My inlaws did a couple years in the middle east to start off life. Banked enough to buy a townhouse in toronto. Jumped property ladder twice to get to detached even with that head start. Some interesting stories of life over there but definitely a big adjustment (especially for women). They were happy to come back and never returned (not because they were avoiding it they just spent travel time elsewhere).
Some interesting stories of life over there but definitely a big adjustment (especially for women). They were happy to come back and never returned (not because they were avoiding it they just spent travel time elsewhere).
Exactly. My buddy and his wife flew somewhere different every single weekend just to get out of UAE. Resorts in Maldives one weekend, floating on the Dead Sea the next, and then safaris in Kenya. They took more vacations in one year than most people do in a lifetime.
It's always easier to complain and blame than it is to take responsibility for the situation you put yourselves in.
It's been over a year and I still lament over missing all that extra $ when I left BC...but spending the time with my kids and watching them grow...you can't buy that time back.
Yeah, FIFO is tough with a family. But there are a lot of other jobs that will relocate you and the family for a longer period of time. You just have to let go of the notion that Toronto is the centre of the universe.
Yeah, FIFO is tough with a family. But there are a lot of other jobs that will relocate you and the family for a longer period of time. You just have to let go of the notion that Toronto is the centre of the universe.
When I worked with CAT all their senior guys were expats. Fly from country to country…live…tear the company they took over to the ground…Pat themselves on the back, blame the existing management for the failure, shut the business down, move onto the next project with a higher salary and position. F$&k them.
Yeah, FIFO is tough with a family. But there are a lot of other jobs that will relocate you and the family for a longer period of time. You just have to let go of the notion that Toronto is the centre of the universe.
Did that a couple of times, not everyone can let go of 'home'.
The second time I moved to California, it was with 3 kids under 5, one only a few weeks old. My wife is the oldest of 4 very close sisters, we had three kids before her siblings had any. Once they started having kids, my wife started asking... when are we going home? that was 5 years after we left... she could never let go, the force of family was just too great.
I would have never come back, California had become home to me. I earned a 6 mo sabbatical and agreed to spend it in Toronto so we packed the Suburban and an old VW Bug and did a month long road trip back to Toronto. Once we got here, she anchored -- there was no going back for her.
The adjustment of moving around is hardest on kids. They lose friends and have a lot of social and scholastic adaptations to make, both when you go and if you return.
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