Canada has become such a shithole and I can't wait to get out
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2024
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...and go where exactly?
Things are not easy here but unless you are buying into the Conservative narrative that even the bad weather is Trudeau's fault, "getting out" is not really a better option...
Iceland via youth mobility visa
Alternately my sister in law lives in Finland so have a couple different options
Hmm I'm sure a 12 month change of scenery would be great... Not sure how that will change your prospects in the mid term
Should be able to get 24 months, hopefully long enough to find an employer willing to sponsor me permanently
Best of luck bud
Thanks I'll need it
Wow youβre lucky! One of the few countries that treat people well.
Well I haven't been accepted yet but fingers crossed! They are still processing visas from summer 2023 so I won't know for quite a while
If you're young, pretty much everywhere is a shit hole nowadays.
Pretty much except Iceland and Finland
PS if you're younger than 31 you can get the youth mobility visa to work in Iceland, that started only a few months ago, which is what I'm planning on utilizing
New Zealand seems to be just fine too.
Itβs absolute shit for young people and anyone who doesnβt own a home already. Pants on head insane house prices for cardboard walls and mould. Violent crime and especially gang crime is straight up scary now (though not as bad as the bad parts of America). I left NZ because my outlook was so bleak. I ended up in Denmark and couldnβt be happier. Australia is also a good bet and the women are GORGEOUS. Also Switzerland if you find a path to employment there. Norway is great. Many places in America are still great, despite the counter-jerk.
Nah worse housing mess than us
Only open to so many applicants per year, so hopefully you get in. Happiest rating, but also somehow most murders...maybe those correlate
Iceland... Murders? No lol
multiple degrees. established in my industry. "well paid" among my peers.... Renovicition means I'm living with my parents in my 30's. This is madness.
Exact same situation. 29 making over six figures and renoviction means back to my parents or sleeping on the street
As someone making roughly half of 100k per year. I can afford my small apartment, to shop wisely for food, and carpool to work and with that I manage to save 1000 or more a month. I don't know the specifics of your situation but you should still be able to live on your own with a 100k salary.
It entirely depends on where you live.
Out in the sticks where the opportunities are few, the cost of living is way lower.
I live in Victoria
Only individuals should be able to buy and own residential property. Not corporations, not numbered companies, just people. They can rent them out, etc but don't get the same protections of corporations. It becomes personal at that point. Banks generally will finance about 20 properties this way before they decide the liability becomes too much. This protects small landlords still, but gets all the big money out.
Then the rental market will price itself fairly based off of that and keep the rental market in check, but when the corporations own both sides of the coin they set the price.
Many of our MPs are landlords themselves, which may influence how... reactive they are to the issue https://www.landlordmps.ca/data-analysis
Our economy is over-reliant on housing as an investment in general, so getting people to do anything about it is hard to begin with https://www.oecd.org/housing/policy-toolkit/country-snapshots/housing-policy-canada.pdf
It's not looking good. We're in so deep already. A lot of people will lose their homes either way.
This is why I avoid REITs and housing investment like the plague. It's a house of cards.
It's like the story of a Vancouver woman who lived in an apartment in English Bay. She was a server when she moved there 10 years ago, and had no issue affording it. Over the years she got settled, went to school while working and became a lawyer.
She eventually had to move out of the same apartment as it was no longer affordable, despite becoming a lawyer and earning significantly more money.
If she can't keep pace with inflation going from a server to a lawyer, not sure what hope the rest of us would have.
I was making about 110,000 a year and gtfo of Vancouver in 2018. Saved way more money a year making 65-70 in south Alberta/Saskatchewan and now own my home outright.
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