thinking of moving to Canada....

[Buannan]

You're not alone...and there is help out there

the question is....is Canada ready to deal with all of us fickle Yanks?

http://www.nwcn.com/topstories/stories/NW_111404WANmovetocanadaSW.57fb0e64.html

Canada offering refuge for Yanks with blue-state blues

11:13 AM PST on Sunday, November 14, 2004

Associated Press

SEATTLE - Got the blue-state blues? Rudi Kischer feels your pain.

The Vancouver, British Columbia, immigration lawyer plans seminars in three U.S. cities -- Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles -- to tell Americans frustrated with President Bush's re-election that the grass is greener north of the border. And that's not just an allusion to Canada's lenient marijuana laws.

Kischer said the Canadian immigration Web site had 115,000 hits the day after the election -- from the U.S. alone. A normal day would bring 20,000 hits.
Resources

There was so much interest that a Vancouver-based Internet company, Communicopia, set up a new Web site this month -- www.canadianalternative.com -- to suggest Canada as a viable option for its American clients, including anyone concerned about constitutional bans on gay marriage passed in 11 states this month.

Canada suddenly has utopian appeal for many left-leaning Americans. Its universal health care, gay rights, abortion rights, gun laws, drug laws, opposition to the Iraq war, ban on capital punishment and ethnic diversity mirror many values of the American left. Immigrants, including an estimated 1 million Americans, make up nearly 20 percent of Canada's population. The United Nations named Toronto the world's most multicultural city.

[rockrighter]

Come on up.

[yer ardy]

i really liked toronto - and there's a really cool coupla torontonians i wouldn't mind being neighbors with....;)

but, i have to ask, specifically to those who live there, the article sings the praises of universal health care, lenient marijuana laws, abortion rights, ethnic diversity, etc., etc., what's not so great about canada?

anything??

[Buannan]

Come on up.
are you willing to sponser me?

or do you know anyone that will marry me that is canadian? that's the easy way out...right?

;)

ardy, I think the bad things are it is cold, taxes are high, the universal health care system, and you have to say "eh" after every sentence
:D

[Nona Weisbawm]

im thinking about relocating to Sweden in the future.... :)

[panthergirl]

as much as I'm sure I'd love Canada, from all I've heard about it...
it would be too cold for my family.
So... if need be...we're off to Costa Rica.

[rockrighter]

are you willing to sponser me?

or do you know anyone that will marry me that is canadian? that's the easy way out...right?

;)

ardy, I think the bad things are it is cold, taxes are high, the universal health care system, and you have to say "eh" after every sentence
:D
Bad things about Canada:
~ Liberals in power for far too long; Martin is cozying up to Bush re: Star Wars and no one wants that, except the Reform Alliance.
~ The Reform Alliance
~ Aboriginals treated like crap, in general.
~ Far too much Infiltration of US culture; "America Jr."
~ Avril Lavigne, Celine Dion, Bryan Adams, Sum 41, Nickelback/ToaTM/Default, etc.
~ Not so much that we have high taxes, but how the tax dollars are spent (except that Alberta has no PST, but if you're moving to Canada, don't move to our "Little Texas")
~ Sponsorship scandal
~ Mostly pointless positions in government from a bygone era (Gov-Gen. Except the dissolution of Parliament thing, for the most part she just goes around spending money.)
~ Not enough people speak Quebecois, myself included.
~ Canadians don't know a lot about their own history
~ Vancouver has the most economically depressed area in North America (Downtown Eastside.)
~ Constantly trying to deport immigrants with perfectly acceptable reasons for being here.

I'm sure Share, Frinky and the other Nuck's can add to this list.

[Buannan]

but quebec isn't part of canada anyway, so why is speaking quebecois an issue?

;)

actually...quebecois is what I learned in high school instead of french...they claimed it was french, but, not by a long shot...it was quebecois

[rockrighter]

but quebec isn't part of canada anyway, so why is speaking quebecois an issue?

;)

actually...quebecois is what I learned in high school instead of french...they claimed it was french, but, not by a long shot...it was quebecois
It's like how English is different in the UK as opposed to the US. Different slangs, accents, phrasings, etc. There may be more to it, but I wouldn't know.
I think it would suck if Quebec broke off.

[Buannan]

It's like how English is different in the UK as opposed to the US. Different slangs, accents, phrasings, etc. There may be more to it, but I wouldn't know.
I think it would suck if Quebec broke off.
oh yeah...I know...it's the accent and even the words themselves....I learned Quebecois in high school because my teacher had served his mormon mission there...that is the language he knew..and, although it is similar to French...it is very different...when I hit college and tool French from a prof that actually spoke real French, it was very weird...I could read it...but my accent was all wrong to speak it and hell if I could understand a word he said
lol

and I was just joking about Quebec you know...I just hear that all the time from the Canadians that I know

[mtgirl]

ardy, I think the bad things are it is cold, taxes are high, the universal health care system, and you have to say "eh" after every sentence
:D
dude, saying eh is a priviledge!

[_sysiphus_]

Reena had a great list but to add to it, we don't have the same economic opportunities as you guys down south. Depending on the career of course, but there are more career opportunities in the US which pay a lot better than the equivalent position here. A starting lab tech here gets 37-43K CDN a year whereas the same position down there gets 40-60K USD. And PhD's start there at 60K USD, whereas we get about the same but in Canadian dollars, although our loonie is doing us proud now.

[MonkeyBrains]

It's like how English is different in the UK as opposed to the US. Different slangs, accents, phrasings, etc. There may be more to it, but I wouldn't know.
I think it would suck if Quebec broke off.
What about how cool English in Australia is, is way better than American & English English..

[rockrighter]

What about how cool English in Australia is, is way better than American & English English..
It's all ex-con talk.

Tee hee.

[Nona Weisbawm]

ardy, I think the bad things are it is cold, taxes are high, the universal health care system, and you have to say "eh" after every sentence
i fail to see how any of that is bad