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Moving across Canada - advice?

GregH said:
Thanks for all the advice so far guys.

I looked into the "pack your own container" thing and the one quote I got was around $12k, which is significantly higher than I'd anticipated.
That was just from the one place though. Haven't looked too thoroughly into it.
Agreed on the pets thing too - not sure that I trust the airlines with our babies. Especially Air Canada.

Regarding making a living of it: We're actually flying out there on Wednesday to look a bit more in depth into it, including looking at financials of B&Bs currently on the market that we're interested in.
Not looking to cash in big time, but if we can cover costs and set up a bit of a retirement nest egg then that's just fine by me.
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If you do a BnB, look into seeing if you can make it pet-friendly, have a yard for dogs, etc. Its tough to find BnBs that advertise this easily on places like www.bbcanada.com . There is a market for this if you can swing it, even charge a premium, etc.
 
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chrisk said:
If you do a BnB, look into seeing if you can make it pet-friendly, have a yard for dogs, etc. Its tough to find BnBs that advertise this easily on places like www.bbcanada.com . There is a market for this if you can swing it, even charge a premium, etc.
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We're both dog lovers, so that's absolutely something we'd consider
 
When I was looking at moving from Richmond Hill out to Halifax 3 years ago I too found those containers you pack yourself to be more expensive then using a moving company. I ended up going with just using a moving company while taking breakables, well mainly dishes/glasses and cookware as well as computer stuff in our car. This was so that we wouldn't have to eat out for weeks or buy temporary cookware while waiting for our stuff from the moving company.

To cut down on the cost of food while driving cross part of the country we had cooked several meals and froze them. When the time came to move we threw all that stuff into a cooler (or two) with a bunch of ice. I think we ate out maybe once or twice the entire time we drove out and were staying at a motel while looking for a place in Halifax. We specifically looked for motels that had both a mini-fridge and a microwave so that we could store some of those thawing leftovers and heat the ones we wanted to eat up. Every morning we'd fill up the coolers with more ice and take off. Our drive was 1600 km that the fiancee wanted us to break up into 3 days, we 'could' have done it in one if we were both 'crazy' and she didn't have issues sitting for very long periods of time.

I do know someone from work who moved from Halifax to our Montreal office, they did it in one day's drive. They found at that distance and time they were going to spend that it was cheapest for them to rent a uHaul truck and car trailer and drive that way.
 
Is it just me or do I see a trend or pattern of people moving out of the GTA and Toronto itself? I counted at least two people here (Arinoth and LPfan4ever) who moved within the last 3-4 years ago. Just how difficult is it moving out of the province to the East or West of Canada especially without a job prospect?
 
Dark Knight said:
Is it just me or do I see a trend or pattern of people moving out of the GTA and Toronto itself? I counted at least two people here (Arinoth and LPfan4ever) who moved within the last 3-4 years ago. Just how difficult is it moving out of the province to the East or West of Canada especially without a job prospect?
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I moved for a job. I had finished school the summer prior, came home and thought I'd find more employment options with my co-op experiences and CET Diploma and Comp Eng diploma. I only had a one year contract at AMD so I jumped to the full time employment out here. Including my employment at AMD, I had a grand total of 4 interviews while in Ontario that year.

I probably have enough experience under my belt to return to Ontario and have more job options, though the missus enjoys Halifax so that probably won't happen any time soon.
 
Dark Knight said:
Is it just me or do I see a trend or pattern of people moving out of the GTA and Toronto itself? I counted at least two people here (Arinoth and LPfan4ever) who moved within the last 3-4 years ago. Just how difficult is it moving out of the province to the East or West of Canada especially without a job prospect?
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After Wynne gets another majority next year, and raises taxes and such, there will be a much larger exodus of people looking for work because the job market in Ontario is terrible and saturated with 100 people for every available job. Once that $15 minimum wage kicks in there will be lots of job losses and nothing to replace them so the job pool will get even more saturated. I would not recommend Ontario any time in the near future UNLESS you already have a job to move here to. It's gonna get real rough in ON very soon.
 
I moved without a job prospect, although lucked out and found a job quickly thanks to Enaberif. It was a much better economy here at the time and I had family here to temporarily house me. Otherwise I'm sure it would've been much more difficult to do entirely on my own.
 
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Just got back from a week on the Island looking at properties. The one we were interested in from the listing pics absolutely blew us away.
Bonus that it has another apartment suite that we didn't even know about which already has a long term tenant.
Between that apartment and the two basement apartments that's 3 apartments we could rent out year round, which more than covers the mortgage payment.
Plus there's a 4th suite up on the second level, which, depending how we configured it could be rented as a 1, 2 or 3 bedroom apartment. Plus there's the other rooms that can be rented on the B&B side.

Got a bunch of moving quotes from "regular" moving companies too. MUCH more reasonable than that "pack your own and save" container option. $1200-$2500 depending how much stuff we want to bring compared to $12k for the container option? No brainer.
 
Just make sure you do your homework on the moving company you choose. Lots of outright scammers out there, but even more shady businesses that more than double the quote if you want to get your stuff back.
 
sswilson said:
Just make sure you do your homework on the moving company you choose. Lots of outright scammers out there, but even more shady businesses that more than double the quote if you want to get your stuff back.
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yes check them out for Ontario isn't regulated at all, its a crap shoot if go blindly

note: in beginning they all sweat as pie but ransom when hit destination
 
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