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Don't leave Canada. It is freaken awesome there. I would love to go into semi-retirement there one day.
Haha retire in Canada, good one
I would love to stay here too but it's just not realistic anymore
Semi-retire. It is pretty common in my field. Some engineer who comes in one day a week or so on average as a consultant. There isn't exactly a shortage of chemical/factory operations there and the tech/standards you guys use is near identical.
In any case I am like +30 years from that so who knows what the situation will be.
Yeah if you save a bunch in the states then move here you could do it. What's impossible is working in Canada and trying to save, our salaries for engineering are probably less than half
Just to put things in perspective I am at the top pay scale at the university I work at and even working side jobs on the weekend I still can't buy my own apartment
The only good way to get ahead here is to play the real estate game but I missed the boat
Less than half but you aren't spending 10k a year on insurance that doesn't even work and 20k a year per kid to send them to higher ed. Not going to do me much good that I have a slightly bigger home when I get a quarter of a million dollar medical bill or want to help my daughters get a four year degree.
I don't think you've done your research. Yeah our healthcare is free, but it literally doesn't exist, people are dying of undiagnosed cancers because we have no doctors
I recently went across the border to see a doctor about an ear infection because I was going deaf and couldn't see a doc for weeks. So I paid out of pocket in addition to paying heavy tax for our "healthcare"
As for higher ed, we pay out the ass for that too...
I lived in the border for years. Whatever you have now is still got to be better than what we got. My hand was smashed by a falling beam, pretty nasty break. The only thing they would give me for pain was Tylenol. I had to go get me cannabis just so I could stop screaming and crying. I still have two wisdom teeth and yeah they hurt.
We don't have dental care, that's out of pocket here, just spent 4 grand on my wisdom teeth
However, I heard if they are life threatening (infected) a hospital must remove, in which case it's free
Still better
I mean we can debate this all we want but I don't even need to be convinced not to move to US haha. Iceland is superior to both countries
A university degree in Canada costs 16-20k CAD per year for tuition/books/etc, more if you're an international student. Plus residence fees and food and other costs of living if the student isn't staying at home and just commuting to university.
There's a reason Canada suffers from brain drain of so many of our skilled workers leaving. Other places, particularly the USA, are popular destinations because they are better opportunities economically.
I wanna hug a moose and flee from geese