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any homesteaders from the states move to canada? wife & i would appreciate any & all advise regd. said. we are most interested in the legal/resident bit. we want to homestead in the most organic sence possible! also, we love the idea that "community" still exists north of the border. brian&lisa, thanks
-- brian hull (www.masterjoiner@webtv.net), October 23, 2000
It is not that easy unless you have mega-bucks
-- Henderson (redgate@echoweb.net), October 23, 2000.
I believe community is where you make it. Equatorial locale doesn't matter, your behaviour/beliefs do.
-- Anne (HT@HM.com), October 23, 2000.
Yata Yata Yata. Canada is great and people still care about people up here. It makes the national news when some one robs a corner store. I get sick when I watch your US news about all the people that hate and kill each other.Don't knock it until you tried it.
-- Mike Towers (mike233@yahoo.com), October 24, 2000.
I would be very interested to hear this thread as well because, I too, have been considering moving to Canada but for different reasons than you. I live in Virginia and used to live in New Hampshire. I find the summers here in Virginia are too hot for me but I like the winters so I was interested in buying a summer home in Canada. I also show our Great Danes and would like to put Canadian titles on them as well and if I summered in Canada I could do that. I plan to retire in eight years so I would be buying prior to that so I would have a place ready when I retire. I have looked at real estate prices in Canada via the internet and find them very reasonable. I have been to Canada several times when I lived in New Hampshire and enjoyed my visits albeit it has been about seven years since my last visit. I especially enjoyed Ontario and would be looking in that area. I'm surprised at the comment that you need a lot of money as that did not appear to be the case with real estate. This is particularly true when you are looking at Canadian dollars rather than American on the real estate ads. I hope others respond to this who live in Canada to give us a better idea.
-- Colleen (pyramidgreatdanes@erols.com), October 24, 2000.
Both my sons are married to Canadian women who still have their Canadian citizinship. I'm sure Canada is a great place but both of my sons have checked into becoming Canadian citizens and it is much harder than becoming an American citizen. I believe you have to live there for a year before you can get a job. Check it out well before you go, they are stricter than the states, not that that is a bad idea!
-- bwilliams (bjconthefarm@yahoo.com), October 24, 2000.
to mike: you go boy!! i'm sick of hearing about the "socialist threat to the north". yes, policics generally suck everywhere, but canada & canadians ROCK!!!! ask any canadian if they define themselves as a nation & a culture by their government's policy or political bent and you will, most likely, be laughed at. canadians have what we yanks have long lost....culture! and they make it from scratch, at home, with neighbours, in pubs, on street corners, in coffee-shops!! and its a happy culture, a hard working hard playing glad-to-be-alive-&-do-my-part culture. not a bitter & resentfull one like some sour protest song such as we have further south. i swear, we are the most wealthy nation, economicaly speaking, on earth and i've yet to encounter a more selfcenterd bunch of whining don't-know-what-i-want-but-i-want-more-of-it people! yes, as induviduals we are statring to recapture some of the cultural beauty of pre-civilwar america but it is only through homesteaing that we can at all hope to catch up with other nations. this obvious differance between our nations isn't about cross-border politics. its about indiviuals deciding to ignore the bull***t rhetoric of the ignorant but manipulative press! dare i say...thnk for theselves!!? God knows what the u.s. could accomplish if it's populace ws encouraged to think on a daily basis! "greatest generation"? my white scots ass!! do americans ever hear about the many many canadian lives that were sacrificed to fix a problem created by france, england, america & a host of internatinal bankers!!? NO! the reason i, my wife & my mother have fallen so deeply in love with canada is because of the people!!!!! screw ottowa, screw d.c., screw politics!! nations rise and fall, "there is no pefect government, only that government which is less bad than others". its hard to put one's finger on it, but i think i can safely say that one of the major reasons for our nations being so different is that canadans, for the most part, haven't forgotten the humble place we have as humans in the universe. my two cents.>brian hull
-- brian hull (www.masterjoiner@webtv.net), October 25, 2000.
I was trying to research the same thing recently actually it was just about buying land - there seem to be some great bargains up there.If I were self sufficient and didn't need to work can I just live there? If I wanted to work-could I? Are there any realators who know the answers, or canadian lawyers with FREE advice.Thanks in advance
-- Carol Koller (ckoller@eznet.net), October 25, 2000.
check out this Canadian web site: www.cic.gc.ca As you can see it is expensive to just apply for immigration. As I understand it, they do not want anyone who cannot work and contribute to their society. Can't blame them. Wish the US were a little more particular about immigrants.
-- bwilliams (bjconthefarm@yahoo.com), October 26, 2000.
Let's not forget that if US immigration policy had been a little more "particular", many of us wouldn't be living here now.
-- ray (mmoetc@yahoo.com), October 26, 2000.
Carol, you can live up there 6 months at a time without any visa or legal papers. You can buy land, too. You cannot work up there without a visa. any initial appication to get to Canada is to go the the site bwilliams suggested. you apply for residency. that is the expensive part, really expensive. once you have lived there for three years, then you can apply for citizenship (not nearly as costly). I might add, to be careful about the land you buy. they have regulations, lots, on what you can do in developing the land. (subdividing, commercial industry, etc..)
-- Lisa (wife, and other user of this email address) (masterjoiner@webtv.net), October 28, 2000.
As a Canadian living in the Canadian west, but originally from Southern Ontario (with dual citizenship because of my American mother), I can tell you that this is a great place to live. My only suggestion is that you do a LOT of research on Canada before making a decision.A lot of Americans (and I use this general term loosely, please understand) that move north don't care to appreciate how different we are. You can't just move to Canada to take advantage of all the wonderful aspects of this great country, and bring all the 'south of the border' problems with you.
Canadians, as a whole, tend to be a bit suspicious of WHY Americans move here -- you can thank Brian Mulroney and his idea of free trade for that -- American politicians make a huge deal of the legalities of NAFTA when we say they can't come up here and rape our natural resources.
Like moving to any country, try to appreciate the culture as it is, rather than ridiculing it. We aren't backwards, we just have different priorities. I, for one, like it that way.
-- Tracy (trimmer@westzone.com), October 29, 2000.
I, too, thought seriously about moving to Canada - I think it is a much better place than the USA, and I visit Vancouver often. However, my business is in Seattle and I've got my homestead now, so I'll probably just stay down here. I like to listen to CBC Radio 2 and imagine I emigrated already. Good luck to you.I did want to mention that getting a visa to the USA is no cheap thing either -- 16 years ago it was $1200, plus you had to be vouchsafed by someone who had $40,000 handy so that you would not become a ward of the state. Even now, if you come from a poor country, like just about any Asian country, most able-bodied males are turned down even for a tourist or visitor visa, because the assumption is that such folk will "jump ship" and stay. It is VERY DIFFICULT to get a visa of any sort to the US. So, whoever it was on this thread who wished for tighter standards in US immigration, fear not -- it is probably the tightest in the world.
-- snoozy (allen@oz.net), October 29, 2000.
Look, it all depends on where you live in a country. I live in a very safe area of the US, where citizens have as much input as they want in city affairs. I listen to shortwave and hear both good and bad in several countries (and languages). I will stick to making it work where you are. Another locale does not guarantee a better community. You need to take an interest in the community and open up to other's thoughts, beliefs and desires.
-- Anne (HT@HM.com), November 24, 2000.
I believe that home is where you could do the best and make people around you feel that they need you and happy with what you are doing or you want to do. Religion is for God but home (Community) for every one.
-- Mohammed El Damir (mohammed_eldamir@yahoo.com), December 03, 2000.
I love Canada because of it is the Most Beautiful & Most Peaceful Country. I would like to visit and enjoy the life of Canada. I hope you will give me a chance......
-- Azhar Mehmood (onnpk@yahoo.com), April 03, 2001.
I sell land in saskatchewan, canada, the best farmland there is. amaricans can own land and move here. The goverment of saskatchewan to discourage absentee landlords and to encourage settlers stipulates that to own more than 10 acres one needs to reside in the province for six months of the year or more. we need settlers, we need farmers, and you can do almost anything with your land, there are few or no regulations in rural areas. your taxes about $2 an acre, land costs US$300-400 an acre, and nice fertile soil that will grow any crops unirrigated. Federal immigration rules are not stringent, and rutinely admit farmer settlers; and remember US citizens can enter Canada visa and passport-free for six months periods at the time. Contact me for more information on opportunity to homestead in saskatchewan, 306-629-3664.
-- Alexander Levin (morsealexlevin@hotmail.com), April 06, 2001.
j'ai cherché le visas de canada pour les utides dans la domaine informatique.
-- tarek mosbah (tarek.mosbah1@caramail.com), March 14, 2002.
je veux emegre en canada
-- cherfa samir (cherfa _samir @ yahoo.com), March 21, 2002.
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-- hicham (madmax2h@caramail.com), April 09, 2002.
i would like to émégrate to canada for founding a job because im verey poor and i need moeny fo help my family
-- hayat (hayat.masira@caramail.com), May 31, 2002.