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As a recent immigrant to Canada the weather is far far worse and a real reason for leaving Canada than anything else. Personally, just my opinion, among the 7+

As a recent immigrant to Canada the weather is far far worse and a real reason for leaving Canada than anything else. Personally, just my opinion, among the 7+ countries that I have stayed in, Canada ranks the top for almost everything. It has its challenges and rough spots and problems and issues but is much more manageable compared to other countries. No guns, universal medicare, friendly(iest) people, free school, English speaking, amazing landscape: Next to impossible to find a challenger for me.

resolutebat 3y ago
Try Australia, it ticks the same boxes but has better weather. (At least in the places people actually live in.)
- bpye 3y ago
  Certainly depends on your definition of better. I find the summers in Vancouver borderline too hot - and it’s supposedly cooler here than Melbourne so…
- ganeshkrishnan 3y ago
  I am an Australian citizen actually. Moved from Australia to Canada few years back. Australia has too many drawback and none of them are weather or socioeconomic.
  - tempestn 3y ago
    Curious what you see as the main pros and cons of Australia vs Canada.
    - ganeshkrishnan 3y ago
      Canada: close to the US, major tech center, highly skilled population, diverse landscape, friendly open minded society. Australia: negative of all the above.
- alephnerd 3y ago
  Australia has the same issues as Canada but none of the same benefits (aka TN visa eligibility).
willsmith72 3y ago
Depends where you are and what weather you like, personally I've loved the weather year round in multiple Canadian cities/towns
moneywoes 3y ago
what has been your experience with the healthcare? anecdotally had a friend leave due to no cancer treatment availability. haven’t been able to get a family doctor myself
- lbrito 3y ago
  Highly province dependent Quebec has 20%+ of its population with no family doctor while Ontario has 10% Here in metro Vancouver it is recently very easy to get a doctor, but on Vancouver Island (same province) it is very hard
- ganeshkrishnan 3y ago
  Which city? I am in Toronto and our family doctor is amazing. Hospitals definitely have a very long waiting time but I have heard the same from UK/EU. Australia is much better but it's a far wealthier country with far fewer people
  - tempestn 3y ago
    Afaik Australia is neither far wealthier nor does it have far fewer people, at least as I would define "far". Let me check.. GDP per capita at purchasing power parity was 62k for Australia VS 58k for Canada last year. Pretty comparable. Population is 40M vs 26M. I guess you could argue that's far fewer people, but in the range of countries those are in the same general vicinity.
    - ganeshkrishnan 3y ago
      https://wid.world/document/whats-new-about-inequality-in-australia-canada-new-zealand-and-the-united-states-world-inequality-lab-issue-brief-2020-07/ https://wid.world/document/whats-new-about-inequality-in-aus... Income inequality (when I was there in 2010's) for Canada was twice that of Australia. It (was/is) extremely rare to see homeless people in Australia while in most places in Toronto downtown its impossible to NOT see homeless. If you spend few years in both countries you can clearly see the standard of living difference between both countries. Canadian infrastructure is much more poorer and worse off (my observation, not my complaint)

resolutebat 3y ago

Try Australia, it ticks the same boxes but has better weather. (At least in the places people actually live in.)

bpye 3y ago
Certainly depends on your definition of better. I find the summers in Vancouver borderline too hot - and it’s supposedly cooler here than Melbourne so…
ganeshkrishnan 3y ago
I am an Australian citizen actually. Moved from Australia to Canada few years back. Australia has too many drawback and none of them are weather or socioeconomic.
- tempestn 3y ago
  Curious what you see as the main pros and cons of Australia vs Canada.
  - ganeshkrishnan 3y ago
    Canada: close to the US, major tech center, highly skilled population, diverse landscape, friendly open minded society. Australia: negative of all the above.
alephnerd 3y ago
Australia has the same issues as Canada but none of the same benefits (aka TN visa eligibility).

willsmith72 3y ago

Depends where you are and what weather you like, personally I've loved the weather year round in multiple Canadian cities/towns

moneywoes 3y ago

what has been your experience with the healthcare? anecdotally had a friend leave due to no cancer treatment availability. haven’t been able to get a family doctor myself

lbrito 3y ago
Highly province dependent Quebec has 20%+ of its population with no family doctor while Ontario has 10% Here in metro Vancouver it is recently very easy to get a doctor, but on Vancouver Island (same province) it is very hard
ganeshkrishnan 3y ago
Which city? I am in Toronto and our family doctor is amazing. Hospitals definitely have a very long waiting time but I have heard the same from UK/EU. Australia is much better but it's a far wealthier country with far fewer people
- tempestn 3y ago
  Afaik Australia is neither far wealthier nor does it have far fewer people, at least as I would define "far". Let me check.. GDP per capita at purchasing power parity was 62k for Australia VS 58k for Canada last year. Pretty comparable. Population is 40M vs 26M. I guess you could argue that's far fewer people, but in the range of countries those are in the same general vicinity.
  - ganeshkrishnan 3y ago
    https://wid.world/document/whats-new-about-inequality-in-australia-canada-new-zealand-and-the-united-states-world-inequality-lab-issue-brief-2020-07/ https://wid.world/document/whats-new-about-inequality-in-aus... Income inequality (when I was there in 2010's) for Canada was twice that of Australia. It (was/is) extremely rare to see homeless people in Australia while in most places in Toronto downtown its impossible to NOT see homeless. If you spend few years in both countries you can clearly see the standard of living difference between both countries. Canadian infrastructure is much more poorer and worse off (my observation, not my complaint)