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十年前举家移民加拿大，适逢911以及北美平均十年一个周期的经济危机低谷期，大环境之艰难不光是当时踌躇满志的我大大出乎意料，也不光是国内的朋友难以想象，就是说给后几年形势好了一些时移民过来的朋友听他们都难以置信！ IT工作的offer？不要说自己周围的人中没有听说过，几乎就没有在任何的报道或大家的传说中听说过！已经有工作的都担心自己是下一批被集体裁员的目标，哪里还有新员工进来！能相信吗？后几年年景好些后有些水平较高、运气较好的朋友一来几个月就找到工作，说给他们听都根本不信！再后来听很多当时的人都这么说，才像听旧社会的事情一样似懂非懂地相信了。

“We are fighters,” she says of herself and her husband, Mike. “You try to think that nothing is going to bring you down. As immigrants, we feel it’s a privilege to be here and we want to prove we can make it.”

“When we moved into the house and our furniture and personal belongings arrived, we opened up an antique trunk with all our family photos,” she says. “As we looked through the family albums, I felt as though we had just made a big and irreversible mistake and we cried about it. We were facing an ocean of uncertainty.”