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2 years, 10 months ago @taylaca Imagine a country where the people have the right to own bombs and, in many places, the right to carry bombs around in public. The people believe that this is an inalienable human right and will refuse to hear any argument against it. There are more bombs than there are people in this country. Sounds terrible, right? This is how ridiculous and horrifying America's gun culture looks to people from other countries where guns being around just isn't a thing. 1 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @annmariemccann2497 I am from Saskatchewan. I have been to 16 states. I would like to see more. I think I will continue living in Saskatchewan. One reason, not the only reason is we get free medical care. 1 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @jklinders With all your mass shootings, it's madness that you are not bothered by them. When people move, they move to where the work is. That means living in cities with all the good and bad that has. It's nice that you can pick and choose where you live like a buffet but most people do not have that luxury. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @jts-x5k Not a chance! As a 74 yr old with pre-existing conditions, I would not spend winters in Florida or Arizona! I am shocked at stories about living in the US from my former classmates of the 1960s about the many big issues they have to deal with ,I would never ever move to the US. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @runninghorse4074 No am Canadian. I like it here….mMy friend s are snow birds Canada in summer and winter in the US…our health care is good…have to have good people there…yes health coverage is important …we had violence in school shooting also….would like to visit and see the place sometimes..only went once over the border..interesting video 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @lauriemapplebeck1286 You would be welcome! Tyler! 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @kikyo89976 Oh and BTW, Canadians are not scared of guns. We aren't scared of much. We also have access to guns. Ours are more regulated but even I used to go out hunting and stuff with my family as a kid. We aren't scared of guns, we are scared of the lack of care, consideration and accountability that the USA takes around guns and gun violence. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @lauriemapplebeck1286 We have extremely great health care professionals! I was very ill and I had to stay in the hospital for 4 weeks! The only thing I had to pay for (besides my taxes), lol, was the ambulance ride from my small town to the next larger town. This cost me $45.00. This bill came to me after I was home for a couple of weeks! \nDo I want to pay $200.00 a month for health care insurance….NO WAY! \nWe have other programs…example….. old age, disabilities of every kind, nursing at home, and so much more! I have paid my taxes willingly all my life and enjoy every benefit they bring me! The US may call this Socialism, but I call it security! \nCanada needs a better government at the moment, but other than that, I would never live anywhere else!! \tGod Bless the USA and Canada!!??❤️?? 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @lauriemapplebeck1286 No way, never, ever! ??❤️ 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @elirich3145 In canada I get 5 weeks vacations. A year maternity leave. Lots of sick days. Giving birth is FREE ( heard from an American woman she was in debt 30K for a complicated twin birth ????????). Ambulance once cost me 40$. \nI even stopped going to Florida for March break. Those red hats… QAnon…the guns….this hatred….\n400 mass shooting so far for 2023 ?. Nothing patriotic about my choice as I am a French national. \nAs a woman that would mean accepting that old male policies can decide on my body 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @elirich3145 There is absolutely NOTHING that would make me move. I’d pay NOT to move to the USA 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @ingridwyles5512 Hell no! 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @dwightmcfee9521 50% of Americans read at a grade six level, 25% grade 3. Plus all those weapons? Nuclear Bombs. Little dumb. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @dwightmcfee9521 Your employer owns you. Capitalism 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @2Sugarbears NO. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @JohnMHill-oi6rb We Canadians are very content. An extra, if needed, is Barefoot Bay, in Florida, but only seasonal. We have had lots of warm sun since April, and expect it to continue to October. I like four distinct seasons, want snow for Christmas! JMH 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @JohnMHill-oi6rb You have Barefoot Bay, near Melbourne, Florida which is a town of Canadian seasonal homeowners. Nice place! JMH 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @jackdyck2921 NO AND NADA. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @KateriFire9 having your health care tied to your job is a dystopian nightmare and its weird people think thats fine. If you need the benefits, you can't leave a bad situation unless you have another job lined up, my god thats awful 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @azizaibrahim1155 Yes they ARE being shot every day !!!!!!!!! 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @ChristoPavic-ql5it Not in a million years. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @gaylewatson818 I am not ok with non insured people losing their homes because of illness. Loss to your economy is crazy. Guns - nope. Right wing idiots - nope. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @nannerfly345 @nannerfly345 \n1 second ago \nI am a dual, born & raised in Canadian but married an American and have lived in the USA for over 20 years and I believe you must rate any country's HEALTHCARE SYSTEM you should rate it based on ACCESS to the system. When you say America's Healthcare system is great for many but unavailable or nonexistent to a certain segment of the population means America's Healthcare System FAILS. That is just a FACT! Love America but miss Canada every single day. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @theaccidentalsenior Just as a correction to some of the comments, Canada is not referred to as a ‘melting pot’ - it is referred to as a ‘mosaic’. The US uses the term melting pot’ as it is believed that you put everyone into a pot to create one type of citizen, while Canadians us a ‘mosaic’ to reference we are a diverse ground of citizens that, when put together, forms a picture (a culture). 173 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @darrenmayville1895 I'm actuality shocked, that an Amaricain asks this ,after people can storm the white house, and the dictatorship of trump. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @darrenmayville1895 born in Canada, and most agree with samasflats 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @buddysmith7080 Hell No!!!!!!!!!! There are certain places I wouldn't even visit anymore. Florida comes to mind. I can't believe the crap that goes on there. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @markdawson425 I went to school and lived in the US for a year, and I enjoyed my time there, plus my dad lived in New Orleans and Houston at different points so I was in the States a lot growing up. The US is great in many ways and it's an exciting place to be at any time... but if it was a permanent choice, I don't think I would give up the Canadian citizenship in trade. Yes health care, and it is just a little less, for lack of a better word, paranoid. 1 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @paulabeattie8565 Canadian here, I love some of your weather especially in Jan and Feb but other than that - hell no! 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @Wonton1885 America is kind of like hanging out with other people’s kids when you don’t have any of your own…They’re fun, crazy, loud, obnoxious and when it’s over you’re so happy you get to go home to peace and quiet. You have super cheap booze though, good for you guys! 1 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @dmfraser1444 This Canadian lived in Orange County CA for 10 years. I took my the 12 year old with me. I had been offered my dream job and was paid enough to have a good standard of living. However, I lived in an immigrant community to save money as I found many of the high schools were horrid compared to Canada. I had not realized the school to school inequality to be so extreme and my kid changed to independent study at home. So with a Canadian elememtary education, they graduated high school a year only while skipping no courses..\n\nMy kid had medical issues and even with good HMO insurance, we could never get a decent diagnosis until it had gotten so bad that their digestive system was so wrecked. I finally sent them back to Canada for the surgery that we could not get in the USA. It seemed the insurance companies kept getting in the way. And in one case a doctor went all religious on us. After 6 years of almost continuous pain they finally got relief for a decade until the prior damage came back to haunt them However, after a year of university ib Canada my kid went to a private university in the eastern USA. They have decided to remain in the USA and now in their mid 30s, they make really good money anf have top line medical insurance which pays for the ongoing care they need because of the damage caused by delays when a teenager. \n\nI found life in the suburbs of Orange County nice but the OC is not a good place to meet people. When after 10 years there, in 2010 I returned to Vancouver to care for my elderly mother. I had been living alone for 6 years by then and was offered the first job in Vancouver anything close to me dream job there. and I returned to Canada at age 59. I had been approved for a green card in 2008 but there was a 6 year wait for it to come through. But I noticed the racism in the USA start breaking out all over the place when Obama got elected. And it has gotten worse and worse every year. Especially with 45 enabling it so much. \n\nMy circle of friends in Southern California are mainly good people and not at all like what we call MAGA-hats now. Except one who thinks 45 was the greatest. Politically, the USA is on the path that Germany was on in 1933 and I fear for the US Democracy if the Orange One gets in again. Even my kid and their spouse have bug out plans to head to Canada just in case. This is why my kid, while having a green card has never taken US citizenship. Besides, being a Canadian has not affected things the two times they got security clearances \n\nWhile most Americans are good people, it seems that about 25% have gone just plain loco and care nothing about democracy. And appear to prefer the USA to be a totalitarian theocracy \n\nI was there long enough, paying the maximum FICA taxes for 10 years to get a small pension from Social Security and I have Medicare Part A. I can afford to buy parts B and D but I see no reason. I have even better coverage in Canada for way less cost. The USA has a nice warm climate in many places and I just loved that. But otherwise y'all have too many people who want to turn the place into an intolerant police state and to return the country to 1950s levels of intolerance, So in my retirement, I will stay here in Canada. Even though I could go and move in with my kid in the USA and get onto US Medicare. 2 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @Rae-lh7ex Canadian here, born and raised, no Thank you. I like to visit the USA only 2 hours away from me however Canada is my Home forever and I would Never Ever think about moving to the US. It’s for no particular reason as I love my fellow Americans it’s just Canada is Home, it my heart, in my blood. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @MichBour-tq4gy Never ...\nI don't even want to visit USA. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @cherylmcfarlane2959 Hard no. Never. Full stop. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @TheBajoman There are plenty of school shootings in US cities of less than 50,000 people. I’m not sure where you are recommending to go that doesn’t have massacres. Please google the statistics. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @Argonaut121 One of my sons moved to the US about 5 years ago for work. Great opportunity that simply didn't exist here in Canada. But he is counting the days until he can move back. The dysfunctional politics, the absurd partisanship on every issue, the unaffordable health care, the heat (he lives in Texas) and climate change denial. It is all just too disheartening. 1 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @jenniferm6286 As a parent, I could never consider moving to the US (not that I would otherwise). I think you are a bit misguided on your view that there are “safe” bubbles… sandy Hook, Uvalde, Littleton Colorado… these were all places that one would typically consider “safe” yet they are some of the most tragic shooting stories we hear of, and it gets reported on worldwide due to the sheer grossness of the violence against children. \nAlso, the fact that there are so many hateful people in the US that literally refuse to believe factual evidence is just too much for me! Like a bunch of ‘Flat-Earthers’… 1 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @edwardr7520 I'm a canadian who moved to a third world country 10 years ago. The usa was never on my list as a possible new home. In fact, it was on my list of countries to avoid. When I'm forced to fly through the usa, I never leave the airport. Recently, the usa has become much worse than my present home. Much worse! 1 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @susannedewitte9907 Former US citizen here, now EU citizen - no way in heck would I ever wish to live in the US again. The education, healthcare and overall quality of life is so much better. Cost for 1 year for full medical (hospital, gp, prescriptions & dental) less than a thousand for a family of 5, I pick my doctors, specialist and hospitals. My current prescriptions cost less than 200 a year, pricing what it would be in the states it would be more around 1000 a month.\nFor any US citizen considering moving please be prepared to file & pay taxes to the US, FEIE doesn't cover everything. Good luck getting a bank account FATCA. There are a lot of things to consider and prepare for before moving. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @elizabethandiosa4579 We have our share of creeps in Canada. There was the mo trial massacre of a couple dozen women at the polytechnics University. It happened in December a few decades ago. Some guy opened fire on women just because they were women and he was mad that females got training and he did not. December 6, 1989. Murdered 14 women injured 13. Mind you there's little pockets of that shit everywhere. Just don't step in it. Overall, we are kind of oblivious until it happens to us. But no, I would never want to live in the states long term unless there were great health benefits . 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @buddhafied I’m a Canadian myself, and it’s very interesting to see your reaction to Canadian’s response to that question. I think what you said about being desensitizing is true, I think because the gun violence, the crazy politics, and the attacks on women’s and minority rights, these are things that have become so common in the US that American started to see these things as “normal”. And to a lot of Canadians, these are our core values. A lot of us are proud that we don’t have that (serious of) these issues here, so I am not surprised in any sense that majority if not all of those people in that subreddit said no.\n\nI used to travel to the US for a living, and I actually asked to change my job so I don’t have to do that anymore. I didn’t feel safe, I didn’t feel good when I travel there. You mentioned it’s depending on the cities, and you might be right, but I can tell you I have met A LOT of very crazy people during my years of travels, and they are all friend very different places: the east, the south, the west, big and small cities. 1 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @wilsonroo16 No your education system is not good. You have a few good universities but your k through 12 is rated as one of the worst of the 1st world countries on the world wide education scale. Compared to Canadians you do seem batshit crazy. You let your kids get shot in schools. It makes no sense that you take away women's rights to save children but let them get shot in schools. So one right is more important than another!!! You let citizens die of rather simple diseases because of lack of health care. Not that there are not racist people or religious zealots but nothing compared to the US and it is shut down pretty quickly here. Many more of us are intolerant of that ignorance than US citizens. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @sresstrague700 The fact that when a mass shooting happens ANYWHERE in Canada, it's all we hear about on the news for an entire week. In the states you don't even keep track of how many happen every day! 2 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @JJeessiee Please stop saying that you are an Ameri*an. Argentina, Bolivia, *anada, Panama, ... all those are Ameri*ans *ountry, so we all are Ameri*ans .You are United-Statien. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @powelllucas4724 To all the smug Canadians out there (I'm Canadian) I have a question: Who would you rather have as a southern neighbour? Somebody like Ireland or Jamaica would be nice, but who's there to save our asses when the Russian bear or the Chinese dragon decides we have something they want. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @shari3329 I’m a bit late to this discussion but I agree with the 99.9% of other responses. Although, I have enjoyed trips to beautiful areas of the US, & live close to the border where a day trip was a common occurrence. I now hesitate to even travel there as I do worry about gun violence, racism & honestly cannot understand the cult of followers who would even consider voting for an incompetent, narcissistic criminal to lead their country…. it’s mind blowing! You are desensitized regarding violence/school shootings… choose where you live? What’s the guarantee that this couldn’t happen anywhere in the US, even rural areas? On the topic of living in Canada, it’s beautiful with lots of country to see/enjoy from west coast to the east coast & we have healthcare, a government (although not perfect) elected by & working for the people. I’m proud to be Canadian, wouldn’t move for anything! We’re your neighbour but as it happens sometimes we just can’t believe what’s going on next door. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @gordonstuart2655 As of August 1st, US has had 419 mass shootings. Only 300 more to go until December 31. Only reason needed. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @savannahcatgiannis I'd only consider moving to one of the hot and dry parts of the US, like Arizona or Nevada... cos I have a bad shoulder which the climate up here makes me hurt more.\n\nBut what turns me off about the US is the health care system, gun culture, and the political climate (but our political climate is getting bad here too) 1 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @monicadraper2851 Absolutely NOT! 0 O0gJtVar7_E
2 years, 10 months ago @joym.4082 We made friends with people that moved here from Wisconsin. It didn’t take long before we noticed they were trying to recruit our friends and us that Putin should be admired, black people are less than, Trump is the best President. They had ideologies that were ugly. But they sure love our health care. They don’t get to hang with us any more. 0 O0gJtVar7_E
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