Canadia, eh?

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 9:15 pm

Me an' the missus have a new place:

http://www.fsf.net/~adam/CAHouse/

Bruce

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 10:26 pm

Is that rope, magic?

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 10:31 pm

Worm wrote:Is that rope, magic?

Like it says in the caption, it's the danger of autofocus.

Bruce

...or maybe I just put it in there to TEMPT Mr. Parrish.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:05 am

The captions do not display in firefox.

Vitriola · Post by **Vitriola** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 8:01 am

That place is awesome. I thought you guys were going to get some shit shack somewhere just to prove some anti-American, anti-toilet, you-don't-need-electricity-when-you-have-lillet stance to the rest of us.

How much time out of the year will you be there? Who will care for it when you are not there?

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 8:11 pm

Vitriola wrote:That place is awesome. I thought you guys were going to get some shit shack somewhere just to prove some anti-American, anti-toilet, you-don't-need-electricity-when-you-have-lillet stance to the rest of us.

Well, we were. But the price for this was pretty reasonable. Let me rub it in, bitches. The down payment was a cast-iron bitch and I'm really poor right now, but my mortgage payments on a 2100 square foot house on 38 acres of land with a year-round stream with trout in it are under $800/month Canadian.

How much time out of the year will you be there? Who will care for it when you are not there?

Don't know yet. A lot of the summers, for sure, and other than that, as often as we can afford. We have a property manager to look in on it every couple weeks, but...if you're offering to move in and be a caretaker for it, yeah, I'm accepting applications for the post.

Bruce

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 8:12 pm

Worm wrote:The captions do not display in firefox.

That sucks. I gave them both alt and title tags, which I thought would cover all the bases.

Bruce

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 8:13 pm

Also: all the furnishings and stuff are going to be gone at the end of the month when the older couple in those photos have moved out.

Bruce

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 8:22 pm

Also, I should have bought a house here to keep MONKEY MONKEY happy.

Bruce

Jack Straw · Post by **Jack Straw** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:21 am

bruce wrote:
Vitriola wrote:That place is awesome. I thought you guys were going to get some shit shack somewhere just to prove some anti-American, anti-toilet, you-don't-need-electricity-when-you-have-lillet stance to the rest of us.
fucking sweet man! Place looks wicked.. looks like a dream home, nestled in the woods.. I always wanted to build a log cabin.

You don't have to change anything with citizenship if it's considered a "vacation home"?

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:29 pm

Jack Straw wrote:You don't have to change anything with citizenship if it's considered a "vacation home"?

No. I don't have to change anything with citizenship if I move up there, although I'd need to get my Green Card Equivalent, which would be, in my case, a Skilled Worker Visa. Once I have that, though, five years later I can become a Canadian citizen, and if I'm living there fulltime....

Bruce

Jack Straw · Post by **Jack Straw** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:12 pm

Aren't the work visas mostly for skilled trades, and wouldn't it take quite awhile to go through?
I've looked at the Canada relocation thing a few times and it always seemed like a cluster.

chris · Post by **chris** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 7:00 pm

bruce wrote:No. I don't have to change anything with citizenship if I move up there, although I'd need to get my Green Card Equivalent, which would be, in my case, a Skilled Worker Visa. Once I have that, though, five years later I can become a Canadian citizen, and if I'm living there fulltime....

Do the dual-citizenship thing. That way when you're on an airplane that gets hijacked, you can whip out the Canadian passport and not get your ass shot off.

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 7:41 pm

Jack Straw wrote:Aren't the work visas mostly for skilled trades, and wouldn't it take quite awhile to go through?
I've looked at the Canada relocation thing a few times and it always seemed like a cluster.

Well, there's a couple of different things:

Specific work visas can be had at the port of entry for $150, and they let you work for a particular employer doing a particular job for a year.

What I'd be getting if I went up there full-time would be Skilled Worker Immigrant status. That'd be permanent residency, like a Green Card. It's based on a point system, and under that system as currently implemented, I have enough points to qualify.

Bruce

nessman · Post by **nessman** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:41 am

Do you get a 12-pack of Molson at the border every time you cross over into Canada?

Pretty cool - BC is beautiful country... one of the places I'd like to go visit (particularly the town of Hope where they filmed the first Rambo).

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:24 pm

nessman wrote:Do you get a 12-pack of Molson at the border every time you cross over into Canada?

Pretty cool - BC is beautiful country... one of the places I'd like to go visit (particularly the town of Hope where they filmed the first Rambo).

Hope is on the way from Vancouver to my house; it's where you get on the toll road to pay $10 but save 100 km. I bought a phone card and a tank of gas there last trip.

And no, I usually save my duty free for hard liquor. Coming back the last time I bought a bottle of advocaat, which is, no shit, basically egg schnapps. I came up with a drink recipe for it: it's the "Arnold Benedict"

1-1/2 oz. Advocaat
1/2 oz. lemon juice
Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass
Top with club soda
Garnish with a steamed asparagus spear, two cubes of ham on a toothpick, and a piece of melba toast.

Bruce