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Our 5-Year Plan To Leave Canada
In my previous blog titled Why We Decided To Leave Canada. I mentioned that when I woke up on May 1st, 2018. I made the decision to go after my dream life. Sadly this entailed leaving Canada.
On that day. I started to put together a 5-year plan to make my dream come true. This dream lifestyle of mine consisted of living in a beachside community where it’s warm all year round. When I started this plan. I literally had no idea where I wanted to go. All I knew was I didn’t want to experience the cold winter months of Canada, ever again.
At that point in time, I had only traveled to Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and The Bahamas, and I loved all three places, but I had only really experienced the all-inclusive resort lifestyle and not the everyday living lifestyle that I would be experiencing.
The first thing I did was create a list of exactly what I wanted when it came to what I was looking for in relation to where I would relocate to. Turned out this list consisted of only 3 items, a beach, the ocean, and warm weather year-round.
Over the next following weeks, I worked on creating a list to include things I needed to research. The list had grown to include the following, in no particular order:
- Research the immigration requirements
- Find out about my pension status…