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UPS is the best bet. They'll give you a street address. I got one made using email contact for forwarding my mail from the US etc. However, I did not use it eventually for my CIC contact details and my PR card was mailed to a friend's address where I moved to upon landing. Where are you...

Surely others have good stories to share?!

I landed in December and as you can imagine have found Spring pretty inspiring after the kilotons of snow! Beautiful yellow daisies and laughing children all the way. Tulips blooming in brilliant colors as well. Toronto is gorgeous in Spring!! Tell me your experiences in this thread. Pictures...

I get the spirit of this post, but jobs I must respectfully state are a very important consideration. If not, again I should recommend at least 1.5 times the amount that CIC recommends we bring in... Integration and friendship are an embarrassment for many when their funds dry up.. Just a...

As rightly pointed out one should not dive in without that.

Thanks Bob and Qorax for your insights! Your points are very well taken and definitely to be appreciated. To bring the thread back in perspective, let me re- quote a line from my first posting This thread is not an attempt to block your ambitions or to dissuade those who are young and...

Bob and Qorax! Thanks for the upbeat responses! The items you mention are worth considering no doubt. My point however was to discourage naive ideas of what I consider most important - job security - especially at a time when the economy is not exactly at its brightest. I know that IT...

Hi! Any further updates? Thanks!

Wind has good rates for a mobile phone. Be warned that the service may drop (at certain locations) - but they are trying hard to take care of their customers. Scotiabank will have a newcomers package ( you have to ask for it) that includes a credit card right away. I think other banks do too...

Friends I want to add that service at WIND is improving a lot. They are really making wonderful efforts. If you notice your call drops at a particular location - dial 611 from your phone and inform them. Say that you suspect there may be an issue with their tower. They are monitoring this and...

More to think deeply about Here is the story of an Electronic engineer with 11 years of experience in China. She never got a job in her field. Again, no intention to discourage anyone or detract from those who succeeded. Only a caution to those who do not survey their job market scrupulously...

Fair enough Ranjhaaa. I will continue to complain until I get my position also. That's because there are several people who are holding on to survival jobs getting way less than they are qualified for. My caution is for those in well placed positions who left everything imagining Canada to be an...

Also read how difficult it is to get their professional qualifications recognized for new immigrants http://nicknoorani.com/an-unexpected-welcome-working-as-a-newcomer-to-canada/ So YES, PLEASE THINK DEEPLY

How conditions have deteriorated in the labor market is also something to seriously consider: http://ftp.iza.org/pp25.pdf

@tran Please do not be fooled by all these polls. Canada ranks quite poorly among OECD countries as far as many statistics go including health despite its much touted health care system. That is why you will notice I ask readers in my heading to "think deeply" Now here is a link to another...

@ Ranjhaaa. Obviously you are happy here and I am not (yet). Going back is a solution that I cannot have as I lost my job at home by resigning. So yes, I have every right to not only criticize but also to caution people who are likely to make the same mistake. When you burn your savings and...

^ Please explain, your opinion was not clear. Also I have already landed and I came to Canada uninformed like many others about job situation in my field.

I have met a very highly qualified hydrologist who has spent 10 months with NO employment here. He is a mental and physical wreck. I have met a physiotherapist who got work in the third month. I have seen those who have flourished in business. I have heard of a Colonel who now drives a taxi....

What makes you so certain that the powerful will not control your life in another land?