TOMO 29,152 Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 Be NZ for me,,,but then I've been there and loved it,,,,,couldn't be doing with all them frogs living in canda,,,hay Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MIK 4,763 Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 You get about Mik lad and paid for the pleasure. Can't be bad Hope you get some form of Hunting in whilst over there. Change of plan I have saturday in Singapore ...Sunday night in HCMC then onto Vung Tua Monday....aye its no easy Max Quote Link to post Share on other sites
air gun ant 1,666 Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 Hello Peeps, Mrs Tillylamp here ! It really depends on what you want out of life. Being a Canadian, obviously I am bias. Having said that, when we came to the UK we were only staying as a stop over because my family were headed for NZ. The stop over lasted for over 40 years LOL. My family have since moved back to Canada. Not all of Canada is plagued with snow. It depends where you go. I am from Vancouver Island and they have some pretty hot weather in the summer, which people tend to forget. Was there in May last year and it was 32c. Mr Tillylamp and me are headed back pretty soon for good. I am sponsoring him and we are going to Calgary, Alberta. Now Alberta does have some pretty heavy snow falls but they are prepared for it so it does not impede on life that much other than very cold. Calgary is pretty flat as its prairie land but if you want beautiful scenery British Columbia is pretty hard to top. Vancouver mainland is VERY expensive. In the main you get an awful lot more for your money in Canada. For example a farm with 240 acres with out buildings and livestock (cattle) acreage with hay, 3 bedroom house for (converted) £299,00.00 also on the lower scale a fillet steak here (UK) approx. £8 to £9 in Calgary you would get four for that price. Wages are really on a par with the UK but as I said you do get a lot more for your money. In Calgary a 4 - 5 bedroom house is coming out at (exchange rate at $1.79 to the £) £251,00.00. Even petrol is a good price at the moment working out approx. 43p a litre Yes there are black bears, grizzly bears, cougars, elk, moose and coyote's. These are mainly in the mountains its not often you would see bears and cougars in the cities. Although there was a young bear cub who got himself stuck in a garbage truck on the island. It was darted and it was then taken back up to the mountains. There is quite a lot of Coyotes in Calgary. Also some beautiful buzzards. On the whole though you don't see much by way of big wildlife unless you go into the wilderness. I think that the cut off point for immigrating to NZ is 55 years old. Not sure of the cut off point for Canada but you could look that up on the Canada immigration site. Hope this helps you towards your adventure Mrs Tillylamp my brother moves to Calgary this year, permenantly. Lol I've told him to get me a months worth of the most varied hunting and fishing he can get sorted and I'll be using all my holidays at once Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LURCHER 83 7 Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 CANDER defo bin there 5 times and the country in unreal cold in winter hot in summer proper seasons Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AXUM 255 Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 Lord of ring movie was recorded in nz, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Qbgrey 4,377 Posted January 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 Cheers everyone I'm really not sure.I'm thinking poss buy a place in nz and spend 6month s yr their if allowed.won't be yet maybe 5years but I'll be 5o then.should of done it years ago. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TOMO 29,152 Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 Don't think you will be aloud in if your 50,,,I'm sure the cut of age is early 40,s,,,unless of course your loaded,,,or maybe starting a buisness and employing locals,,,you better check first mate,,,great country though NZ ,,,and only about 5. Million folk live there,,,,and most of them in the big city's Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greengrass 208 Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 Been to both countries and it would be Canada everyday of the week for me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Qbgrey 4,377 Posted January 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 yeah tomo your right i think you can get in if your taking money out thier,or basically doing what the uk should of done regarding polish,romanians etc make sure they can support thenselves,so not a burden on the tax payers. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tillylamp 1,940 Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 Hello Peeps, Mrs Tillylamp here ! It really depends on what you want out of life. Being a Canadian, obviously I am bias. Having said that, when we came to the UK we were only staying as a stop over because my family were headed for NZ. The stop over lasted for over 40 years LOL. My family have since moved back to Canada. Not all of Canada is plagued with snow. It depends where you go. I am from Vancouver Island and they have some pretty hot weather in the summer, which people tend to forget. Was there in May last year and it was 32c. Mr Tillylamp and me are headed back pretty soon for good. I am sponsoring him and we are going to Calgary, Alberta. Now Alberta does have some pretty heavy snow falls but they are prepared for it so it does not impede on life that much other than very cold. Calgary is pretty flat as its prairie land but if you want beautiful scenery British Columbia is pretty hard to top. Vancouver mainland is VERY expensive. In the main you get an awful lot more for your money in Canada. For example a farm with 240 acres with out buildings and livestock (cattle) acreage with hay, 3 bedroom house for (converted) £299,00.00 also on the lower scale a fillet steak here (UK) approx. £8 to £9 in Calgary you would get four for that price. Wages are really on a par with the UK but as I said you do get a lot more for your money. In Calgary a 4 - 5 bedroom house is coming out at (exchange rate at $1.79 to the £) £251,00.00. Even petrol is a good price at the moment working out approx. 43p a litre Yes there are black bears, grizzly bears, cougars, elk, moose and coyote's. These are mainly in the mountains its not often you would see bears and cougars in the cities. Although there was a young bear cub who got himself stuck in a garbage truck on the island. It was darted and it was then taken back up to the mountains. There is quite a lot of Coyotes in Calgary. Also some beautiful buzzards. On the whole though you don't see much by way of big wildlife unless you go into the wilderness. I think that the cut off point for immigrating to NZ is 55 years old. Not sure of the cut off point for Canada but you could look that up on the Canada immigration site. Hope this helps you towards your adventure Mrs Tillylamp my brother moves to Calgary this year, permenantly. Lol I've told him to get me a months worth of the most varied hunting and fishing he can get sorted and I'll be using all my holidays at once That's good news about your brother going to Calgary. Out of interest what part of Calgary is he going to? Don't think you will be aloud in if your 50,,,I'm sure the cut of age is early 40,s,,,unless of course your loaded,,,or maybe starting a buisness and employing locals,,,you better check first mate,,,great country though NZ ,,,and only about 5. Million folk live there,,,,and most of them in the big city's The cut off point for NZ is 55 if you are going for permanent residency with a recognised trade, but you can go older than this, more like retirement age if you can show that you can support yourself for the rest of your days. I know this because when I went for my medical for my permanent residency for Canada, I met a New Zealander who was taking his English wife and children out there and he told me the cut off points for NZ because we compared the time frames with Canada. The cut off age for Canada is 49 if you have no connections. For example if you have no relatives or a job offer. If you have a job offer you can got through the work permit route via your employer who has to apply for the permits on your behalf. The down side of that is you would have to stay with that employer for 2 years whether you liked the job or not. After that two years, then you could apply for permanent residency. Once you have the PR you could then look for another job, but you would have to stay in the same province. When you get your citizenship you can then go to any province. If you have family connections with Canada you may be able to go down the family sponsorship route. Tomo, when you say you couldn't live in Canada because of all the French, well they live in a small area on the east coast compared to the total size of Canada. Canada is huge ! Where we are headed is on the West coast which is thousands and thousands of miles away. All the times we have been to Canada we have yet to encounter a French speaking Canadian. Here is the total size of Canada in square km 9,984,670 km² just to give you an idea Quote Link to post Share on other sites
General lee 979 Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 Does anyone know the rules of moving to America? I had a little look into it when I was around 22 but didn't follow it up interested in what the rules are on criminal record medical issues and trade Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tillylamp 1,940 Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 Does anyone know the rules of moving to America? I had a little look into it when I was around 22 but didn't follow it up interested in what the rules are on criminal record medical issues and trade hi general lee, you might find this website useful, www.britishexpats.com if you go on to the forum your see all the countries listed, just select the usa and most of the questions you want answered will be on there. if not join up and then you can ask direct, someone will answer and help you, it is a really good site. hope this helps, tilly Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BIGLURKS 874 Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 Think I'd go Canada My Grandfather ran away from home at 13 back in 1926 Headed for Liverpool and managed to get into some type of cattle boat with a Geordie and a Jock who he said were a few years older He settled in a place called Lindsay Worked the farms a few years then started building the roads as motor vehicles became more popular Think all in all he stayed there 8-9 years then came home. Remember him telling me a few stories on his death bed sort of thing Wish I'd wrote the names down looking back and nowdays I don't think it would be hard to track descendants of these folk. Prob have relations over there youd be surprised at how much family you can track down mate my mothers sister done are family she was able too track are roots back too Ireland was not hard considering my papas from there but she ended up finding all he's brothers and sisters that he lost contact with some ended up in usa some in Canada and 1 in Australia Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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