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Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by mattnewton »

tuna-piano wrote: post #67
M_Grey wrote: post #15

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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…

If you didn't read the newspaper, how many of the negative things you mentioned would actually impact your life? Would you even know who was president for the last 4 (or the next 4) based on the impacts to your life? I'd guess not. Just live your life and be happy, vote when you can but don't let what you don't control make you sad.

Yes. I have two sisters that could lose access to birth control and planned parenthood. One of them dates a black man and already gets racial slurs thrown at them in public. These results are only going to embolden that behavior. America has voted for a mysogynistic sexist at its highest ceremonial office, you don't think that affects what is acceptable discourse? You don't think the SCOTUS is changed for a generation now?

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by mattnewton »

inimino wrote: post #148
enjo wrote: post #82

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After two or three conservative justices are appointed the court your life will be mega affected. Are you gay? Kiss gay marriage goodbye. Right to privacy ? Gone. Wanna buy or own a sex toy? Those were illegal in many states until a progressive court put an end to it. A conservative court will absolutely reverse that. This is a huge deal.

Gay marriage is here to stay because of a massive shift in public opinion on the issue which has been taking place over decades. None of that is going away.

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.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by lotsoflumens »

retreatguru wrote: post #144
lotsoflumens wrote: post #68

If any of you have seen an Ottawa winter, you'll understand that the one guy on the night-shift there is too busy trying to figure out how fast he can get to Australia.

In 20 years Ottawa will be sub tropical thanks to global warming ;)

I totally agree - the problem is that for every degree of warming Trudeau will raise the carbon tax 5%.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by vchynarov »

chongli wrote: post #36
adomanico wrote: post #4

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Software professionals might get to Canada, see the smaller paycheck and run back home!

The pay may be a lot less here but real estate is way cheaper. For the price of a 1 bedroom apartment in San Francisco you could buy a 4 bedroom house in Waterloo. We have a nice startup scene here that's really expected to take off when the LRT opens up in 2018.

I am a student of the university of Waterloo and I have lived in San Francisco on two separate occasions in both San Francisco / Mountain View.

Are you seriously comparing SF living to Waterloo living? There's a reason it's 1/4 the price. It's a running joke between every single undergraduate student with significant experience in SF that we want to get out of Waterloo.

LRT opening up? That's a joke. How exactly is the LRT going to help the startup scene?

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by astrange »

mfjordvald wrote: post #6
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.

That's kind of funny. French people is the single biggest source of expats (if we ignore domestic helpers) in Hong Kong. Seems to be very common for French people to emigrate.

French tourists are very common in Japan, although I think it might be because of exposure to pop culture rather than emigration. They have an unfortunate habit of strip-mining retro video game stores and reselling everything at ten times the price back home.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by sverige »

ant6n wrote: post #77
MichaelBurge wrote: post #54

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Republicans won the House and Senate too, and he gets to appoint probably 3 justices to the Supreme Court. So it'll be a more unified government than you've seen in a long time, which makes Trump able to get a lot of his platform through. It's a great time to live in America.

What's that anyway, besides 'building a wall and make Mexico pay for it'?

Well, there's putting the brakes on globalization, fewer foreign wars, lower government spending (and probably some progress on reducing the national debt, which has increased more in the last eight years more than all of the 232 years prior to that, combined), among other things.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by Daniel_Marcos »

nfoz wrote: post #186
kasey_junk wrote: post #14

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

An exception is Waterloo.

But Waterloo isn't a great city to live in. Especially for young professionals, Waterloo is not nearly as exciting as Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by spiderfarmer »

petre wrote: post #110
M_Grey wrote: post #15

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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.

Good luck with being an immigrant in Switzerland.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by ant6n »

MichaelBurge wrote: post #94
ant6n wrote: post #77

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What's that anyway, besides 'building a wall and make Mexico pay for it'?

He has his 'contract with the American voter' on his site: https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/_landings/contract/O-TRU-102... The big ones are term limits for Congress and lower taxes.

The big one is the climate change issues. And the Supreme Court ouch. Also health care.

On the dooms day clock of climate change, the time is past midnight. This is not good.

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