For me it was Vancouver. I visited with my now wife when we were students in the mid-2000s and we said to one another ‘we’ll move here one day’. We tried to move over just after graduating but a company that said they were sponsoring my visa dropped the ball/made false promises and we had to head back to our home in the UK. From that point, it took nearly a decade to get legitimate work permits, another couple of years after arriving to gain residency and now, I think 16 years after we first fell in love with the place we just applied for citizenship. We also have a Canadian born kid with another arriving next month.
Anyway in that decade of trying to get a visa in our 20s we lived in Edinburgh then London, both experiences I wouldn’t trade for anything. But we’ve been lucky to travel pretty widely, and out of everywhere we’ve visited we just felt at home here.
Overall, it was worth the wait - there’s ups and downs like anywhere but I do love it still. The only other new destination I’ve thought about is SoCal where I’ve got family and my company has an office. But I don’t know, it was pretty draining completely resetting our lives once and I’m not sure I’d go through it all over again.
For me it was Vancouver. I visited with my now wife when we were students in the mid-2000s and we said to one another ‘we’ll move here one day’. We tried to move over just after graduating but a company that said they were sponsoring my visa dropped the ball/made false promises and we had to head back to our home in the UK. From that point, it took nearly a decade to get legitimate work permits, another couple of years after arriving to gain residency and now, I think 16 years after we first fell in love with the place we just applied for citizenship. We also have a Canadian born kid with another arriving next month.
Anyway in that decade of trying to get a visa in our 20s we lived in Edinburgh then London, both experiences I wouldn’t trade for anything. But we’ve been lucky to travel pretty widely, and out of everywhere we’ve visited we just felt at home here.
Overall, it was worth the wait - there’s ups and downs like anywhere but I do love it still. The only other new destination I’ve thought about is SoCal where I’ve got family and my company has an office. But I don’t know, it was pretty draining completely resetting our lives once and I’m not sure I’d go through it all over again.