salford:
My values are average using Alberta and Sask as examples. Cost will vary for provinces and within cities in a province too. e.g rental may be cheaper in Red Deer compared to Calgary. Car Insurance will be cheaper in Winnipeg compared to Toronto.
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Miscellaneous (some important and some are not)

Food: $150 per family member

Clothes: $30 per month (This has been averaged as well)

Entertainment/refreshments and eating out: $150

Gym: $50

Sports participation for those with kids: ($50 to $150)

Daycare: $1000 per kid for full-time

Personal care and Healthcare: ?

Amazon (people that love shopping): ?

Car maintenance:?



Costs are monthly. I hope this helps someone or families preparing to land.

Others can add or subtract since this is just an opinion.

iPopAlomo:



To be honest, it's not wanting my kids to be like me...

The Canadian culture is very very ALOOF... Younger me wanted to be British... Damn the rest of world... Older me, I now understand culture better...

Everyone is saying they want Canadian kids... Yet... Get invited to a prayer meeting in this same Canada and see parents praying the Nigerian way and the children are looking completely lost...

This are things the environment teaches... It takes more than parents to raise a child... The environment also contributes...

My reason for leaving Nigeria is very different from every other person...

The same people saying let's leave our children here at some point will go back home... And now whether I like it or not... For better or worse... Nigeria is home

I also belonged in the school of thought... If I die here (Canada)... I'll just get buried here... It took me a long while... But Nigeria is home...

And the way I'll raise my kids is to be able to switch being Nigerian and International seamlessly without the culture shock...

Majesticniyi:





Sometimes, I also think of sending my children to school in Nigeria at some point but then the questions I ask myself are: would I teach my children how to use typewriters? Would I be teaching them how to play VCRs? If I look on those things as archaic and unimportant to their development, then why do I want to teach them about my former life of bad roads, no stable power supply etc? What use would it add to them if they would be growing in an environment where knowledge of those things add no value to them?


PS: it's not like the youths they would be rolling with in Naija sef are morally better than those they would go to class with here.

crispviv:
Hi Guys,

I must confess, this page has been so helpful. I have been a silent follower of this page and would like to make some clarifications. My sister applied for EE. she has two years experience and used one year NYSC experience in my family's company to make her work experience three years. However, she did not state that it was NYSC and she did not even do the NYSC in our family's company. She just used this to make up for her three years experience.

Is this a problem? Like would they know that she did not do NYSC in the company? We plan to give her a reference letter to support this experience. Has anyone been in this situation?

WoodcrestMayor:
This!!!
My organization has this matching plan and I have tricked myself to live and budget with what i get paid. I elected to max my contribution for maximum matching from the organization and I've been living ok and debt free. In my subconscious, what I get in my account is my laundry not what I have before deductions. I started in May and i already have some decent change in the plan.

salford:

And it affects everyone. It doesn't matter if that person or family is earning 200k a year or 40k a year. I was shocked when my family doctor (a Naija) told me about his colleagues that were also in such situation i.e. living paycheck to paycheck. Anyone could be a victim.

It is best to live within one means. A mortgage approval of say 800k does not mean one should max it out or start shopping for the biggest or luxury house one can buy. If a 1600sq ft house could fulfil one's need, why go for an over 2000 sq ft house or an expensive custom built one? If a Toyota can get one from point A to B, why go for a BMW? This is the question people need to be asking themselves before accepting accepting all those juicy and tantalizing offers from sales representatives. Nothing wrong if one can afford the luxury and still have lots left over to bank, but stretching finances to afford such is what creates the problems.

nolacozy:
Please I have some challenges:

My first job was Dec 2016, I plan to use 4 different jobs for work experience but between those jobs, I have like 2 weeks gap (meaning I didn’t start another job immediately after quitting the present)

I created my profile mid oct, I was on 447, only for me to login today to see 472 which means they used dec 2016-nov 2019 as 3 years

If I accept ITA on Wednesday, what effect might that have on my application?

Also is it mandatory that the exact day of the month when you started work is put in your reference letter?
Has anyone here gotten PPR without the exact resumption day on the work reference letter?

Please help me clear these blind spots.

MJKJ:
You are too busy to use the search bar but not too busy to type about post-ielts dream no you are not busy, just lazy.

If you have read ALL pages you would have found your answer to no. 2.

ednut1:
see this adr lol

Erigo23:
PLS ITA PREDICTION GURUS...

1) WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF BACK TO BACK ITA DRAW THIS NOVEMBER BEING THAT WE HAVE ONLY 4 DRAWS LEFT THIS YEAR GOING BY THE 2 WEEK INTERVAL DRAWS?

Judging from historical data , if there is b2b draw I predict week of dec 11 and week of dec 18th which will be last draws of 2019.

2) WHAT ARE THE CHANCES FOR A PERSON WITH CRS 469 WITH THE NEXT DRAW?

Next draw will likely be out of reach. Estimating next draw to be 471

3) WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF ITA FOR A CRS BETWEEN 450-459 THIS YEAR?

I dont see it going below 458 this year and even that is optimistic.

DeeCan:
Don't think it's fairly hard though. Maxed out IELTS, Master's degree and 5-year work experience gave 470 at age 31. Imagine folks who are in their 20s and have siblings in Canada with similar profiles. Their CRS scores will be higher than 485. Those are the people responsible for the astronomical increase in CRS scores and to be honest, it's not reducing any time soon in my opinion. One shoud just do whatever he can to remedy the situation. All will be well with us all eventually.

Philips49:
I hope this week draw will flush out all the 470s oooo, So 460s can fly .

salford1:


It's kind of easy to to know when cops are around. Drivers ahead of you will suddenly start slamming on the brakes when they spot cameras or cops.

Tickets in the mail are still okay, but the ones handed out by cops are not. They go on record - demerits. Alot of technical jobs would ask for driver's abstract and that is where it comes back to hunt some people.

Google can be inneffective at times, because the city would often move the cameras around. Some cops also hide behind street light post or signboards with their laser guns.

maternal:


A wealthy person has many ways of getting papers. They usually don't game the system. These people come in different ways. Maybe use their life-savings to try to cross into Canada from the U.S to try their luck. Some come for business, maybe they have a business conference, then cross, and so forth. It's easy to judge when you're a Nigerian-Canadian and you enjoy one of the best quality of life. If the roles were reverse, it'd be funny how many people change their perspective. Like they say, "Never mock a pain you haven't endured. Because when life hits you, you might become everything you ever criticized" I'm not a thief, but I'd never judge a poor man who has to steal to survive.

maternal:


Lets not lie to ourselves and pretend we wouldn't do the same, if put in that situation. I can't ask someone to do something I wouldn't do.

maternal:


Every country has their threshold of what a refugee consists off. Furthermore, no developed country allows back-door immigration. Every immigrate has to go through certain processes.

maternal:
@SixSigma,

Your post is filled with Dog Whistle. Then when people call you out, you get defensive. It's like Trump saying MAGA. Minorities living in the U.S. or the west knows he really means make America white again. People who live in Canada know where you stand and what you really mean. This has nothing to do with political parties. You're masking your hatred for certain type of immigrants with that. You have adopted the ideology of an anti-immigration Canadian. This view point is usually expressed by white canadians who like to blame everything on immigration. Most refugees don't contribute. The FACTS say otherwise. Most Nigerian refugees have false claims. How do you know that ? Are you there during their court dates ?

While you walking around all high and mighty because you finally got citizenship. Just remember immigration comes in different forms. Not everyone is qualified or has the money to come in through the EE. Besides, a refugee from Syria for example who comes here because THE WEST is bombing their country, doesn't have time to fill out an EE form when bombs are dropping on them. Never bash or judge someone who's trying to migrate to Canada, regardless of how they get here. Because ultimately they're coming over for the SAME reason you came over here. To improve their lives.

Pwinkle1:


LOL they just want people to come in the legitimate way. No short cut to success my friend!

pyruvateluv:

But do you see him winning this election?

smartkester:
I have same plans as you, though I have my MSC already but no job yet. So I'm thinking of going to Canada with a student visa and I can't afford the PHd fee so I'm thinking of going for PGD to boost my chances of getting a wok permit, from there one can push gradually for the PR. Incase you have any info of province that offers work permit to PG students, please kindly share.

OptimusPrime21:


Congratulations boss.. I pray to celebrate like u by next week