Moving to Canada...

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  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    Vedderfan10 wrote:
    For sure there's a lot drug issues in our major centres...one of the probs of being near a main seaport...however, a lot of these "junkies" are from all the other parts of Canada because of our mild climate. Why freeze to death in Thunder Bay during the winter when you can just get damp in BC? I would say that 90% of the consults I type at work (Addictions and Mental Health) are from Ontario...

    However, there are other parts of Vancouver or Victoria (or even Kelowna and Kamloops) that do not experience the junkie problem. Did you happen to visit East Hastings and Main? Vancouver's Skid Row is quite world renowned for the high numbers of poor folk. I used to work there too...skid row...

    I pretty much only go to BC to work so I don't have time to seek out slums when I am there. It just seems that whatever place I am at has an abnormally high number of junkies hanging around when I go out to eat or have a beer at night. I last worked in Campbell River and it was ridiculous there.

    Last time I worked in Vancouver, people were joking about the number of ambulance sirens we would hear this one day because welfare cheques came out and the ODs shoot through the roof on welfare cheque day. Sure enough -- sirens all day long.

    Interesting that the addiction problem in BC is 90% Ontarians. No wonder we don't see too many around here (although I'm sure that we don't see them because of our harsh winters).
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  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    QcPjFan wrote:
    That was you just said yesterday !!! = oh and don't forget how rude the people are if you're french isn't perfect.

    I can tell you the same! Dont judge the rest of french quebecers based on one loser.

    anyway i love my Country because my country is all i Know !
    i think you need to look up the definition of racist...

    and besides you guys dont even speak real french - according the real french anyways. ;)
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    i wouldn't speak for calgary being all of alberta, and i certainly wouldnt speak for toronto being all of canada, why say because vancouver has a bad drug problem that the rest of the province does as well?

    and we don't count marajuana as drugs... :)
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,894
    Mohab wrote:
    Lived in somerset building on south park, really like that part of town down to point pleasant and up to spring garden down to the water front. I knew the town planners (at least a few big shots among them) who were repsonsible for the face of the city in the alst thirty years, i thought they organized the place really nicely, plus scattered in the north end there are a lot of parks and such, some which really giave off the air of having been built inthe tasteful days of yore, like a lot of n.s.

    plus building jobs seemed easy to acquire, and who can argue with the rent? At least compared to west caost and t.o.

    Sweet man! :)

    I know a few of the big shot's too! ;) My family and relatives here are all in the constuction business for many, many year's here. Which i'm taking that route of taking over the family business someday. My cousin is moving in to the new Spice Towers that up the street of the Casino. So close to where he works. Where I live, i'm close to Burnside. Where my setting materials are all at. I'm only a few minutes away from everything where I live. It's just .. I wish the music & enterainment business here picked up. Which I love alot. Being a ceramic tile installer .. I just love art & it's work.
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,894
    QcPjFan wrote:
    yeah ...maybe..but we all know that our girls are the nicest in the country, maybe in the world :)

    very nice! :)
  • Astird
    Astird Posts: 168
    Hey Arq, if you're still reading this thread, don't mind the childish name calling nonsense between the French and English, It's just something you have to live with if you move to this country. It's like the sound of traffic, very annoying, but you eventually get used to it and you don't hear it anymore. I feel lucky that i'm bilingual. Variety is the spice of life.

    Keep us updated on your move, I know a lot of cool PJ fans in the Toronto area.
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,894
    MurphyJesus wrote:
    Variety is the spice of life.

    that's why i love ya style! :)

    MurphyJesus wrote:
    I know a lot of cool PJ fans in the Toronto area.

    same here! :)
  • Jennytree
    Jennytree Posts: 5,340
    I added Canada to list of countries I wanna move to last night. No idea why (s'pose, easier to get a visa there than in the States). I know nothing about the place though.
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,894
    Jennytree wrote:
    I added Canada to list of countries I wanna move to last night. No idea why (s'pose, easier to get a visa there than in the States). I know nothing about the place though.

    come to halifax. i will show you the way's of thy pearl jam swag that i own! ;)
  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    MurphyJesus wrote:
    Hey Arq, if you're still reading this thread, don't mind the childish name calling nonsense between the French and English, It's just something you have to live with if you move to this country. It's like the sound of traffic, very annoying, but you eventually get used to it and you don't hear it anymore. I feel lucky that i'm bilingual. Variety is the spice of life.

    Keep us updated on your move, I know a lot of cool PJ fans in the Toronto area.
    hahah just move to the westcoast... we dont even know what's going on on that side of the country :)
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    demetrios wrote:
    come to halifax. i will show you the way's of thy pearl jam swag that i own! ;)
    you know, i still haven't gotten my stuff :(
    in revenge to canada post i'm going to sit around and not sell any stamps at work today.
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,894
    doin'the-evolution wrote:
    hahah just move to the westcoast... we dont even know what's going on on that side of the country :)

    ya next trip to the east coast, make a trip to D ville. i will show you a good time! :)

    i'll be there next year in the westcoast. can't wait for the ride! :)
  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    demetrios wrote:
    ya next trip to the east coast, make a trip to D ville. i will show you a good time! :)

    i'll be there next year in the westcoast. can't wait for the ride! :)
    its always a coast to coast party with d!
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,894
    doin'the-evolution wrote:
    you know, i still haven't gotten my stuff :(
    in revenge to canada post i'm going to sit around and not sell any stamps at work today.

    hopefully this week you'll receive the package.
    lately i'm suprised what's been happening with the postage.
    friend in Jersey just received the package yesterday (that was sent Sept 4th) while a friend in Israel received her package in less then 4 day's .. from Nova Scotia!!!
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,894
    doin'the-evolution wrote:
    its always a coast to coast party with d!

    ah yeah! book that week or so for flight to mars in '09! :)
    if there's a pj show in halifax '09, come on down.
  • arq
    arq Posts: 8,101
    MurphyJesus wrote:
    Hey Arq, if you're still reading this thread, don't mind the childish name calling nonsense between the French and English, It's just something you have to live with if you move to this country. It's like the sound of traffic, very annoying, but you eventually get used to it and you don't hear it anymore. I feel lucky that i'm bilingual. Variety is the spice of life.

    Keep us updated on your move, I know a lot of cool PJ fans in the Toronto area.

    I'm still reading this thread but i can't believe how long this has become, i thought it was gonna be short! but i like as much information as possible, good and bad to round things up!

    Thanks ;)
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  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    arq wrote:
    I'm still reading this thread but i can't believe how long this has become, i thought it was gonna be short! but i like as much information as possible, good and bad to round things up!

    Thanks ;)
    they are changing the hockey night in canada theme song!
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
  • kittykat416
    kittykat416 Posts: 180
    arq wrote:
    Well my priorities are:

    have 2 kids
    a house
    a couple o real friends in Canada
    the chance to see Pearl Jam a lot of times
    I nice job, i don't need to be millionarie but a job good enough to take care of my family.

    I'm very Thankful for all the comments, i feel they're all truth and well intentioned.

    Thanks!

    Just to clarify, do you currently have 2 kids and a couple of real friends in Canada, or you want to have 2 kids and a couple of real friends?

    If you currently have 2 kids and want to buy a house when you arrive, I'd stay away from big cities like Vancouver and Toronto - houses are very expensive in these places. If you go out into the surrounding suburbs, housing become more affordable, but if you have to commute in and out of the city each day for work, it'll take years off your life (I'm not kidding). You'd be better off in smaller town (e.g. Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo, London [Ontario]), that you can work and live in, but are still within driving distance to Toronto to see PJ play....

    If you're just thinking about a house and kids in the future, by all means start in a big city, and go to a smaller town when you're ready to settle down and have a family....

    Similarly, if you already have friends living in Canada, I'd say go live in the same town as them! You can't put a price on having a built in social network when starting a new life in a new country....

    Ottawa and Montreal are beautiful cities, but the winters are BRUTAL. As in DAMN COLD. I'd love to live in one of them, but I don't think I could handle the winters. I spent one winter in Kingston, Ontario and that was enough.
    Similarly with Vancouver, it may not get cold, but I couldn't handle the rain and lack of sunlight. I think Victoria (apart from being a giant retirement community) or the Okanagan Valley would be more my preference (I'm not sure how good the job opportunities are in the Okanagan are, however...)
    I've visited the East Coat a number of times; the people are very friendly, and it is much more affordable than Toronto or BC. If you can get a job on the East Coast, great. But I don't think PJ play out there often (except the Cdn Tour)....
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,894
    kittykat416 wrote:
    I've visited the East Coat a number of times; the people are very friendly, and it is much more affordable than Toronto or BC. If you can get a job on the East Coast, great. But I don't think PJ play out there often (except the Cdn Tour)....

    it's true. pj has only played here in the east coast of the atlantic canada 3 times, in '05. 1 in halifax & 2 in newfoundland. that's about it. being a fan since '91, it does get depressing living out here, plus hard to find any close friends that are into the music you love.
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,894
    but must add, it's pretty peaceful & quite here. we got 3 great university of known across canada (dalhousie univeristy, saint mary's university & mount saint vincent university) all close within minutes away. plus acadia university in wolfville. it all balances out.

    with the new dartmouth crossing opening, which will be complete in 10 year's, and hoping to start work on a centre, things are going well here.

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