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Tomorrow I'll have been here a month.  It's a good thing I didn't try to buy a cheap dumpy house and avoid all debt-I forgot that one needs to reserve additional 20% of the price of a used house for fix-ups, which I couldn't have afforded without a line of credit.  So far I've spent $1200 for electrical upgrades, $1800 for plumbing improvements, ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the "open house" for the new dentist's office, next door to my house.  The dentist comes from Vancouver.  He says he designed his new building to look like my house, so it wouldn't stick out too badly in this older neighbourhood (which has several houses over a century old).  His wife, the hygienist, hails from a city that's 30 km ( Read more... )

Success!  Got our immigrant visas, visited Niagara Falls and Canada's Wonderland, bought a house, even got a mortgage with no job or national credit history!  What a nice country-I can hardly wait to move!

Below the fold is my trip report.  It's rather heavy on the photos (over a megabyte of images).

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