Moved back to Canada 5 years ago after living in Denmark for 13 years. Worst move of my life! I used to be a proud Canadian. Not so much anymore. Take good care 🙏
Exactly me, 2-kids, wife, Thailand...except I left Canada in 2005. I've always found "Canada" in the nature and do go back every summer for the fresh air, camping,fishing, hiking ect...as the old saying goes...'it's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there".
@@unknown-xf4ko while USA definitely has problems, I don't think it will go in the same direction as Canada. One of the main problems of Canada is being a neighour of USA, a country that is many times richer than Canada. So, even though Canada tries to get skilled educated immigrants, most of those immigrants eventually move to USA. And, USA is very hesitant to get immigration(especially if Trump wins)
it never was. people who build this country took huge risks because they knew they had a backbone and skills they could rely on. All this "promise land BS" is LAZY WEAK CHILDREN WHO WANT TO STEAL A CUSHY LIFE FROM OTHER PEOPLE WHO WORK HARD FOR IT. get outta here!!!!!!
Trudeau was PLACED into his position by the WEF! Stop bitching and blaming citizens and START researching the WEF/WHO/UN GLOBALISTS AGENDAS and the role of the CCP in Canada. Citizens have little control over the elections, they're just voting because we're supposed to be a democracy. The governments are being manipulated by foreign entities. DO THE RESEARCH!
I was waiting for a MAGAt wannabe to bring politics into this... I guess you just couldn't keep it in ... What else ? Tell us all of the people and things you hate... Come on, don't be shy... You little social media conspiracists have lots of things to rant about...
I'm a immigrant from a middle income country.. Let me tell you, older people in my country still have the mentality of the 80s and 90s where countries like Canada were truly better places.. In 2024, Canada isn't so much better than my own country.. On the contrary, I see people in my own country able to save more money (less taxes), have better healthcare and education, are happier and of course better weather.. But sometimes I don't know, may be it's mainstream media or social media or Hollywood, people STILL think Canada is a better country... I spend a lot of time telling them, Canada is a scam!! You'll become a miserable wage slave taxed to the bones
Well, I think because if you compare it to the UK, France, Italy, its doing better, its getting worse in many part of the world and depends on were people are coming from
Moved from France to Canada, spent about 8 years here. Planning to move with my wife and kids in Asia. Too much things change here, even in few years. We pay so much taxes and don't even have a family doctor. We pay so much taxes and everything is breaking... It's not possible anymore.
I raised kids as a single mom in poverty here in Canada. After they were raised, I lived like a refugee and saved 32,000 dollars and it's not ever mere enough to buy anything. I can't even buy a home with it. Back in the day, you could!
32000 would be a years worth of living comfortably where I am, but it would barely cover rent in a place like Vancouver - nonetheless Kudos to you for raising your kids like a boss and not being in the red! Mad respect to all parents out there.
And this $32000 is likely you made out of your ex paid (child & spousal support )or he was paying that and you were able to save from your job. That's another butter truth of Canadian life . Women most of the times misuse the system & abuse their husbands .
*Mexico is expensive as hell and extremely underdeveloped. Dating there is also pain in the a22. And ppl there are also anti-social. The water is extremely dirty. you need to make at least 2K USD a month to live an okay life. Or else you gonna have to share rooms in third-world housing.*
You're correct, Canada is a country of divided mini societies. People branch off based on religion, cutural ancestry, race and at times social activism or political activism.
100% my experience growing up - which I don't think should be the norm. I've met and become friends with so many nice people from other religions, ethnicities and cultures after moving abroad
@@Kingeducatessame in the U.K. mate, in the U.K. not a single white English person has EVER willingly talked to me even though I’ve been here since 2015 and already became a citizen of the U.K., I’m originally from Ukraine and see how people treat any foreigner here, unless you’re a doctor, then you’re good
I loved living in America after living in Canada. I do not like their foreign policy but still you could opeşy talk with Amerşicans about anything. There is no way to talk anything with people in Canada. They are sooo brain washed .
I'm a 64 year old white Canadian. When you said you might get some eye-rolling over that last point, it's exactly how I feel. I do my eye-rolling at all the offended whining garbage that everybody started to have a snowball effect with until it seems to have taken over the society. If I was younger I would leave but not be stupid enough to think that the grass is always greener on the other side. I know that there would be things that I might not like in another place and that there are things that I'd miss here but the attitudes as you mentioned with being offended and insane liberal ideas that are being shoved down everybody's throats is enough to wipe your hands and be done with. I can't leave because I'm barely surviving on a pension, don't own my own home so I rent and have virtually no disposable income. The only country I've ever visited outside of Canada has been the United States and the last time was over twenty years ago. I had to retire because of a handicap so I can't work any longer. I quite literally have to count pennies when spending any money which after my rent and bills is only food. So even an equivalent place would be fine as it would free up a little bit of my money because the cost of everything here has skyrocketed and seems to be on an upward trajectory that appears to never come back down to earth.
Once costs go up, they just don't come back down...and it doesn't look like inflation will get any better. I honestly think you're in a scary situation and hope that wherever you're renting is reliable - trying to find a new place to live now is both difficult and expensive. No one should have to work and pay taxes for most of their lives only retire to struggle financially...Canada shouldn't have turned out like this...In my humble opinion, the first order of things would definitely be to save up some kind of emergency fund while thinking about options for income that don't conflict with the pension - I don't want to sound like I'm preaching, especially not to someone who's so much more experienced in life than me, but the thought of things continuing to become more expensive for you with no end in sight genuinely makes me worried about you and the many others in your position. In terms of place, many places in SE Asia are a fraction the living costs of Canada - but the language barrier is real, culture shock is real, and the initial expense of moving there is also very real.
Yes I agree with your advice. My mother is in a similar situation and I worry for her. We moved to Mexico a few years ago and we are so happy we did it while we still could. Had we stayed we would have eventually been forced to liquidate everything just to live. Also, we wanted better for our daughter who was 14 when we moved. The woke culture is gross.
What is Canada's fastest growing export ? a) Our vehicles b) our money to Ukraine c) young well educated , motivated people with a strong work ethic d) Our intellectual property e ) all of the above
I live 40 minutes from downtown Toronto. I went for a short drive today into Toronto and was shocked at how much trash and garbage I saw on the side of the roads in Toronto. Toronto was never like that. Years ago, it was known as one of the cleanest and safest cities in North America. That's over! A once great city is slowly turning into a total sh**hole....
Left Canada 10 years ago for Chongqing. Agree 100% on all your points 🎉 it’s cheap and great and I can afford luxurious trips and to be a homeowner why wouldbt I take this deal amiright?
My wife and I escaped Canada to survive retirement. I paid taxes all my life, raised children worked hard every day in a non unionized job. We lost our home because of the interest rate hikes. Now I am 61, no job pension, no home. I was born in the wrong generation I guess.. there were no government jobs or union jobs available during the 90's when I entered the workforce, and the ones that were available were reserved for women mostly. This is Canada. A janitor working for the government will have a better life than an educated worker competing in the real world and paying back student dept. We are now living in Turkey and trying to survive until I reach 65, after that we will be getting by with 1500$ per month. Had we stayed in Canada, this wouldn't even cover the rent. We would be asking for money on the street and looking through garbage in the morning for bottles and plastic in the middle of January. Thank you Canada. It seems that there are way more important things than to take care of the citizens who contributed all their lives. No wonder that Trudeau setup the "Assistance to suicide" program. There will be an army of people like me with broken lives and no future lining up for self euthanasia.
I'm in my 70's now and have lived all my life in Canada -- But I have seen huge changes, for the worst, related in the whole category of your third point.( many more than you mentioned but very related). Canada is simply not what it used to be.
It's so sad to see a country lose what once made it so great. When my parents immigrated to Canada, I really saw the joy in their eyes from being able to thrive in a new country. Now my parents are also in their 70s, and avoid going out unless absolutely neccessary because it just isn't as safe anymore
Just arrived to Toronto, a month ago and the first thing I've noticed was that what you actually talking about. Nobody talks to anybody. I live in a small basement with 8 people from all different cultures and they are all like strangers. The first week nobody even say hello to me, was very strange because what everybody talking outside Canada is how inclusive they are here, how happy the life is, how polite, etc. I learn the hard way this first lie and list goes on... The most shocking experience is to see crazy people in the street, multicolor flags on kindergardens, dgur everywhere. Its scarry... Today buying flight ticket to return to my "3rd world country". Regards! new suscriber
After 36 years in Canada, I am moving out. No healthcare here. I am worried. I will miss the clean air, the nice highways, and the kindness of most Canadians. May be a new government will make life more bearable.
It's awesome that you want to travel, live or work somewhere other than your country of birth. We are fortunate that we have so many choices. No country will satisfy every desire. Canada is no different.
I left Canada 2 years ago and never felt so good. Finally, I found nicer people and especially more human with good values. My only problem is that it's difficult to take money out of Canada as banks don't want to cooperate. Any ideas ? Everything is a problem with the major canadian banks.
@@Kingeducates Europe. I have no business with China but intend to get my money back and not leave it in Canada where I cannot do anything interesting with it.
@@Kingeducates I'm from Ontario but moving to Newfoundland soon. Trying to sell my condo isn't easy since the market has crashed. I'm over 50 and I think it's harder to start over the older you get. But the cost of living is more reasonable there. This country really isn't what it used to be.
Canada is a great place if you have a big family friends and a good support system. Back in the 90s and 00s new immigrants could build a good life for themselves because the wages were good and housing was affordable. Now it seems like everyone in Canada is a social justice warrior, no matter what you say you’ll end up offending someone. The truth is if you don’t have family and a good support system in Canada, your life will be very lonely, because it’s difficult to meet new people and make meaningful relationships. Plus a single income is not enough to build a nest egg for the future in this country.
I always took happiness for granted, my life was so fulfilled with family and friends that I forgot that I wouldn’t have them close in Canada. Canada used to make up for it with the good cost of life and now that is gone. I can count the days I have been happy in Canada in the last 7 years in my fingers. Do not come to Canada unless you have nothing in your country. And even tho I would wait for power to change hands here
Canada is the new Eldorado for the French! Burden of taxes, inflation, insécurité, immigration... make French want to move to Canada! Live in France and you'll miss Canada 😅
I’m 55 yrs old my great grandma came to canada during the potato famin in Ireland. She had my grandmother in a house in Ladner BC . My grandma had my mom and my mom had me and I had my daughter! . My roots go back far in Canada but my bloodline is Irish . Listen in the beginning many people moved here to canada from all parts of Europe and Greece Italy Ireland Scotland England etc we were all very different but we slowly worked together and we became united as one people Canadians !!!! we worked on what we could have in common not what made us different ! We had morals and values and humour and freedom respect and friendship ‘ together ‘ Canadian UNITY WAS OUR STRENGTH. We were one big community called the Canadian community. And we made friends and families together .We mainly had Jesus as our one main rock , we mainly listened to the same music western types music and we would speak English especially in public settings . we thrived with each other and life was affordable fun and united even media was fair. This mass migration that really took a foothold under Trudeau in 2016 has come in and formed enclaves away from the generational Canadians they choose to speak their motherland language in public and prefer to stay with their motherland culture identity and religion and tend to show boat their motherland ways to the Canadians as they don’t seem to project to be Canadian . The mass migration has been brutal to our Canadian fabric and this mass migration has taken a toll on our infrastructure and economy housing culture. Canada is lost ,divided and has fallen sadly. Many patriot type Canadians have stood a long time to continue with uniting this country but our voices are misinterpreted and censored. And mocked by government media and by some nasty lying people! Many patriot type Canadians are now leaving Canada as it no longer is what they represent and remember sadly. Rip Canada 🇨🇦
Thanks for your post. I am saddened by your post. I live in the USA but can totally identify with your experiences. Sadly, the USA has gone down the same path. Mass migration? Huh! The USA has allowed in anywhere from 10 to 20 million "illegal" aliens into the country in just the past 4 years- about 75% the entire population of Canada. What country can survive this level of unabated, unvetted level of mass migration? I visited Canada on many occasions about 15 years ago and I was blown away by the clean streets, polite people and just a seemingly well organized country; but it seems that "wokeness" and all the other ills that have plagued the USA have finally caught up with Canada. If you love your country, my only suggestion is to vote, vote, vote to save it. Because if that doesn't fix the problem, then I'm afraid nothing else will. We are on the brink of finding out if the USA is lost forever!
I’m Canadian working in the U.S. and was thinking of retiring back to Canada. The more I looked into housing, food costs, taxes, health care, immigration etc. the more I said no way. It’s not going to happen anytime soon.
Great video, I'm glad it popped up on my feed. I moved from UK to Canada last April, knowing that the cost of living and housing is unaffordable for most people. My friends back home ask if it is worth it, and my response is always the same "if you can have a household income of >$160k, yes". My partner and I have a household income of over $225k, and we still feel sick looking at the cost of housing and food... but we do have 3 teenagers in the house!
You're in the top 10%, kudos! I'm curious on how your teenagers find the schooling compared to the UK? A Levels I find is a much more rigorous program compared to AP (which many public schools don't even offer) and my perception of the Canadian curriculum is that it is very relaxed
@kingeducates The schooling system is much more laid back, and teachers are given a lot more respect (and pay). I did A-levels also, in physics, chemistry, pure maths and further maths, and I think they were harder.
thank you for speaking out! As a life-long Canadian, I couldn't agree more with just about everything you said. There's rarely a day that goes by that I don't ponder other places that I could move my family to.
Where I grew up in Canada, it felt truly diverse. I am biracial (black/white), and my friend group was Chinese, Indian, black (and/but Jewish - like Drake or Eric Andre), Albanian, Filipino, and white. Non-white groups were never big enough to form exclusive ethnic cliques. Now, where I live, and amidst all of the migration, I have a much harder time connecting with people because culturally, they’re not Canadian, and all of the culturally Canadian people are leaving, it seems. In my neighborhood, it feels like most people are recent immigrants. The last four years have been strange. Feels like a totally different country. Places cost twice as much; groceries cost twice as much; and your neighbors don’t talk to you because they’re economic migrants. Whenever my wife and I are out and we are talking loudly, white people often like to chime in because they hear we don’t have accents and they’re longing for a sense of community, I think. It’s not about race as much as it is about culture.
Culture plays such a huge part - I go back to Canada every 2 years and the change for me has been sudden and drastic, not the gradual kind from being there every day
Canada used to be good. If my health was better and I was younger, I'd seriously think about moving to Russia. I don't believe the wartime propaganda that is everywhere. Canada used to be...me. But it was taken away from me without being asked what I thought about it, and changed into something I no longer recognize or like. Oh well. I speak my mind and what I believe to be the truth and UA-cam continuously shadow-bans me. I'm not sure why. Though I have a pretty good idea.
I agree on everypoint. No matter how long you stay here, you never truely feel that you belong. There is always this invisible wall. I've lived here for more than two 3rd of my years. At work, i'm always treated as the other, even though i share their political views, Because according to them "chinese people are all liberals and can't be a conservative". WTF. Of course i want Canada to do well, since China does not allow dual citizenship, and i had to give up on my chinese citizenship to become a canadian citizen. Canada is becoming so incredibly backwards. At least in China people are normal, nobody is changing their genders, nobody doing drugs, and police do their job arresting baddies and send them to prison. If China allowed dual citizenship i would rather live in China than here.
In 2004 I wrote a somewhat famous article called 'Top 8 reasons not to immigrate to Canada'. In short, the Canadian authorities tried to destroy my life. They made it so that I could not be employable in Canada. So I moved to the U.S. in 2005 and then some years later I moved permanently to the Philippines. I am happy that so many years later videos like yours are saying essentially the same things that I did. I was ahead of my time. I will never go back to Canada. Not to live, not to visit, not even a connecting flight. Too cold, too expensive, taxes are astronomical, no culture, no freedom, no jobs, no opportunities, only modern slavery, worst healthcare system, unbearable political correctness, crime infested/drug infested, xenophobic people, too depressing. It has become a North Korea style dictatorship in the western world. Their are many reasons why Canada has fallen apart. But the number one reason is ‘multiculturalism’. My friends, multiculturalism simply does not work. Different cultures do not come together and mix, different cultures come together and clash. The world is divided into different countries for a reason: because people hate each other and only want to be with their own kind. The number two reason for Canada’s demise is ‘socialism’. In this modern era of aging populations, it is mathematically impossible for socialism to continue. The government does not have the money to take care of old people and provide healthcare, pensions and the various other benefits, even with the astronomical taxation that burdens hard working Canucks. Well Canada, you had a good run. Time for Canucks to move to an emerging country. We welcome you here in Southeast Asia.
This stuff definitely didn't hit as hard when I was growing up - too protected within my own microcosm to notice, but when I now look at the big picture, the problems are glaring for sure.
Indeed, Canada sucks right now and the government is so xenophobic and mean, putting a ban on foreign buyers when Canadians freely buy the rest of the world without any problems or scrupulous.
I tried for 6 years to get my wife and two young daughters here from Mexico. Now I finally got them up here after dealing with our dysfunctional immigration system. Now I have them here and it’s too expensive to live here. I’ve been thinking about it wrong. I should have been working towards me moving there. There’s nothing left here. This country is failing. I can still work here but I don’t want to live here permanently.
Grew up in Montreal, moved to Toronto in the 80’s. Left for Alberta 2 years ago. Seriously considering moving back to my home country in the Caribbean.
All your reasons are absolutely correct, good for you for moving. I was born in Canada and currently live there but travel often. I think Canada is a huge mess caused by the Liberal government. I can't stand it here. Wayyyyyyyyyyy too expensive. We are looking for a place to move because we are retired.
I wish you all the best! I was born and raised in Canada and have never felt like I belong here - I can't wait to figure out how to leave and find out where 'home' is to me. Regarding your third point, you're not wrong!!
What you mentioned Is nothing but just a marketing perception. You buy a house and you keep on paying interest all your life. The house is about 4k and you pay more than double on it for your life and when you are done payment, house is no more in a condition to live because its life has gone too much. If you couldn't pay the mortage every moth, the bank will hit your credit score making hard for your finance anything next time. So you have to keep yourself above the line of poverty in any case. Buying a house is having an elephant at home; mortgage, power bill, phone bill, internet bill, water and inland bill. In taxes you pay a big amount every year in property tax and income tax, then you pay whatever you buy or get services, you pay General Sales and or Provincial tax. When you sell a home, if your profit is more than some specific amount, govt takes away 60% of that extra profit. Insurance wherever is private is crazily high and a lot manipulation. Your job in Canada is juat to work and pay taxes to the government and government can send that money for Ukrain aid to fight against Russia. That's the best use of taxpayer money has been found.
Can't believe I'd be commenting on one of these. I'm in an Msc program.Planned the image and Canadian dream in 2021 after finishing my bachelor's degree in China in 2019. Immediately on landing here in 2023 and seeing the decline firsthand has made me question life and reality cuz I could never understand how something so perfectly painted to outsiders could fail so bad. I kept on saying "No, no, no this can't be Canada,this can't be what i waited for all these years, couldn't be what we sacrificed so much for, there's just no chance and that's the most painful thing. I'm 23 and rent is a joke,let alone thinking of buying a house🤣you pretty much said it all man. I feel like at some point i will find myself in China again cuz that really felt like second home to me even in rough times. Over here,lack of any sort of support system leaves you hanging when the bills come.
We moved out of canada, early 2023 honestly best decision… soo much happier here in the Philippines. Plus the unlimited sunshine that i couldn’t get in BC
I pay taxes as much as anyone. My salary gets me through the month and I can't have any savings. I live in a 1 room + 1 bathroom apartment that doesn't even have a kitchen. I studied for 3 years through the lockdowns to get a better paying job, but for every single job there are at least 300 applicants. Due to all the stress and economic problems, I recently had a hormonal imbalance and tried to find a doctor. After 14 months and 5 referrals I finally found a specialist. It turns out that my condition "isn't covered" by the government and I had to shell out $500 for every injection despite paying exorbitant taxes for the promise of "free" healthcare. I used to work in another country and used to drive a brand new Nissan Maxima. I thought that migrating to Canada would be mutually beneficial to both myself and the country. It turns out that Canada is a scam. I came here with almost $90,000 and now living paycheck to paycheck. Now I'm looking for every opportunity to escape but can't even afford moving away. Avoid coming here at all costs.
Canada's basic treatment of me has sped the world closer to extinction faster than any other factor in history. But if I had not been harmed so badly, this planet would possibly become sustainable. At minimum, the human lifespan doubles, and we have 10x on anything Musk is able to imagine.
I agree I left Canada in 2010 because same reason, bad health system expansive life cost , difficult to find professional job in my career and much more ….
I wish people would quit saying the Canadian medical system is free. The so-called free system is in bad shape right now. I'll take a mix of private public like most other countries have now! You may not pay out of pocket for medical services,but you pay very high taxes to support it.
And the irony is Canadians will complain, but don't ever suggest changing it. They will defend it to the death. "You'll be taking money out of the public system" and so on with the arguments they make. I live in a large US city and there are no less than 5 Urgent Care clinics near my home where you can walk in without an appointment and see a doctor within 20 minutes. I had to use the ER a few times with my Mom and we never waited more than 30 minutes to see a doctor,
I am kinda new to Canada and I have no idea how was the atmosphere before years, but as a person who lived in eastern Europe before, it was culturally rich, everything was interesting. But here in Canada it just a country who have no color always make me feel empty from inside, a land with bunch of people divided to tribes, as the news said, lack of self belonging, everyone is just disconnected from this land and Canadian flag means nothing to many people.
So true, growing up I never figured out what it meant to be Canadian. There just wasn't any defining cultural attributes, probably because it's such a new country and it literally spent the first hundred years getting rid of the indigenous characteristics of the land
@@Kingeducates I think there was some culture or canadian way of living back in the day, now when new people come here they find no dominant culture to adjust to, and as you said every one join his group.
I moved from Vancouver to Hong Kong decades ago. Our household income tax is 6%. We have Universal healthcare and free medicine and even better, we have access to Private hospitals which makes our healthcare system more efficient than Canada's. With our household income tax at 6% I can comfortably say Healthcare is free in Hong Kong. Property is considered very expensive in HK but the mortgage rates are quite low so we had no problems buying a place in HK. Besides, high salaries and low taxes easily negates high property prices. Cost wise, whenever my friends in Canada ask me how much we save in one of the most expensive places to live in the world, I tell them my wife and I can save between 50% to 70% of our Gross income every year. Or even simpler, what we save in Hong Kong in one year is equivalent to six years of savings in Vancouver if we were earning the same salaries in Canada. Last count there are 300,000 non-resident Canadians in Hong Kong.
Good comment about your multicultural community in China. I found the same when, in the 80s I moved to Hong Kong to work for awhile. And there, I soon found myself in a community of Australians, Canadians, Indians, South Africans, Brits, and the occasional Chinese person. Back then, while I loved southeast Asia, I saw Canada as a relative paradise, where everything worked, you could get an education, a job and a life. Now, that's all slipping away. Or worse, it's transitioning into a totalitarian slum. With nice scenery. Sadly, much can be said about the rest of the anglosphere.
“[Canada] is transitioning into a totalitarian slum” You do realize, don’t you, that China is literally a totalitarian state? Canada has its economic and social problems but it is still nominally a democracy.
Born and raised here in Canada, but not proud anymore and embarrassed by my government. I would move to the USA in a heartbeat if I could get citizenship there.
Hello, interesting; you are among so many people I have met who have left Canada and hold no plans to return. Asa Canadian I left almost 9 years ago and have not returned not even for a visit and I don't miss it one tiny bit. I left for the same reasons you sited and a I did not see a future in Canada and not on the stupid pensions that I am currently receiving I would have ended on the sidewalks begging for change. Best decision i ever did in my life....
Excellent observations! 🙏🏽👍👏 I left Canadá 23 years ago after 25 years of living in both east and west coast of Canada! I would never consider going back. Good for you !🙏🏽💐👏
I’m leaving for the same reason. I’m looking for better education for my daughter. I’m done with the politics and lifestyle. Especially in Prairie County Alberta. I’ve had my taste of living in both Europe and China. My kid has the option to go anywhere and I’m not going to let us just stick to small town Canada and trying to make the best in only Canada. The whole world is available!
Canada never had the economies of scale that US had. The only watertight compartments that kept the ship afloat in the past were housing and cost of living. Now, they're flooded too.
Canadians were always highly taxed compared with Americans, but Canadians are now taxes like Scandinavians without the social services and securities. Salaries in Canada have been stagnated for decades and employee benefits are constantly eroded (i.e., pensions, etc.). Canada is run very divisively and is ineffective as a cohesive nation since provinces having too much power (and not enough national economic and social cohesion). University education is financially unattainable to many young Canadians now.
Yeah I remember having to wait 6 months in line to get an MRI in Canada...in China you get it the day you got to the doctor and results come the same day if you got it in the morning....
@@Anomalyy666 Depends on the city. In the big cities, rents are similar to Canada - but the company usually pays for it or covers a large part. Living expenses can be as cheap or as expensive as you want. A regular meal outside costs $6CAD, eating at home is even cheaper but you can also go eat Omakase with fish flown in same day from Japan for $300. I pay around $30 for electricity, phone. gas and water altogether. I probably spend $2000-$3000/month with a family of 3 but I am NOT trying to save.
I’ve read a lot of the comments here and find myself agreeing with many of them. Most complaints revolve around high taxes, living and housing expenses. What isn’t being discussed so much are the root causes of the malaise. Why have things gone downhill so much, and especially during the reign of the current government? What are their underlying ideological paradigms? Once we recognize the intimate connection between this ideological platform and the decline of overall quality of life and the divisions in evidence, we can get a clearer picture. The current prime minister, is the son of a former prime minister. The latter was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party of Canada in his younger days. Eventually, he realized that as a card-carrying communist he would not amount to much politically, and that he needed to cover up the outside red spots on his skin. So he joined the Liberal party. Ideologically speaking, his son, the current prime minister, is a chip of the old block - albeit totally lacking his father’s intellect! In a nutshell: Canada’s malaise is the direct result of the application of Fabian Socialism (the introduction of socialism through piece meal implementation, bit, by bit, by bit) and the accompanying Cultural Marxism that pervades all social engineering initiatives. And for those of you thinking that things are better in Europe - think again! You would only jump from the fire into the frying pan. Things are just as bad there, or soon will be. Another reason I would not consider moving to Europe is their proximity to military flashpoints.
Sounds like "The Two Solitudes" has become "The Multiple Solitudes". I'm an ex-pat Canadian living in Australia. I don't know, I think the world is changing fast and I no longer believe in anything called "the best country in the world". I think times are getting tough everywhere.
I wish more Canadians would travel more. I think it’s healthier to see Canada in relation to their own views of the world. I have lived all my life in Canada. Not in my old age I find we live in a country that was worked over by the wealthy in similar manner to the USA, and somehow combined with a socialist mindset the population has been handed into even more punitive for working class struggling members of society. Just like in the US we not only have a mindset of being cared for by the liberal thinking but even business has adopted a system of putting their failures on a bail out system to the point where a pandemic lines their pockets and gives them an opening to put customers on a downward path of smaller sized merchandise at the same time as they raise prices to gouge by double the appeared amount. Things have really gone right ghtward.. and now people are faced with choosing a government that will join business by corruption to make things even worse. Canada is entering a very tough time for it’s workers.
Fellow chinese born canadian here also.As a registered nurse new grade in Vancouver BC my base would be 40.51 CAD(29.4USD) and pay for parking I moved to Vancouver WA, USa and my rate is 50USD (68CAD), that's a 70% increase and thats with the recent raise BC nurses got since new grads used to start at 36cad. Rent is marginally more pricey but im getting paid alot more so its fine. in addition ,there is state income tax in WA. I worked my ass off for a year and ignoring my savings i accumulated while living in canada I was able to save up for 20% for a home to make a great downpayment. 1 million CAD in vancouver bc would get 1k sq 2bed apartment with high fees while that same amount in washington would get a very nice large home.BC may be a nice place to visit due to its nature but certainly not a great place to make a living. It's uncanny that I with 1 year of RN experiences is earning more than all the other RNs in BC with 30 years experience since their base pay caps at 57.8. Good for you for having a career that allows you to earn a first world salary while having expenses of a developing country.
@@Gloryboyquan Get a VPN (Astrill is the only good one), Set-up non-residency so you're not paying tax to Canada. Get ready for culture shock. Make sure you have a savings plan so you're not spending everything you make (no pension here)
@@Gloryboyquan You only pay tax in Canada if you are a resident of Canada. If you declare non-residency, you don't have to pay tax to Canada. You'd only have to pay tax to China.
I’m in the US and your reasons apply here too. Pretty awesome to get a Canadian salary in China. Never thought about working for a company in the states but actually doing the work abroad. Sounds really awesome the way you describe it.
Virtual Boundaries! Yes. I try so hard to be friends and not just white but with other races as well, mostly Canadians but they just don't respond and remain closed off. They'd rather die alone, create stupid groups to meet people but just as an acquaintance. Like in my group, we just walk together on a hike. Hardly anyone talks, or makes jokes, nothing. We all just move from point A to B. Now I know, locals don't owe me anything but getting a decent reply is a right for everyone who is behaving nicely. Nobody makes an effort to make friends. Every single joke offends someone, especially women and then their simp boyfriends try to become white knight. I might move to some European country later in my life. US is a bit better. People are more friendly and open. If Trump wins, I might as well think to move there. Hope to meet people who actually know how to reciprocate!
Brilliant. Really enjoyed your video. Totally agree with you. Especially on your last point. I too left to return back to Italy. Best decision I've ever made.
Canada has more than enough problems right now, and there's a wide range of opinions on how to solve them. Nevertheless, Canada is our home...for most of us, our only home. It's a home we care about deeply. It sounds like Canada was a home that you were never really committed to - probably for the best for both you and this country that you made a permanent move.
As a former refugee to Canada, I made great Chinese friends in Lebanon before moving here that were closer to me than most people here. I agree with you about the liberal ideology. It's crazy what we're funding with our tax dollars instead of getting a proper treatment when going to the ER.
Not to mention the cold and darkness of Canada. This is one place that could use some global warming, Trudeau should be paying us to produce carbon emissions here.
Great content! I share many similarities and thoughts as you and wanted to work in China. Can you please share some guidance on finding jobs as a foreign (I’m native Chinese as well) and how did you manage to find a high paying job with accommodations? What are some in demand industry for foreigners? I much appreciate your advice! Many thanks
Teaching is always in high demand here (if you're good). However, the high paying teaching jobs are mainly high school positions in established curriculums (IB/A Levels) and require experience and teaching certs. Platforms like Search Associates facilitate those opportunities. Those jobs can pay around 120k + accomodations. I wouldn't go for an English teaching position in a training center as a career move. Other than that, foreigners have started restaurants, and all sorts of other businesses here. If you work for a multinational with a branch in China, you can look to get transferred. Once your foot is in the door, the whole country becomes very accessible.
Thanks for sharing, wow I didn’t know they would pay up to 120k (with Canadian currency and accommodation, you must be living like a king there!) do you have a discord/telegram channel for like-minded individuals to connect? Thanks!
It's definltely more covert in Canada. Most in China I've talked to know about censorship and the kinds of things being censored. That said, I can't really make a judgment on better or worse. I feel like any metric we could use to measure that is influenced by multiple variables.
I agree with some of the things you are saying about Canada. It has become very political. The current liberal government has taken this country in a direction that has been terrible economically and socially. Also, you are representing China as this non-racist society. However, it's quite easy to look non-racist when your country is 99%ethnic Chinese still. If foreigners made up 25% of the Chinese population, things there would become very different, I believe.
If you'd rather live in a communist dictatorship than Canada, this tells us all we need to know about you and I stopped watching at 1:01 after you said this nonsense. Now try to criticize China where you're at and see what happens.
Every country has its problems, I just picked the one with problems that don’t affect me. To each their own man, if Canada works for you then you do you🎉
typical wasted frozen redneck, all the freedon convoy got their bank accounts frozen, now protest all u want after all u paid it in tax, brain dead Canadian, the weather froze ur brain cells
I was born here in Canada and have lived here my whole life. I never thought id eventually become so unhappy with the state of Canada id want to leave!! But here i am, trying to find ways to "escape". Im curious what your doung as a career to find the financial freedom you had mentioned in your video to move to China?? I've had a very difficult time finding international employment
I teach! Teaching is a notoriously underpaid, and underappreciated job in North America, but in top schools in Asia, teachers are well-respected and well-paid (often at a lower cost of living, too!)
I think Canada is the book that should not be judged by its cover. In terms of infrastructure and beauty, it is truly remarkable and a place where one would like to live. But, that's not all. Just like how they say, in Marriage, love is not the only thing that matters. Canada has an extremely high cost of living, housing is unaffordable and if it is, then it's very small in SQ foot. Crime rates are increasing, due to a bad economy, good businesses and restaurants are closing, but cannabis shops and dispensaries are opening in replacement. Granville street and many others have shaky incidents daily, there are tons and tons of homless people on the street, some of which are injecting themselves with needles(I have witnessed). The cops are never to be seen around except for when you hear a siren probably around 10 times daily from my apartment building window. The youth is completely ruining themselves with the amt of drugs and other bad influences. Plus no one is receiving good jobs, or if they are then they are receiving it at a 40-50% haircut. Also, I have only seen international people genuinely care about people and be empathetic. Also, the healthcare system sucks. We don't have enough doctors and the govt has'nt done shit. I have changed 5 family doctors in 4 years as everyone keeps leaving. Not the same dream I had once imagined it to be in the early 2000s.
I’m not a Canadian, but the Canadian said I haven’t contact with ( and I will caveat these are people who probably have had four bears that have been there for several generations so they’re not recent immigrants some other countries) Have a quietly found places and jobs in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Although jobs and salaries are lower housing is very affordable there and you do not have the urban stress that you do like in Ontario or Quebec and it’s not a place that many new immigrants are going to be attracted to so you get a relatively good quality life and in the case of Nova Scotia, you have a Maritime environment so the winters are severe. That’s not true for New Brunswick. This might be a good option for including Prince Edward Island
I do think that's a pattern where I am too. People are becoming fed up with the unaffordability and anonymity of the big cities and are opting for a less stressful slower life in less urban areas
I am a white 33 year old Canadian woman. I am SOOOOO ready and wanting to leave and honestly I would be but I have my dog here with me and I am not sure I can give her up, but I have a friend who always looks after her anyways. Canada is a failure to say the least. I can't seemt o get ahead here. Our PM is a total goof clown, I wish I didn't have so much stuff as I think I would try thailand. It will be my dream in my near future to leave this place. Wish me luck on doing this.
I left Canada is 2014 and go back mutible times a year. I first planned on moving back someday. But the last 5 years Canada has gone down hill badly. The cost of living is one way but it is also the culture. Canada has become a nanny state. Freedom is being detiriated. The country is devided between the elite and everyone else. It makes me sad to say i will probally never move back
Main problems I see: 1)tax is high but not going enough to improve service, infrastructure, housing . 2)tax dollars are being spent on the rest of the worlds problems. 3)immigration and refugee numbers are way too high for major cities to support (housing, services, etc) 4)brain drain because of 1) 5)lack of innovation probably due to 4)
Totally agree. I love Canada and was born and raised there. I left 10 years ago but come back every summer. While I enjoy my Toronto summers, my wallet is always happy to get back to Europe.
My boy friend is from New Zealand, he recently he arrived to my place in Mex, he did a stop over in Vancouver for a couple of days, and he got freaked our with the cost of living and homeless. We are living in México for good, since we have a home in the woods, we cant afford living in NZ nor any other western country. It is hectic every where. 😢
I would really be interested to live 1 year in China just to try. I just don't know if I might find jobs there (I don't speak mandarin for the moments but I'm not bad at language learning). Do you recommend to come to China ?
as Kingeducates suggest, do some scouting around differnt parts of China, I'd suggest do it seasonally, because some parts in China get REALLY cold like -40 cold. But is lovely in the spring and summer.
I was in the same situation you are in, I kept about 80% of my salary when I was in China as an Canadian expat for 10 years and I got 3 months off a year paid full salary which we would be in Thailand for January and February. I came back to this hellhole in 2021 and not only am I not able to save any of my wages, I have to live hand to month and pay about 2400cad a month for a 2 bedroom apartment. On top of that I absolutely hate the lifestyle here. There is no life here. But one question, how are you able to handle your kids education? Because the only reason I left China was because I didn't want my kids to go to school there, the education system is quite distasteful and filled with communist propaganda. My older kid turned 9 when we came back here but he is integrated quite well now..
I definitely have the benefit of being Hong Kong/Canadian, so my kids can "fit in" wherever they go to school. I also find that the high school kids I work with who've been through the CN education system aren't blindly nationalist at all. They know they're going abroad, so they have to be able to look at issues from multiple perspectives. From what I hear, the primary years in China aren't that bad because grades aren't a focus yet (depends on the school) so I mainly want my kids to have the language foundation. That said, one of my students literally just got into Cambridge, and many of them have offers from UBC/UT, so I'm actually not that certain anymore if going to back to Canada would be the best move. I originally planned to move back to Canada with my kids in grade 4/5 but it depends on how "woke" the education system is by then - I don't really like the direction it's headed (personal outside opinion). If that doesn't work out, I also always have the option of going to work for an international school for foreign passport holders in China, or an international school in Hong Kong/Macau/Singapore. For example, ISB Shunyi pays their teachers 120k+ CAD + accommodations, and they are K-12. If I end up in a school like that, I definitely wouldn't go back. This UA-cam channel is also my attempt at seeing if I can eventually get some side income - because let's be honest, anywhere can be a good place to live if you have the money. It's not that Canada is a "horrible" place, it's just that we're going back to a place where we're paying more in taxes and things are 5x more expensive, so there's no way we'd be more comfortable.
I'm actually thinking about moving abroad again. Last year I got a job offer in Malaysia teaching the same subject I was teaching in China, unfortunately, I turned it down because things were not settled here yet but once my wife gets things settled, Ex. becomes more proficient in English, passes her drivers license, can navigate around without my help, I'm thinking of taking off again.
Moved back to Canada 5 years ago after living in Denmark for 13 years. Worst move of my life! I used to be a proud Canadian. Not so much anymore. Take good care 🙏
You too!
What do you like more about Denmark?
Credit goes to Trudaue
@@Maxschellenbergeverything
What's your next move?
I was born and raised in Canada. I moved to Thailand with my wife and kids 2 years ago, and I am so much happier here.
Canada sucks
Fire🔥
Glad to know u made a killing in crypto and are living the high life in Thailand, hope to join you one day.
Exactly me, 2-kids, wife, Thailand...except I left Canada in 2005. I've always found "Canada" in the nature and do go back every summer for the fresh air, camping,fishing, hiking ect...as the old saying goes...'it's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there".
I know a few families that had money who sold their house, packed up and left Canada in the last few years
@@DeusExMachina50 one family went back to Europe where they are from, the other family went to Japan
Canada is no longer a promised land. Back in the 70s and 80s, it was.
Used to be so peaceful
You can thank our treasonous leaders
Not for First Nations people.
It was 'til the mid 1980's.
Exactly:/
Correct on all points. It’s no longer a promised land. Rather, it has become a very strange craphole I no longer recognize.
It was so peaceful growing up. We were all actually really nice to each other back then
You're an exception and I love your video.
You make.
Sense.
We see it
I believe the US where I live in is going in the same direction as Canada.
@@unknown-xf4ko while USA definitely has problems, I don't think it will go in the same direction as Canada. One of the main problems of Canada is being a neighour of USA, a country that is many times richer than Canada. So, even though Canada tries to get skilled educated immigrants, most of those immigrants eventually move to USA. And, USA is very hesitant to get immigration(especially if Trump wins)
it never was. people who build this country took huge risks because they knew they had a backbone and skills they could rely on. All this "promise land BS" is LAZY WEAK CHILDREN WHO WANT TO STEAL A CUSHY LIFE FROM OTHER PEOPLE WHO WORK HARD FOR IT. get outta here!!!!!!
Here's another reason to leave Canada ... what sort of people vote in Justy Trudeau THREE TIMES?? Actually life was still quite good in 2015.
Yeah, growing up in Canada was good times.
Trudeau was PLACED into his position by the WEF! Stop bitching and blaming citizens and START researching the WEF/WHO/UN GLOBALISTS AGENDAS and the role of the CCP in Canada. Citizens have little control over the elections, they're just voting because we're supposed to be a democracy. The governments are being manipulated by foreign entities. DO THE RESEARCH!
Yes what sort of person votes Wacko in 3 times.
People with their head up their ass !
I was waiting for a MAGAt wannabe to bring politics into this...
I guess you just couldn't keep it in ...
What else ? Tell us all of the people and things you hate... Come on, don't be shy... You little social media conspiracists have lots of things to rant about...
Nazis do
Agreed, born and raised in Canada, but have my plan to leave. It’s gotten so bad over the years.
Looking forward to you sharing your experiences seeing the world!
hard to get a visa elsewhere though unless you already have citizenship
I'm a immigrant from a middle income country.. Let me tell you, older people in my country still have the mentality of the 80s and 90s where countries like Canada were truly better places.. In 2024, Canada isn't so much better than my own country.. On the contrary, I see people in my own country able to save more money (less taxes), have better healthcare and education, are happier and of course better weather.. But sometimes I don't know, may be it's mainstream media or social media or Hollywood, people STILL think Canada is a better country... I spend a lot of time telling them, Canada is a scam!! You'll become a miserable wage slave taxed to the bones
The crazy thing is it actually used to be good. How did things turn out like this?
@@Kingeducates, Trudeau is the short answer.
@@boohoo4962😂😂😂
@@Kingeducatesmass immigration and woke government
Well, I think because if you compare it to the UK, France, Italy, its doing better, its getting worse in many part of the world and depends on were people are coming from
Moved from France to Canada, spent about 8 years here.
Planning to move with my wife and kids in Asia. Too much things change here, even in few years. We pay so much taxes and don't even have a family doctor. We pay so much taxes and everything is breaking... It's not possible anymore.
Best wishes! Hope you find a good place for you and your family!
Why not in france
@@musafir123 Violence, corruption, democracy breaking, inflation, healthcare breaking, education breaking etc... I think we will travel and see ...
planning to go live in asia also.
What are the reasons not going back to France?
Which Asian country are you going to live?
I raised kids as a single mom in poverty here in Canada. After they were raised, I lived like a refugee and saved 32,000 dollars and it's not ever mere enough to buy anything. I can't even buy a home with it. Back in the day, you could!
32000 would be a years worth of living comfortably where I am, but it would barely cover rent in a place like Vancouver - nonetheless Kudos to you for raising your kids like a boss and not being in the red! Mad respect to all parents out there.
And this $32000 is likely you made out of your ex paid (child & spousal support )or he was paying that and you were able to save from your job. That's another butter truth of Canadian life . Women most of the times misuse the system & abuse their husbands .
I’m thinking about moving to Mexico. Every day I hear about people trying to leave.
Go for a few weeks, see what it is like.
*Mexico is expensive as hell and extremely underdeveloped. Dating there is also pain in the a22. And ppl there are also anti-social. The water is extremely dirty. you need to make at least 2K USD a month to live an okay life. Or else you gonna have to share rooms in third-world housing.*
You're correct, Canada is a country of divided mini societies. People branch off based on religion, cutural ancestry, race and at times social activism or political activism.
100% my experience growing up - which I don't think should be the norm. I've met and become friends with so many nice people from other religions, ethnicities and cultures after moving abroad
Its a sad truth. I feel the same way. I like people but it is hard to mingle
Hence the failure of multi-culturalism.
@@Kingeducatessame in the U.K. mate, in the U.K. not a single white English person has EVER willingly talked to me even though I’ve been here since 2015 and already became a citizen of the U.K., I’m originally from Ukraine and see how people treat any foreigner here, unless you’re a doctor, then you’re good
@@Templar.Knight-Reaper :(
Honestly, the only thing worth having in Canada is the passport. Life is miserable here for most people i'd assume.
Check😂
European passport is good too. At least no visa for many countries.
@@Carolinapetroska the problem with Europe, no efficient immigration programs, the best choice now is Australia
@@Human23-s5roh no, Australia is even worse than Canada people wise
strong passport but it's also no use if we can't save enough to travel abroad cause we've just survived in Canada
America was like a true melting pot to me, but Canada is like a Bento box where everything is divided into its own compartment.
I get what you mean, except I like Bento boxes! Haha!
Multiculturalism has always been a failure every world leader has admitted it at one time or another
I loved living in America after living in Canada. I do not like their foreign policy but still you could opeşy talk with Amerşicans about anything. There is no way to talk anything with people in Canada. They are sooo brain washed .
Australia is the same. Bento box.
From Montreal, Taxes on salary + Taxes on houses + Taxes on everything you buy = 60% taxes on your income, this is crazy.
I'm really hoping it gets better the next decade
now the carbon tax moooooore money in the pockets of the gangsters we call the "government"
@@lovetodaylisa3967 And the millions of dollars they paid to develop the ArriveCan app is mind blowing
3.2 BILLION for wars but only 600 MILLION in LOANS for Canadian home builders. Think about that.
3.2 BILLION for 🇺🇦 but only 600 MILLION in LOANS for Canadian home builders. Think about that.
I'm a 64 year old white Canadian. When you said you might get some eye-rolling over that last point, it's exactly how I feel. I do my eye-rolling at all the offended whining garbage that everybody started to have a snowball effect with until it seems to have taken over the society. If I was younger I would leave but not be stupid enough to think that the grass is always greener on the other side. I know that there would be things that I might not like in another place and that there are things that I'd miss here but the attitudes as you mentioned with being offended and insane liberal ideas that are being shoved down everybody's throats is enough to wipe your hands and be done with. I can't leave because I'm barely surviving on a pension, don't own my own home so I rent and have virtually no disposable income. The only country I've ever visited outside of Canada has been the United States and the last time was over twenty years ago. I had to retire because of a handicap so I can't work any longer. I quite literally have to count pennies when spending any money which after my rent and bills is only food. So even an equivalent place would be fine as it would free up a little bit of my money because the cost of everything here has skyrocketed and seems to be on an upward trajectory that appears to never come back down to earth.
Once costs go up, they just don't come back down...and it doesn't look like inflation will get any better. I honestly think you're in a scary situation and hope that wherever you're renting is reliable - trying to find a new place to live now is both difficult and expensive. No one should have to work and pay taxes for most of their lives only retire to struggle financially...Canada shouldn't have turned out like this...In my humble opinion, the first order of things would definitely be to save up some kind of emergency fund while thinking about options for income that don't conflict with the pension - I don't want to sound like I'm preaching, especially not to someone who's so much more experienced in life than me, but the thought of things continuing to become more expensive for you with no end in sight genuinely makes me worried about you and the many others in your position. In terms of place, many places in SE Asia are a fraction the living costs of Canada - but the language barrier is real, culture shock is real, and the initial expense of moving there is also very real.
Yes I agree with your advice. My mother is in a similar situation and I worry for her. We moved to Mexico a few years ago and we are so happy we did it while we still could. Had we stayed we would have eventually been forced to liquidate everything just to live. Also, we wanted better for our daughter who was 14 when we moved. The woke culture is gross.
@@calvinconcepts It's a blessing to have options
That does sound like a fun retirement. I hope you find some abundance in the future
How come at 64 you don’t have your own home?
What is Canada's fastest growing export ?
a) Our vehicles
b) our money to Ukraine
c) young well educated , motivated people with a strong work ethic
d) Our intellectual property
e ) all of the above
😢
the vehicle export business is theft of vehicles and then exporting them.
Addendum to part (a) Stolen vehicles going overseas.
Left Canada and moved back a few years back. The biggest mistake ever! Working hard to leave again. I must escape!
That's why I'm wary of moving back
I left Canada about 6 years ago and I don't intend to go back there. Not even for visiting. Not even for flight connections. Canada sucks.
Glad you found your happy place
I live 40 minutes from downtown Toronto. I went for a short drive today into Toronto and was shocked at how much trash and garbage I saw on the side of the roads in Toronto. Toronto was never like that. Years ago, it was known as one of the cleanest and safest cities in North America. That's over! A once great city is slowly turning into a total sh**hole....
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Moved to Winnipeg from Toronto in 2018. Toronto has always been trash.
@@wordsofjames no, it's different now
you got non whites there in mass
Too many Indians!! Looks more like Mumbai.
Left Canada 10 years ago for Chongqing. Agree 100% on all your points 🎉 it’s cheap and great and I can afford luxurious trips and to be a homeowner why wouldbt I take this deal amiright?
Totally, those that haven't experienced it don't know how good it can be
My wife and I escaped Canada to survive retirement. I paid taxes all my life, raised children worked hard every day in a non unionized job. We lost our home because of the interest rate hikes. Now I am 61, no job pension, no home. I was born in the wrong generation I guess.. there were no government jobs or union jobs available during the 90's when I entered the workforce, and the ones that were available were reserved for women mostly. This is Canada. A janitor working for the government will have a better life than an educated worker competing in the real world and paying back student dept. We are now living in Turkey and trying to survive until I reach 65, after that we will be getting by with 1500$ per month. Had we stayed in Canada, this wouldn't even cover the rent. We would be asking for money on the street and looking through garbage in the morning for bottles and plastic in the middle of January. Thank you Canada. It seems that there are way more important things than to take care of the citizens who contributed all their lives. No wonder that Trudeau setup the "Assistance to suicide" program. There will be an army of people like me with broken lives and no future lining up for self euthanasia.
Hope things work out man! Automate as much as possible in terms of your finances and take out the guesswork!
I'm in my 70's now and have lived all my life in Canada -- But I have seen huge changes, for the worst, related in the whole category of your third point.( many more than you mentioned but very related).
Canada is simply not what it used to be.
It's so sad to see a country lose what once made it so great. When my parents immigrated to Canada, I really saw the joy in their eyes from being able to thrive in a new country. Now my parents are also in their 70s, and avoid going out unless absolutely neccessary because it just isn't as safe anymore
Just arrived to Toronto, a month ago and the first thing I've noticed was that what you actually talking about. Nobody talks to anybody. I live in a small basement with 8 people from all different cultures and they are all like strangers. The first week nobody even say hello to me, was very strange because what everybody talking outside Canada is how inclusive they are here, how happy the life is, how polite, etc. I learn the hard way this first lie and list goes on... The most shocking experience is to see crazy people in the street, multicolor flags on kindergardens, dgur everywhere. Its scarry... Today buying flight ticket to return to my "3rd world country". Regards! new suscriber
Best wishes for you as you try to create the life you want!
I experienced this too in Vancouver. Such a strange place. All inclusively on the outside, alienation and indifference on the inside.
@@darev6780 Same experienced in Ottawa and Quebec. Finally the world is learning that it is all propaganda and lies.
@@fremen Yes, it's hard to integrate into an unresponsive environment
Which contry
After 36 years in Canada, I am moving out. No healthcare here. I am worried. I will miss the clean air, the nice highways, and the kindness of most Canadians. May be a new government will make life more bearable.
Hope a better life awaits!
It's awesome that you want to travel, live or work somewhere other than your country of birth. We are fortunate that we have so many choices. No country will satisfy every desire. Canada is no different.
I left Canada 2 years ago and never felt so good. Finally, I found nicer people and especially more human with good values. My only problem is that it's difficult to take money out of Canada as banks don't want to cooperate. Any ideas ? Everything is a problem with the major canadian banks.
Depends on where the money is going. It’s easy to international transfer to a place like Hong Kong and then the money can go anywhere from there
@@Kingeducates Europe. I have no business with China but intend to get my money back and not leave it in Canada where I cannot do anything interesting with it.
@@Carolinapetroska What about through Paypal, Revolut, Wise? Or I suppose Canadian banks don't link with these platforms.
Bitcoin, with lightning payments. Move any money anywhere anytime.
I'm Canadian. I believe all immigrants who decide to leave should be required to take a citizen with them, because the rest of us also want to leave.
Hahaha! What's stopping you?
@@Kingeducates I'm from Ontario but moving to Newfoundland soon. Trying to sell my condo isn't easy since the market has crashed. I'm over 50 and I think it's harder to start over the older you get. But the cost of living is more reasonable there. This country really isn't what it used to be.
@@Magdalene777 Yeah, the developers halting construction is crazzzzyyyyy - thought that stuff only happened in China
Hah! This is the funniest thing I read all day. I feel it.
My father came to Canada in 1962. With an autobody repairman's salary he bought a house and cottage and put his two sons through university.
Anyone young that comes to Canada now probably can't afford a house without their father's money.
in Vancouver ? :))
@@moykin.e Hamilton
@@basswars7060 What's the situation with his grandchildren?
Canada is a great place if you have a big family friends and a good support system. Back in the 90s and 00s new immigrants could build a good life for themselves because the wages were good and housing was affordable. Now it seems like everyone in Canada is a social justice warrior, no matter what you say you’ll end up offending someone.
The truth is if you don’t have family and a good support system in Canada, your life will be very lonely, because it’s difficult to meet new people and make meaningful relationships. Plus a single income is not enough to build a nest egg for the future in this country.
Friends and money make life easier wherever we live
I always took happiness for granted, my life was so fulfilled with family and friends that I forgot that I wouldn’t have them close in Canada.
Canada used to make up for it with the good cost of life and now that is gone.
I can count the days I have been happy in Canada in the last 7 years in my fingers.
Do not come to Canada unless you have nothing in your country. And even tho I would wait for power to change hands here
Yeah, I hope things get better over the next decade. Being away from family and friends is hard enough.
Canada is the new Eldorado for the French! Burden of taxes, inflation, insécurité, immigration... make French want to move to Canada!
Live in France and you'll miss Canada 😅
I’m 55 yrs old my great grandma came to canada during the potato famin in Ireland. She had my grandmother in a house in Ladner BC . My grandma had my mom and my mom had me and I had my daughter! . My roots go back far in Canada but my bloodline is Irish . Listen in the beginning many people moved here to canada from all parts of Europe and Greece Italy Ireland Scotland England etc we were all very different but we slowly worked together and we became united as one people Canadians !!!! we worked on what we could have in common not what made us different ! We had morals and values and humour and freedom respect and friendship ‘ together ‘ Canadian UNITY WAS OUR STRENGTH. We were one big community called the Canadian community. And we made friends and families together .We mainly had Jesus as our one main rock , we mainly listened to the same music western types music and we would speak English especially in public settings . we thrived with each other and life was affordable fun and united even media was fair. This mass migration that really took a foothold under Trudeau in 2016 has come in and formed enclaves away from the generational Canadians they choose to speak their motherland language in public and prefer to stay with their motherland culture identity and religion and tend to show boat their motherland ways to the Canadians as they don’t seem to project to be Canadian . The mass migration has been brutal to our Canadian fabric and this mass migration has taken a toll on our infrastructure and economy housing culture. Canada is lost ,divided and has fallen sadly. Many patriot type Canadians have stood a long time to continue with uniting this country but our voices are misinterpreted and censored. And mocked by government media and by some nasty lying people! Many patriot type Canadians are now leaving Canada as it no longer is what they represent and remember sadly. Rip Canada 🇨🇦
What a heritage. I don't even think that grandly. For me, the benchmark is just whether or not I want my kids to grow up in Canada.
Thanks for your post. I am saddened by your post. I live in the USA but can totally identify with your experiences. Sadly, the USA has gone down the same path. Mass migration? Huh! The USA has allowed in anywhere from 10 to 20 million "illegal" aliens into the country in just the past 4 years- about 75% the entire population of Canada. What country can survive this level of unabated, unvetted level of mass migration? I visited Canada on many occasions about 15 years ago and I was blown away by the clean streets, polite people and just a seemingly well organized country; but it seems that "wokeness" and all the other ills that have plagued the USA have finally caught up with Canada. If you love your country, my only suggestion is to vote, vote, vote to save it. Because if that doesn't fix the problem, then I'm afraid nothing else will. We are on the brink of finding out if the USA is lost forever!
I’m Canadian working in the U.S. and was thinking of retiring back to Canada. The more I looked into housing, food costs, taxes, health care, immigration etc. the more I said no way. It’s not going to happen anytime soon.
East Asia!
Great video, I'm glad it popped up on my feed. I moved from UK to Canada last April, knowing that the cost of living and housing is unaffordable for most people. My friends back home ask if it is worth it, and my response is always the same "if you can have a household income of >$160k, yes". My partner and I have a household income of over $225k, and we still feel sick looking at the cost of housing and food... but we do have 3 teenagers in the house!
You're in the top 10%, kudos! I'm curious on how your teenagers find the schooling compared to the UK? A Levels I find is a much more rigorous program compared to AP (which many public schools don't even offer) and my perception of the Canadian curriculum is that it is very relaxed
@kingeducates The schooling system is much more laid back, and teachers are given a lot more respect (and pay). I did A-levels also, in physics, chemistry, pure maths and further maths, and I think they were harder.
As a Canadian, stuck here in Canada - you hit the nail on the head so to speak. It's sad but true.
I wish it wasn't
thank you for speaking out! As a life-long Canadian, I couldn't agree more with just about everything you said. There's rarely a day that goes by that I don't ponder other places that I could move my family to.
Hope you get to build a better life for yourself and your family!
Where I grew up in Canada, it felt truly diverse. I am biracial (black/white), and my friend group was Chinese, Indian, black (and/but Jewish - like Drake or Eric Andre), Albanian, Filipino, and white. Non-white groups were never big enough to form exclusive ethnic cliques.
Now, where I live, and amidst all of the migration, I have a much harder time connecting with people because culturally, they’re not Canadian, and all of the culturally Canadian people are leaving, it seems. In my neighborhood, it feels like most people are recent immigrants.
The last four years have been strange. Feels like a totally different country. Places cost twice as much; groceries cost twice as much; and your neighbors don’t talk to you because they’re economic migrants.
Whenever my wife and I are out and we are talking loudly, white people often like to chime in because they hear we don’t have accents and they’re longing for a sense of community, I think. It’s not about race as much as it is about culture.
Culture plays such a huge part - I go back to Canada every 2 years and the change for me has been sudden and drastic, not the gradual kind from being there every day
Canada is now officially Panderstan and it's official language ESL.
:o
Canada used to be good. If my health was better and I was younger, I'd seriously think about moving to Russia. I don't believe the wartime propaganda that is everywhere. Canada used to be...me. But it was taken away from me without being asked what I thought about it, and changed into something I no longer recognize or like. Oh well.
I speak my mind and what I believe to be the truth and UA-cam continuously shadow-bans me. I'm not sure why. Though I have a pretty good idea.
I hope you get to go see the place for yourself if you still have the chance :) even if it's just a short trip
I am very curious about Russia. But the language is so different. It even has an entirely different alphabet!
@@mezzuna Just go visit when things calm down a little :)
Russian want out 😂. Cold AF.Depressed place.@@mezzuna
I am Ukrainian temporarily residing in Canada. Though I like Canada so far I would go back to Ukraine if no war...
I agree on everypoint. No matter how long you stay here, you never truely feel that you belong. There is always this invisible wall. I've lived here for more than two 3rd of my years. At work, i'm always treated as the other, even though i share their political views, Because according to them "chinese people are all liberals and can't be a conservative". WTF. Of course i want Canada to do well, since China does not allow dual citizenship, and i had to give up on my chinese citizenship to become a canadian citizen. Canada is becoming so incredibly backwards. At least in China people are normal, nobody is changing their genders, nobody doing drugs, and police do their job arresting baddies and send them to prison. If China allowed dual citizenship i would rather live in China than here.
I get what you mean. Hope you find your happy place. The world is your oyster :)
Honesty Canada is for many a nightmare right now. I hope things will turn to positive again. To find a job at Tim's has became very lucrative.
Let's hope things do.
Even Tim's has changed for the worse through the years (and it is not Canadian either anymore).
In 2004 I wrote a somewhat famous article called 'Top 8 reasons not to immigrate to Canada'. In short, the Canadian authorities tried to destroy my life. They made it so that I could not be employable in Canada. So I moved to the U.S. in 2005 and then some years later I moved permanently to the Philippines. I am happy that so many years later videos like yours are saying essentially the same things that I did. I was ahead of my time. I will never go back to Canada. Not to live, not to visit, not even a connecting flight. Too cold, too expensive, taxes are astronomical, no culture, no freedom, no jobs, no opportunities, only modern slavery, worst healthcare system, unbearable political correctness, crime infested/drug infested, xenophobic people, too depressing. It has become a North Korea style dictatorship in the western world.
Their are many reasons why Canada has fallen apart. But the number one reason is ‘multiculturalism’. My friends, multiculturalism simply does not work. Different cultures do not come together and mix, different cultures come together and clash. The world is divided into different countries for a reason: because people hate each other and only want to be with their own kind. The number two reason for Canada’s demise is ‘socialism’. In this modern era of aging populations, it is mathematically impossible for socialism to continue. The government does not have the money to take care of old people and provide healthcare, pensions and the various other benefits, even with the astronomical taxation that burdens hard working Canucks. Well Canada, you had a good run. Time for Canucks to move to an emerging country. We welcome you here in Southeast Asia.
This stuff definitely didn't hit as hard when I was growing up - too protected within my own microcosm to notice, but when I now look at the big picture, the problems are glaring for sure.
In 2004 it was an excellent country. Things start to change in last 8 years. Now you can definitely write your article with 20 reasons..)
@@juliai.6037 Hahaha, yes you are correct. I can extend my list from 8 reasons to perhaps 15 or 20.
Indeed, Canada sucks right now and the government is so xenophobic and mean, putting a ban on foreign buyers when Canadians freely buy the rest of the world without any problems or scrupulous.
Could you elaborate more on moving to the Philippines? Just in general, reasoning, what is it like? Culture, job market?
I tried for 6 years to get my wife and two young daughters here from Mexico. Now I finally got them up here after dealing with our dysfunctional immigration system. Now I have them here and it’s too expensive to live here. I’ve been thinking about it wrong. I should have been working towards me moving there. There’s nothing left here. This country is failing. I can still work here but I don’t want to live here permanently.
Better late than never! The world is so big, and there are so many things to see.
Grew up in Montreal, moved to Toronto in the 80’s. Left for Alberta 2 years ago. Seriously considering moving back to my home country in the Caribbean.
Perfectly valid
All your reasons are absolutely correct, good for you for moving. I was born in Canada and currently live there but travel often. I think Canada is a huge mess caused by the Liberal government. I can't stand it here. Wayyyyyyyyyyy too expensive. We are looking for a place to move because we are retired.
Where were you thinking?
@@Kingeducates A lot of Canadians have emigrated to California . . . but that was back in the day.
@@user-k4d-e59mo28oc was easier to make a life in cali back then
I wish you all the best! I was born and raised in Canada and have never felt like I belong here - I can't wait to figure out how to leave and find out where 'home' is to me. Regarding your third point, you're not wrong!!
Best of luck! I’m sure something will work out for you!
What you mentioned
Is nothing but just a marketing perception. You buy a house and you keep on paying interest all your life. The house is about 4k and you pay more than double on it for your life and when you are done payment, house is no more in a condition to live because its life has gone too much. If you couldn't pay the mortage every moth, the bank will hit your credit score making hard for your finance anything next time. So you have to keep yourself above the line of poverty in any case.
Buying a house is having an elephant at home; mortgage, power bill, phone bill, internet bill, water and inland bill. In taxes you pay a big amount every year in property tax and income tax, then you pay whatever you buy or get services, you pay General Sales and or Provincial tax. When you sell a home, if your profit is more than some specific amount, govt takes away 60% of that extra profit. Insurance wherever is private is crazily high and a lot manipulation.
Your job in Canada is juat to work and pay taxes to the government and government can send that money for Ukrain aid to fight against Russia. That's the best use of taxpayer money has been found.
The bankers sound like they're happy
Can't believe I'd be commenting on one of these. I'm in an Msc program.Planned the image and Canadian dream in 2021 after finishing my bachelor's degree in China in 2019. Immediately on landing here in 2023 and seeing the decline firsthand has made me question life and reality cuz I could never understand how something so perfectly painted to outsiders could fail so bad. I kept on saying "No, no, no this can't be Canada,this can't be what i waited for all these years, couldn't be what we sacrificed so much for, there's just no chance and that's the most painful thing. I'm 23 and rent is a joke,let alone thinking of buying a house🤣you pretty much said it all man. I feel like at some point i will find myself in China again cuz that really felt like second home to me even in rough times. Over here,lack of any sort of support system leaves you hanging when the bills come.
Anywhere is nice if we've got the money. Canada just needs alot more money to be nice compared to before..
You should have surfed the internet, especially UA-cam videos, instead of rely on government narratives.
We moved out of canada, early 2023 honestly best decision… soo much happier here in the Philippines. Plus the unlimited sunshine that i couldn’t get in BC
yessssss and the foooood
I pay taxes as much as anyone. My salary gets me through the month and I can't have any savings. I live in a 1 room + 1 bathroom apartment that doesn't even have a kitchen. I studied for 3 years through the lockdowns to get a better paying job, but for every single job there are at least 300 applicants. Due to all the stress and economic problems, I recently had a hormonal imbalance and tried to find a doctor. After 14 months and 5 referrals I finally found a specialist. It turns out that my condition "isn't covered" by the government and I had to shell out $500 for every injection despite paying exorbitant taxes for the promise of "free" healthcare. I used to work in another country and used to drive a brand new Nissan Maxima. I thought that migrating to Canada would be mutually beneficial to both myself and the country. It turns out that Canada is a scam. I came here with almost $90,000 and now living paycheck to paycheck. Now I'm looking for every opportunity to escape but can't even afford moving away. Avoid coming here at all costs.
Your story is not uncommon - hope things get better for you!!!
Canada's basic treatment of me has sped the world closer to extinction faster than any other factor in history. But if I had not been harmed so badly, this planet would possibly become sustainable. At minimum, the human lifespan doubles, and we have 10x on anything Musk is able to imagine.
huhhhhhhhh?
I agree I left Canada in 2010 because same reason, bad health system expansive life cost , difficult to find professional job in my career and much more ….
We're lucky to have been able to move
I wish people would quit saying the Canadian medical system is free. The so-called free system is in bad shape right now. I'll take a mix of private public like most other countries have now!
You may not pay out of pocket for medical services,but you pay very high taxes to support it.
You're right. First rule of economics. No such thing as a free lunch.
And the irony is Canadians will complain, but don't ever suggest changing it. They will defend it to the death. "You'll be taking money out of the public system" and so on with the arguments they make. I live in a large US city and there are no less than 5 Urgent Care clinics near my home where you can walk in without an appointment and see a doctor within 20 minutes. I had to use the ER a few times with my Mom and we never waited more than 30 minutes to see a doctor,
I am kinda new to Canada and I have no idea how was the atmosphere before years, but as a person who lived in eastern Europe before, it was culturally rich, everything was interesting. But here in Canada it just a country who have no color always make me feel empty from inside, a land with bunch of people divided to tribes, as the news said, lack of self belonging, everyone is just disconnected from this land and Canadian flag means nothing to many people.
So true, growing up I never figured out what it meant to be Canadian. There just wasn't any defining cultural attributes, probably because it's such a new country and it literally spent the first hundred years getting rid of the indigenous characteristics of the land
@@Kingeducates I think there was some culture or canadian way of living back in the day, now when new people come here they find no dominant culture to adjust to, and as you said every one join his group.
Canada is colorless; very true.
I’m an American, and to me it sounds like Canada is all the bad things about the US in a hyper-concentrated form.
I do feel like we feed off each other
I moved from Vancouver to Hong Kong decades ago. Our household income tax is 6%. We have Universal healthcare and free medicine and even better, we have access to Private hospitals which makes our healthcare system more efficient than Canada's. With our household income tax at 6% I can comfortably say Healthcare is free in Hong Kong. Property is considered very expensive in HK but the mortgage rates are quite low so we had no problems buying a place in HK. Besides, high salaries and low taxes easily negates high property prices.
Cost wise, whenever my friends in Canada ask me how much we save in one of the most expensive places to live in the world, I tell them my wife and I can save between 50% to 70% of our Gross income every year. Or even simpler, what we save in Hong Kong in one year is equivalent to six years of savings in Vancouver if we were earning the same salaries in Canada. Last count there are 300,000 non-resident Canadians in Hong Kong.
HK is great! Very accessible and you can live a fantastic life.
Good comment about your multicultural community in China. I found the same when, in the 80s I moved to Hong Kong to work for awhile. And there, I soon found myself in a community of Australians, Canadians, Indians, South Africans, Brits, and the occasional Chinese person.
Back then, while I loved southeast Asia, I saw Canada as a relative paradise, where everything worked, you could get an education, a job and a life. Now, that's all slipping away. Or worse, it's transitioning into a totalitarian slum. With nice scenery. Sadly, much can be said about the rest of the anglosphere.
Tough to witness the change over the last decade
“[Canada] is transitioning into a totalitarian slum”
You do realize, don’t you, that China is literally a totalitarian state? Canada has its economic and social problems but it is still nominally a democracy.
Born and raised here in Canada, but not proud anymore and embarrassed by my government. I would move to the USA in a heartbeat if I could get citizenship there.
Takes a while, but you could!
what part of Canada did you live when you were in Canada?
BC - I'm really only able to speak for that locale
@@Kingeducates I think BC or Toronto and the GTA Ontario is exactly the same sh---
Can you share what your job is and why they hired a foreigner over a local? Thanks
I'm teaching an international curriculum in China in English so the employer wants foreigners.
Hello, interesting; you are among so many people I have met who have left Canada and hold no plans to return. Asa Canadian I left almost 9 years ago and have not returned not even for a visit and I don't miss it one tiny bit. I left for the same reasons you sited and a I did not see a future in Canada and not on the stupid pensions that I am currently receiving I would have ended on the sidewalks begging for change. Best decision i ever did in my life....
Glad that you made a better life for yourself!
Yes, Canada is very expensive with high taxes, but one question, have you or did you ever consider visiting or even moving to Moscow, Russia?
Not on my list of places to move, a little too cold, I don't understand the language etc.
Excellent observations! 🙏🏽👍👏
I left Canadá 23 years ago after 25 years of living in both east and west coast of Canada! I would never consider going back. Good for you !🙏🏽💐👏
Oh wow!
I’m leaving for the same reason. I’m looking for better education for my daughter. I’m done with the politics and lifestyle. Especially in Prairie County Alberta. I’ve had my taste of living in both Europe and China. My kid has the option to go anywhere and I’m not going to let us just stick to small town Canada and trying to make the best in only Canada. The whole world is available!
Yeah! Once I actually went and looked around, I realized the whole world is very accessible
Canadians are cold in person, even if you are born in a small town it's difficult to meet Canadians in bigger cities.
So odd!
Canada never had the economies of scale that US had. The only watertight compartments that kept the ship afloat in the past were housing and cost of living. Now, they're flooded too.
Well said
how were you able to find this job that paid for all these things??
The short answer: Search Associates
Canadians were always highly taxed compared with Americans, but Canadians are now taxes like Scandinavians without the social services and securities. Salaries in Canada have been stagnated for decades and employee benefits are constantly eroded (i.e., pensions, etc.). Canada is run very divisively and is ineffective as a cohesive nation since provinces having too much power (and not enough national economic and social cohesion). University education is financially unattainable to many young Canadians now.
Kinda sucks :( The good news is a uni education in Canada is still worth much more than a similar education elsewhere
The free healthcare is a joke. Many people on the waiting lists went to USA for faster life saving treatments 😂
Yeah I remember having to wait 6 months in line to get an MRI in Canada...in China you get it the day you got to the doctor and results come the same day if you got it in the morning....
@@Kingeducateswhat's this cost of living there?
@@Anomalyy666 Depends on the city. In the big cities, rents are similar to Canada - but the company usually pays for it or covers a large part. Living expenses can be as cheap or as expensive as you want. A regular meal outside costs $6CAD, eating at home is even cheaper but you can also go eat Omakase with fish flown in same day from Japan for $300. I pay around $30 for electricity, phone. gas and water altogether. I probably spend $2000-$3000/month with a family of 3 but I am NOT trying to save.
I’ve read a lot of the comments here and find myself agreeing with many of them. Most complaints revolve around high taxes, living and housing expenses. What isn’t being discussed so much are the root causes of the malaise. Why have things gone downhill so much, and especially during the reign of the current government? What are their underlying ideological paradigms? Once we recognize the intimate connection between this ideological platform and the decline of overall quality of life and the divisions in evidence, we can get a clearer picture. The current prime minister, is the son of a former prime minister. The latter was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party of Canada in his younger days. Eventually, he realized that as a card-carrying communist he would not amount to much politically, and that he needed to cover up the outside red spots on his skin. So he joined the Liberal party. Ideologically speaking, his son, the current prime minister, is a chip of the old block - albeit totally lacking his father’s intellect!
In a nutshell: Canada’s malaise is the direct result of the application of Fabian Socialism (the introduction of socialism through piece meal implementation, bit, by bit, by bit) and the accompanying Cultural Marxism that pervades all social engineering initiatives.
And for those of you thinking that things are better in Europe - think again! You would only jump from the fire into the frying pan. Things are just as bad there, or soon will be. Another reason I would not consider moving to Europe is their proximity to military flashpoints.
Sounds like being off the grid is becoming a better and better alternative
Sounds like "The Two Solitudes" has become "The Multiple Solitudes". I'm an ex-pat Canadian living in Australia. I don't know, I think the world is changing fast and I no longer believe in anything called "the best country in the world". I think times are getting tough everywhere.
Yeah, I've learned there's no such thing - only the best country for you and your family in a specific moment in time.
I wish more Canadians would travel more. I think it’s healthier to see Canada in relation to their own views of the world. I have lived all my life in Canada. Not in my old age I find we live in a country that was worked over by the wealthy in similar manner to the USA, and somehow combined with a socialist mindset the population has been handed into even more punitive for working class struggling members of society. Just like in the US we not only have a mindset of being cared for by the liberal thinking but even business has adopted a system of putting their failures on a bail out system to the point where a pandemic lines their pockets and gives them an opening to put customers on a downward path of smaller sized merchandise at the same time as they raise prices to gouge by double the appeared amount. Things have really gone right ghtward.. and now people are faced with choosing a government that will join business by corruption to make things even worse. Canada is entering a very tough time for it’s workers.
Hope things do get better in the coming decade
Fellow chinese born canadian here also.As a registered nurse new grade in Vancouver BC my base would be 40.51 CAD(29.4USD) and pay for parking I moved to Vancouver WA, USa and my rate is 50USD (68CAD), that's a 70% increase and thats with the recent raise BC nurses got since new grads used to start at 36cad. Rent is marginally more pricey but im getting paid alot more so its fine. in addition ,there is state income tax in WA. I worked my ass off for a year and ignoring my savings i accumulated while living in canada I was able to save up for 20% for a home to make a great downpayment.
1 million CAD in vancouver bc would get 1k sq 2bed apartment with high fees while that same amount in washington would get a very nice large home.BC may be a nice place to visit due to its nature but certainly not a great place to make a living. It's uncanny that I with 1 year of RN experiences is earning more than all the other RNs in BC with 30 years experience since their base pay caps at 57.8.
Good for you for having a career that allows you to earn a first world salary while having expenses of a developing country.
Case in point. The economics of Vancouver BC is so problematic. I'm stoked that you made the move and are doing well for yourself!
@@Gloryboyquan Get a VPN (Astrill is the only good one), Set-up non-residency so you're not paying tax to Canada. Get ready for culture shock. Make sure you have a savings plan so you're not spending everything you make (no pension here)
@@Gloryboyquan You only pay tax in Canada if you are a resident of Canada. If you declare non-residency, you don't have to pay tax to Canada. You'd only have to pay tax to China.
Canadian KKK speaking, Canada is weak not 1st world, poverty is not seen cuz of high taxes. Exports are a joke.
It’s work to live here now. A lot of Canadians are leaving for the u.s. our current government is throwing the Canadian standards out the window
Housing is massively cheaper just across the border, and honestly your take-home income for the same job is probably higher.
I’m in the US and your reasons apply here too. Pretty awesome to get a Canadian salary in China. Never thought about working for a company in the states but actually doing the work abroad. Sounds really awesome the way you describe it.
It'd be more awesome to get an American salary in China ;) Depending on your industry, you might be able to work abroad.
Virtual Boundaries! Yes. I try so hard to be friends and not just white but with other races as well, mostly Canadians but they just don't respond and remain closed off. They'd rather die alone, create stupid groups to meet people but just as an acquaintance. Like in my group, we just walk together on a hike. Hardly anyone talks, or makes jokes, nothing. We all just move from point A to B. Now I know, locals don't owe me anything but getting a decent reply is a right for everyone who is behaving nicely. Nobody makes an effort to make friends. Every single joke offends someone, especially women and then their simp boyfriends try to become white knight. I might move to some European country later in my life.
US is a bit better. People are more friendly and open. If Trump wins, I might as well think to move there. Hope to meet people who actually know how to reciprocate!
Hope you do find your happy place!
Brilliant. Really enjoyed your video. Totally agree with you. Especially on your last point. I too left to return back to Italy. Best decision I've ever made.
Glad you made the decision that made you happy! Italy is very high up on the list of places I want to go!
Canada has more than enough problems right now, and there's a wide range of opinions on how to solve them. Nevertheless, Canada is our home...for most of us, our only home. It's a home we care about deeply. It sounds like Canada was a home that you were never really committed to - probably for the best for both you and this country that you made a permanent move.
yeah, I'm just lucky to have options
Bro. Very nicely explain about CANADA, thank you bro.
I want to see China, can u guide me.
That's a great idea. What do you want to know about China?
As a former refugee to Canada, I made great Chinese friends in Lebanon before moving here that were closer to me than most people here. I agree with you about the liberal ideology. It's crazy what we're funding with our tax dollars instead of getting a proper treatment when going to the ER.
Gosh, growing up I thought 6 hours in the ER for anything was normal. It really isn't.
If you just waited little bit longer Canada will become Chine so you would save yourself hustle of going back and forth.
People don't know how good life can get here (and in SE Asia in general) until they live here
Canada is becoming more like India 😂😂😂
Not to mention the cold and darkness of Canada. This is one place that could use some global warming, Trudeau should be paying us to produce carbon emissions here.
oh gosh xD
Great content! I share many similarities and thoughts as you and wanted to work in China. Can you please share some guidance on finding jobs as a foreign (I’m native Chinese as well) and how did you manage to find a high paying job with accommodations? What are some in demand industry for foreigners? I much appreciate your advice! Many thanks
Teaching is always in high demand here (if you're good). However, the high paying teaching jobs are mainly high school positions in established curriculums (IB/A Levels) and require experience and teaching certs. Platforms like Search Associates facilitate those opportunities. Those jobs can pay around 120k + accomodations. I wouldn't go for an English teaching position in a training center as a career move. Other than that, foreigners have started restaurants, and all sorts of other businesses here. If you work for a multinational with a branch in China, you can look to get transferred. Once your foot is in the door, the whole country becomes very accessible.
Thanks for sharing, wow I didn’t know they would pay up to 120k (with Canadian currency and accommodation, you must be living like a king there!) do you have a discord/telegram channel for like-minded individuals to connect? Thanks!
@@jasons9177 I actually don't have a group - you can always shoot me an email at kingeducates@gmail.com. I'd be happy to answer any questions
Here's a question I'm interested in, is the censorship better or worse, in China or Canada?
It's definltely more covert in Canada. Most in China I've talked to know about censorship and the kinds of things being censored. That said, I can't really make a judgment on better or worse. I feel like any metric we could use to measure that is influenced by multiple variables.
This country blows now .... cheers and good luck!
Thanks!
I agree with some of the things you are saying about Canada. It has become very political. The current liberal government has taken this country in a direction that has been terrible economically and socially.
Also, you are representing China as this non-racist society. However, it's quite easy to look non-racist when your country is 99%ethnic Chinese still. If foreigners made up 25% of the Chinese population, things there would become very different, I believe.
I do hope things get better in the coming years - we just need to stick to certain principles that work instead of being so divided and sensitive.
If you'd rather live in a communist dictatorship than Canada, this tells us all we need to know about you and I stopped watching at 1:01 after you said this nonsense. Now try to criticize China where you're at and see what happens.
Every country has its problems, I just picked the one with problems that don’t affect me. To each their own man, if Canada works for you then you do you🎉
typical wasted frozen redneck, all the freedon convoy got their bank accounts frozen, now protest all u want after all u paid it in tax, brain dead Canadian, the weather froze ur brain cells
He is not beholden to the flip side of the coin when he shares his opinion on Canada. Go listen to a political pundit if that is your interest
I was born here in Canada and have lived here my whole life. I never thought id eventually become so unhappy with the state of Canada id want to leave!! But here i am, trying to find ways to "escape". Im curious what your doung as a career to find the financial freedom you had mentioned in your video to move to China?? I've had a very difficult time finding international employment
I teach! Teaching is a notoriously underpaid, and underappreciated job in North America, but in top schools in Asia, teachers are well-respected and well-paid (often at a lower cost of living, too!)
I think Canada is the book that should not be judged by its cover. In terms of infrastructure and beauty, it is truly remarkable and a place where one would like to live. But, that's not all. Just like how they say, in Marriage, love is not the only thing that matters. Canada has an extremely high cost of living, housing is unaffordable and if it is, then it's very small in SQ foot. Crime rates are increasing, due to a bad economy, good businesses and restaurants are closing, but cannabis shops and dispensaries are opening in replacement. Granville street and many others have shaky incidents daily, there are tons and tons of homless people on the street, some of which are injecting themselves with needles(I have witnessed). The cops are never to be seen around except for when you hear a siren probably around 10 times daily from my apartment building window. The youth is completely ruining themselves with the amt of drugs and other bad influences. Plus no one is receiving good jobs, or if they are then they are receiving it at a 40-50% haircut. Also, I have only seen international people genuinely care about people and be empathetic. Also, the healthcare system sucks. We don't have enough doctors and the govt has'nt done shit. I have changed 5 family doctors in 4 years as everyone keeps leaving. Not the same dream I had once imagined it to be in the early 2000s.
There's alot there - but you're right. Canada's changed alot in the last 20 years.
I’m not a Canadian, but the Canadian said I haven’t contact with ( and I will caveat these are people who probably have had four bears that have been there for several generations so they’re not recent immigrants some other countries) Have a quietly found places and jobs in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
Although jobs and salaries are lower housing is very affordable there and you do not have the urban stress that you do like in Ontario or Quebec and it’s not a place that many new immigrants are going to be attracted to so you get a relatively good quality life and in the case of Nova Scotia, you have a Maritime environment so the winters are severe. That’s not true for New Brunswick.
This might be a good option for including Prince Edward Island
I do think that's a pattern where I am too. People are becoming fed up with the unaffordability and anonymity of the big cities and are opting for a less stressful slower life in less urban areas
it's absolutely true that people only flock together with their own communities they never mix and it results in social isolation.
yeah it's a thing
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I am a white 33 year old Canadian woman. I am SOOOOO ready and wanting to leave and honestly I would be but I have my dog here with me and I am not sure I can give her up, but I have a friend who always looks after her anyways. Canada is a failure to say the least. I can't seemt o get ahead here. Our PM is a total goof clown, I wish I didn't have so much stuff as I think I would try thailand. It will be my dream in my near future to leave this place. Wish me luck on doing this.
Good luck! I know friends that have flown pets across the world as a part of their move so I'm sure you'll figure it out
I love Canada and Canadian people, I am a naturalized Canadian, it took a lot of years to feel I belong here but it was worthy.
Glad you found your circle!
I left Canada is 2014 and go back mutible times a year. I first planned on moving back someday. But the last 5 years Canada has gone down hill badly. The cost of living is one way but it is also the culture. Canada has become a nanny state. Freedom is being detiriated. The country is devided between the elite and everyone else. It makes me sad to say i will probally never move back
My thoughts too!
Main problems I see:
1)tax is high but not going enough to improve service, infrastructure, housing .
2)tax dollars are being spent on the rest of the worlds problems.
3)immigration and refugee numbers are way too high for major cities to support (housing, services, etc)
4)brain drain because of 1)
5)lack of innovation probably due to 4)
Basically, the place is becoming unaffordable way too quickly?
Hi, how is your mandarin and are you required to read and write Chinese for your job in China?
My Mandarin is actually decent, but no I don't need to know any Chinese for my job. Many of my colleagues don't know any Chinese and are just fine.
Totally agree. I love Canada and was born and raised there. I left 10 years ago but come back every summer. While I enjoy my Toronto summers, my wallet is always happy to get back to Europe.
Definitely! I'd love to travel around Europe eventually
My boy friend is from New Zealand, he recently he arrived to my place in Mex, he did a stop over in Vancouver for a couple of days, and he got freaked our with the cost of living and homeless. We are living in México for good, since we have a home in the woods, we cant afford living in NZ nor any other western country. It is hectic every where. 😢
Glad you have options ❤
I would really be interested to live 1 year in China just to try. I just don't know if I might find jobs there (I don't speak mandarin for the moments but I'm not bad at language learning). Do you recommend to come to China ?
Depends on the kind of job you end up taking. Maybe visit for a few weeks first, travel around and see if you like the place before committing.
as Kingeducates suggest, do some scouting around differnt parts of China, I'd suggest do it seasonally, because some parts in China get REALLY cold like -40 cold. But is lovely in the spring and summer.
@@Kingeducates My biggest objection to China is the social credit score. That just seems evil to me. Does it bother you?
@@yaimavol Not affected at all by it. I haven’t met anyone that cares. 😐
Finally! Someone is speaking the truth.
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I was in the same situation you are in, I kept about 80% of my salary when I was in China as an Canadian expat for 10 years and I got 3 months off a year paid full salary which we would be in Thailand for January and February. I came back to this hellhole in 2021 and not only am I not able to save any of my wages, I have to live hand to month and pay about 2400cad a month for a 2 bedroom apartment. On top of that I absolutely hate the lifestyle here. There is no life here.
But one question, how are you able to handle your kids education? Because the only reason I left China was because I didn't want my kids to go to school there, the education system is quite distasteful and filled with communist propaganda. My older kid turned 9 when we came back here but he is integrated quite well now..
I definitely have the benefit of being Hong Kong/Canadian, so my kids can "fit in" wherever they go to school. I also find that the high school kids I work with who've been through the CN education system aren't blindly nationalist at all. They know they're going abroad, so they have to be able to look at issues from multiple perspectives. From what I hear, the primary years in China aren't that bad because grades aren't a focus yet (depends on the school) so I mainly want my kids to have the language foundation. That said, one of my students literally just got into Cambridge, and many of them have offers from UBC/UT, so I'm actually not that certain anymore if going to back to Canada would be the best move.
I originally planned to move back to Canada with my kids in grade 4/5 but it depends on how "woke" the education system is by then - I don't really like the direction it's headed (personal outside opinion). If that doesn't work out, I also always have the option of going to work for an international school for foreign passport holders in China, or an international school in Hong Kong/Macau/Singapore. For example, ISB Shunyi pays their teachers 120k+ CAD + accommodations, and they are K-12. If I end up in a school like that, I definitely wouldn't go back.
This UA-cam channel is also my attempt at seeing if I can eventually get some side income - because let's be honest, anywhere can be a good place to live if you have the money. It's not that Canada is a "horrible" place, it's just that we're going back to a place where we're paying more in taxes and things are 5x more expensive, so there's no way we'd be more comfortable.
I'm actually thinking about moving abroad again. Last year I got a job offer in Malaysia teaching the same subject I was teaching in China, unfortunately, I turned it down because things were not settled here yet but once my wife gets things settled, Ex. becomes more proficient in English, passes her drivers license, can navigate around without my help, I'm thinking of taking off again.
@@ezdividends4289 Would that put you and your wife in a long distance relationship?
Unless we all go, but I think I need to test the waters first before moving the entire family over.
@@ezdividends4289 The workplace and location makes or breaks it