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Both of my daughters are dual citizens of the US and Canada. I just advised them to leave and look for jobs in Canada.
Silver_Witch
(1,820 posts)It is snowy there though.
artislife
(9,497 posts)Vancouver is one of them gem cities of the world.
onecaliberal
(32,786 posts)TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)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
rurallib
(62,387 posts)nice to have options.
Get in before Trump creates a rush.
Shadowflash
(1,536 posts)Canada is a first world country.
We, apparently, are not interested in joining the rest of the industrialized world.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)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.
George II
(67,782 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Skittles
(153,115 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)avebury
(10,951 posts)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.
1939
(1,683 posts)If you can't handle the rough and tumble of USian politics.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)No having to ponder the issues and pick a candidate. What's not to love?
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)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)and especially Jewish ones, this same advice in the USA in 2016 seems a little..... shall we say, disproportionate.