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This poor fellow assumes he has a choice, but it may very well be that Canada wouldn’t let him immigrate. A friend of mine tried to do that after George W. Bush was elected the first time. My friend and his wife bought a house in Canada and applied for permanent residency, but they were rejected. So they spent six months in their house there, and six months down here — until they finally gave up and sold their house there.
Do we Americans think so highly of ourselves that we expect other countries would welcome us with open arms? That clearly isn’t necessarily so.
February 24, 2016
The same is true for all nationalities bar some ease between the countries of The Commonwealth like, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Other Commonwealth countrymen like Indians and Pakistanis will go through great difficulties unless they are highly skilled professionals or they are very wealthy and can put in a great deal of money into those three countries.
It’s not very humanitarian, but it makes sense to have some restrictions, for the sake of the nations involved.
the cartoon made me laugh. I have thought the very same thing i’m afraid.
I’ve always loved Canada. we lived very close to it so that it was easy to go across for the weekend.
but what happened to your friends is not funny!
I would never buy a house anyway. they might have been quite happy still if they’d been content to rent. but then I don’t know all the details.
home ownership and the appeal of it has always escaped me really.
I must be a nomad at heart.
what am I saying? I AM! LOLOL!
They really wanted to settle in Canada, and they never expected they would be rejected. They don’t like renting as much as you and I do. A lot of people figure paying rent is like throwing money away because you could be building equity in a house. They don’t think of the hassle and cost of maintenance.
I saw a quick video on FB this morning and it’s of this Canadian man talking to us Americans about how we handle healthcare, race relations, elections and a few other topics and the whole time you see him lifting cinder blocks.
At the end of his observations, the camera pans out and you see that he’s building a wall to keep US out of his country!
Pretty funny.
Smart fellow! I’m surprised he didn’t mention gun violence — who would want to import that?
Cindi’s comment is priceless! The entire election debacle has us uneasy, over here in the land of the “Sunny Ways”. We try not to judge, but in all honesty, we are quite concerned.
It’s definitely interesting. I don’t trust Hillary, but she’s probably the best of a bad lot. (I think Bernie Sanders is a good man, but I’m guessing his policies would be a disaster, if he had any chance of getting them implemented.)
Sometimes I think that someone from any nation believes that another country would just take them…never imagining that there were hoops [aka rules] to jump through.
Here they are trying [without much success] to have people settle outside of Auckland because of housing issues…
And now they are offering those who want state-help/houses to move elsewhere, with incentives to do it…
Always will be the problem of employment in other places, many headquarters of bigger companies are in the bigger cities.
We realized that when we visited Australia and NZ years ago. They wouldn’t let us in if we couldn’t show them we had already booked our way out. Not a bad message to send.