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Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by nkoren »

hueving wrote: post #269
nkoren wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I grew up and lived most of my life in America, then emigrated to a country with universal healthcare (the UK). When I developed a life-threatening condition which my US insurance would never have covered, the National Health Service saved my life. These things don't matter until they really, really, really do. Having seen the grass on both sides of the fence, I can attest that it really can be meaningfully greener.

What life threatening condition did you have that isn't covered by insurance?

Long-term back pain that counted as a pre-existing condition for every insurance package I had, on the rare occasions when I could afford to be insured. That eventually degenerated into a couple of prolapsed disc that cut off the nerves to may legs, resulting in constant pain (the kind that leaves you screaming and writhing without a constant morphine drip) and making it impossible to walk, sit up, or go to the bathroom unaided. While not technically a life-threatening condition, my quality of life was low enough that I certainly would have committed suicide had it persisted indefinitely.

In the US, as I say, this would not have been covered by my insurance, and would have cost around $50,000 to fix. Completely infeasible for me to find that amount of money. The NHS did an excellent job of fixing it for free.

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Post by middleclick »

joeclark77 wrote: post #317

The snarky reply to the "moving to Canada" thing is: why don't all these California liberals want move to Mexico? It's closer, isn't it?

It's pretty clear what you are insinuating, but Canada is more culturally similar to the US, and not Mexico. Also not to forget I have to learn Spanish.

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Post by Kequc »

Pigo wrote: post #362
colmvp wrote: post #5

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).

I could never move there because the Taco Bell's come with french fries in their combo meals. Nothing I encountered shocked my cultural sensibilities more.

Yeah we do thing a little bit differently. Respect our culture.

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Post by Outpox »

baby wrote: post #3

People are not going to move. After every single election in France people say they will move to the US, or to germany, or to... I've never seen anyone moved anywhere. ps: parts of my family moved out of Hong Kong when it became Chinese again. But that was quite a different situation.

If Le Pen manage to be president in May 2017, I'll seriously consider moving from the country. But to go where? Maybe Luxembourg, they've got a shit ton of work in my field (web dev), they pay way more than in France but life is a bit more expensive and foreign workers aren't apprecieted in the whole country. With Trump elected today, the right wings movement in France will get bigger :(

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Post by DeBraid »

mahyarm wrote: post #25

As a Canadian who moved away, I must warn you that Canada has a form of dutch disease. Resource extraction investments have a much better risk/return ratio, so the pay doesn't even approach US levels. Thus software doesn't approach the levels of investment you have in the USA. And you thought SF was bad, wait until you see what has gone wrong with the housing markets in Toronto and Vancouver. I liked Canada and it's…

Could you expand on the reasons why you'd be a fool to stay? Thanks.

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Post by porker »

onli wrote: post #333
superzadeh wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> 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.

Would love to know more. I like to think I know a little about French culture (or could make a guess at it) but I've never been to Germany.

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Post by Outpox »

superzadeh wrote: post #295
baby wrote: post #3

People are not going to move. After every single election in France people say they will move to the US, or to germany, or to... I've never seen anyone moved anywhere. ps: parts of my family moved out of Hong Kong when it became Chinese again. But that was quite a different situation.

I moved from France to Germany already. If you work in software and don't like the direction France is taking, it's a no brainer.

May I ask what's your field of work? How's the paycheck in Germany?

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Post by maxerickson »

Broken_Hippo wrote: post #354
maxerickson wrote: post #329

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Home health is a significant practice in the US. I can't give a pithy summary of it, but Medicare pays for it in many situations where a nursing home is not medically necessary. https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/home-health-services.html

from the link: You're not eligible for the home health benefit if you need more than part-time or "intermittent" skilled nursing care. Now, the mouse over says that 'part time or intermittent' means less than 7 days each week or less than 8 hours each day over a period of 21 days or less - unless you have special circumstances. In other words, sure, as long as it is temporary.In addition, you have to be homebound, on…

Perhaps it is much like disability and they turn down a lot of people?

Reimbursement for a stay in a nursing home would also be subject to a doctor deeming it necessary (and also whatever rules Medicare has about it), home care is just a lower level of care in that sense.

I wasn't really trying to compare the programs, I just saw the possibility in your comment that were not very aware of it in the US.

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Post by segmondy »

colmvp wrote: post #5

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).

Life is not all about money, if it was, most people on this site who live in US will be heading to Silicon Valley.
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