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

[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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[Surpmil]

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...

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.

[xa-coupe]

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.

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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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.

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.

[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.

[xa-coupe]

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.

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!

[Stevo]

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.

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.