We've Found A Place To Live
We've found our new home after 6 days of searching, yesterday we signed on a years lease for a 2 bedroom apartment with it's own laundry and gym facilities. I'm glad we have it for a year as this means we can't get turfed out before the winter olympics in February! We also have the option of upgrading or downgrading after the first 6 months, which may be quite handy too. Our new home is in Collingwood Village (the place I mentioned before) 5 minutes from the Joyce Skytrain station. We had agreed to take the place on Thursday but we didn't say anything until things were signed and sealed and the deposit was paid which we did yesterday morning. It seems like a nice place to live and hopefully it will all work out well for us, it will be quick for me to get the train downtown (15 minutes) and about a 25 minute drive for Lou to get to work (going against the majority of traffic). There are lots of little shops nearby too and also a good café literally just up the road. We don't move in until next Friday, in the meantime we have started to buy a few items that we'll need, but nothing too major as there's only so much we can fit into our hotel room!
In the afternoon we also signed up for our Canadian bank accounts. The process was a little different from the UK, we had a sit down appointment which lasted way over an hour whilst they discussed all the options available to us. At the end of the appointment we even got introduced to the bank manager (never done that before in the UK) and we even got the ATM cards printed, embossed and activated for us at the same time. There was no need to wait for the cards to come in the post (which I thought was standard worldwide) and we could use them instantly, that really impressed us and was totally unexpected. Today we are having another relaxing day after we've visited a couple of shops to price up furniture etc, we don't want this new lifestyle to be all hard work y'know ;-)
