Moving to Canada
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- vaxorcist0
My ex was Canadian, and we thought about moving to Toronto and Montreal a few times... never did... but we crossed the border quite a few times.... with varying results...
If we made sure that the Canadian border guards saw her passport before they saw mine, there was usually an easier time, but if you're too obvious about it, they may suddenly start asking you all sorts of questions about something called a "CWP" which I had never heard of until then, they looked at me like I was an idiot for not knowing, and they started to search the car for guns... I've never had a gun, I figured out a CWP is a "Concealed Weapons Permit" ... so there were a number of "should we let this barbarian into our paradise?!?" monents... I learned to ignore it after a while, especially as some of the Canadian side border guards seemed like they had formed an image of me that nothing I could do would change... then a french canadian official was very nice and apologized for his colleagues, saying they had watched too much TV....
...and sometimes nothing at all happened, they just let us through... once they went through the car and took everything out but were very apologetic about it all, after basically smiling a lot but treating us like possible drug dealers...
On the way back to the US, it was usually easier.. strangely so, as you hear that tons of illegal immigrants come from Canada....
RE: Housing.. when we looked in Montreal and Toronto many years ago, it seemed houses in Toronto were much more in need of repair than those in Montreal, and the Toronto houses were often about a hundred years old and possibly had been made in a hurry....
- Interestinghereswhatidid
- The few times I've been to Vancouver it was much easier coming back in for sure.hereswhatidid
- hahaha it's the other way around for me. i think it depends on what passport we held.pango
- A confederate flag in the car window doesn't help, I've found.hereswhatidid
- lolETM