Scary Grown Up Stuff
So the Wife’s application for Canadian Permanent Residency was submitted a while ago, and we got a letter back saying that the initial phase (Whether or not I was suitable as a sponsor) has been approved and her application proper is now being processed.
Of course that’s going to take a while, but in the meantime, bizarrely adult considerations have to be made like “Where the hell are we going to go?”
Not having a ton of money at the moment, one extremely odd alternative has popped up.
The maritime provinces.
A good sized house there sells for 20,000 Canadian. This can be reasonably handled with our fairly limited savings. I’m not saying that that’s what’s gonna’ happen for sure, but knowing real estate is so cheap out in the middle of nowhere does have its appeal from a financial survivability viewpoint.
Of course the sanity viewpoint is something else, but heck, this is all speculation at this point…
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That would be the most sensible place to move if you’re thinking financially. You will be lonely though, since the reason the west coast provinces are so pricey is because of massive amounts of former maritimers moving over here in search of some of that Albertan prosperity they keep hearing about.
But you might want to also consider Saskatchewan; the music isn’t as good, but they’re so desperate for people some towns are literally giving houses away to people willing to move there.
Dude…where, precisely, is this $20k house in “the Maritimes”?
(looking forward to your Green Gables hentai)
Hi Wayne, it’s Corey.
I was just reading your blog as a way of procrastinating, and noticed this comment. I lived in Halifax for seven years — it is a wonderful but expensive place. You would probably be looking at New Brunswick, which is a less wonderful place, by most accounts. I’m not sure that you’d like PEI. I just moved back to Saskatoon and am enjoying it — there are still very reasonably priced houses here, and I think Saskatchewan’s star is about to go up, so it might be a good time to get property here. Given the choice (ie without the family consideration), I’d live in Halifax again.