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Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by lightlyused »

mtw wrote: post #413
anguswithgusto wrote: post #41

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Also : immigrating to Canada is time-consuming and exhausting (typically 1 year and lots of paper work) but going to Canada with a work visa is quick and painless. Most of the time, startups are taking care of the paperwork and can even help of the relocation. And if you really like the place, after a few months, you can then apply for immigration.

Is there an age limit?

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by arcticbull »

dragonwriter wrote: post #514
arcticbull wrote: post #455

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US median individual wage is $39K/yr for males and $26.5K/yr for females [1]. That amounts to an after-total-tax (for a California resident) of $28K/yr for males and $19K/yr for females. Average rent ranges from $500-$3600/mth though for illustrative purposes (taking into account people in expensive places share) let's use $1K/mth for our hypothetical person. [3] That leaves you with $16K/yr (male) and $7K/yr (female…

> website crashes on election n... US median individual wage is $39K/yr for males and $26.5K/yr for females [1]. That amounts to an after-total-tax (for a California resident) of $28K/yr for males and $19K/yr for females. The tax calculator you reference includes estimates of sales, property, and fuel taxes (which make up much of the tax total at the incomes here), which are actually rolled into rent, transportation,…

Ah good catch. Probably still not wildly off for illustrative purposes.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by ceejayoz »

usaphp wrote: post #511
ceejayoz wrote: post #458

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Obamacare added three provisions in particular that affected my family. Annual and lifetime caps on coverage were banned, dropping sick policyholders was banned, and all plans were required to set maximum out-of-pocket costs. My family has easily hit the pre-Obamacare lifetime coverage limits and fairly frequently would've hit the annual ones. Our $4k out-of-pocket cap saves us from 10-50k in coinsurance/copays depen…

> "Soon, it looks like they'll be able to." Based on what? You are just speculating now

Based on Republican control of House, Senate, and White House, their having explicitly stated they'd repeal Obamacare, and the ability to do a lot of damage to the law without risking a filibuster (which they can do away with entirely, incidentally). http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/upshot/the-future-of-obama...

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by hiram112 »

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).

That's very true. Not for any political reasons, but I've always wanted to work in the EU (I lived there several times but was working) but everytime I look at salaries in Berlin or the NL or similar, it occurs to me that'd it be a better idea to just work here and save for a few more years, and then go there without the need to get a job.

I'd break even financially and would have more time to learn the language (though I suppose working in a foreign office would be a great way to learn the language, at least once the basics are obtained).

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Post by hiram112 »

mattkrause wrote: post #529
Cerium wrote: post #439

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As a fairly young US citizen I'm curious, I thought that most health care plans have an out of pocket maximum that is usually in the low to mid thousands per year. Would this situation not be one that limits the yearly cost that way?

I think the ACA also introduced the out-of-pocket limits.

No the older plans mostly had out-of-pocket limits, too.

At least the standard employment sponsored plans.

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Post by hiram112 »

M_Grey wrote: post #462
wyoh wrote: post #338

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

You can already own and operate a fucking arsenal, what more do you want?

Well most of the state and city bans to limit the 2nd amendment were struck down by the courts.

So the left has been pushing 'back-door' laws that would do the same thing, effectively: huge taxes on ammo, letting manufactures be legally liable crimes committed with their sold weapons, etc.

Regardless of your views on guns, it is the 2nd Amendment - if the left wants to change it, there is a method to change the Constitution. Executive decisions and other nefarious schemas shouldn't be accepted.

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Post by shostack »

qadevleadgrunt wrote: post #519
chris_7 wrote: post #351

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For Americans coming from NYC or SF, is the cost of living really that much higher?

I can only speak for myself having lived in Copenhagen/Boston/NYC; cost of living is lower in Copenhagen, but so are salaries, expect a huge cut in pay as well as on your ability to live a comfortable life on a tech salary. In NYC I can do a normal sit down lunch at $40 multiple times a week, without really batting an eye - whereas that would be painful in Denmark - on the plus side you usually have catered lunch whi…

What is overall work/life balance like over there? And is it very different if you are not an in-demand engineer?

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Post by masonic »

M_Grey wrote: post #505
masonic wrote: post #279

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No, for a variety of reasons. First of all, it wouldn't pass, because Democrats would vote 95% against and Republicans at most 75% for. But even if it DID pass the House, the Senate would just filibuster it. And even if by some miracle one was passed and signed, it would hit an immediate injunction from the Federal court of the abortion-backers' choice, using Roe as a precedent. The concept makes for a good scare tac…

Oh that's cute, you think the filibuster rule is going to survive the first week of this congress?

In other words, you fear that Republicans might pull a trick similar to what Reid did 3 years ago in implementing the "nuclear option"[1]? Did you protest that at the time, or since?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_State...

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by masonic »

majormajor wrote: post #215
makomk wrote: post #202

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That "structural favouritism towards less populated areas" is a very old design feature of American democracy. Without it, everywhere but a small band in each coast would become politically irrelevant, much like it's already ignored by the media.

Nonsense. Clinton's projected by the NY Times to win the popular vote by 1.2% right now. That's hardly a huge mandate for a singular agenda. It's a margin that would still be at massive risk if people continued ignoring those non-coastal populations feeling economically left behind. Instead, despite that 1.2% lead for the Democratic presidential candidate, that party will be the minority party in every branch of gove…

"Clinton's projected by the NY Times to win the popular vote by 1.2% right now."

So much for any of their projections. The actual popular vote difference is 202,340 -- less than 0.17% of votes cast.

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Post by aaron695 »

grownseed wrote: post #422

A few points I think are relevant: - I find leaving your country only because you didn't vote for the winner is rather cowardly, you can still do something about it, we're not quite talking systemic harassment yet... - as a friend of mine pointed out, Canada is not a consolation prize for disgruntled americans, it's a real country, with its own real people and its own real problems - having just aquired my canadian p…

> - I find leaving your country only because you didn't vote for the winner is rather cowardly, you can still do something about it, we're not quite talking systemic harassment yet...

Leaving your entire life, job, family behind for principals is cowardly?

What rubbish. It's amazingly brave.

This is on par with calling suicide bombers cowardly.

To be quite frank cowardice is doing nothing and calling others cowards.

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