seunpinky:

Unfortunately I don’t have so much experience in the engineering profession, however, I am aware that u need some professional certifications to fully delve into that field in Canada. However, don’t limit yourself to what people say, be very positive and optimistic about your plans. I have seen several people get jobs in Canada without having to go a level lower and I believe this can also be your portion if you have the right mindset.
The above being said, you can check the following power coys for job opportunities:
1. Ontario Power Generation (one of the best paying govt agency)
2. Hydro one
3. Enbridge
4 TC Energy cooperation
5. Bruce power
6. IESO

All this u listed out will be very tough for him. He should just go back to school and get a Canadian degree from any good course

Masterito:
Please don't get it wrong. UK is a nice place but I have my personal reasons for wanting to relocate to Canada.

Just say the truth!! I have lived it UK for 3 years before I came back to Nigeria. You know very well that UK sucks!! Sometimes I wonder why Nigerians spend so much to go to UK!

Ticha:
I'm assuming you have EU citizenship?

We, last year (spent August 2022 in Vancouver and the greater Toronto region) looked into the prospect of moving to Canada or returning to the UK - we're currently in NZ and we have chosen to return to the UK or move to Europe for a few reasons. We have UK and NZ citizenship and would have gone the work visa route for Canada (through the husbot's job)

How old are your kids? Is your wife wedded to a nursing degree? She can segue into a teaching degree from working in care (no shifts and school holidays yay!), could you live apart temporarily? That way you could potentially take advantage of both?

Basically we found that:

1. Canadian salaries are lower than UK salaries for our jobs on average (husbot is in Engineering and I am a qualified teacher, we both have over 20 years experience in UK/ NZ/ Aus)

2. Canadian cost of living is higher in Toronto/ Vancouver (where we can get slightly comparable salaries) but the COL is way way higher than the UK or NZ (rents/ houses are higher costs, food more expensive, bills generally more expensive). For example - our mobile and internet costs in the UK for 5 weeks was around £15 for the 5 weeks (2 sims and 30gb of internet, no contract). It was a whooping $72 for 4 weeks, 1 sim and a paltry 3gb of data) in Canada. That is £44! Anywhere else in Canada will see me earning around $50k pa! Hian! That one go hard o

£500k in the UK will enable us choose a school and buy a house in the school catchment area in majority of the large UK cities (excluding London). $800k in Vancouver and Toronto will mean we're heading at least an hour out of the city to find a house. It will get us an apartment but why would I do that to myself?!

3. We hired a car for only 3 days to head up north and just used public transport within Bristol where we stayed. We needed a car for the whole month in Canada. Public transport is diabolical in Canada. So we will need 2 cars in Canada and just 1 in the UK.

4. Primary and secondary education is much of a muchness depending on location in both countries. However, our children will be able to access university education as domestic students in the UK (as long as we're there 3 years beforehand), Ireland, Australia and NZ. Uni fees are dirt cheap in Europe anyway.

To put all this into perspective, we (family of 5) lived just outside Norwich on a combined wage of just over £50k until 2017. We owned our own home and 2 rentals. We had an au pair, travelled abroad every holiday, spent every half term somewhere in the UK and didn't feel we were poor at all! The feeling of being poor actually came after we moved to New Zealand and tripled our wages.

Our move to NZ has been a fantastic financial decision. Any move to another country now either has to make serious financial sense or give us something we're missing. Heading back to the UK or Europe will take us closer to home and give our children a strong connection to 9ja. We haven't been back to 9ja since 2016 and used to go every year when we were in the UK. If I'm moving to anywhere else now for better finances, it'll be the US!

Hope that helps! I actually did a week to week breakdown cost of all our expenses in the UK and Canada so we could do a proper comparison. Happy to share if it'll help!

Wait wait are you kidding me @ the bolded in your comment. Why aren't you Nigerians satisfied You already have UK and NZ citizenship why then are you stressing yourself and family to move to Canada What are you guys looking for? Money,job opportunities or what But seriously I doubt this your statement above.

AfahaAbia:


Just say the truth!! I have lived it UK for 3 years before I came back to Nigeria. You know very well that UK sucks!! Sometimes I wonder why Nigerians spend so much to go to UK!

Your Immigration Status says alot, maybe you never had any sound Immigration Status while there.

AfahaAbia:


Lol where do u expect to work with that

I fail to see how this is funny. Someone who is knowledgeable on this has already posted something on this.

Cheers.

Please which website can I use to book or get an accommodation before arriving Canada? Please I need help