Permanent move to another country

[trampledamage]

Though I'm wishing I was there already. Adelaide has +40 degrees C day temps for most of this week and I hate the heat

We have -35C with the wind-chill, so be careful what you wish for!

E-mail, international shipping from web-sites and global brands makes settling in to your new country a far easier proposition than it must have been for the previous generation.

Canada is a wonderful country - I'm sure you'll settle in fine.

 

[Canadave]

Though I'm wishing I was there already. Adelaide has +40 degrees C day temps for most of this week and I hate the heat

We have -35C with the wind-chill, so be careful what you wish for!

I was in Saskatoon a few weeks ago (see the beautiful things picture thread) and I have to say, the cold there was far too biting for me. And I live in Ottawa, so that's saying something.

 

[trampledamage]

Though I'm wishing I was there already. Adelaide has +40 degrees C day temps for most of this week and I hate the heat

We have -35C with the wind-chill, so be careful what you wish for!

I was in Saskatoon a few weeks ago (see the beautiful things picture thread) and I have to say, the cold there was far too biting for me. And I live in Ottawa, so that's saying something.

I'll take the cold over the two feet of snow that gets dumped on Ontario over-night in a snow-storm!

(heads off to the beautiful things thread for toon-piccies )

 

[Canadave]

^ And I'll take the snow over having my eyelids freeze open while walking to the grocery store. To each their own.

 

[The Habs Fan]

^ And I'll take the snow over having my eyelids freeze open while walking to the grocery store. To each their own.

Same with me. The snow is the lesser of two evils.

 

[Mooch]

^ And I'll take the snow over having my eyelids freeze open while walking to the grocery store. To each their own.

Same with me. The snow is the lesser of two evils.

I hate them both. I'd be happy to move to Australia.

 

[Marc]

Where in Canada are you moving to, Marc?

I'm going to be in Peterborough Ontario (I know in the past there has been one Trekbbs poster living there)

As for chocoalte bars well I'm not a big consumer of them but I occasioanl get a hankering Don't think I'm likely to find a supply of Arnotts Tim Tams on Canadian shelves and the Cadbury chocolate won't be the same.

But I'm sure that my mum will be able to keep my supplied - she's been used to it. My sister spent 2 years living on London and my brother has been working in South Korea for 18 months. Just no Darrell Lea licorice because it would be stale by the time it got to me.

I have how ever seen Vegemite on the supermarket shelf so I know it's going to possible to get it where I'll be living.

 

[trampledamage]

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As for chocoalte bars well I'm not a big consumer of them but I occasioanl get a hankering Don't think I'm likely to find a supply of Arnotts Tim Tams on Canadian shelves and the Cadbury chocolate won't be the same.
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Tim-tams you will have trouble finding, but Cadbury's chocolate here is as good as in Britain - so unless they do things funny in Australia, you should be okay. Finding Cadbury's here was important for me! Right up there with Tetley's tea-bags.

 

[Canadave]

Where in Canada are you moving to, Marc?

I'm going to be in Peterborough Ontario (I know in the past there has been one Trekbbs poster living there)

Annnnddd that BBS poster would be me... haha. It's my hometown, actually, I grew up there (minus the first five or so years of my life). It's a nice little city, and in a really great location... you don't have to travel far north to get out into the wilds of Ontario, but at the same time it's very easy to make your way down to Toronto for a day.

Oh, and there's also a candy store downtown that sells a lot of import chocolate. Mostly British, but they may have Australian stuff, too.

What part of town are you moving to, if you don't mind my asking?

 

[FordSVT]

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As for chocoalte bars well I'm not a big consumer of them but I occasioanl get a hankering Don't think I'm likely to find a supply of Arnotts Tim Tams on Canadian shelves and the Cadbury chocolate won't be the same.
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Tim-tams you will have trouble finding, but Cadbury's chocolate here is as good as in Britain - so unless they do things funny in Australia, you should be okay. Finding Cadbury's here was important for me! Right up there with Tetley's tea-bags.

Just an FYI, Pepperidge Farm is selling Arnotts Tim Tams now, so it might not be as hard as you think.

 

[Marc]

Oh, and there's also a candy store downtown that sells a lot of import chocolate. Mostly British, but they may have Australian stuff, too.

Depends if they can tell the difference between the two. Things from home will be nice but I don't that's going to make too much difference to me.

What part of town are you moving to, if you don't mind my asking?

Within wakling distance of Wal-mart (not sure which side of the town that counts as).

 

[Lookingglassman]

Well one good thing is you get free health care unlike here in the states where you would get raped with charges for something as simple as treatment for a cold.

 

[indranee]

I came to the US when I was 15 and I was pretty darned pissed off. who the fuck wants to be hauled to a whole other country just when they're beginning to enjoy friends, school, boys, and life in general?

so my advice: if you've got a child that age, let them be. move yourself.

 

[Canadave]

What part of town are you moving to, if you don't mind my asking?

Within wakling distance of Wal-mart (not sure which side of the town that counts as).

North End, then. Not my neck of the woods, but a nice enough area.

 

[MANT!]

As many of you know..for 3 years I lived in the UK..and still have VERY fond memories of the place.. A change of nation often can help you appreciate your own nationality..and enjoy a different culture..be careful when you cross the street..Canadian roads use the same side of the road as the USA..and that initial step into the street has been a killer in the past...


As to discrimination on the basis of disability..I can't find any discrimination in the USCIS website..and in fact the USCIS will ASSIST folks with disabilities in completion of legal immigration forms and examinations and interviews..certain disease carrying aliens are excluded due to public health dangers but that's about it...

Hard to think that the USA actually has one up on Canada and OZ...

 

[Marc]

As many of you know..for 3 years I lived in the UK..and still have VERY fond memories of the place.. A change of nation often can help you appreciate your own nationality..and enjoy a different culture..be careful when you cross the street..Canadian roads use the same side of the road as the USA..and that initial step into the street has been a killer in the past...


As to discrimination on the basis of disability..I can't find any discrimination in the USCIS website..and in fact the USCIS will ASSIST folks with disabilities in completion of legal immigration forms and examinations and interviews..certain disease carrying aliens are excluded due to public health dangers but that's about it...

Hard to think that the USA actually has one up on Canada and OZ...

Though the acid test would be just how many people with disabilities would actually get in to the U.S though.

Emmigration to this country can be a very expensive process. One person I know moved to Canada because it was easier than him moving here and that was without a disability. Another brought her mother out from the U.K and they had to put into trust the better part of $AU40,000 to do it.

40 years ago if you weren't a WASP you had fuck all chance of getting into this country (it was called The White Australia Policy) and wasn't abolished until the late 60s

 

[Canadave]

As many of you know..for 3 years I lived in the UK..and still have VERY fond memories of the place.. A change of nation often can help you appreciate your own nationality..and enjoy a different culture..be careful when you cross the street..Canadian roads use the same side of the road as the USA..and that initial step into the street has been a killer in the past...


As to discrimination on the basis of disability..I can't find any discrimination in the USCIS website..and in fact the USCIS will ASSIST folks with disabilities in completion of legal immigration forms and examinations and interviews..certain disease carrying aliens are excluded due to public health dangers but that's about it...

Hard to think that the USA actually has one up on Canada and OZ...

Though the acid test would be just how many people with disabilities would actually get in to the U.S though.

Emmigration to this country can be a very expensive process. One person I know moved to Canada because it was easier than him moving here and that was without a disability. Another brought her mother out from the U.K and they had to put into trust the better part of $AU40,000 to do it.

40 years ago if you weren't a WASP you had fuck all chance of getting into this country (it was called The White Australia Policy) and wasn't abolished until the late 60s

We used to have the same basic thing in Canada. Up until the late-60s, we used a system that gave preference based on race more than anything else (the idea being to keep Canada white and Protestant, or white and Catholic if you were French). Then we switched to the current point system and immigration has totally changed.

Funny, though, how Canada and Australia have both managed to become the two countries in the world with the highest per-capita immigration rates. And not only that, but two of the most multicultural countries in the world... I believe Toronto, Sydney, Melbourne, Vancouver and Montreal are all in the top 10 cities in the world for having the highest foreign born populations in the world. It's an incredible shift.

 

[aftermath]

Moved from the UK to the USA. Sharing the same language and similarities in culture made it easy in this case (plus my American wife is HOT). Employment was easy too as I still work for the same company based in London (although when/if that changes I might have a different story to tell). You definitely get a new perspective on your own country and damn everyone over there sounds so English now.

If you can deal with moving far away from friends and family its awesome. If you can't deal with that, you'll be miserable.

 

[Sean Aaron]

so my advice: if you've got a child that age, let them be. move yourself.

I completely agree. My wife and I were moved more than once as children and whilst we both were fine for it, we value our daughter having continuity and choice and if we ever do decide to leave Scotland it won't be without her full agreement.