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Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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The nhs is great. A model for the rest of the world to follow yet the tories are fighting tooth and nail to dismantle it.

Yep, they spend £600m a year on management consultants to tell them things they already know. Enough to run 8-9 large hospitals. That's public money going to the private sector for no real benefit.

I've gotten a pavlovian response to "good things", where I start imagining it already breaking down.

Like Obamas presidency. For every good he's done or tried to do, all the shit in the world that affects the US (and even things that are not real apparently) gets pinned on him, regardless of cause.

And sure, Obamacare probably has a lot of faults, but is that because of its concept, because of congressional gridlock, or compromises?

I won't argue either way, but it's always sad when something gets dismantled or at least scolded for reasons outside of its grasp.

I don't know enough about NHS to say, but spending £600M/year on management consultants doesn't sound like a healthcare problem.

I'm not religious, but it's the same with Islam being lumped together with extremists, Christianity being lumped in with crusades and westboro baptists and other lunatics, and both republicans and liberals being categorized by a few vocal idiots.

Sometimes you have to try to look objectively at something and the faults alongside it, and try to determine if they are one and the same. Sometimes it's worth fighting to improve something instead of just burning it to the ground, because there's a good chance the new foundation being built is worse than what you destroyed.

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Canada seems appealing to Americans until you realize you could be earning more in the U.S. while spending less on a bunch of other things. Don't get me wrong, I love living in Canada and I mostly don't miss living in Bay Area, but most of my friends lament the fact that their salary and career opportunities are a joke compared to what they could have in the U.S. (even adjusting for cost of living).

Canada would be an odd choice for many reasons, but is probably attractive for the combination of proximity, and cultural/linguistic similarities. For me, I've been looking at Ireland, Denmark, or the Netherlands for a while, and I'd say they're looking far more attractive today than yesterday. Besides, money isn't everything. There is something to be said for not having to deal with the insane evangelicals, bitter u…

Wait till you find out about Ireland's abortion laws! Trump is incredibly liberal on abortion when compared to Ireland's law!

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I think that's incredibly naive. For one thing, moving from France to Germany is a huge cultural and linguistic leap. Moving from the US to Canada is really not.

I recently moved from France to Germany, and the biggest cultural gap so far is that people in here respect traffic lights and using a qwerty keyboard. Otherwise, most people speak English and the lifestyle is similar.

You did not look close enough. French and German culture are very different. How work is done, how meetings are held, being on time, eating, restaurants in general and the food and the drink. Also how friendships work. I'd say french and german culture is one of the most distant in all of (western?) europe.

You have more english speakers in Germany, and the lifestyle is similar, but the lifestyle is similar in all of Europe and even in Europe and USA. But that does not make the culture the same.

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I recently moved from France to Germany, and the biggest cultural gap so far is that people in here respect traffic lights and using a qwerty keyboard. Otherwise, most people speak English and the lifestyle is similar.

Don't they use QWERTZ keyboards?

It's fairly easy to order a US or British keyboard in most of Europe, for no additional cost.

We'll buy whatever layout new staff want, but we keep spares of these two around.

(British gives the European physical layout with the additional key and double height enter key.)

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Canada would be an odd choice for many reasons, but is probably attractive for the combination of proximity, and cultural/linguistic similarities. For me, I've been looking at Ireland, Denmark, or the Netherlands for a while, and I'd say they're looking far more attractive today than yesterday. Besides, money isn't everything. There is something to be said for not having to deal with the insane evangelicals, bitter u…

Just forget Europe. It's ridden with socialists and laws slowing business to a halt. Add a failing currency to that cocktail and you have a failing economy. Of the whole of Europe, only Switzerland is somewhat attractive.

> Just forget Europe.

It is hard to take somebody serious who lumps together all countries from Europe. May I ask in which one you live?

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Corp tax in Ontario is 15% and free health care. Dev pay also comparable. Come over :)

What's the average tech salary for a 5 years+ experienced programmer (ruby, golang, etc)?

80-90k, my first job out of school was ~75k.

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I have a hard time believing you after Trump said that he would get someone to repeal Roe V Wade and now he has the house and senate to do it.

Congress, and 3 Supreme Court justices... it's going to be a bloodbath on civil liberties.

It depends which civil liberties, gun rights will hopefully be less threatened than with liberal SCOTUS.

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The major tech centers in Canada have major housing price issues. The housing to salary ratio in Vancouver and Toronto are terrifying.

Montreal's housing is comically affordable compared to most cities on the east and west coasts.

Everything is on par with or cheaper, East of Montreal.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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I recently moved from France to Germany, and the biggest cultural gap so far is that people in here respect traffic lights and using a qwerty keyboard. Otherwise, most people speak English and the lifestyle is similar.

Don't they use QWERTZ keyboards?

Yes :)

Having lived in France I'd say switching from the French keyboard to most other western layouts is especially brutal (or making the switch in the other direction). Took me a good while to readjust to the numbers being on shift and the special characters being the default. Very brutal for passwords :D

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