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I didn't think I would do this, but I just did (Original Post) greymattermom Mar 2016 OP
Might be the best advice Silver_Witch Mar 2016 #1
British Columbia. artislife Mar 2016 #16
Sound advice. onecaliberal Mar 2016 #2
No reason to live a life in exile... TeeYiYi Mar 2016 #3
Understand - wish we had that option rurallib Mar 2016 #4
At least when it comes to benefits and quality of life policies Shadowflash Mar 2016 #5
I can understand that. If the unbridled Capitalism isn't ladjf Mar 2016 #6
. George II Mar 2016 #7
Why? bigwillq Mar 2016 #8
hysteria over Trump or Hillary Skittles Mar 2016 #9
Well, then, Bye, Felicia to them. bigwillq Mar 2016 #10
Their dual citizenship might also allow them avebury Mar 2016 #11
Cuba is often an option 1939 Mar 2016 #12
No annoying campaign commercials. No real reason to bother to turn out to vote. Nye Bevan Mar 2016 #15
I would do it if I could... awoke_in_2003 Mar 2016 #13
While urging people to emigrate was, in retrospect, sound advice to Germans in the 1930s, Nye Bevan Mar 2016 #14

TeeYiYi

(8,028 posts)
3. No reason to live a life in exile...
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 09:36 PM
Mar 2016

Regardless of who wins the presidency in 2016, I'll still live my life, without the barricades of fear.

I really don't care who wins in the long run... Yes, I want Bernie Sanders to be my president, because he represents, reflects and emits everything that I believe in...

...but if he loses, I'll still go on... like I always have.

I've always heard that Canada is too cold. If you want your daughters closer to you, I completely understand where you're coming from; but, if your recommendation is out of some kind of misplaced fear... my suggestion would be that you reconsider your advice to your daughters and allow them to choose the parameters of their own lives, be it the four corners of Canada, Europe, Asia, or right here in the good ole' US of A.

America will always be a good place for your daughters to live their lives and to raise their children and your grandchildren.

I hope that you can believe me.

TYY

Shadowflash

(1,536 posts)
5. At least when it comes to benefits and quality of life policies
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 09:39 PM
Mar 2016

Canada is a first world country.

We, apparently, are not interested in joining the rest of the industrialized world.

ladjf

(17,320 posts)
6. I can understand that. If the unbridled Capitalism isn't
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 09:42 PM
Mar 2016

brought under control by countervailing political means then they, along with the rest of us,
will be wiped out bu the normal pressures of physical survival. And in human terms, it will
cataclysmic and uncontrollable. We've been repeatedly warned. It appears that the human race is
too GREEDY and too STUPID the look ahead in time as tough the future doesn't matter.








avebury

(10,951 posts)
11. Their dual citizenship might also allow them
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 10:00 PM
Mar 2016

to live in other parts of the UK as long as Canada remains part of the Commonwealth.

I don't blame you for advising your daughters to leave. If I were a lot younger I wouldn't think twice about immigrating elsewhere. At my age I am pretty much stuck here.

Edit to add: Should Cruz somehow win the White House there will be no place that anyone could go on this plante that would not be impacted by Cruz. I believe that he would be capable of destroyin the world economy. Whatever he did to the US would have a ripple effect outward. A friend of mine has a brother that is a lawyer in the Dallas/Ft Worth area. He told her that Cruz is very dangerous and could end up destroying the world economy if given the chance.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
15. No annoying campaign commercials. No real reason to bother to turn out to vote.
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 12:12 AM
Mar 2016

No having to ponder the issues and pick a candidate. What's not to love?

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
13. I would do it if I could...
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 11:25 PM
Mar 2016

mainly for the better health care and quality of life. Of course, how long before they are a plutocracy like we are?

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
14. While urging people to emigrate was, in retrospect, sound advice to Germans in the 1930s,
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 12:12 AM
Mar 2016

and especially Jewish ones, this same advice in the USA in 2016 seems a little..... shall we say, disproportionate.

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