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Would I like Canada? - 3/2/2009 11:57:14 PM

Prinsexx

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Would I like Canada?
I mean wtf?
Yes... sure.... probably. But would I like to leave Britain, turn my back on everuthing I am, leave my family, my job.... for what?
For someone 25 years my junior? For someone I don't really know? On a one way no-return slave ticket?
I mean get an opening gambit...
so my question(s) are:
What would you be prepared to risk if invited to?
What is the most outlandish invitation you have had on here or other sites?
What would you be prepared to give up?
Have you ever 'gone Canadian'?
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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 12:18:24 AM

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I would go nowhere for anyone until a very well established relationship was already secured full of long term plans, trust and true mutual affection.

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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 12:26:18 AM

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i'd be wary for taking off on such a drastic leap for someone i didn't really know.

there is something to be said for going out on a leap of faith, but you know... you can only leap so far.

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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 12:42:40 AM

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I used to spend a week every 3 months in Montreal and met a lovely guy there that I thought at the time was "the one". He asked me to move there to be with him. After much thought I knew I could not live with the Canadian winters and we decided it would never work. So to consider moving there for someone you do not know and to a place you have never visited? Not a chance.

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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 3:33:10 AM

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Selfish as it may sound, I am not willing to risk any more than the time I invest. I am a realist and at times far too grounded, My days of "throw it all to the wind" risk taking are over--I have family, assets, etc. I'm not willing to risk those, nor am I willing to make another do so.

The most outlandish invitation(s)? (1) To have a slave live in My basement 24/7, 365 never to be allowed to see the light of day (2) To have a slave that I can take through complete penis and testicle removal--to create My very own eunuch.

Prepared to give up? My time, My energy and perhaps someday the other side of the bed.

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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 3:39:22 AM

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For now I'm not at a place to risk moving or giving up my current life. I have others who are dependent on me.

In another year or so I'm more than willing to risk picking up and moving and to do almost anything I want to do be it for myself or for someone else.

I have job skills that I can transfer to almost anywhere, do almost anything so finding another job, despite the economy, isn't at difficult at it may be for some.

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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 4:00:52 AM

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When I was 22 a guy I briefly dated called me out of the blue and asked if I'd move from minnesota to california. I quit my excellent job, sold everything I owned and flew out there with a few suitcases and the money I'd made selling stuff. The relationship didn't work out but I stayed in california until I met some other guy who, as it turned out, needed to take a job in central wyoming. I quit my very excellent job, sold a bunch of stuff and moved to wyoming. His job didn't work out and after 3 years we went back to california. When that marriage ended in divorce six years later, I got an invitation to go to northern nevada, so I packed up the kids, the cat and quit my pretty good job and moved to nevada where I stayed until the company I worked for got sold and I was transfered to south carolina. 13 years later so biker dude wanted me to leave my very excellent job and move to florida. Here I am. I don't regret any of it. I've always had enough confidence in myself that my physical location is really moot and the change in scenery has given me some really fabulous adventures. Life without adventure to me is kind of like drinking instant decaf coffee.... what's the point?

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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 4:08:38 AM

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I've always had enough confidence in myself that my physical location is really moot and the change in scenery has given me some really fabulous adventures. Life without adventure to me is kind of like drinking instant decaf coffee.... what's the point?

Hell yes, so true, Eyesopened. Once Reality and I have saved a bit and my cats are no longer with us (they're rather elderly and coming up for their 17th year), we will head off on an adventure of our own which is something I have always wanted to do. I will always have places to come back to, ie properties, but home, to me, is in my freedom to be wherever I want to without restriction. We humans spend too much time doing what we think we should, instead of doing what we'd like.

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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 4:36:47 AM

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Canada don't like me.

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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 4:50:18 AM

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I'm far too cynical to ever be able to fall in love with someone with the odds stacked so high against us. Although at some point I'm moving out to live with Ex, we've been together a year and a half and the 2-hour move hasn't happened yet. I'm very much the planning type, not so much the impulsive.

Edited to add: Doesn't mean I don't get my share of replies from jerks wanting me to relocate to wherever. Since I migrated over to the couples profile, I've gotten a jump of messages from jerks who want to show me 'twue dominance', and think I leave Ex and should move to wherever to live with him.

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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 5:45:49 AM

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i love, love, love canada! as far as the one way ticket from one country to the next, well, that ain't going to happen because the border officials/government won't let it happen; there are visa and citizenship laws preventing such measures...

oh, and i went there after meeting a man on the internet, who flew me out there, as well as paid all my child care expenses, time off work and any bills that came in while i was away, so yeah, i'd relocate on a whim if the whim panned out like my visions. my visions of 'us' and the relationship were right on target, my visions of how easy it would be to change residence/citizenship were way off the mark. what i was prepared to give up was a life in the states, my job, my friends here, and all the sun that the south texas beaches have to offer.

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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 6:59:11 AM

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Canada is a weird place. Picture a place with a lot of the conveniences of the US, the civilized nature of Europe, and the most backbreaking winters imaginable.

I have heard that it is extremely difficult to get a job there if you're not a born Canadian.

Ignoring all that Canada has to offer, I'd be very leery of making a strong commitment like that when you've spent no time getting over your last relationship.

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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 7:16:05 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: DarkSteven
Ignoring all that Canada has to offer, I'd be very leery of making a strong commitment like that when you've spent no time getting over your last relationship.

For sure. I was reading the news the other day of a woman that has been married, and divorced, twenty-six times, she jokingly states, "I'm addicted to the romance", but given that those twenty six marriages also have unhappy conclusions/divorces, I'd say she's addicted to a great deal more than what she perceives as 'romance'. We can lay our hats anywhere but we must also realise that regardless of where we go, if we have profound issues, they're coming along for the trip and will hang around through the next and the one after that. I am in no way implying that this is the case with you, Prin, I hope you don't think that hon, but Steven makes a valid point.

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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 8:18:12 AM

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I adore Canada. But then, I grew up right across the river, so it's a familiar place to me.

Would I just GO there on a one way whatever? Um... NO. I would visit, though. Stay at a decent hotel, get to see the place. Visit the potential.

Silly Prinnie!! You're just an excitable girl!

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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 8:21:56 AM

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Well to start with emigration rules can be tough especially any country that has free health care as they rarely will accept someone who is older or has pre existing health conditions even if you marry and even if you can qualify it can take years after an application is sent if to be accepted.

As for my current personal thoughts in getting involved with someone from another country.. I would, it can take years since visits would be infrequent to really get to know the person and more years to get emigration approval being older and having health issues I am not sure I want to be wasting what years i may have left on having on a relationship that will end up mostly via internet and could pontentially never go beyond

I am also being considered for a world wide experiment trial of a lung cancer vaccine which is at phase III and only 2780 people will be accepted which is showing great promise of prevent mestasis.... if accepted and I change countries there is a chance I may forfeit my chances to receive..because with so few numbers being accepted doctors are going to want residents of their own country given the chance to receive instead. My monthly drugs are $300+ a month and I have drug coverage here plus free meidical care, if I move I lose my coverage so if things do not work out, I would be cutting my own throat and my ability to get employment is pretty limited as i do not have a transferable career.

So a lot of factors come into play and the risks factors come with extremely serious consequences if things do not work out

Since my health coverage is limited to Ontario it becomes the determining factor for my search

If I was a fair bit younger, had a transferrable career, no health issues I would consider the possibility

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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 8:29:20 AM

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Hehe, I understand Prin's excitement. Some years ago I got chatting with a Canadian police officer (phwoar, the uniform, the bike...Damn!) who kept trying to persuade me to pay him a visit, he'd tell me how beautiful it was where he lived, how he'd take me fishing and I was so close to booking a ticket. It was a lovely bit of escapism for a while, I discovered he was chatting with a busty friend of mine and telling her the very same things, THUD! I was almost heartbroken at what could have been, but once the glossiness of the monitor and the hum of my computer stopped once I shut it down, I had a moment's clarity - these salesmen are damn good at their jobs, aren't they?

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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 8:37:39 AM

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

I have heard that it is extremely difficult to get a job there if you're not a born Canadian.

I live in Canada, have my whole life and there are a lot of non canadians working here. We had two Aussies working for us for about year.

In the city were I live we actually had companies looking to other countries to get employees.

I don't know about the other provinces but Alberta and Northern BC were importing people to fill positions. Not as much this year as they were in 2005-2007 but we do still have a shortage of workers in select industries.

As long as you have a work visa its not problems at all.

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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 8:50:28 AM

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Nice little fantasy, however, if Canada is anything like the USA in terms of immigration, you can't just waltz in there with a one-way ticket to meet someone from the Internet for a potential romantic fling. They will boot you right back to your home country. I am fairly certain it's this way, while I didn't dig into their immigration laws as deeply as the US ones, I know I got grilled bigtime when I went out there the first time to meet my boy, and I had a round trip ticket. They were very, very curious with regards to my romantic intentions and whether or not I planned to stay in Canada. I didn't, but they still were very suspicious.

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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 8:54:01 AM

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I lived in Canada for 56 of my 57 years. It's a big country, with many different climates. For the last 33 years I lived in Vancouver, where snow is an anomaly, the daffodils start blooming in mid-February, and 37,000 ornamental cherry trees bloom in April. Before that I was in Montreal, which has basically two seasons, winter and July, and where everyone I knew had scars across the front of their shins from the crust of ice that forms over the snow and cuts you just above the line of your boots, every step, when the snow has melted and frozen and melted and frozen and no longer holds your weight when you walk on it.

Last year I moved to New Mexico to be with my wife, after spending uncountable hours on the phone, visiting several times, and getting legalities and paperwork and done ahead of time, all of which is time consuming and expensive (and is helped along by having university degrees, specialized skills and supportive connections.)

In understatement, it takes a while to adjust to a new climate, a new culture, a new set of cultural assumptions and a different set of semiotic codes. I was sure about the relationship, though, and its solidity has supported me through all the other adjustments, many of which I'm still making. And that's the bottom line to me: be sure about the relationship. Be sure that the person will support you emotionally through the inevitable mood swings of adjustment.

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RE: Would I like Canada? - 3/3/2009 9:11:36 AM

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"Or someone I don't really know?"

That alone rings my alarm bells.

As for Canadian winters, if you like the guy, but can't stand the cold, come over here to the west coast! Vancouver, Victoria and the surrounding smaller cities have a climate much like where you live ( Victoria is a touch warmer, even ), so there is unlikely to be too much climate shock.

If you're into hardcore climatic masochism, try Calgary, Edmonton or Winnipeg. As for me, -40 is a hard limit!

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