I am planing to restructure the website sections and interface for a better visitors experience. The website is meant to help new immigrants and ease their life (those who are preparing to leave and those who arrived)
I know the website is very sad now so if you have some minutes, text me on rabab@roubydo.com, your comments will be very useful for me.
Check the weather forecast: There is something important, it will be wise to look for the weather before you leave home from http://www.theweathernetwork.com/ . Note that there are “Temp” and “Feels like”.
Feels like is the one to consider as it is the real temp. that you feel after the effect of wind.
Put lotion on your hands and your face:
Lotion is not an option, It is for men and women. It gives some protection for the skin.
Any moisturizing cream will be good. If your skin is sensitive, then go for “Olay”
Those are the first things you need to buy after you rent an appartment:
1- A Mattress to sleep on
There are standard dimensions for Mattresses, Twin : 39 x 76 inches ( 99.1 x 193 cm)
Twin X-Long : 39 x 80 inches (99.1 x 203.2 cm) Full : 54 x 75 inches (137.2 x 190.5 cm) Queen : 60 x 80 inches (152.4 x 203.2 cm) King : 78 x 80 inches (198.1 x 203.2 cm)
Cal-King : 72 x 84 inches (182.9 x 213.4 cm)
If you are single, living in a 1 1/2 apartment, I recommend you to not get king or queen because they take too much space and will make you feel the place too small.
2- Eating stuff, spoon, plates…
These things you can get from Dollarama
3- Kitchen stuff, table and a chaire
Get them from canadian tire / wallmart
If you want to travel within Canada or to the States, check ticket prices on ticketpilot.ca. This website has a big database. When you search for a flights It gives you a comparison between different airlines and prices
Reduce your ticket price:
When you apply for a visa card, consider RBC Avion Visa Card. This visa card gives you reward points that allow you to fly with less price. It is divided into sectors, for example if you want to fly to one of the provincies arround you, you have to collect 30,000 points. When you save these points, you call RBC and ask them to reserve you a ticket to one of the provincies arround you. You pay the taxes. If your are missing points you can buy them.
Compare prices of train and bus
The train is more comfortable that the bus. Subscribe in the mailing list of http://www.viarail.ca/en. They do promotions from time to time and then you can get a train ticket with price less than the bus.
How to deal with your landlord:
Not all landlords are good people so you really need to know your rights and your duties.
These are models of notices that you can receive from your landlord and how to reply to them and the notices of the tenant, that you may need one day. http://www.rdl.gouv.qc.ca/en/avis/avisproprio.asp
December 10th, 2009 by 
RubyDo 
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