Live & Work in The USA & Canada, 3rd [Paperback]

Adam Lechmere (Author), Susan Catto (Author), Joshua White (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2002 | Series: Live & Work in the USA & Canada

A detailed survey of the opportunities for living and working in the USA & Canada from New York to Los Angeles and from Montreal to Vancouver.

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From the Back Cover

Live & Work in The USA & Canada provides a detailed survey of the opportunities for living & working in the USA & Canada - from New York to Los Angeles and from Montreal to Vancouver.
Inside Section 1 - Living in the USA & Canada - you will find out how to: secure a residence permit; find your ideal home; obtain a competitive mortgage; deal with surveys & conveyancing; choose a suitable school; open the right bank account; get the best health care; make friends with the natives; organize your retirement abroad; make the most of your leisure time.
In Section II - Working in the USA & Canada - there are full details on: finding suitable employment; submitting the correct documents; skills and trades most in demand; seasonal & temporary work; salaries, hours and holidays; trade unions and contracts; starting/buying your own business; raising the required finance; government incentives; sources of advice and assistance.
This guide contains useful contacts, a regional employment guide, a directory of major employers, and personal case histories.

About the Author

Adam Lechmere's love of travel led to his first book for Vacation Work, The Travellers Survival Kit Oman & the Aabian Gulf. Adam now lives in London with his wife.

As befits a resident of Toronto, Susan Catto has worked on the Canada section of every edition of Live & Work in the USA & Canada.

Joshua White's other books include Taking a Career Break and Live & Work in Spain & Portugal. After working in New York Joshua now lives in London.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Vacation Work Publications; 3rd edition (December 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1854582828
• ISBN-13: 978-1854582829
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,978,593 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #75 in Books > Education & Reference > Foreign Language Nonfiction > More Languages > Turkish

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, February 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Live & Work in the USA and Canada (Living & Working Abroad Guides) (Paperback)

This guide is clear, precise and well-researched. I read it for its content on Canada (written by S. Catto) and admired the crisp, clean prose. The information is presented in a straight-forward manner and quite valuable if you are thinking of making a move to a place where you don't know how everything works. For this purpose, I would highly recommend this book. Instead of going through a wasteful and laborious process of learning things about a new place via trial and error, this book does it efficiently for you.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful, February 4, 2003

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Turinsky (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live & Work in the USA and Canada (Living & Working Abroad Guides) (Paperback)

I was in the process of immigrating to Canada and this book was among the two most helpful ones. The other one was "Culture Shock! Canada". After reading them I had a pretty good idea what Canadian culture is like - things that you won't normally see on CNN. Both books are highly recommended.