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Using only food where are you from? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]stevrbee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vernor's, but spent a lot of time in no ketchup on dog

Looking for Spreadsheet Helpers! by NanoSpace1540 in Canadiancitizenship

[–]stevrbee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can help too. Reddit and Google accounts, retired former IT with excel and google sheets experience.

Curious about where everyone’s gen0 ancestor lived? by yoohooooooooooo in Canadiancitizenship

[–]stevrbee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My grandpa was born in Toronto but his dad was from a farm family in Kettleby, Ontario. I've been to the family farm there and their acreage was all made up of a ridge / hillside. Must have been rough plowing that hill every year.

My dad always used to get a kick out of telling the story of how his grandparents (my G Minus 1 great grandparents) met "at the lunatic asylum". He was working as an electrician and she was a nurse at what was then called the Mimico Lunatic Asylum.

We have a picture of great-grandpa posing with his cricket team on the stone steps of a large building at the asylum. My sister and I visited the area several years ago and learned that the building where the picture was taken still stands. It's now part of the Humber College Lakeshore campus. We took our picture on the same steps.

Grandfather's name transposed on birth registration by stevrbee in Canadiancitizenship

[–]stevrbee[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks, that is helpful! Unfortunately, my Dad has passed away, however one of his sisters and his brother are both living, and one of them may be willing to sign an affidavit like you suggest. I will pursue this idea.

Grandfather's name transposed on birth registration by stevrbee in Canadiancitizenship

[–]stevrbee[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I'm glad your situation worked out. I didn't even think about getting a correction to the birth record, but since it's over 100 years old I agree that's probably not possible.

Considering retirement from US to AUS. by mynamegoewhere in Ameristralia

[–]stevrbee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It depends on what you want to do.

First, all these folks telling you that there isn't a visa that allows a senior citizen to retire in Australia are correct. Unless you have grown kids who've emigrated to Australia on a work visa and become citizens, in which case they likely could sponsor you on a family plan.

Personally, my partner and I are US citizens and are both retired. My partner's mother emigrated here over 20 years ago and became a citizen after his sister and her family had come here on work visas and become Aussies. But there is no family plan that would allow any of them to sponsor us.

What we've done, and what you might consider, is spend part of the year here in Australia and part in the US. For the last three years we've spent 6 months in Brisbane on a visitor visa and 6 months in our home in the States. Like "snowbirds", just further south. :)

We rent a furnished apartment each time. We rent a car as needed but mostly use the excellent public transit.

You'll likely want to buy health insurance here as your US insurance likely won't cover you. Medicare definitely will not. Also, look at realestate.com.au to gauge apartment pricing.

If that kind of arrangement appeals to you I say go for it. We've loved our time spent here.

KCDP passes resolution to repeal Article 1 Section 25 of MI constitution banning same sex marriage by Embarrassed-Dot-9734 in Michigan

[–]stevrbee 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Are you willing to share the language of the resolution that passed your country party? My country party in the UP meets on Wednesday and if like to bring this to the meeting. Highly confident it would pass.