I live in Nova Scotia Canada and will can answer these questions for you. Now to the questions: 1) Which town should we head for? Criterias: English as 1:st language, there are soccer teams for my sons to play in (8, 13 years old). > Yes there are socceer programs everywhere in Canada. Some of us like hot temperatures at summertime and cold sunny > -10 degrees wintertime. > yes, that is Canada's range off temperatures. 20-30 degrees celcius in summer and (0-20) below in the winter with an average of 0. We like skiing both downhill and cross country (ok, I like both, rest if the family just downhill ) > Western Canada has some of the most spectacular skiiing in the world. We have skiiing on the east cost but its laughable next to the west. There must be good natural bathing with warm water > 18 degrees). > Out West Maybe. We want to travel mostly by bike to school or work. Oh, what a list of demands! > No problem. Can do that anywhere you wish. We have a lot of land however so you'll have to do that math on travel time. 2) Working? How is the market for DBA:s / SQL Server programmers? Good! Especially now. Should have no problem. My wife is occupational therapist, but maybee she could do something different just for fun halftime or so. > Should have no problem. 3) Get paid? What about the wages for senior developers/DBA:s > Salary - 40,000 (a living) to 100,000 (nice) 4) Administration, papers, permissions, formalia and... and so on. What do we need Dunno really. Go to http://canada.gc.ca/ and snoop around. One more thing. East coast is a very friendly place to live. The west is nice but not quite as friendly. Culture is nice everywhere though and we have won "Best Country to live in" 4 years in a row. ;-) Come on over.:-D

Bill Jennings