Where do I live?

Submitted by David on Tue, 2006-11-21 14:02

I've been thinking about how I officially don't reside in the place in which I inhabit most of the time and how this might relate to future studies.

If it turns out that I do start a Ph.D. shortly after finishing a master's degree, if I were to stay in Calgary during any intermediate time, then I think that I'd be required to become Albertan. Then just a few months later I would have to officially move to yet another province as, since I would lack an Alberta permanent address, I don't think that I could maintain Alberta residency.

I've also heard that it is possible to maintain BC residency by visiting the province at least once per month. Perhaps this would be a viable option if only for a few months, since I'm not that far from the B.C. border.

Comments

r0sigma

Tue, 2006-11-21 21:51

I think there are special rules for students. While I was in graduate school in BC, my wife and I, and our children born in BC, were considered residents of Ontario (where we moved from) for the purposes of health insurance but not for drivers' license and car registration. One of my colleagues, in the same situation, even claimed Ontario residency for these last two purposes and saved even more money than we did. (Ontario had, and may still does have, free health coverage, and cheaper auto insurance.) Unfortunately, when we moved to the states, we could not retain Canadian residency, which meant expensive health insurance and no coverage for the birth of our third child who was considered a "pre-existing condition" as my wife was already two months pregnant when crosing the border.

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