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#2So you say the highs aren’t as high and the lows certainly aren’t as low as in the US. Given that few really experience the highs, I think the Canadian choice is correct. It’s a stereotype, but the people do tend to be friendlier and the pace is slower. But I’ve found that the quality of work is a function of one’s inner makeup not the external environment. We’ll see what the next 5-10 years looks like in N America.
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#3I was not born in Canada, but I chose to immigrate here and it's one of the top 5 best choices I've ever made. I have access to so much that in other places would be wildly expensive. My life is richer due to the diversity of the people I am surrounded by, if I bought every book I borrowed from the library last year it would have cost $3000 or more, and even after moving away from a large city I have access to public transit good enough to cover most of my needs.
It's actually really wild to think I spent a couple of years working in Boston more than a decade ago, and I used my zipcar subscription way more often than I've ever had to use a communauto in fake london (a city no one would mistake for having good urban planning).
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#4So you say the highs aren’t as high and the lows certainly aren’t as low as in the US. Given that few really experience the highs, I think the Canadian choice is correct. It’s a stereotype, but the people do tend to be friendlier and the pace is slower. But I’ve found that the quality of work is a function of one’s inner makeup not the external environment. We’ll see what the next 5-10 years looks like in N America.
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#5The Canada the author refers to is gone.
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#6Canada is far from perfect but there is no other country in the world I would ever consider leaving it behind for.
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#7I was not born in Canada, but I chose to immigrate here and it's one of the top 5 best choices I've ever made. I have access to so much that in other places would be wildly expensive. My life is richer due to the diversity of the people I am surrounded by, if I bought every book I borrowed from the library last year it would have cost $3000 or more, and even after moving away from a large city I have access to public…
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#8The Canada the author refers to is gone.
Quite the statement there bud. Care to back it up?
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#9The Canada the author refers to is gone.
Hard to know what accounts to bother responding to these days. This is likely one of them as it fails to offer any worthy substance beyond a barely whined grievance. But I have first hand experience that the things described in this post are absolutely not gone.
I suspect there are agents of lesser minds at work hoping to stir instability. We aren’t swindled as easily as other peoples.
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#10I grew up in Canada and live in the US now with kids.
The US is not one country. It's two that are radically different.
There's wealthy America. The top 5% to 10% that have healthcare, have their own safety nets, don't need to worry about money, their kids go to select schools that they can buy into (mostly by buying into the right neighborhoods), an amazing pension plan, etc. My kids go to a fancy library with reading time, puppets and classical music. All the things I love about Canada and more.
That country is amazing and the quality of life is unparalleled unless you're obscenely wealthy.
The bottom 80 to 90% percent of Americans live a life that is far inferior to any western and even many developing countries. They have no safety nets, no job security, no retirement, housing insecurity, they're even the smallest accident away from ruin, etc.
In other countries people know roughly how badly or how well they're treated by the system. Only in the US have I experienced the level of brainwashing where people are thankful for the horrors of this system, and somehow wash away anything they see or hear about anywhere else in the world.
Because your family mostly decides if which America you live in, most people don't understand the other side at all and can't comprehend how they live.