Bye 2011

Another year gone

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas.

Happy Winter Solstice

Happy Winters Solstice

So where am I at with my relocation.

Answer, Oops nowhere different to where I was before.

However in my defense, there is not a lot I can do at the moment as until my partner finishes college anything could happen.

We could plan on moving to a place, my partner then could be offered a job somewhere different so the plans would have to change.

11-11-11

All the elevens :)

My friend is leaving

For Canada next Wednesday.

I think it is at these times that the urge to move increases. It is the same for my friends friend. We were talking about it on her last night out. She was thinking about that many of her friends were moving and I think she would like to join them.

I think that in the short term a move to the north will be the easiest to do. Then I can think about where we will go from there.

I am still thinking about Canada. My partner has also bee talking about moving there. I now need to start looking into the best way to move across. There is the permanent visa way, but that is difficult. There must be another way. That is what I need to find out.

Still no nearer

To knowing where we will move next. I am ready to move in the next few years.

Happy Star Wars Day

May the fourth be with us all :)

New name

I have decided to change the name of this blog from moving to Canada or Australia to Relocating (though I am not too happy with that so I think that will be changed again as soon as I have thought of something)

I am 99% sure that we will not be moving to Australia. I have no desire to move there and I do not have the reasons that my partner has.

I think the first move will be to the highlands. So for now I need to start working out where and when we will move. A lot of the move will depend on my partner getting a job. Unfortunately until then there is not a lot that I can do.

Google street view

I have been looking at Google street view recently (I decided to have a look at the house that my friend will be moving into) I then decided to put in some Canadian locations.

I was not able to look around the places in Quebec that I was interested in finding out about (hopefully they get street view at some point) however I was able to look around Pictou, Antigonish and New Glasgow.

Pictou was so cute from what I saw. the homes looked lovely and it just seemed a nice place. The same is for Antigonish. I think I will have another explore around them. However I was surprised by New Glasgow. It seems lovely. I have not looked at the houses, but the shopping center looks good. I think it would be good to get a place that has easy access, I could then have the advantage of living in a small town but having access to good shopping.

I am going to try and take some screen shots.

I am so please that I have been able to do this as at the moment there is no way that I could afford to go across to Canada to find out what it is really like. At least I am able to see what it looks like and be able to move around thanks to the 3D style of how it has been put together.

I think I will have to have a look around places in Scotland as well.

Useful Canadian links

I decided to have a quick look on the forum with information about moving to Canada.

Here are a couple of links to places where you can rent homes (I think it would be a much better idea to rent out a property when first moving out and only buy once we have settled)

Rent Board

Free Local Classifieds

Goals for 2011

This is what I want to achieve in 2011:

1. Find out how much homes are to rent in the north and rental agencies.
2. Find out any property papers for the north.
3. Find out places Online where I can learn Gaelic.
4. Compile any informations that I have got about moving to Canada into one place for ease of finding it.
5. Once informations about Canada has been compiled find out what else I need to find out.