(OT) can an American move to Canada and.....

This is quite topical for me as I have been considering leaving here before it hits rock bottom.
Initially I thought Canada would be easy due to being in the commonwealth and all but it's just as hard as moving to the states. Either way I would need a job before I could move but no one will give a job to someone that's not already there. A difficult situation...

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Originally Posted by xa-coupe

This is quite topical for me as I have been considering leaving here before it hits rock bottom.
Initially I thought Canada would be easy due to being in the commonwealth and all but it's just as hard as moving to the states. Either way I would need a job before I could move but no one will give a job to someone that's not already there. A difficult situation...

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If it hits rock bottom you're already in the right hemisphere. No point coming here IMO unless you want trade places with the people who are moving to the Southern Hemisphere for exactly the same reasons.

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Originally Posted by Surpmil

C'mon now, if she's understanding enough to move to Northern Canada so you can join the last first world military formation using Lee Enfields, she might well tolerate a little polygamy too. Seems to a work for a lot of LDS folks on both sides of the border.:D

A couple of times I've been in a situation where I was assumed to be some kind of polygamist: several women and a bunch of kids with us who could have been mine. It was mighty interesting to see the effect of this appearance on the women we encountered I can tell you! Not what you'd expect at all.:thup:

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HA! now that is worth an LMAO

PA_RIFLEMAN303, do you have a trade, like welding or pipe-fitting or heavy equipment operator?

Every single business in northern Alberta has a Help Wanted sign out. If you have a trade, $120,000 a year is not hard to make. Hell, the folks at the donut shop make over $15 an hour.

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Originally Posted by Stevo

PA_RIFLEMAN303, do you have a trade, like welding or pipe-fitting or heavy equipment operator?

Every single business in northern Alberta has a Help Wanted sign out. If you have a trade, $120,000 a year is not hard to make. Hell, the folks at the donut shop make over $15 an hour.

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well, I had a general construction company for 11 years but Bush and Obama don't like anything that generates money so I closed up but we did everything that requires tools even road work lol yeah, it got rough at the end.

Make a few phone calls, get a work visa, and come to work. Be advised, it's not cheap to live here. A "starter" home will run you $250,000 and gas is about $5 a gallon.

In northern AB, check with Clearstream or Flint.

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Originally Posted by Surpmil

If it hits rock bottom you're already in the right hemisphere. No point coming here IMO unless you want trade places with the people who are moving to the Southern Hemisphere for exactly the same reasons.

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At least you have decent toys to play with. Every week 'they' are finding new ways to screw us. Conservative or Left, they are all participating in an onslaught against legit shooters and I am tired of it.

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Originally Posted by Stevo

Make a few phone calls, get a work visa, and come to work. Be advised, it's not cheap to live here. A "starter" home will run you $250,000 and gas is about $5 a gallon.

In northern AB, check with Clearstream or Flint.

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Thanks for the links.
You won't find a proper detached house in any of our capitals for $250k, in fact, you would be hard pushed to get a unit without going miles out at that price. Average median price in Melbourne is circa $500k but that includes the before mentioned way out suburbs. We have 10+ suburbs with a million as the median price. Petrol is already about the same and it's the cheapest it's been for years. Usually we pay around $1.50 a litre ( roughly 4 litres to a gallon as a rule of thumb ). It's about $1.30 a litre right now .... we used to be the lucky country. Anyway, I am whining but I love this country and it hurts to watch it descend into an irrelevant nanny state.

It's all in the hands of the voters in the end. If you choose to participate in the process you can have whatever you want. If you don't, you get what "they" want.

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Originally Posted by xa-coupe

Thanks for the links.
You won't find a proper detached house in any of our capitals for $250k, in fact, you would be hard pushed to get a unit without going miles out at that price. Average median price in Melbourne is circa $500k but that includes the before mentioned way out suburbs. We have 10+ suburbs with a million as the median price. Petrol is already about the same and it's the cheapest it's been for years. Usually we pay around $1.50 a litre ( roughly 4 litres to a gallon as a rule of thumb ). It's about $1.30 a litre right now .... we used to be the lucky country. Anyway, I am whining but I love this country and it hurts to watch it descend into an irrelevant nanny state.

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I'm more in the "a$$-end-of-nowhere" than in a capital, though.

Peace River, Grande Prairie, and the (in)famous Fort McMurray are the hubs of oil patch activity in northern Alberta. I can shoot till 11pm in the summer, but the 6 hours of daylight in the winter can get somewhat tedious.

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Originally Posted by Surpmil

It's all in the hands of the voters in the end. If you choose to participate in the process you can have whatever you want. If you don't, you get what "they" want.

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this is part of why I am over it. I cannot believe the morons that 'we' are voting in. It has forced me to get political and join a party which I swore I would never do. The issue is that the party is only ever going to hold one or two seats and never govern. I know this and do not have a problem with it and joining was the only real thing I can do to help. Given Australia's heritage of being free thinkers and so on, it is particularly disappointing to see the 'sheeple' following the party line and believing the lies they are told each and every time and allowing regulations to be imposed on all sorts of things because they sound good at the time. I know that happens everywhere but I am looking to a place with less regulation than here. Anyway, I have managed an almost complete hijack of this thread and apologise for that!