MOVING FROM UK TO CANADA | COST OF LIVING (APARTMENT) ONTARIO |
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- Hi,
Lots of people have been asking for this video so here it is!
Hope you enjoy,
Lots of love
Lou
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Rent in London for a 1 bedroom flat is £900- £1200 . 🙃 You can just about get a room (no bills included) for £500 .
Alberta M-K London is not uk
My SHARE I know, but I decided to compare to London.
Sean Tottenham I am simply comparing what she has in Ontario and how much she is paying for it. I say London cus I live in London and have been for over 30 years . I am bringing to light the standard of life in other cities and what you can get for your money ...vs London.
I.e is it actually worth living in a major city unless you have particular attachments to it ?
It is coming from MY perspective .
I have clients immigrating to different parts of Canada and the variation in cost of living is astounding. This video is super helpful for newcomers - thanks for sharing!
Thankyou glad you enjoyed the video!:)
Very informative that Louise! It's great that water & gas is included in the main bill..
Thankyou
I want to try and work and kind of the first and if I Like It move there permanently it's too expensive to live in England and the country has just gone from bad to worse
In London We pay £1400 for a tiny 2 bed flat, £200 per month each on travel, £150 council tax a month, £55 for each phone bill, £30 for internet, £90 gas and electricity per month and £400 per month food shop! Canada sounds like a dream. X
O wow!! That's a lot of money!! I knew London was expensive but not that expensive xx
Noo canada is so expensive. I pay telephone bill 40 cad for one person. Gas electric 100 cad, internet 40 cad , a tiny 2 bedroom flat 710 cad , groceries 600 700 sometimes 1000 cad per month ( 5 persons) car insurance 150 cad. Canada is really expensive. Dont live uk for canada.
@@Moonlight-sb2ofthat’s honestly not expensive AT ALL. Maybe if your monthly wage was low then it would be but comparing it to the expenses in London it’s a dream. I’m living in a room in a 5 bedroom house and I’m paying £800 per month for rent and I earn around £1400 a month after tax. Trust me London is one of the most expensive places to live
Welcome to the Country.
I have lived in Canada all of my life. I think it’s wonderful that you have come from U.K.
I would like to take this opportunity to give you a little advice you may find helpful
Please take into account that the information I am giving you does not take into account the current Pandemic and that everything is a bit different because of the Pandemic.
The most common misconception about Bell, Rogers and Telus are that they are not competitive
They are in fact very competitive they just don’t advertise it. If you have a Bell plan you go to Rogers and say this is my Bell plan what have you got in comparison.
Then you go back to Bell and tell them you are leaving them for Rogers.
I recently did this very thing. The end result being that the Company I was with originally put me in the next higher package for half the cost of what I was paying.
I have done something very similar with Bell years ago when I told them I was changing my long distance carrier.
In other words don’t think that they can not change the fees on plans. They can.
The bank card I believe used in more ways in Ontario than any place in the world.
We do like to use cash as well.
Most people do not use bank machines to get cash however.
It is common place to go into a grocery store or shopping store and ask them if you can do cash back.
Places such as Walmart and Zehrs will even ask you on the terminal if you want cash back before showing your total
Getting cash this way means you do not pay $3.00 fee.
I have gone into walmart purchased a pack of gum and gotten $100.00 cash back and left store.
It’s a good way to avoid the extra fee.
If you have not looked into yet please take a look at etransfer. Which is essentially emailing money from one email account to another.
If you do not have one already. You need to purchase an R.F.I.D. wallet for your bank cards.
Please look up what that is as I do not want my definition of what it is to play down what it is.
These are popular practices in Ontario. I have noticed not so much elsewhere. So I thought I would mention.
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Tom Heinrichs great, any other tips for newcomers who happen to have to move there during these dreadful times, nightmares of dying jobless on the frigid streets of Canada have started to occur with increasing frequency
I can and will only give general advice for things I have experienced myself.
As you know these are unprecedented times so I find myself at a bit of a loss on a lot of things.
However I have posted advice here from time to time when I thought it would be helpful. I will continue to do so as long as Louise allows it and finds it useful.
Thanks Tom.. All advice is much appreciated :) x
I do have some advice based on speculation.
However before I give it I must say this. I am not a a Doctor or any type of medical professional.
In Ontario we have seasons. In these seasons nature has cycles. I say this knowing nothing about the seasons in any other part of the world.
One particular cycle I am presently afraid of because of Covid 19 is the mosquito. Whether that has any Medical truth or will be a factor I have no idea.
However. As people in these times are hoard buying. I went out I purchased a can of mosquito repellent.
It’s not money wasted. Would buy in couple months even if Covid 19 was not around.
But buying it now at least I know will have it.
just after watching this video I'm applying for a visa
Im considering moving to Canada. I recently qualified as an OT in the UK and I really want to make a new start overseas. This video was really helpful
Glad you enjoyed the video!! Best of luck with everything :) x
Same, I’m planning to in a few years once I finish my Social Work degree
I also plan on moving to Canada after I’ve finished my nursing degree. Only a few more years!
Hi. Im a physio. What are your experiences of working in canada vs u.k
@@FreddyGamer18 hi lily, same I’m qualifying next year adult nursing. Do you have any idea what the process would be like to move to Canada as a Uk trained nurse?
I’m 15 rn, born in the UK, living there right now, and I am so desperate to move there. I really appreciate this video! Nice to know some info.
Glad your enjoying the videos !! :) at least you have plenty of time to plan !!! :)
I’m also 15 and I want to move to Canada when I’m older. I live in the uk and I hate it. There are some good jobs opportunities over there for me :) It’s nice to find theses videos
@@jennifernutt6640 why u hate living in UK?? I was thinking to move UK
@@lewissaxby6438 can you explain me more why???
@@origAlrightAbhishek i hope you haven’t moved here
i live in bristol, uk and pay £800 a month for the tiniest flat that's still a 30 min drive from the centre ffs haha
Ouch that's expensive!
I live about a 30 minutes up the road and I pay 650 for a two bed house. Might be worth looking further afield!
Feel ya. Lived in a £800 room sharing the house with 6/7 other people and one bathroom, 30 min away from the Jubilee line by bus 😂
Joana MLo omg that’s so expensive 🙈
I pay 450 a month for brand new 3 bedroom house with huge garden both side
Wow, that's so cheap I could cry!
In the UK, per month (for me):
Rent for a small one-bed maisonette/flat on south coast, UK (outside of London): £725 (very cheap for the area, it was a lucky find!).
Gas & Elec: £40 (that's a really good deal after shopping around for a bit and probably more in the winter).
Water: £25.
Internet: £26 (reasonable package).
Mobile: £10 (mostly because of loyalty to O2 for years).
I don't have a landline, or TV (too expensive and not really necessary with mobile and Netflix/Amazon Prime subscriptions).
Council Tax: £84 (and that's with a 25% discount because I live on my own).
Basic Tesco food/essentials shop (no alcohol or luxuries): easily £200 and probably more. Likely to increase even further with Brexit.
Rest of salary goes on income tax/national insurance, loans, etc, which doesn't leave me much for a rainy day :-/
Ooo wow!! That’s so much for the UK bills breakdown. That is so much !!!
Some things in the UK are cheaper though like mobile contract and internet. But overall it does look like it’s cheaper in Canada xx
@@LouiseWareArmstrong i live in canada too but here is so expensive. Toronto especially. Groceries is soo expensive when england is cheaper. Rent is expensive, telephone bills is 40 cad. I want to move england too in future. How did you love canada ?
Me and my partner are currently considering moving to canada, and buying a house near Quebec! This video helped a lot!
Best of luck on the move! Glad you enjoyed the video 💕
Really interested in how you are getting on in Canada. My husband is a Canadian citizen by descent as his mother was born in Toronto. We are both from and live in Northern Ireland but are really interested in moving to Canada in the next couple of years. We have visited my family there and would be looking to move close to them although where they are - near blue mountains seems to be quite expensive.
Blue mountain looks beautiful though!!
There are comments from UK citizens interested in Canada (either for travel or to emigrate). As a Canadian I sense many are from urban backgrounds (comments on public transit, etc). How much of your 'culture shock' is international? How much is smaller centres?
I would guess as a rural Canadian, I would be more comfortable in rural UK than in urban Canada.
Just found your channel I'm looking to move to Regina or saskatoon! So cheap
I live in st Catharines and was looking to find young vloggers who also are immigrants and live here 😂 I am glad I landed on your channel! Now I feel like me and my husband aren't the only young folks in this town where everyone else seems to have lots of babies and huge families in general! Nice to meet you 🙏
Awww thankyou for such a lovely message :) for sure reach out on instagram and drop me a message if you want friends :)
I know the winters must be freezing, but what are the summers like in Canada? Is it nice and hot/warm or is it still cold? Also, congrats on moving. I am hoping to make the same journey soon :)
We havnt been here in summer yet but its all ready started to get warm!! Apparently it gets super hot so I'm excited!! Xx
Ontario in the summer is like the tropics, very hot and VERY humid. These happen 4-5 times a summer and last 3-5 days. rest of the time it's very nice , but quite frequent thunderstorms. You have to have a/c there! (We have family in Burlington!)
I was born in St.Catherines (about 25 minutes away from Niagara-on-the-lake) moved to London, UK when I was 8. And I’m 28 now. Considering moving back but super scared lol. New Sub! Keep these vids coming x
Aww thankyou glad your enjoying them! If you want to move back go for it! :) x
'Hydro' is short for Hydro Electric Power. Puzzled me too when I first got here. Funny thing was, when I asked what it meant, many had no idea!
I know loads of people thought it was water as well!! Haha
I’m moving to Canada next year from the UK. I’m moving to be with my husband though. Super glad I found your channel #A new subscriber
Welcome!! thankyou for watching!
Omg I'm going through / starting the process of Direct Entry it's so overwhelming 😄 🤣 😂
London/Essex is very expensive your rent wouldn’t even cover a 1 bedroom flat that’s more like a room to rent! Your rent is very decent!
I know when I lived in London was crazy prices!!
My phone bill in the uk is 52 pounds per month, that is for unlimited texts and calls, and 20gb of data per month (loads, I use it all the time and never get close to the limit) so the Canadian prices seem alright to be honest.
Then again I do get an S10 with it and the contract was 3-4 months after the phones release.
If you want to add a phone to your plan your talking way over £80 a month it’s super expensive 🙈😂
Is there those credit ee things from Tesco’s u can buy for ur phone or do u have to pay contract ?
Pre paid sims are expensive best thing we found is rolling contract
Hi Louise absolutely enjoy and value the information you share which we are using to figure out our move God's willing in July, and we want to move to st catharine as well, so can you tell me where this apt building is or information to contact them plz thanks
Which city is better to live Toronto or London? I wanna move to one of those cities but it's hard to choose
Ive always wanted to move there off the videos ive seen im a truck driver and apparently that's a job in demand there so really considering it 🤔
Yes they are always look for truck drivers!
Plus if you do long-haul trucking you can get to see the country plus possibly the US depending on your route. Just a reminder though that when I say long-haul I do mean lonnngg!!
Is it better to buy a house or an apartment in canada?
I am currently in the process of filming a cost of living in a house, then I will compare the 2. We actually pay around the same price for our 4 bedroom house to our apartment. Because apartments have extra prices such as parking, washing etc. Video coming soon!:)
I now live in Canada and spend a year in the uk, and I do think the food cost and in general living cost, is way too high based on the low salary in both countries… car insurance and phone bills are insane in Canada … I’ll be moving to Sweden Norway Germany or Switzerland
Recently the food prices have gone up so much!
Amazing Video, as the days go by, i'm getting more annoyed of life in the UK and the more I want to make the move to Canada.
Glad you enjoyed the video! Moving to Canada was the best thing I have ever done, I love it :)
How did yous decided on which part of Canada yous wanted to live ? Am looking at doing a two years visa but not sure how or what area to pick ? Ps find your video very helpful x
I feel like I need to make a video on this as so many people ask this question :) so I will plan something soon! xx
Hi! Hope you still monitor this page! What kind of work do you both do! I’m 34 and my other half is 35 he’s an accountant and I work for a local council in tourism. We would love to move to coquitlam. We own a house here so would have money to buy a house.. (I know they’re expensive but we have land too etc)!
How do you go about applying for a visa or work there? Can you help us with the first steps we need to take..? I’ll check out your other videos in the meantime!
Hey hun just wondering did you have a job ready for when you moved there or did you just find one when you moved there xx
I found a job once I landed in Canada about 5 days in .. but I believe you now have to have a job before landing in Canada to activate your visa xx
So lovely video^^ good luck in canada ~~
Thank you! 😃
My sister has a one room apartment and it’s all in one room (except bathroom) and pays £1000 per month and she lives in outer London
O WoW, that sounds expensive xx
Very interesting video and got me go through the rest of the videos and subscribed too lol, i can't wait to get out of London 😩😊
aww thankyou so much! Glad you enjoyed the video :)
@@LouiseWareArmstrong i just forwarded your video to my misuus lol and we are looking to migrate as family of 4 and still debating on options like PR or other etc 😁 thanks again for putting out your personal experience 👍🏾
I'm kind of open to moving to Montreal from Birmingham UK, I think it's definitely a giant jump out of my comfort zone but I'm considering it.
If I may ask, how easy/expensive was getting a work visa?
I hope you're ready for summer and winter, two very different things super cold or super hot.
Hello, are you planning to live in Canada after your visa ends?
Only if we can get the visa too stay :)
Hi Louise 😊 I think you have mentioned this in one of your videos but what happens with credit checks for renting apartments? Do you have no credit score once you get over there x
Hey so you won't have a credit score when you first get here. So we had to take a picture of our bank balance to show we had enough money to pay at least 3 months rent x
I’ve watched your videos but please can you tell me the best website??
Sites are trying to charge me £££ and you’ve said the application process is free.
just apply on the canada.ca website its free to fill out application
Is your phone bill higher in Canada because you have more international calls? (Calling UK)
Unfortunately we can't call the UK on our phone plan but we use WhatsApp cal or Facebook call to speak to family x
Friends and family in the UK rarely phone me here due to the cost. I phone them on our land line and its 5c a minute, 3p?
How much would just WiFi be? I only use Netflix so I don’t need the tv stuff
I’m not 100% sure because I have not looked it up sorry x
@@LouiseWareArmstrong thanks anyway
are you planning to stay in canada as a citizen eventually, cos thats what my plan will be and i want to know what you do about that
Yes that is both of our plans.. They will be a video all about how to do it soon. There's so many different ways to change your visa xz
Looking forward to the video!
The rent is actually decent considering that Canadian apartments are more spacious
I think so too!!xx
Sorry if you've answered this is another video, feel free to redirect me, but what order did you work things out in? So for instance in the UK when i moved from one city to another it was hard to get a job without already having accommodation, and hard to get a job without already having a place to live. So what order did you get your Visa, accommodation, and job all worked out in? I worry that I'd get a Visa and then it would be ages before I could find a job and a place to live! Also the thought of making everything try to come together at the same time stresses me out!
(we want to move to canada next year)
Hi!,
So I do have a few videos such as my information video. I vlogged every day and showed you the order I did things in..
But we stayed in an air BnB while looking at apartments. Once we got our apartment we looked for jobs :)
If we got a job before our own apartment i would have just put the air BnB address down then changed it once i moved.
It is not a stressful process at all! And i am someone who stresses out easy ahhaa. I think the most stressed part was waiting for the visa to come through in the UK. I just hated waiting. As long as I got my visa and moved it was just all so exciting!!
I hope this helps! If you watch me first few vlogs when I moved here you will see me finding an apartment, job, opening a bank account, phone contracts, etc.
Hey from London is Canada really cold in winter or is it bearable?
It's definitely bearable if you wrap up warm and wear jumpers and coats but it is freezing
We live in Canada, but on the West Coast. Our temps year round are similar to Southern England but MUCH drier summers!
Looks like your loving it! 😀
Me and my Husband are considering moving to Canada once I've finished studying. What areas would you recommend moving to? We are a family of 5 x
Hannah Jane Bruce I think it depends what sort of lifestyle you want? Being outdoors all the time ? Do you like city life or country style life style? I love where I live in Ontario because I have the best of both worlds. I’m one hour from the hustle and bustle of city life in Toronto but down the road from me I have all the waterfalls and lakes which is beautiful
@@LouiseWareArmstrong Thank you, the best of both worlds would be perfect! How cold does it get? What are the colder months like? C
Don’t think you can live in a big city like Toronto for these rent prices.
I’m in the process of making a video of the cost of living in Toronto !! A lovely subscriber has offered to give me her monthly outgoings living in Toronto x
what sites are good for apartment hunting?
Facebook Market Place and Kijiji!!! Best by far!!
Louise Ware-Armstrong thanks! Lol ive wanted to move to canada since i was 8 (im almost 19 now) i have a bunch of family there and i also fell in love with the country. Your videos are super helpful and informative. Keep it up :p
I was planning to move to UK but after seeing lot of video about England people moving to Canada I am bit confused? ?? Should i move to Canada or UK? Any suggestion
Don’t come to the U.K.!!! The country is in a big mess especially with coronavirus! We are in a recession too! And London is very expensive. (I was born here)
Don't come to Canada weather is so freezing and high cost of living.
Hey! I'm going to be moving to Toronto soon! How did you find your apartment? A certain website or link? Cheers!!
Facebook marketplace for both our places !!:) best of luck on the move :) xx
@@LouiseWareArmstrong Thank you so much!!
Hey! Do your prices include tax too? X
Yes I've included tax in all those prices :) x
Louise Ware-Armstrong that’s so good! Me and my boyfriend have just moved to Hamilton, I have family here so we’re currently staying with them but we’re looking into getting our own place x
I found out the other day the reason why we pay more then other people in our apartment is because we live on the top floor (which we never got told when we was viewing the place)... You can get a 1 bedroom on a lower floor for about $1,000 :)
Louise Ware-Armstrong oh that’s cool! At least I know what to look out for now! We’re aiming to pay around €1000-€1200 x
How did you go about moving
Applying for a IEC working holiday Visa :) All information is in my first few Canada Videos :)
Love my fellow Canadian girls
Ah my cousin's live there I'm from Brum 👍
No way my partner is from there :)
Where in the UK can you get apartments for £550 a month 😂
This cost of living video was done 3 years ago
@@LouiseWareArmstrong Even for three years ago you would struggle to get them that cheap.
Hence why moving to Canada is so appealing 😁
In scotland you can easy get a flat for 450 even
@@emilyhay8791 Oh yeah, scotland possibly but not in England really.
What’s council houses called in Canada ?
Good question i actually dont know 😂
No such thing! There are low income properties though, but I'm not sure how they work.
What is a council house?
@@lorrainehinchliffe5371 Basic row houses built by the city and available to rent to residents. I think you had to be a resident and live in it yourself. I don't think you had to be poor to get one, like subsidised housing here, and later you could buy them. I left the UK a long time ago so don't know if they still do them.
gelli rhondda thanks.
Very useful video. Thank you!😍
Glad it was helpful!
Broooooooo what?!?! The……. That’s so cheap!!!! In California that’s barely rent for a shitty roach infested apartment
Plus health, dental, vision, car, house insurance (about a thousand a month), gas ($5 a gallon), food (varies but a couple hundred a month, utilities (couple hundred, car payment, school loans….. easily 3k a month needed to live comfortably….bro I’m moving to Canada RIGHT NOW.
California is beautiful though I could only dream to live there!! haha
@@LouiseWareArmstrong yeah I mean it has beautiful parts but I personally don’t think it’s worth it for the cost 😅
I'm getting out of USA to Canada. I hope they let an American in I don't wanna be there
excellent and healthcare wages are good in Canada and it will be easy to convert a UK physio degree to there. excellent there is a way out of this overpriced lowage shi$$ hole plus i can own guns
Hey Louise - Thank you for your video. I am 29 and a recent graduate( LLB Hons and MSc Law Business and Management). Any idea how I go about searching for jobs in Canada?
I don’t know the best way to search for jobs unfortunately but you can go on Facebook jobs then type in a place like Ontario Canada and then job search in that area!xx
Hello miss, thanks for your video. What documents you need to present to landlords and deposits wise please?