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Your grandparents came at a different time with different skills from a poorer place relatively speaking. If new immigrants are finding the quality of life to
by ipaddr 5y ago
Your grandparents came at a different time with different skills from a poorer place relatively speaking.
If new immigrants are finding the quality of life to be lower than expected because rents are higher and opportunity to buy a house is lower than your grandparents era you have to agree that the quality of life may be the same for newcomers. Plus the quality of life in China and India is higher than ever.
- jszymborski 5y agoIf you're saying that the quality of life in China and India is rising, bully for them! An ideal world would see immigration primarily motivated by preference and not poverty or oppression. I would, however, suggest that "quality of life" doesn't begin and end at house prices but also is tied to e.g.: civil freedoms, which you'll find Canada scores much higher than either you examples here by large margins in any (incomplete/flawed, etc...) freedom index [0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_in_the_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_in_the_World The bottom line is I don't see evidence for Canada's "fall from grace" and even less for it being tied to immigration.