Daily Border Crossing (school, live, airport)

[Buffalo31]

I am an American dating a Canadian. We would like to move to St. Catherine's. I want to continue working in Buffalo, so I would need to get a Nexus pass and cross the border on a daily basis. Does anyone else do this? Is it easy? Do you have concerns that the border could shut down in the futrue with further terrorist attacks?

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by Buffalo31

I am an American dating a Canadian. We would like to move to St. Catherine's. I want to continue working in Buffalo, so I would need to get a Nexus pass and cross the border on a daily basis. Does anyone else do this? Is it easy? Do you have concerns that the border could shut down in the futrue with further terrorist attacks?

Sorry, but that one made me grin. Border crossing nowadays is never easy.

Before 9/11, crossing from Ontario to western New York, I was used to spending between 30 seconds to 3 minutes to cross on a normal day, 10-20 minutes on a bad day. Lately 10-30 minutes is the normal, perhaps light. Bad days can easily be up to and over an hour.

Honestly, unless your boss or business partners really like you, I don't think they'd understand you being late half the time.

You could always leave an extra hour each way to cross, but then you'd be losing sleep and/or wasting a whole lot of time.

*I suspect the border could shut down, should another major attack happen. Maybe you could check out a Homeland Security website to find out if that might happen.

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by ColdCanadian

*I suspect the border could shut down, should another major attack happen. Maybe you could check out a Homeland Security website to find out if that might happen.

On 9/11, I thought the roads were going to be shut down next once everyone is dismissed from work early and arrives home. It was odd not having airplanes in the sky for a few days.

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by KerrTown

On 9/11, I thought the roads were going to be shut down next once everyone is dismissed from work early and arrives home. It was odd not having airplanes in the sky for a few days.

Did people in Houston get dismissed from work early during 9/11?

I live almost spitting distance from Canada's biggest airport and a short distance (by plane) from that crash in Pennsylvannia... Pretty scary day for us indeed. I don't think anyone got off work early here. I was in school then, but we were watching CNN and the crazy news story.

[CarolAnn64]

Have her move to the US. Life will be so much easier--and cheaper.