Originally Posted by Getting There

A little late to be doing this as we have been posting here for a while, so apologies.

We are Eamonn and Janet. We moved to Okotoks, Alberta from the UK in 2007, after a near 3 year wait for our Permanent Residence visas. In the UK, Eamonn, a north londoner or Irish parentage, worked for BT for 18 years, before which, he managed a Ratners Jewellers store (remember them!) Janet, a Lancastrain by birth, was a Management Assistant at Shell. Our last 7 years in the UK were in St Albans, Herts.

In moving here, we decided late on that, "if we're going to change our lives, let's really go for it", so we both junked our corporate careers and the hideous commuting that went with it, decided that money wasn't everything, and Janet took a job as an Office Manager in a real estate office in High River. Her former 75 minute, multi-faceted "journey from hell" from St Albans to central London, is now a 23 minute, mountain lined drive, where, at the office, she regularly reports that she hasn't laughed so much at work in years. Eamonn took time out to retrain to be a Realtor and Relocation Specialist and is now associated with the same office as Janet. Our route, in the sense of abandoning what we knew, was and is quite high risk but so far at least, for both of us, it is proving to be intensely satisfying on a personal and professional level.

Best wishes to all those still making their way across.

Kind regards,

Eamonn & Janet.