[Stoots]

Thats doesnt look a cheap place to buy a home, i need to clean more windows 

[Slacky]

What are you doing work wise?

Pressure washing will be the main-stay of my work I hope. I’ll probably do a few bits  and pieces of just about anything, I’m good when it comes to manual work and DIY work.

I plan to buy an open bed truck, probably a decent second hand one, spend maybe 15K on it. There gazillions of them around,  no need to pass your driving test over here, they accept UK licenses on a reciprocal agreement basis. Driving on the right is ‘interesting’, they are much more geared over here to giving pedestrians the right of way. Some very strange rules of the road, like at a junction with a red light you can still proceed if you want to turn right, no need to respect the red light. Very confusing.

[Slacky]

Thats doesnt look a cheap place to buy a home, i need to clean more windows 

We paid C$1.1M for that place. We’re about a 40 minute ferry ride from Vancouver. If the same property were bought in Vancouver it would be closer to C$3M. ‘Cheap’ by comparison -  but Vancouver is off the scale when it comes to house prices.

If you’re looking for a career over here Real Estate is a good payer. The girl who sold Laura’s house got C€20K for the one sale. 5 of them a year and you’d be earning two and a half time what Dazmond earns and you’d have your own pool with baked beans for breakfast, dinner and tea…

[zesty]

Most window cleaners aren’t able to afford to buy a million $ house in Canada 

[EandM]

Thats doesnt look a cheap place to buy a home, i need to clean more windows 

We paid C$1.1M for that place. We’re about a 40 minute ferry ride from Vancouver. If the same property were bought in Vancouver it would be closer to C$3M. ‘Cheap’ by comparison -  but Vancouver is off the scale when it comes to house prices.

If you’re looking for a career over here Real Estate is a good payer. The girl who sold Laura’s house got C€20K for the one sale. 5 of them a year and you’d be earning two and a half time what Dazmond earns and you’d have your own pool with baked beans for breakfast, dinner and tea…

That looks awesome!

Some friends of mine moved to Terrace, BC - about 15 hours North of Vancouver. Loved it and they now split their time between BC & France, The husband works for Disney.

Beautiful place - Enjoy!

[simon w]

Slacky- How about clearing snow for the local council during the winter, private work removing snow from roofs and paths for safety reasons where the weight could cause collapse, gutter debris removal after the Fall? pool tennis court cleaning in the spring? render cleaning & windies during the summer? could use your Britishness as a marketing tool and have a great big union jack on your web site , maybe you could be an agent for Gardiner Pole Systems and earn commission on sales  definitely give your portfolio & business card to that estate agent, she could keep you flat out cleaning top end properties to enhance sales all year round.

[G Griffin]

A fawn is a young deer, isn't it? 

[simon w]

A fawn is a young deer, isn't it? 

Doe a deer, a female deer???

[DJW]

It’s a long long way to go.

[G Griffin]

A fawn is a young deer, isn't it? 

Doe a deer, a female deer???

And I thought sow was a female pig, not a needle pulling thread .

[EandM]

[Slacky]

Most window cleaners aren’t able to afford to buy a million $ house in Canada 

I know. I’ve been very lucky.

[Stoots]

It would be a great adventure building a business abroad., id love that challenge.

Your doing something that 99% of people who dream about it will never achieve.

Very well done looks amazing.

[Slacky]

It would be a great adventure building a business abroad., id love that challenge.

Your doing something that 99% of people who dream about it will never achieve.

Very well done looks amazing.

Back to the UK Tuesday, need to work there still. My immigration application is a slow and laborious process. Once that’s completed I’ll be selling all I have and ploughing my share in to the house in BC and something new to call work.

[markymark]

It's our 5 year plan to join our lad in James Bay on the Island. You can't beat BC for beauty and opportunity (and eye-watering property prices).
I'm interested to see how you get on in your new ventures, especially the emigration side, given that by 2028 I'll hopefully over there too.

[Slacky]

It's our 5 year plan to join our lad in James Bay on the Island. You can't beat BC for beauty and opportunity (and eye-watering property prices).
I'm interested to see how you get on in your new ventures, especially the emigration side, given that by 2028 I'll hopefully over there too.

I’ll update as things progress. There probably won’t be much to report in a work sense for close to a year, but the immigration will proceed faster than that hopefully.

[Slacky]

It's our 5 year plan to join our lad in James Bay on the Island. You can't beat BC for beauty and opportunity (and eye-watering property prices).
I'm interested to see how you get on in your new ventures, especially the emigration side, given that by 2028 I'll hopefully over there too.

Regards the immigration process. For me it’s been about making my application down the ‘spousal sponsorship’ route. I don’t know what your situation is nor what route you’d take to apply for immigration, but for me it has been a simple but protracted process of proving various things.

Primarily the Canadian immigration authorities need to know my marriage to my wife is a legitimate, loving marriage and not one of convenience or for financial reasons. They want to know about our wedding, who attended, how long we’ve known each other, proof of the longevity and legitimacy of our marriage (letters from friends and family) attesting to this, photos to prove this, communication between the two of us, as well as proof of shared living and travel expenses, joint bank and utilities accounts.

They want police criminal record checks for myself from all the countries I’ve lived in for more than 6 months since the age of 18, including the UK. There’s a fairly detailed questionnaire to fill in regards myself, my professional life and all sorts of private info, including ‘have you ever been the member of a terrorist organisation’.

I’m expected to disclose all details of all marriages/civil partnerships I’ve been in, why they ended, what happened to the ex partner, where they live, their contact details and if dead what happened to them.

They want to know my family background and contact details for all living blood relatives, what they do  work wise, their family situation, and equally intrusive questions for all of them as for myself.

It’s a laborious and protracted process.

[zesty]

I’m sure you’ll get there.

What a stunning, amazing country, except of course the terrible lefty Justin Trudeau.

[Stoots]

All them questions

Whilst over here they just come in a container ship and get given a home and benefits.....

To be fair actually my girlfriends family are foreign and none of them managed to get a visa to visit us here. Loads of questions and hoops to jump through just as described above.

But like anything if you do things by the book you are penalised.

[zesty]

All them questions

Whilst over here they just come in a container ship and get given a home and benefits.....

To be fair actually my girlfriends family are foreign and none of them managed to get a visa to visit us here. Loads of questions and hoops to jump thought just as described above.

But like anything if you do things by the book you are penalised.

Hotel 15 mins from me, full of young men, it’s like a sea of 20-30 year men. Not good.

This country is broken beyond repair.