About Time!!!

Folks,

For those that know us.....HELLO!!!! For those that don't....WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE READING MY BLOG?!?!?

Anyway, enough of that...we are (as if you don't already know!!) Brian & Elaine, and we have at last emigrated to Canada!! It has been a hard long struggle, but the 3 1/2 years it has taken us to get to this moment has been worth it!!!

We have found an apartment to rent for a year, it has two bedrooms with living area, dining area, two bathrooms and a balcony. The block is only 7 floors high and in the basement it has its own laundry room and two social rooms one with a pool table. All for $960 (CA) (530 pounds). ....Oh and we have a parking space underground which is heated.

We are near hotels, a shopping mall and Chicopee ski club, so we are in quite a good location.

We have already furnished our apartment as we went to a furniture store and they delivered and set everything up free of charge and we still got a discount on the purchases too! It's so great you can really bargain over here! We have a reclining three seater sofa and chair, coffee tables, dining room set, massive t.v./entertainment unit, queen size bed with matching furniture with top of the range mattress, table lamps, floor lamp all for $7,000 (CAD) which is roughly 3,600 pounds. We have also bought a car which cost the equivalent of 17,000 pounds ($33,000 CAD)!!!

Not bad considering we have only been here for just over four weeks! We have also been to a farmers market in town which is held every Saturday where they sell all home grown produce from fruit, veg and meats and boy is it cheap not like when you buy organic stuff in the supermarkets in UK and you have to pay through the nose for them, they encourage you to buy the local stuff so they make it super cheap for you!

Brian is looking for work at the moment, he has sent his resume (posh word for CV here!!) to a lot of IT companies and agencies, but nothing definite yet. Elaine wants a completely different job here, like working in a clothes store, but again she has applied for a couple of things but nothing has come of them yet.....


Well....that's all for now......we will update you with more info once we settle in a bit more.....


TTFN


Brian & Elaine