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I'm thinking of moving from the UK to Canada.
Has anyone here done a similar move? How much did it cost? How easy is the move?
I'd love to hear any stories, advice or just general information.
>> Anonymous
Bump for Canada
>> Anonymous
>>69925

Like, to gain Canadian citizenship or just to visit? Well Go to the immigration Canada website and they should have all the info you need. I think the process is supposed to be easier if you already come from a commonwealth country but it really depends on if you have any skills or family here etc.
>> Anonymous
Canada is over 9000 times the size of your little island, please specify WHERE in Canada and we will give some nice advices, if you still don't know where exactly, at least some places you have in mind. But overall, Canada kicks ass
>> Anonymous
>>70007
Uuhhh..just to live there for a few years. I'll probably decide to move somewhere else after 6 years or so. I don't have family there, but my girlfriend lives there, and I can stay at her place until I get a job/earn enough to rent my own place.

>>70009
Edmonton, in Alberta.
>> Anonymous
>>70013
OP again. I made it sound like I don't want to live with my girlfriend, hah. She still lives with her father at the moment; once I earn enough we'll be looking to rent our own place.
>> Anonymous
>>70014

Will you be going to University in Canada as well?
>> Anonymous
>>70017
I'm trying to persuade my parents, mother has said yes, father said no, and he's the one paying.
I might look into saving up and funding my own way and/or getting a bursary. So, not for the first few years, at least.
>> anon
Canada is cold and kind of boring. There are wide open spaces but they are pretty much logged out or mining towns. A lot of Canada is pretty much a wimpy version of backwoods US with people who are maybe a little more polite but almost as backwards.

It might not be a bad choice for someone who wants to get out of the UK but prepare for culture shock: similar but totally different.

If you can handle cold weather, try the Rocky Mtn provinces, if not, go to the west coast. OK, the Torontulan Sector and Montreal might be OK too if you are into urban shit. If you are into natural beauty and cold is OK, look for Manitoulin Island and surrounding North Shore of Lake Huron.
>> Anonymous
>>70026
I can handle the cold. I'll be in Edmonton, I've been there before and it's a nice enough place. Yah, it's a little backwards compared to the UK, but I don't dislike that.
>> anon
Edtown is a boomtown, not a bad choice at all.
>> anon
>>70023
There will be jobs available there no visa no problem so I have heard.
>> Anonymous
winned
>> Anonymous
>>70055
Still, think HARD about it. If you still want to go through with it, make fucking sure you have a back up plan if things don't go the way you imagined they would.
Speaking from experience.
>> Anonymous
Be prepared for high rent and boredom. You might want to convince your girlfriend to move. I'm sure she hates it as much as the rest of us.
>> Anonymous
>>70058
Mind if I ask what your experience is?
And yeah, I know a few others who live in Edmonton, so if it goes tits up, they can house me for a few weeks. I've asked 'em.
>> Anonymous
There's no avoiding sounding corny about this. Met a girl online. Talked to her for a few years, were just friends. Visited her for her 15th birthday in texas. Fell in love, convinced myself that there's no minute possibility that we weren't meant for each other. Moved there. A year or two down the relationship things got strange, and eventually it ended in a really big mess. I ended up living in my car for a few days. This was a few years ago and I think the point is make sure the person who you're doing this all for would do the same for you. You two are better off making a savings fund or something and collaborating a move to somewhere else besides fucking edmonton.
>> Anonymous
>>70064
Yeah, well I was planning on going to uni there, so if it did go wrong I'd still be in a secure environment. Now that my father's said no, we're looking at other options; she's thinking about coming to the UK next year, while I go to uni, then when I've finished, we go back to Edmonton while she does uni, and then if we're still together, the world is our oyster.
>> anon
>>700048
my impression is that Canadians are very conservative types. Sort of traditional like English people. But I only know ON and have spent most of my time north of the Soo, the Soo, Sudbury and Timmins, I know, not representative. I would say that the First Nations and the Black Haired Celtics seem to be a somewhat grumpy sort. Lots of wannabee trendy types in the towns, usually look more like geeks than stylish which is what they are trying to present. You can always tell a Canadian by the way they look, they all copy each others styles. Kind of silly to be dressed up like a big city type when living in a shack in the forest. One cool thing is everybody has a junk bulldozer or logging equipment in their yard, in the US we just usually have cars and pickup trucks.
>> Anonymous
>>70249
>>my impression is that Canadians are very conservative types...have spent most of my time north of the Soo, the Soo, Sudbury and Timmins.

Yeah, thats not exactly representative of the country. At all. Not even representative of Northern Ontario. Anyway, there are 12 million people in Southern Ontario, 7 million in Quebec, and 3 million on the BC coast (22/33 million)...all of which I guarantee you are more liberal than anything in the US. Not to say that the rest of Canada is overly conservative though.

Look no further than politics. Of the 5 main parties which collect 99% of the vote, even the most right-wing party is still left of the "leftist" Democrats!

>>Sort of traditional like English people.
Uhh, yeah, I wouldn't call English people "traditional" either.
>> Anonymous
>>70249
Thats like basing your opinion of America on rural Appalachia.

Well, maybe not quite that severe. We'll say rural Ohio or Michigan instead.