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I don’t mean this in a horrible way, but a lot of people on here are extremely entitled when it comes to immigration.The US is an incredibly hard place to move to, even if you are a skilled worker. While it often is easier to move into Europe or Canada, it’s not a given that you can just walk into any of these countries and expect to live there. Immigration is hard!

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Yes. As someone who’s emigrated and researched it I can say many desirable countries are more difficult to get in to than the US.

American’s attitude that they can just “leave” with a passport and a backpack is just another form of American exceptionalism.

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I did that when Trump won the first time.

It’s not easy to emigrate there with the way their system is set up. If you’re older and poor, nope. If you’re older and middle class, nope. That points system and Canadian first job market will make it very hard to move there.

If you’re rich, yup easy as pie but then again, if you’re rich, why would you leave this grifter’s paradise?

I did try because honestly I loss a lot of faith in America when that Nazi won the first time and I basically got nowhere even though I’m in tech.

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Canada is no different than most other developed nations in their immigration requirements.

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I’m not saying that other nations don’t have a stringent immigration system, I’m simply pointing out that all of these first time searchers are going to be in for a rude awakening.

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Exactly. People from the US are always surprised they are not a default privileged class all over the world.

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Yes. I try to educate them when I see this particular form of American exceptionalism. They think that for the price of a plane ticket they will get a Fantasy Island welcome with Mr Roark and a harem of women waiting to wipe their ass with silk.

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I looked into it, they don’t really want you unless your rich.

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We’ll take doctors and nurses no problem. And funny, I expect a bunch of American doctors are likely to want to take their practice elsewhere in the near future

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Correct. Canada and Mexico BOTH have “closed” borders and don’t just accept immigrants. In Mexico you cannot get citizenship and cannot own property. Canada actively complains to our sheriffs on the northern border for letting people go over to the north.

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Any country immigration program wants rich or/and skilled or/and very highly educated people, and i didn’t even started about USA immigration programs, they are in another league entirely, you can’t just immigrate into USA even if you are one of the aforementioned categories

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Most Americans wouldn’t pass an US immigration test.

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Most Canadians wouldn’t pass a Canadian immigration test.

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Canada has a high likelihood of electing its own conservative government next year…

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Having Trump getting elected down south might help as people will realize that it’s not a fucking joke and strategic voting is necessary.

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Conservatives are winning next time around in Canada. It’s set in stone at this point.

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Watch out, america doesn’t send their best. They are undereducated rapists. Some of them might be good people, who knows.

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