Calling all Canadians~!

uh, play live poker?

a) student visa

b) work permit

c) legit immigration

ur gna need, like, paperwork and shit, the general concept is to get in here legal by sum means.

or you can juss get here however and then use whoever for whatever, i'm sure u can figure this part out, thing is, he should want a cut and u even make enuff?

u really should know better than to post about it

The idea is to try and create a network of other players trying to do the same thing as I am.

Obviously I"m going to do my own due diligence work and figure this shit out. But wouldn't hurt to have someone actually LIVING in Canada to give me some real tips as well.

also: playing live poker isn't my idea of a good living. Casinos are full of miserable degens, losers, scumbags. People who are having a legit good time there are the minority. I know wouldn't thrive very well in that kind of environment been there done that.

In terms of making enough...well i used to. That's what I'm trying to get back.

lots of respectable winning regs here at LP are canadian, this would be a great place to ask for info . gl

good post all canadians please respond;

got a friend from france living here.. he doenst have a citizenship yet and he opened banka ccont long time ago
i asked him he say he didnt need much
as far as he remember he just needed a proof that he live in canada...so he brang(bring? w/e) a bill for the phone
with his name/adress in quebec

duno if it helps ;op

i live in quebec so i have no idea about vancouver
feel free to ask more questions if u have to ill be happy to help as much as i can

Renting an apartment was a real pain the ass for me (and I'm a Canadian citizen). I don't know how it is for other countries but I found it pretty troublesome and a little bit invasive.

They needed
a) know how much I had in my bank account
b) credit rating
c) proof of income
d) personal references (holy fuck they actually called them too)

Its like dude... it's a crappy $1000/month apartment. You'd think I was renting a $15k/month penthouse with the all the info they needed out of me.

On April 16 2011 22:58 dazed wrote: Renting an apartment was a real pain the ass for me (and I'm a Canadian citizen). I don't know how it is for other countries but I found it pretty troublesome and a little bit invasive. They needed a) know how much I had in my bank account b) credit rating c) proof of income d) personal references (holy fuck they actually called them too) Its like dude... it's a crappy $1000/month apartment. You'd think I was renting a $15k/month penthouse with the all the info they needed out of me.

lol 1k/ month appartment... you wont really find something that cost more than that.... and 1k a month is huge dude wtf

about an appartment you can give somes months ahead and most people are gona be happy
if not give them 12

canada rent tends to be a little invasive.. when my mum rented she needed proof of employment... might have to get a part time job or something.

i live in victoria in vancouver island, iv also lived in kitchener ontario for 7 years and vancouver for 4 years.

feel free to ask me shit, though i dont have a masters in tourism or immigration or anything

On April 16 2011 23:05 HeRoS)eNGagE wrote: Show nested quote + On April 16 2011 22:58 dazed wrote: Renting an apartment was a real pain the ass for me (and I'm a Canadian citizen). I don't know how it is for other countries but I found it pretty troublesome and a little bit invasive. They needed a) know how much I had in my bank account b) credit rating c) proof of income d) personal references (holy fuck they actually called them too) Its like dude... it's a crappy $1000/month apartment. You'd think I was renting a $15k/month penthouse with the all the info they needed out of me. lol 1k/ month appartment... you wont really find something that cost more than that.... and 1k a month is huge dude wtf about an appartment you can give somes months ahead and most people are gona be happy if not give them 12

Most 1BR apartments in the heart of downtown TO is like 1.5k-2k/month. Maybe TO is just more expensive than other cities in Canada? I swear anything less than 1k is just a shoebox bachelors.

you can get a room in victoria for 300 a month lol fuck big cities

What is the fastest way for me to get a work permit in Canada?

seems like I'll need one with the research i've done so far. US citizens are allowed to stay 6 months in canada by default.

The problem is I'll probably be needing to to back and forth between US/Canada quite often because of my business venture here in the US.

But ya work permit is #1

2nd would be is there any kind of Canadian Craig's list ads (aka an online public classified forums) that's really popular and is used often to post local apartment sublets/rents available and other items and the like.

pad mapper is the nuts. Its all the craig's list and kijiji rental ads placed onto google map

Also, what would be the avg cost of an apartment per month for say a 2-4 bedroom apt?

My advice to anyone who wants to move to Canada because of all this bullshit is this:

- get a part time job in Victoria, BC (Victoria cause that's where I live therefor what I know) It could be any other small, non-shitty town.
- get a room for 300-600 bucks a month
- live cheap
- play poker
- get your money right
- quit job and find a way to stay there

This is assuming you don't have much money to start with cause you got fucked.

It would be really easy to rent a really cheap poker house with like 3 other people, just choose a good place.

well I def won't do part time job in Canada, would be a waste of time. I have ways of squiring the necessary funds to get me moved/settled down then providing myself a suitable roll for low/midstakes

How's the weed in Victoria? ;D

and If i would to hit up Vancouver would the rent costs be that much of a difference? I really wouldn't mind splitting 800-1200 a month 2 ways. or something even more expensive 2 ways/3 ways.

Marry a Canadian citizen. Loads of Koreans here, though I dunno how many are on student visas themselves though. I'm sure someone will collaborate with you for a token amount of kimchi or money.

lol that's actually a good idea

Same sex marriage is legal here fwiw. Loads of busto Canadians on LP too.

weed is obv great in bc..

with that kind of money its totally possible to live in vancouver... rains a LOT though..

fyi victoria is like a two hour ferry away from vancouver

im not selling it though, go to vancouver if you want to, downtown can be really convenient. the skytrain is amazing.

as long as you can get visa you're golden, and i dont know anything about that

i also know nothing about canadas gambling taxes, so look into that..

YomeR hyung, come visit Ontario sometime!

Ottawa is baller, not for poker but living it is good. What else to add? hmm nothing really. It should be a fuckton easier to come here than it is to go to USA. landlords can ask lots of questions, but you don't have to answer any of them. Some big rental complexes or renting from big companies like CVL will ask way too much and even do police criminal record checks. Find spots to rent that are from tiny landlords or a condo from a single landlord. Can find that shizzle through realty brokers or kijiji/craigslist.

nice thanks for the responses guys. Maybe once i get settled down in vancouver i'll go do some kinda tour of Canada and maybe we can set up some kinda canada LP meet up ;D

ship me 5k and ill marry you

i will marry you sam....for what it's worth

On April 17 2011 00:01 gawdawaful wrote: Marry a Canadian citizen. Loads of Koreans here, though I dunno how many are on student visas themselves though. I'm sure someone will collaborate with you for a token amount of kimchi or money.

On April 17 2011 00:11 gawdawaful wrote: Same sex marriage is legal here fwiw. Loads of busto Canadians on LP too.

This poker crisis keeps getting weirder and weirder lol

i dont know how the work permit rules differ to us citizens, but for the students i have talked to more recently from places like india, china, etc the deal is that you or a spouse has to be studying here, and in general if you are single if you study longer, you get a longer work permit.

as for non students, i read about immigrating as a skilled laborer, but that obv doesnt apply to you, is there a third option? im not even sure. i assume there might be different rules for us citizens that i havent really looked into, and obviously since my only exposure is to students, this probably doesnt help at all. but studying while doing whatever you're doing probably isnt the worst option if it comes down to it.

haha you could take a single easy course at a community college or something...maybe

It pisses me off that you have to move to another country because of some retarded policy.

I just started laughing at the thought of "instead of mexicans illegally sneaking into america... now we will have americans illegally sneaking into canada."

On April 17 2011 14:13 ShaperofDreams wrote: haha you could take a single easy course at a community college or something...maybe

This should be doable (probably more along the lines of 3 classes), lots of chinese/japanese/korean kids at the local CC on student visas, not giving a shit.
Take some level 1 Korean class + some retarded marketing class + idk and you're good to go.

Vancouver is a beautiful city but very expensive to live in. Pretty sure its the most expensive to live in out of all the major cities in Canada. Amazing kush in BC tho. lol.

On April 17 2011 22:58 The M Show wrote: Vancouver is a beautiful city but very expensive to live in. Pretty sure its the most expensive to live in out of all the major cities in Canada. Amazing kush in BC tho. lol.

this post makes me really happy.

Update: made a blog about this shit, I did some internet research.

something that might interest you is that you might not even need a student visa, check it out on my blog.