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Completed 13 years in Canada
• Completed 13 years in Canada, we (husband & wife and four small daughters) landed in April, 2001
• Came with $30,000, with the foremost thought that Canada will give a better life to my daughters
• Leading quite an extravagant life. Partying regularly, Eating out, Drinking, Watching Canuck and Whitecaps game live, Watching movies regularly $11 per movie in Cineplex, Hiking, Camping, Swim lessons, Whistler trips, Regular Holidays, Avid Badminton player. Not being a miser at all.
• Buying designer clothes and footwear for my girls. They hate shopping at Walmart, not being a miser at all.
• Became a citizen of Canada
• Did not acquire any silver hair or baldness.
• No eye glasses or any illness (touch wood)
• Bought a huge lot in Surrey, BC at throwaway price during the depreciating times of 2009. Then designed and built a house on this lot with help from wife and daughters. The house now worth more than $1.5m at current BC prices
• Have two new cars and one old car
• Kind of achieved what we needed for our four daughters. Number 1 – Completing her PhD in Genetics at UBC. Number 2 is a Lawyer. Number 3 doing Medicine. Number 4 is in Grade 11 planning to become an Architect.
• Still believe there is no place on this earth which would have given the top most professional education as to what my daughters gained here in Canada
• Travelling every year to all the exotic places of the world
• But overall still finding something is amiss. Still feel like Tourist in this country. That is why the screen name is Tourist.

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Fido.

Congratulations.
Biggest achievements are your assistance to help your daughters launch their careers and have lived satisfying life and more than all you got all the memories built up.

BTW, 30K in 2001 is really something big then. It would have added a great help in buying the first property, establish mobility, education and more than all the backup it gave.

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Originally posted by Tourist

Completed 13 years in Canada
• Completed 13 years in Canada, we (husband & wife and four small daughters) landed in April, 2001
• Came with $30,000, with the foremost thought that Canada will give a better life to my daughters
• Leading quite an extravagant life. Partying regularly, Eating out, Drinking, Watching Canuck and Whitecaps game live, Watching movies regularly $11 per movie in Cineplex, Hiking, Camping, Swim lessons, Whistler trips, Regular Holidays, Avid Badminton player. Not being a miser at all.
• Buying designer clothes and footwear for my girls. They hate shopping at Walmart, not being a miser at all.
• Became a citizen of Canada
• Did not acquire any silver hair or baldness.
• No eye glasses or any illness (touch wood)
• Bought a huge lot in Surrey, BC at throwaway price during the depreciating times of 2009. Then designed and built a house on this lot with help from wife and daughters. The house now worth more than $1.5m at current BC prices
• Have two new cars and one old car
• Kind of achieved what we needed for our four daughters. Number 1 – Completing her PhD in Genetics at UBC. Number 2 is a Lawyer. Number 3 doing Medicine. Number 4 is in Grade 11 planning to become an Architect.
• Still believe there is no place on this earth which would have given the top most professional education as to what my daughters gained here in Canada
• Travelling every year to all the exotic places of the world
• But overall still finding something is amiss. Still feel like Tourist in this country. That is why the screen name is Tourist.

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The cowards never started,
The weak died on the way,
Only the strong arrived.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yK1i9cLAMM

30000$ in 2001 & the amount of dedication, hard work you did in Canada. The same effort in India would have put you a lot ahead of where you are now

I like the comments made by Fido. Thanks

I like the comments made by Fido. Thanks

Thank you to all. Sorry to reply later as BC time is different.

@Fido. If I start on all the parental guidance and the key points which played part in daughters education, I will have to write a complete book. All has not been rosy there are ups and downs and that is what makes life so interesting. I can only mention a few key factors :
- I think the number one factor has to be the land of opportunities: CANADA. We came in at the right time to the right country. If the kids are bright and intelligent the opportunities are galore. My number 3 did not have to pay much for her education, there were numerous grants awarded to her as having top results in high school and undergraduate studies. The other two had to take out the BC student loan but this was very easy to obtain. Returning this loan is now so easy as both of them are now professionals. For Phd studies you get a stipend, which is quite ok.
- My wife, she is a strict disciplinarian and detail oriented. Started very early with the babies. One example: showing them how to hold a pencil correctly. Half the population here in Canada do not hold the pen the way it should be held. The younger generation are even worse so much used to texting. Cannot write properly.
- The Desi Evening Chai Time, one of the most important time in our houshold where each person has to narrate how the day went by and how to tackle the next day. Major decisions are made during this Chai Time. My philosophy: All family have to be present at this evening chai time. You drink Tea and you keep on communicating and communicating.
These are just some key points but there are many more. By the way in 2001 we emigrated from UK and not India and in UK the $30,000 which was 15,000 sterling pounds at that time was plain peanuts.
Hope this helps.

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- My wife, she is a strict disciplinarian and detail oriented. Started very early with the babies. One example: showing them how to hold a pencil correctly. Half the population here in Canada do not hold the pen the way it should be held. The younger generation are even worse so much used to texting. Cannot write properly.
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