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| Subject: re: question for CIC applicants |
Ozz, are you from U.S?? yep, I think Canada is poor people´s heaven! at least there is mutual respect for poor people.
[02-02-2005,17:24]
Yijie |
(in reply to: re: question for CIC applicants)
No, my home country is not the US. It´s a developing country. I´m working on the highest academic degree in my field in the US. I´m so sad I am being part of the "brain drain" of developing countries, but family is first, not ideals. You don´t think about anything when you fall in love with the woman of your life.
I agree with Yijie 100%. Canada is heaven for low-skilled workers. All of my wife´s relatives are blue-collar workers and they are enjoying a life that they could have not even imagined in their home country. None of them has highschool education. In Canada they are low-middle income, but in their home country they would have been low-low income.
In my case, I am open minded and like new experiences. For those who are married, you know the chief and commander of the house is the wife, especially if influenced by the independence of the Canadian woman. Then, my only choice is move to Canada. Actually, I love the place, the culture and the values of the Canadian society, so I´m quite happy about the challenge of starting a new life in Canada.
I must say, however, that I hate CIC and I hate winter!!! Alhtough my wife has told me I will get used to the cold when I move there permanently and after I get the PR I will deal with CIC when I work for them, which I will be in the other side of the coin!!!
[02-02-2005,17:55]
Ozz future Buffalo immigration officer |
(in reply to: re: question for CIC applicants)
CIC is doing hiring over universities.
I think i can do that, those test are sux, but i am not PR neither citizen yet.
[02-02-2005,17:58]
Yijie |
(in reply to: re: question for CIC applicants)
dear Ozz... your posting touches a soft spot in my heart. My fiance also is from a 3rd world country and I have heard him talk the exact same words that you share. He has not had the benefit of being in the US for any extended time so his visions of a future are not nearly as clear as yours. He says he comes for me. I do not see it that way. It is nice for the ego but I am too practical to be hopelessly romantic. He comes for a chance at changing his future.
How was leaving your home? Right now it is agonizing for him to leave 12 siblings and 2 aging parents. They feel abandoned. Relatives say he will forget them and never come back.
What R does not see and his family cannot see is that Canada will help all of them. I have learned to measure cost of living by how many hours/days you must work to buy something. In R´s country a laptop computer is 4 months wages for a software engineer. Internet service is 4 days wages. A kilo of meat is a days wages. Engineers make twice as much as a security guard so who can imagine what the numbers look like for them. The idea of sending $200 home every month is a dream for R. $200 is a full months wages for a low skilled worker. $400 and you are sending home an engineers salary-which is considered high wages. What can that kind of money do for a family´s quality of life.
R can come to Canada and live a better standard of living than anything he could imagine in his home country and still help his family.
He keeps telling me that he is ´coming for the girl´. As a Canadian, I can see much more and will move heaven and earth to make it happen for him.
3rd world brain drain is a real problem but the problem will not be solved in time for R to have a good life. So, you find a good Canadian woman to keep you warm in the cold winter and change your future.
[02-02-2005,21:21]
sharon |
(in reply to: re: question for CIC applicants)
Sharon,
I can see what R is going through. It´s hard to leave your family behind, your home country, your local values, your town, your folks. I´ve being away for a decade now.
Fortunately, I found the woman I love. My family is happy because they met her in my home country when we visited and they really like her. So that part was easy. They know I am happy and they feel happy about it. How not to like my wife? She´s so beautiful and such a nice person. Our baby is as beatiful as herI cannot complain about how lucky I am. Of course, it would have been even nicer if she was from my home country!!! However, that´s too much to ask.
Hence, my reason to go to Canada. I never thought about Canada. Actually, the first time I visited Canada was to visit the woman who was going to be my wife.
However, I hope one day I can convience her we go back to my home country. She agrees that life is better over there in the social and personal aspect of life, but not in the financial side. We can solve that in Canada... if we save... hopefully!!!
[02-02-2005,23:24]
Ozz future Buffalo immigration officer |
(in reply to: re: question for CIC applicants)
I have briefly considered moving to R´s home country but language and work opportunities are simply not there for me. Besides... once out of the Canadian job and housing market, it is next to impossible to return. It is a little too much to risk on love- at least for now. I have some dreams of retiring in R´s home country. Perhaps a bed and breakfast on the Mediteranean sea. mmmmmmm now that would be a nice life.
[03-02-2005,01:38]
sharon |
(in reply to: re: question for CIC applicants)
That´s what I´m talking about!!!! However, if you make a plan, make a little effot in learning the language and come up with the capital to invest abroad, believe me.... You will go to Canada only for your favorite season of the year!
I understand what your tell me about the risk and the seriousness of the decision, especially when the job market outside Canada is so much different... In our case, my wife is already use to work and pay her own bills, she does not feel confortable depending on me for her bills. I guess she has been absorbed by the values of the Canadian woman. That´s why my only choice is going to Canada.
[03-02-2005,01:51]
Ozz future Buffalo immigration officer |
(in reply to: re: question for CIC applicants)
I can appreciate the attitude of your wife. It is very scary to be responsible for yourself and then give up control. If you have experienced divorce (like I have) it is even worse! Woman have worked very hard and waited very long to have control over their own futures. we do not always let go so easy-even when it is to our own advantage.
Yes, we should find a way to live the best of everything. It is possible and it is a gift that no generation had has before us.
[03-02-2005,02:28]
sharon |
hello (in reply to: re: question for CIC applicants)
was sure that the line "we have met the enemy and he is us" is from Shakespeare, but I cannot find it anywhere! Can you help?
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