May 20th 2006, 2:49 pm

Replies: 55

When did you tell your rellies and friends?

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Posted By Investor

Re: When did you tell your rellies and friends?

Me(us) too! Don't know what it is about that particular stage but I seem to be unable to think of anything else at the moment.

We got the request for medicals, police checks and residency fees...

Forum: Canada

May 19th 2006, 11:34 am

Replies: 55

When did you tell your rellies and friends?

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Posted By Investor

Re: When did you tell your rellies and friends?

Yes that's what I am trying to avoid. Limbo-land is bad enough as it is without everyone constantly reminding you that that is where you're stuck.

I think it is inevitable that people's attitudes...

Forum: Canada

May 18th 2006, 7:25 pm

Replies: 55

When did you tell your rellies and friends?

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Posted By Investor

Re: When did you tell your rellies and friends?

All great replies, every single one!

At present it is only the younger members of the family who have been told and they are perfectly ok with it (unless it hasn't sunk in).

I think the elderly...

Forum: Canada

May 18th 2006, 3:39 pm

Replies: 55

When did you tell your rellies and friends?

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Posted By Investor

When did you tell your rellies and friends?

Did you tell them of your plans to emigrate before the application went in or at some point afterwards?

Telling them too soon can mean that the lengthy process can upset them more than it needs to...

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