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I left downtown Toronto four years ago. Best decision I ever made. Anyone who flexes hard on how great Toronto is lives in Mississauga or just isn’t well travelled. There’s better cities out there!

Trudeau and his anti freedom policies and his forced jabs is enough to stop anyone sane going there.

We all like to push this narrative about how wonderful multiculturism is, but is it actually a good thing, or are we simply saying this cos we want to sound very open minded and inclusive? \n\nCountries need to retain their own identity. So if we want to move abroad, we should be willing to integrate in to their society (even if we do have some different beliefs from them in other ways). Moving to another country, not integrating and just hanging out with people from your own country isn't really good for anyone. We just create divides within that society and thus become more detached and distant from one another. \n\nAlso, living in high rise buildings seems quite dehumanizing to me. Sure, it must be cool to have a good view, but that's not how humans should live and exist- stacking thousands of people on top of one another.

Name a place that hasn’t changed. If you find that place you probably don’t want to live there, i don’t know anyone who wants to live in the 1940s as an example.

Asslam o alaikum friends, I am online Quran teacher for kids and female if anyone wants to learn Quran so contact with me. Thank you.

Left Toronto and it's not the same, crime rate is up. Now Justin wants to bring in ppl from Gaza. No insult to anyone. But crime rate will go threw the roof. Wef changed us. U will own nothing.

He is right. Isreal is making it so unbearable so that they leave their own land. Every one else is saying to go to Arab countries because they are Arab which is stupid as it would be like telling Canadians to move to move to the UK by force because both countries primarilyspeak the same language. Why should anyone be forced to be uprooted. Love this man's answer!

I lived in Toronto for almost 25 years but moved to Berlin, Germany, a few months ago. I found the last few years to be really sad and also scary. There is such a huge mental health crisis. The TTC is not very safe feeling. I have friends there who travel with dog or bear spray in their purses. The cost of rent is definitely a huge issue. A lot of friends can never move into a new place and I don't know anyone there who can afford to actually buy a home.\nThe positives are the food options (groceries and restaurants - some of the best in the world), the nice social life, so many things to see and do around the city, and the various beaches and islands.\nThe city is definitely looking uglier and uglier, though, with all of these boxy, glassy condo towers and now with Ford doing things like turning public space into a foreign-owned inaccessible spa.

they wont take anyone bro?

The sad truth for your reputation, is that there are more people STAYING than leaving, otherwise, our population would only increase by the number of births, minus the number of deaths every year. It is NOT. It is increasing by a LOT more. And those are EASY to find stats.\n IF you took your time to get out of your pity party and realized that you are WRONG about that fact, you might ALSO understand that choosing WHERE you live n this country is a pretty important choice. Unless you are REALLY rich, Toronto or Vancouver would be a miserable experience for anyone. If you limit yourself to the most expensive places we have to offer, you only have YOURSELF to blame for your failures here, AND you weren't going to contribute where we NEED immigrants, but where we already have too many, causing that RARITY, making prices go up. \n Have a nice flight out. But know that it could have been different if you'd taken the time it took to make that video, to INFORM yourself about the choices that might have been better for you instead.

They had their land. they gambled it away by attacking their neighbor in 1948, then again in 1967, then again in 1973. Then on Oct 7, the independent region of Gaza, not occupied by anyone at all, once again attacked their neighbor in a most horrific fashion. Jordan owned the West Bank between 1948 and 1967. Did they establish a Palestinian state in the West Bank. Nope. In fact they attacked the Palestinians. Killed 25,000 of them. Egypt owned Gaza from 1948 until 1967. Did Egypt establish a Palestinian state in Gaza? Nope. And When Gaza became independent in 2005 and used international aid money to buy weapons and start attacking Israel in 2007 what did Egypt do? They closed the border between Egypt and Gaza.

There are a million Palestinians that want to leave…. Egypt nor Israel will let them leave. Jordan flat out won’t take anyone and so will many others. get real people do not want to sit in a ruined town hoping their family doesn’t get killed

This is truly sad. I get it he is carrying a knife but anyone who reported this is truly an dumbass who thinks this is a joke.

Don't let the door ..... islam cannot coexist with Western world values. Anyone who thinks it possible deserves Darwin Award.

I am not sure why anyone around here would or should care about any of these reasons?

This is such BS sorry. I get the whole gun thing is messed up in this country, but cmon man carrying a knife saying you are Sikh and it is my religious duty is ridiculous. Anyone can claim anything under religion and carry whatever they want. I could say my religion is carrying poisonous snakes lol. People take their religion very seriously

It used to be good in Canada.Now it's authoritarian.People can't afford food or homes.Many can't access healthcare and when they do it's subpar.They freeze bank accounts and jail the peaceful protestors.The media is bought by and controlled by Trudeau.They are flooding us with refugees.Which I wouldn't mind if they had enough actual resources to go to everyone but they don't so citizens and refugees suffer.They do a price on pollution on citizens causing food ,gas,home price and rent inflation while they jet set in their private jets and take money in corrupt ways from taxpayers and use it to enrich themselves.They legalize hard drugs so kids are dying in the streets.If a man in a dress comes into bathroom with my daughter I get in trouble for being uncomfortable and so does my daughter.If we were scared to get vaxed we were shunned from society,barred from public transport and stores.We lost our jobs.We to vote them out and they got back in with minority and they made backroom deal with far left party to block opposition and have full power nobody agreed to.They block calling an election to get them out.When all this misery becomes too much they offer medical assistance in dying to anyone who asks and have even offered to those who didnt ask.So ya Canada sucks

I have been in US for 20 years and can understand the experience that you are sharing. Frankly, countries like US and Canada are not for people who can’t do some basic things on their own. \nPeople leave their families and comfort of their home and come to these countries either to earn money, eventually have a good quality life or to provide a good quality education for their kids. If you don’t have a reason good enough to make that move and keep the option of running back home on facing little hardship then there is no way you can live in these countries. Forget about going and living in other countries you can’t even go and live in another state within India. Do you think it’s easy for a North Indian to go and live in South (or vice versa) where they encounter language and culture barriers? \nYou were in much much better situation as you already had PR and didn’t have to go through stress of handling uncertainty on your visa situation based on job.\nTrust me it takes few years for you to get adjusted to new environment, culture, people, food etc. But, as you spend more and more time in these countries you get more accustomed to way of living here and then you become so comfortable with it that you don’t want to go back at all.\nDon’t want to judge anyone but I guess in your case at your age with family already settled in India you didn’t have a solid enough reason to get out of your comfort zone and give time to get used to such big transition in your life

I can appreciate what you are saying. I live in Los Angeles and we have many of the same issues and worse in many cases. You mentioned a lot of things that are problems and you are right. What you did not mention was who is responsible for the policies being enacted. My guess is that like Los Angeles, it’s run by progressive liberals who are passing laws that don’t put your citizens first. That’s what has happened in Los Angeles. I would highly recommend that anyone looking to move to a major metropolitan area, check to see who the mayor is and who’s on the city council. Canada is already run by leftists so I assume the apple is not falling far from the tree when it comes to your city leadership. In the US, people continue to reelect these incompetents. People in Canada need to realize, it’s okay to vote for conservative policies.

Then get Hamas out of Palestine because they keep breaking peace agreements and continue to attack Israel. Anyone staying in Gaza under Hamas control will be in constant danger because of the outlandish odd disposition of Hamas.

I support this. Canada is disgustingly atheistic and going down a very dark path. As a Christian American I could not imagine living there as anyone trying to follow any religion. But yeah so I study and learn about demographics and foreign countries and cultures as a personal hobby for going on 8 years now. I recommend Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Oman, Kuwait, Malaysia and Singapore for Islamic countries that are safe, rule of law, and as a small extra bonus mostly US allies, but still have their islamic cultures and communities intact and do not commonly come under pro israel or UN voting pressure. Probably youll want to relocate to one of those countries. Qatar too but they have a bit of a history supporting extremist and terrorist groups so I cannot in good faith recommend living there. Bahrain Brunei and Indonesia you could try too but I don't know enough about them to recommend.

#3 is a really good reason to go> I dont think people who want to live strict islam should live in secular countries, just doent work for anyone

Bill C-18 sucks big time. I’m very sorry that you’ve experienced it, you or anyone doesn’t deserve that treatment. Hey, millions of people are working in social media these days instead of a STEM career ?. Science, Tech, Econ, Mathematics careers is not what it used to be, and the wages are lower compared to working in a successful social media ($$$$)

They want to be on their own land and not on anyone else's land. World needs to except this.

Agree all has a free choice but hate is not for anyone but defending yourself or country is a different story. Agree about the immoral laws and teachings in schools. All the best. My question is where is Allah’s Heaven for it’s not the Heaven of the Bible. All the Best and maybe like Canada we have taken in many people from other countries when in a war or famine etc. maybe some of the surrounding nations of Palestine can take in your people until war is settled.

I'm using someone account. As male and business men in Canada since 1977 the problem is that British origin culture or its people, they want to turn anyone into slave. You ask for price and people say NO!!! Then they ask you> are you any good<? I mean, I done 250 homes in Vancouver BC and they still have doubts. After that they refuse to pay for services and so you work from hand to mouth. Even in the third world country, now, you make some of profit due to respect...Because they have to pay mortgage, people turn bitter and want to revenge on someone, or they are, or become> just mentally ill. When you are successful, due to your innovative methods, or providing for workers what they need, they cut you down saying > that you are propagating socialism in Canada, or will begin to block you, while using elite high tech mind controls... In my case they started to block my incoming business calls, because people I know for 30 years and I met in person in restaurants or while shopping, they just complained to me saying> I wanted to give you contract and I needed your reasonable services and tell me> why you are not unswerving my incoming cell phone calls? I mean, I sit in Starbucks in good reception zone and having two of cellphones and there is nothing....Maybe the other providers will not want to cross connect phone call to a Fido?

Toronto has absolutely went down hill since 2012. I've left and never thought about coming back. Not sure how anyone can survive, low salaries, high taxes, high rent

Canada SUCKS...anyone thinking its great is stuck in 1990.. same as the US.. they have changed and are both garbage

They get more help than i do and I was born here.?This is sad. I'm all for helping, but not at the decimation of American People. We deserve to be taken care of first. Does anyone agree with me.

Its still so shamless that parents arent parents anymore nowadays they are educated fools.\nthey arent teaching their children how to behave, but taking their sides.\n\n\nYea, anyone will be annoyed if anyone kicks your seat. Such people shouldnt travell in flights at all. You can travel via Genrel coach in Indian railways.

Good luck to you, with 400,000 new immigrants coming every year I can’t say anyone will notice

I see your point in coming to the decision to relocate, it makes sense to me. Everyone should be able to have a right to their beliefs. I’m being honest here, what about my rights? My right to have my window open so I can let fresh air come in once in a while. I am not able to enjoy my peace and quiet, instead I’m forced to listen to loud prayers singing out loud from the Muslims all around me now. I don’t want to hear it. What are my rights? Anyone? ?

We shouldn't let anyone into Canada that does not share our values. Potential immigrants should be tested for antisemitism and anti-western sentiment. Bon voyage!

No need to announce it - just leave. You'll be proven wrong about Palestine. I have no hatred for muslims as a people (I have several as friends I have shared my home and my food with), but anyone siding with terrorists will pay a price for it at some point.

Don’t really understand why you find drag queens so threatening. Can’t say I quite understand it myself but a man who embraces his feminine side is not harming anyone else. Heck ! The ones at the library are educating our kids!

With Trudeau's can't blame anyone who wants to move. I would if I could.

There are no Palestinian refugees anywhere for a reason because we dont wanna leave our land no matter what and we dont want anyone to take us in because we are not going anywhere i know its kinda hard for people to understand how we dont want to leave with everything thats going on in Palistine but we are not letting go of our mother land

exactly why do you think anyone cares?

Thank god I moved to US right after graduating and paid off my loans with a new grad signing bonus. I now out earn anyone in Canada, doctors, surgeons, director of trading at TD, lawyers as well as having an top school district new construction SFH in NY (for way cheaper than Toronto even adjusted for currency), on my way to get a GC, and over a million in net worth. My cars and houses are cheaper, my flights are cheaper, my taxes are lower, my career is better, my investments do better. In Canada I'd be comparatively F-U-C-K-E-D. my condolences to all millennials that stayed in Canada.

Anyone who has any sort of moral compass, be it religious or otherwise, would understand that living in these countries, is like living in Sodom and Gomorrah.\nIt would behoove them to move.\nWhile, I am well aware that most countries will eventually be taken over by this satanic ideology, were still have a window where we can prepare and straighten our fortitude.

Anyone half decent can understand your mental turmoil. I agree and support your\nopen way of thinking. Governments around the world are playing God. We are becoming\nthe servants of the worldly set up unelected immoral beings. I kneel before no man.

Most of these students just use the student visa in hopes of getting permanent residency that will eventually lead to citizenship. Anyone wants a G7 passport and Canada is the easiest to get in terms of time you need to spend. \n\nAs for Canada its all numbers. International students equals free money. Money to schools to subsidize local students (foreign students pay way more) and of course while they are staying in Canada they need to spend but they don't get government benefits unless they are already a PR or a citizen.

Push/work towards not helping anyone.

I think things might get better when we have our new common sense PM, the current one is just so incompetent, I will for sure leave this place if he gets re-elected in 2 years. But looking around world, can anyone suggest me a non-third world country with high income, reasonable cost, good education and decent climate, preferably English speaking. No Japan please, my husband holds Japan PR, but I will never consider moving there, too scared of earthquakes ?.

When you find the PERFECT country, good luck cos yall are going to spend LOTS of money and time and don't anyone hold your breath !

I applied for Visitor Visa for me parents on Dec 5 2023 and no update about passport request still?\n\nIs there anyone who are in the same situation?

Well said it is there land and want to live on the same way as anyone else wants to live

It's their homeland. Why would anyone help the oppressor to kick them out of their homes?

I can’t believe you haven’t thought of UAE. It’s and all Muslims don’t go directly to the UAE!!! It’s one of the best places for anyone to live - but for Muslims, you couldn’t get better!

Anyone with a brain knows he basically said “no they won’t accept any refugees”