I moved to Canada (Vancouver) Loved the place had a job where I had a smile on my face every day going to work. Our son was born there and he has citizenship. Then my bitch wife decided she missed her mummy and my dream ended. Been back in this god forsaken country for 3 years now and I still have never forgiven her
Applying for residence to the US or Canada
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There is a London in Canada...its in Ontario where my youngest brother was born...moved there after me and my middle brother were born here...
I have a few family friends that live there still so usually go and see them for a few hrs or so...its not exactly the most exciting city in Canada
Saying that i have canadian citizenship so i dont have to faff around with forms and suchlike.
Just a few question to those that have lived out in Canada for 12 months on a working visa.
How did you trip go? Did you fly out and stay in a hostel for a few days and then move into say a rented apartment or something else?
Also how did you sort out a mobile phone and internet.
Sorry to be naive to the whole situation
How did you trip go? Did you fly out and stay in a hostel for a few days and then move into say a rented apartment or something else?
Also how did you sort out a mobile phone and internet.
Sorry to be naive to the whole situation
Just a few question to those that have lived out in Canada for 12 months on a working visa.
How did you trip go? Did you fly out and stay in a hostel for a few days and then move into say a rented apartment or something else?
Also how did you sort out a mobile phone and internet.
Sorry to be naive to the whole situation
Excellently. Hostel for first 6 weeks
. Rented apartment with friend - $1300 a month. PAYG phone on Fido easy to get. Internet provided by landlord.(Vancouver)
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Yep, I was aware of the place although hadn't been myself. It is a bit odd at first seeing all the place names you recognise but I suppose it was the simplest thing to do in many cases to name the new after the old.
Easy to get is true, although from what I remember you had to fill in a form unlike here where you'd just get the sim card/phone and be done with it. However it's worth pointing out that both PAYG and contract in Canada tends to be more expensive and less useful than phones here, changing area codes on your phone to prevent roaming charges if you move to a different province, expiry dates which tend to correspond to the amount of money you top up and the choice of phones is much worse than in the UK generally plus if you get a contract you tend to be tied in for 3 years (although you do get upgrades I believe) are all extra little bits of hassle.
While I thoroughly enjoyed Canada the mobile phone networks and the banks I do not miss one iota.
Permanet residence application for Canada costs roughly $ CAD 2000 (so around 1300 pounds).
Then you have to get medical exams to prove that you don't have aids or anything, you have to get criminal record check from England to prove that you aren't a criminal or anything.
Then there's a point system, if you're educated, have decent work experience, speak English, etc, then you probably have a good chance of getting in.
Oh and it takes around 3 years to clear up.
Source: done it myself.
Edit: You have to do even more forms if you want to live in Quebec.
Then you have to get medical exams to prove that you don't have aids or anything, you have to get criminal record check from England to prove that you aren't a criminal or anything.
Then there's a point system, if you're educated, have decent work experience, speak English, etc, then you probably have a good chance of getting in.
Oh and it takes around 3 years to clear up.
Source: done it myself.
Edit: You have to do even more forms if you want to live in Quebec.
Excellently. Hostel for first 6 weeks
(Vancouver)
Cheers for that mate. Do you mind going into a bit more detail?
How did you find a apartment to rent? Did you sort it out even before you flew out there? Did that include all bills etc?
How much did you roughly spend on food?
What job did you do? How much did you make a week?
All details on the above questions and anything else you can think of will be greatly appreciated
To me Canada has been amazing.
Got a job 3 days a week earning 30k a year, all i do is sit and watch DVDs (server monitor, so just check once every hour)
Lost 5st in weight.
Getting more girls than i have ever known. During the olympics i was getting 3 a week, only ever got 3 in 6 years back home
wow. I know where I'm off too
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Well every silver lining has a cloud... or something.. as this was posted months back and Sone is now firmly back in the UK
Vancouver (i live DT, on Robson and Cardero)
I am 24 (23 when i got here)
Nope, a space cowboy
3. Well if i met the right girl, just enjoying playing around at the moment.
Only bad thing is my PR is slow, so i had the choice of living here and not working till ocotober or coming home for a few months. So i am coming home at the end of the month
I have another question for you.
What are your qualifications?
I've been wanting to move to Canada after I spent a year and a half there. Such a nice country. I unfortunately have very few qualifications.
There is a London in Canada...its in Ontario where my youngest brother was born...moved there after me and my middle brother were born here...
I have a few family friends that live there still so usually go and see them for a few hrs or so...its not exactly the most exciting city in Canada
It ain't *that* bad.
Yeah the US is a right PITA, I'm a conditional permanent resident over here in sunny California but through my wife who is a US citizen, it took about 7 months for our application to process and cost around $1,000 or so IIRC.
I'd echo that there are pros and cons to each country, especially at the moment where the US has been hit particularly badly in terms of employment, a fair few places even around here are looking at c.15% unemployment rates which is about double the UK average.
Add to that the screwed-up healthcare system and the sparse levels of public services and you have to be earning a decent wage to be getting all the benefits you take for granted in the UK, below that and your life can really suck hard.
So swings and roundabouts, the weather here is absolutely spectacularly great though which is always nice
I'd echo that there are pros and cons to each country, especially at the moment where the US has been hit particularly badly in terms of employment, a fair few places even around here are looking at c.15% unemployment rates which is about double the UK average.
Add to that the screwed-up healthcare system and the sparse levels of public services and you have to be earning a decent wage to be getting all the benefits you take for granted in the UK, below that and your life can really suck hard.
So swings and roundabouts, the weather here is absolutely spectacularly great though which is always nice
Yeah the US is a right PITA, I'm a conditional permanent resident over here in sunny California but through my wife who is a US citizen, it took about 7 months for our application to process and cost around $1,000 or so IIRC.
I'd echo that there are pros and cons to each country, especially at the moment where the US has been hit particularly badly in terms of employment, a fair few places even around here are looking at c.15% unemployment rates which is about double the UK average.
Add to that the screwed-up healthcare system and the sparse levels of public services and you have to be earning a decent wage to be getting all the benefits you take for granted in the UK, below that and your life can really suck hard.
So swings and roundabouts, the weather here is absolutely spectacularly great though which is always nice
The biggest put off to me for the US was the fact that you only got about 10 days annual leave a year, and they got upset if you took it off in a big chunk.
Yup, you can see why starting your own business or working as a contractor is so popular when the seemingly accepted wisdom is that large corporations treat their workers like utter crap when it comes to their welfare.
It's not even limited to the US but it seems to just be the attitude US corporations have to workers - a number of my friends in London have left companies like Bank of America for European banks because they can't stand the way the upper and middle management treat the staff.
It's not even limited to the US but it seems to just be the attitude US corporations have to workers - a number of my friends in London have left companies like Bank of America for European banks because they can't stand the way the upper and middle management treat the staff.
Indeed, the attitudes of the mother company spread out around the world. It's why countries like France, Germany and the UK are always short of people - it's so hard to fire people in these countries that companies they will wait until absolute desperate before hiring anyone.
A friend pointed out an observation the other day that's very true. I've traveled all over the world and you see people from all countries but there is a distinct shortage of people from the US seen traveling. You either see old US citizens or young US citizens.
He claims the old are seen around because they're retired and that's when most of them go to see the world. The young because they're traveling before college. You rarely see US people aged 22-50 because they get sod all holiday! I thought long and hard and thought he was right!
Anyway, not meaning to rant
For America this chart will help, I do not know anything about Canada.
http://imgur.com/fi5IK.jpg
Edit: Linked because its massive
lol basically zilch chance then