We’ve given up our house search for now. 🙁 A little sad about it but it just made sense to stay in Toronto, especially given our low cost of living and ability to earn income as bike couriers. As we were getting ready to use our house-money to buy index ETFs, the market tanked. That
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Since moving back to Canada, things have been pretty smooth sailing financially. Of course it’s because we know people here like my parents who house us for free, and now my friend who also houses us for free. By ‘free’ I mean we don’t pay them money, but we help out in many tangible ways
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I’m writing to you from our second house sitting gig, which happens to be in my home city of Toronto! Our first house sitting gig was last year at our friend’s grandparents’ flat in Darmstadt, where we stayed for 3 weeks. This second one is much different as we’re looking after a whole house in
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My good friend G died suddenly a few days ago. He basically dropped dead at work. G was 36, and had just started a new & higher paying job. His plan was to work this job for a few years, save up enough, and then sail around the world. Sailing was his passion. Before I
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Happy New Year!! A quick recap of our 2017. We were nomads for the first 9 months of 2017 and then ended up living in Toronto. Our main goal of 2017 was to cycle, and cycle we did! We cycled in 7 countries in total: Thailand, Taiwan, Germany, Netherlands, Montenegro, Croatia, and Canada! Here are
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A few of my Canadian friends hired lawyers to help them sponsor their non-Canadian born spouses over to Canada. Not sure what everyone paid for these services, but I know at least one friend paid $5,500 and highly recommended his agency to us. That’s on top of the $1,040 application fee that the Canadian Immigration
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It’s been exactly one month since we signed up to be bike couriers, and the verdict is that we kinda love it!! Our goal was first to just try it out and see, then when we started getting the hang of it, we made a goal to earn $500 ($250 each) per month to offset
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Now that we’re back in Canada, we’re actively searching for a house to invest in! Our budget is $130K for a multifamily home, which will likely get us a duplex that is about 400km south of Toronto. It’s hard work looking for an investment property! We’re not just shopping for a home that we think
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After hemming and hawing about it while we were still in Europe, we finally took the plunge and signed up to be bike couriers in Toronto. Then we sat around nervously NOT doing it for a whole week, because it somehow scared us. Until one day we decided to just go out there and TRY
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Martin decided that we would move to Canada. At first I wasn’t thrilled with living in Canada again, but realized it was his turn to make decisions on where we should live and what we should do. I had already: – made him quit his cushy, stable job in Germany – dragged him all over
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