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.

Another year has passed and...

I still have not moved anywhere.

I set myself challenges for this year though. However I forgot about them so I will have a look through and see if I actually managed any of them.

• Work out different ways in which I will be able to make it across to Canada.

I have not done this

• Research how my partner will be able to get a job as a ranger and if there is anything else that he will need to get.

I have not done this.

• Find out any useful information about Canada such as Education system, health system, taxes, utilities, recycling schemes, public transport etc

I have found some websites but I have not spent much time actually reading them (I just found them)

• Find out what kinds of visas are available and how to apply for a permanent visa. 

I have not done this.

• Find out how self employment affects my chances of getting across.

I have not done this.

• Find out how I can continue to pay outstanding bills once I have moved across.

I have not done this.

• Find out how moving affects any long term insurance that I have got.

I have not done this.


LOL I have not done well at all with my list. Though in my defense I have not got any actual plans to move so I can very easily put off finding out things like that as they are not really needed. I am sure that once the time comes when I actually need to find it out I could get found out in a very short time.

I do think that for next years goals I need to set myself some relevant goals. I doubt that a move to Canada will be happening next year, however I would like to relocate to the north of Scotland. I think that while I need to include research about moving to Canada I should base the majority of it around moving within Scotland.

Happy Christmas

I have had a funky day here. Even though we have not had any snow today it has still been lovely to see the snow on the ground.

I think I have pretty much decided that I do not want to live in Australia.. I think I need to change the title of this blog to reflect that.

Right at this moment I am not really sure where I do want to live. I would still like to live in Canada, but I still so not know where about. Ideally I would go out there and take a road trip to gain some idea of what it is like there. Now I just need to work on making that happen.

Pendulum predictions

It has been a while since I did this.

This is what the pendulum says: