Five Things You'll Miss After Coming to Canada

Leaving your home country is not an easy task. Moving to a new place, leaving friends, leaving parents, everything requires a lot of mental strength. Your first couple of weeks in Canada would no doubt be a great "Honeymoon Period". You will enjoy going to new places, trying new food items, meeting new people, etc. But as you start to realize that you'll have to spend the next couple of years here to settle, that's when the homesickness feeling kick in. Below are five things you'll miss the most after moving to Canada:

1. Street Food / Spicy Food: Keep in mind this one thing guys. No matter wherever you go, there is no substitute for Indian food. You'll never find the varieties, the Indian spices anywhere else. Of course, you'll find many Indian food stores who sell all kinds of Indian groceries but the taste will always be missed. In India, you can go out at 2:00 am and still find street food somewhere at the road corner. Plenty of different breakfast items can be seen on street food stalls from early morning. Finding this many varieties and easily available cheap delicious food is something you'll miss a lot. 

2. City nightlife: In India, just as we discussed, you can go out late at night, roam in the city, and enjoy some good nightlife. Cities in Canada, on the other hand, has some great pubs, bars, and clubs which are open till late at night but that is all you have. Winters are the worst and you won't feel like going out at all. Life here will keep you very busy. The travel time will be a lot if you don't have your own car. So, you'll probably spend your weekdays going job and relaxing after coming back home. You will find yourself waiting for Fridays and Saturdays to go out and party with friends. And if you are not a club/bar person, then enjoy your weekends reading a good book in a cafe. 

3. Weddings, family functions, and friends reunions: While you are in Canada managing your studies, part-time job, full-time job, your immigration, you'll see your friends in India getting engaged, getting married, some of your old school friends or college friends will be arranging reunions and you'll find yourself missing everything. You'll also miss the family functions and all the great festival celebrations. This is the hardest thing to deal with as we are very close to friends and family and love to celebrate occasions from childhood. Nevertheless, just keep in mind that struggle is going to pay you back someday. The more you start to adapt to Canadian culture and life, the more you'll find yourself less affected with homesickness. 

4. Playing games and sports with friends: Life in Canada will keep you very busy. You'll hardly get time to do any other activity apart from the job on weekdays. Many people in India go out in the night to play volleyball, badminton or just to roam the city with friends. You will miss all this free time you get. Summers are good and the sun sets usually after 8:30 pm. But winter is bad. Very bad. You won't feel like going out in the chilly weather, the sun sets very early (around 5:30 pm) and you are always with layers.

5. Ease of finding labour and things: Labour is very expensive in Canada. If you want to fix your furniture, if you have any plumbing issue, if any of your electrical equipment is not working and you don't know how to fix it, then be ready to spend a good amount on the labour. As a matter of fact, people who work in trade jobs (carpenter, plumber, electrician, etc) make very good amount compared to other service jobs. In developing countries (especially India) you can find cheap, affordable fix to these kinds of issues. You can get a service for as expensive as 10,000 bucks and from any other local store, you can get the same thing for 500 too. While in Canada, most of the things are standardized.

Hope this article helped you to get some good information about Canada and what it is going to offer you. Of course, there are lots of challenges and struggles but once you start to adapt yourself to the Canadian culture, you'll enjoy.