Americans living in Canada, how different is your life?

It is filled with liberals. If you are a liberal would does not believe in freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to bear arms you should be OK.

ok sweet

future canuck wrote:

I'm looking into attending grad school in Canada and possibly staying there after I graduate given the current state of American politics. I'm curious as to what degree of culture shock I'm in for. I've been to Vancouver a few times and it didn't feel much different than any American major city. Obviously Quebec would be the biggest adjustment since French is the primary language. I'm mainly curious as to how Canadians differ socially from Americans. Are there any specific lifestyle factors that really differentiate Canada from America?

ps don't turn this into a debate I'm considering moving regardless of Trump.

Yes, I, I as well. I hear the taxes are not so favorable, but I am looking for quality of life, enjoyment of the seasons, good company, fresh air and land and the occasional beauteous flaxen lass. Shall I like Canada?

future canuck wrote:

I'm looking into attending grad school in Canada and possibly staying there after I graduate given the current state of American politics. I'm curious as to what degree of culture shock I'm in for.

If you value free speech you should stay away.

hehateme wrote:

The canadiens dont have the black culture epidemic and dont have to deal with leroy and jamal shooting up the neighborhood.

I wonder if they have the same issues with misdirected racism as well.

The East Indian migration to the lower mainland ( Vancouver BC area) is ruining this west coast provence. Daily street shootings in Surrey . The women in Vancouver put a great value in thinness and health, Alberta women are generally pretty fat. You don't want anything to do with Southern Ontario. They are a needy province and depend on western canada tax subsidies on everything.

Canada is becoming a muslim country very quickly. Even their PM is speaking Arabic nowadays.

Please don't go there.

I moved here 5 years ago after 18 years in Asia. Grew up in DC and spet my first 26 years there.

Income taxes in Canada are probably 3-5% higher than NY or CA. But you have far fewer healthcare incidentals, so it generally evens out.

AS far as the quality of healthcare, it is great. There are some wait times imposed by design, but they are not onerous. I think people in the US imagine that wait times == LA County Hospital on Saturday night, and nothing could be further from the case.

Housing in TO or Van is expensive. Elsewhere is quite reasonable, depending on what your income is.

Obviously fewer guns and better gun laws means Canada is much safer.

There are very few if any noticeable differences initially. I would say that Canada, as a culture, is much less competitive than the US. This is true of most developed countries. Despite hockey being the biggest sport here, you'd never know it if you didn't turn on your TV. It is not nearly as big a deal as the NFL is in the US. This might be because sports in general in Toronto, where I live, suck.

What I don't like is this censorious politesse that pervades many conversations. "The Truth" is this assumed body of left-of-centre platitudes that often have no basis in fact. There are many good ideas that came from Harper's, "reign". But you'd never hear your garden variety Liberal voter tell you that. Annoying. But this is the case in the US.

Multi-culturalism works here. 50% of Toronto residents were born outside of Canada. 22% of the entire population are immigrants.

Your best bet to get PR is as a student. Good luck

Alberta Proud wrote:

The East Indian migration to the lower mainland ( Vancouver BC area) is ruining this west coast provence. Daily street shootings in Surrey . The women in Vancouver put a great value in thinness and health, Alberta women are generally pretty fat. You don't want anything to do with Southern Ontario. They are a needy province and depend on western canada tax subsidies on everything.

Spoken like a true AB d-bag

They're not down with "black lives matter" & love to throw racist lyrics in songs.

http://deadspin.com/o-canada-rendition-features-modified-racist-lyrics-1783557022

hehateme wrote:

The canadiens dont have the black culture epidemic and dont have to deal with leroy and jamal shooting up the neighborhood.

No, but we have to pay billions of dollars per year to fund the corrupt First Nations reserve system. Most of the chiefs "earn" salaries of hundreds of thousands of dollars/year (tax-free) from government handouts and use the rest of their funds to hire friends/family to high-paying joke positions. The rest of the reserve members live hopeless existences in dire poverty and there is rampant crime as well as drug and alcohol abuse. Harper had forced the chiefs to be transparent with their expenses, but Trudeau cancelled this while pledging billions more per year in order to bribe them into voting for him. Canada's apartheid.

Trudeau is also bringing in 50,000 Syrian Muslims/year for the next 4 years. There is ZERO plan for integrating them into Canada, so we are likely going to be facing the same problems as Europe in the coming years/decades. Trudeau has made it so that you can gain citizenship without even making an attempt to learn one of the official languages. How are new citizens ever going to find employment or integrate into society (outside of their closed ethnic ghettos) if they aren't willing to learn one of our national languages?

Multiculturalism has worked well for Canada in the past. I am far from confident about our future.

Vancouver barely counts as Canada to me. No Canadian accents, no French stuff (Chinese instead), no Ketchup chips, more Starbucks than Tim Hortons, no snow. Nice place though.

Vancouver is coolcity but rentals high due to people fleeing Hong Kong and rest of Asia.

Toronto is kindalikeNew York.

Typical Canuckdiet is coffee and donuts at Tony Horton's mac and cheese r and back baconforlunch six pack of Molson starting at 4 or so and its fickincold up there. Forget running in winter.

Lots of them Canadians buying real estate in California for some reason?

Yeah, winter getaway, vacation home Same thing in Flawduh. They even got French Canadian towns and NHL hockey down dere, Eh!! They call them "frostbacks"

Learn to say "Eh" after every sentence, Eh?

N'est ce pas possible. It is not possible for a real American to live in Canada. Americans may of course visit Canada, but to think one can live there and be American -- it is not possible. Once you commit to living in Canada, you are no longer an American. You will not be Canadian either, as what lurks beneath that veneer of politeness and inclusiveness, is a hate so pure that it warms the Great White North all winter long. And most of the summer to, by the way. And that hatred is focused on the USA. If you persist in this attempt at creating an inter-border identity, you will end up like Caster Semenya, only uglier -- i.e., you will be a cross-border version of Margaret Wambui. I know this because I tried it myself -- I moved to Canada, thinking I would become Canadian, and now I am a hideous mutant beast, hated by all, and pitied by none. And still slower than Caster Semenya. Consider yourself warned.

So basically Americans that know very little about Canada giving all kinds of terrible advice. Wonderful place here.

Canadians are Americans with health insurance and no guns.

hehateme wrote:

The canadiens dont have the black culture epidemic and dont have to deal with leroy and jamal shooting up the neighborhood.

This plus a smaller population. Liberalism works better with a smaller population.