I lived some time in Toronto and now living in Chicago, in both cases - I work/worked in IT, as software engineer. In Toronto, my salary was around 80k, 1bed was in 400k range. In Chicago, my salary is close to 200k and I can get a 1bed in Lakeview for around 200k too, yearly salary. Also, taxes are lower and city is prettier too - architecture etc. I'd never go back to Canada. I'd rather just move back to Europe. I did working holiday in Sydney too, also working as software dev, and similar situation to Canada - low salaries vs expensive living, but at least weather is good. For me, Canada is the most overrated country in the world (lived in Poland, Uk, Australia, Canada and US and visited almost 80 countries).
@@mujkocka Im just here for an experience, 2 years and already roughly planning to move back to Europe in some time. I am lucky to have a fully remote job so I am in Europe half the time anyway.
My mom came to Canada in the 90s and was a top rated doctor from Syria. She ended up spending her time in Canada doing every odd job from cleaning and painting, to car sales and real estate. She was never able to practice medicine, even after passing the exams in Canada, and it’s a shame because she had SO much to offer the healthcare system. This video needs more recognition.
I have met so many people throughout the years with similar stories. I am sad to say. They tell you how easy it will be for someone with your skills to succeed, and when you arrive here you quickly realize it's not the case.
I am a "old stock" Canadian (all my ancestors moved here in the colonial era), and I find this very informative. When you said people feel deceived, it really resonated. I absolutely believe our newcomers are being deceived; I have even called our immigration system a "scam" because of how it fails newcomers AND how the results of our immigration system do not really live up to the expectations to the existing population. Immigrants come with extraordinary education, but get roped into odd, low paying jobs far too often. We say we love immigration, but then we don't build houses, and newcomers and our youth pay far too much of their income for shelter. The government claims immigration will fill every labour shortage, but the data published by the federal government shows that is not true, particularly in the desperately understaffed skilled labour sector. I think it is disgraceful that we try to attract newcomers, but do not insist on having a perpetual EXCESS supply of housing to welcome people (and for ourselves!). I think there is a deeply chauvinistic undercurrent of people who think that newcomers don't really deserve the best of what we have, thinking "hey, driving an uber in Ottawa is still better than being a doctor in Egypt" or whatever.
I agree with you. I have been here for 30 years (started off in Toronto). I was stuck in menial jobs and found that even price of a condo was out of reach. Most government jobs, both provincial and federal, were closed to me because I was white. I eventually moved to Calgary and started my own business. Canada is vastly overrated, expensive, and poorly run. The current PM is more concerned about his international image than the overall well-being of Canadians. Many immigrants here are leaving, and my oldest son is considering moving to Latin America (his wife is Hispanic) because he can enjoy a better quality of life there. Sad, ain't it?
Currently living in Canada but finding my way out. Canada is becoming a playground for the rich and average people are suffocating with the high housing price, high living cost and low income. You made a very good point that the elites do not wanna change the status quo since they are benefiting from the very speculated housing market in Canada. But guess what, eventually Canada will become less appealing to immigrants when they realize the pay is so low and living cost is so high.
Canada is more than just Toronto and Vancouver… Calgary, Edmonton, small town Ontario, the east coast, they’re all beautiful places with reasonable housing. Most of Canada has reasonable housing, it’s only Toronto and Vancouver that are overpriced.
@@Pairofkingsup But for an immigrant, living in a less populated area is very difficult. They won't find their local food, no friends, less jobs, social isolation. It's a mental torture.
@@balanibakits6488 the whole point of immigrating to a country is to absorb its culture and assimilate into the mainstream. What’s the point in immigrating if you’re only willing to be surrounded by those in your home country?
You don't realize how bad it is until you leave. It has been getting worse in the last few decades and it looks like it really nosedived after that idiot Trudeau was elected.
@@sexygeek8996 Joke's on you! ;-) I left in 2001 and agree with you completely. Every year I go back to visit I notice the quality of life is decreasing appreciably. The deterioration was slowly underway in the late 90s but accelerated under Trudeau, no doubt. Compared to when I grew up (in the 80s mainly), access to healthcare, safety, and general infrastructure have gone way downhill. I tell me friends back home that they are frogs in boiling water. They don't realize how bad it is until they leave. It's been such an insidious decline that they've just grown used to it. They say stuff like: "You mean in other countries you don't have to wait 6 months to see a dermatologist?!" Everyone is starting to notice now, though. Trudeau is one of many factors to blame. Canadians and their "Just be happy with what you have." mediocre approach to life is another. We could go on.......
In 2004 I wrote a somewhat famous article called 'Top 8 reasons not to immigrate to Canada'. In short, the Canadian authorities tried to destroy my life. They made it so that I could not be employable in Canada. So I moved to the U.S. in 2005 and then some years later I moved permanently to the Philippines. I am happy that so many years later videos like yours are saying essentially the same things that I did. I was ahead of my time. I will never go back to Canada. Not to live, not to visit, not even a connecting flight. Too cold, too expensive, taxes are astronomical, no freedom, no jobs, no opportunities, xenophobic people, too depressing. It has become the North Korea of the western world.
I'm from Edmonton and the police there simply would not leave me alone. They used the media against me and I lost most of my friends and employment was difficult. My father had political enemies and the harassment just would not stop. I spent $thousands on legal costs and during an intermission between criminal charges I applied for a visa to Australia. 3 weeks before I emigrated in 1991 I had to go to court yet again (offensive driving). Once again I beat the charge and left. The Edmonton police continued to visit my parent's house for years. It sounds like the STAASI but living in Edmonton was horrible. I feel that Canada is a land of hypocrisy led by minority interest groups.
Canadian born and after 50 years still working hard with no end in sight. I wish I had another country to go to because the Canada of my childhood is long gone. The past decade has been the worst as far as finances, healthcare, education, cost of living, everything is out of control due to terrible government policy. You hit the nail on the head with this video.
Those crisis was deliberately designed by education mafias who had lobbying some entities in immigration to make everything difficult except you pay 50000 cad tuition fees. Have you wondered for farm labourers, construction labourers, or Personal support workers one should have diploma of agriculture/constructions/PSW ? Since nobody pay it, they locked the occupations with tons of requirements, thats the crisis happened. In south korea, japan, hongkong, singapore, dubai, etc. They just come, get training and work. thats why everything far more cheaper. In canada they deliberately make it complicated.
I am a Canadian who spent the past 7 years in India and Nepal and have returned to Canada just this year. I can't wait to leave. My new passport will be ready in 10 days and I will be gone.
@@brahmanjnananithya7913 I was born in Canada many decades ago and I'd like to say to you. I think you are making a wise decision to leave Canada. As long as Trudeau is the Prime Minister nothing good is going to come out of here
@James Silverton I'm Canadian born 70 years ago and I'm glad I'm near the end of life. Trudeau has torn Canada to shreds. How people could vote for this tool is beyond/
Canada is a great country I migrated here with my wife in late 1969 thats 54 years ago. We came only with our suitcases not wealthy but built a life of progress iwith family born here and all educated here in Toronto . We came from economic poverty and worked very hard in Canada build our lives from nothing. The political Social economic and religious climate has drastically changed in our half of century living in Canada. Leaving our younger generation to make tough choices to remain or stay in Canada.
As a 26 year old Canadian you hit the nail on the head. Unless you were born into money, owning a home is unaffordable in the big cities. And you have to live in the big cities because that’s where the jobs are. Furthermore, Covid exposed how broken the healthcare system is here. I love Canada but in the US you get paid more in a stronger currency, taxed less, and the cost of living is lower.
I mean US didn't handle covid well either 🤷. I'm a software engineer like the guy in this video. And you can definitely get jobs over 150k here. It's mostly for senior engineers and people who have worked a while. I have no idea how he is spending 350 per week on groceries. For comparison my family of three adults spends less than 200 a week on groceries. His rent is definitely reasonable for a family of four though. I there are definitely ways he could cut his spending though. He should also consider finding remote work that way he can save on fuel for travel. You can definitely have a higher standard of living here compared to most of the world earning that amount.
Although specifically software engineers can get way higher pay in the US that's mostly in cities that have even higher costs of living like silcon Valley and new york city or texas. But I don't think his complaints are all reasonable. Some of them for sure like rent in major cities. However, you can avoid some taxes with a mixture of tfsa and rrsp. You can use both to help pay for your house and there are rent to own programs as well. Many Canadians do not know how to manage their money and are very finicially illiterate.
@@KManAbout thanks for that comment, it sounded to me that the videos like that were exaggerating and been too choosy or irrational. I'm Belgian, I'm 29 and i consider to move there. It seem to me that it's doable. Isn't it ? I mean life in belgium is 10 times worse than anything in Canada. A part from health care and social security.
@Traductions culture En-Ar vers Fr maybe Belgium seems decent to me. There are disadvantages and lifestyles changes that make more sense in Canada but less so in Belgium. And also depends where you want to live here.
@Derick is it free tho? Canada has rules on rules you can't actually do what you want, not sure if you have seen some of the freedom in other countries... Like I said in my last comment it's so expensive in Canada most ppl can't save any money so if you have no money how do you make moves?
@Derick save to as you say "do what ever you want"... funny thing is Canada it's not a free country you are highly taxed. you also can't just do what you want. There are always rules and regs holding you back. Government controls everything...
I immigrated to Canada in 1996, and lived in Vancouver for 8 months then left Canada for good because I couldn't find any job there , I had a master degree in computer science in US and worked as a software engineer in Taiwan for some years, and all the immigrants I met in Vancouver were jobless, and they came from all over the world and had good education and good experiences.
It. Job market is idiotic, they need local experience preferably in the same city. It like the worst traits of UK and united states job practices were collected in canada
@@bestintentions6089 No it can be worse...most crappy place was New Zealand , gumboots boors telling you coming from THE WORLD to these emaciated windy clear cut urinated upon by trilions of cattle that you need is NEW ZEALAND "experience" which equals fixing all with "wire number 6" made in the uk....houses are moldy shags and an extortionate klepto-boorish parvenu -ism has flipped the shags to 1million kiwi dollars proclaiming that it is the Côte d'Azur down there at the windiest chilliest nastiest moldiest climate zone one can imagine....paltry wages , extortionate mentality...beware , stay clear , dont believe the kiwi flippers , never....always prefer lousy Can no do....
After quite horrible 7 years of living, I moved out of Canada with my Canadian passport in 2008. Now I work as an academic in Türkiye. Even tough I love and respect Canada, I would never ever go back to there. Yes Canada allowed me have expat life experience and one of the most respectable passport in the world. Yes I am so grateful!
You took the words right out of my mouth my friend. Also a Software Developer with ~100k salary and could not afford anything outside the bare minimum in Vancouver. So my wife and I moved to Calgary for the housing but later realized Vancouver wasn't the main problem; Canada was. My wife already went back to our home country to scout out possible plans for the future as we don't see it in Canada; at least for now. Some still think Canada is the utopia of the past but the last decade seems to have changed that quite significantly. *Ambulance is not free by the way.
@@alexcalive What is happening is all part of a larger design, regardless of the government in power. There is a purposeful re-distribution of wealth which will continue when the Conservatives win. Poilievre is also in the elite tier - he is not the average Canadian. Sorry but there is still worse to come but I won't be here.
@@alexcalive As a 55 year old Canadian, this downward trend started LONG before 2015. That is just anti-T propaganda and diminishes the value of your video. Canada, like every other Western country, got hit with neoliberalism starting in the *1980s*. An article, "Rhetoric vs. Results: Shaping Policy to Benefit Canada’s Middle Class", by Don Wright, on the Public Policy Forum website, outlines this history. You arrived nearly 40 years later and are seeing the result of neoliberal policy. Unfortunately ALL Canadian governments have been neoliberal now. Some are just a little more obvious about it. You have a decent grasp of the Canadian situation but please read and learn more before pinning all its problems on one electoral result.
@@alexcalive How will a conservative government fix the issues you laid out? Especially housing. No political party has an actual plan that would solve the housing crisis.
This problem won't be fixed by the conservatives unfortunately. The housing market was already a mess during the Harper days and they didn't have any intention to fix it. The only thing that conservatives and liberals have in common is not having idea (or intention or both), on how to fix the housing problem and how to develop more other cities so Canadians can move there without lowering their chances of getting a job.
Yeah, I agree 100% with what you said in this video. I went back to Japan after living a decade in the Vancouver metropolitan area working as a software engineer because of all the reasons that you've mentioned in the video. I'm very grateful to Canada for everything that the country provided, but unfortunately, I was working literally to survive and pay for the daycare, and expenses and save money for SOMEDAY (spoiler... that never came) to be able to buy a decent house not 100 km away from working place. Cheers from Osaka-JP. :)
I am from Zimbabwe and a certain woman came back from Canada for a funeral and she was looking so poor that everyone was asking why she went there. Everyone else who had stayed at home looked better!
@@shabatshalom693 Democracy doesn't belong in Africa and that's why it doesn't work there. Our system of governance in Africa is communal. Every community gather together and make their laws and regulations and things work perfectly. That was how it used to be for generations until democracy came ruined the whole thing. Africa wasn't a lawless place before the arrival of democracy. We had laws and rules that guided how our forefathers lived.
I worked 3 jobs in Canada in 16 years. First was plumbers helper (Masters degree in Mechanical engineering). 16$ hour, found via social connections. Second was junior shipboard engineer. 28-35$ hour depending on the ship plus OT. Social connections. Third job after I got my full fledged license 65$ hour, government mechanical engineering inspector. Very advanced social connections, I used to work with the guy who then joined government and recommended me. Took me 11 years to get license. In 5 years after that I left Canada because the country went into tyranny mode. All my work to get licensed went to shit thanks to Turdo and obedient Canadian sheeps. Without social connections forget about having a decent job. You need someone who knows someone who knows who's hiring. It's harsh over there, new immigrants.
@@DAVID1986. Actually I was shocked with the amount of nepotism in this country. They don't even post jobs because they don't want indigenous to apply because you can't deny any of those, you'll get a discrimination case thrown at you! But on the other hand they easily discriminate based on so called "vaccination record".Because it's ok, society accepts that practice! It's an idiotic country. That's why I left. Common sense has departed
I am from an immigrant family, born here in Canada. But one of the things I think makes it tough, is that we have too much immigration, without having the good paying jobs to support the present numbers. Our present federal government has so much on their minds, but the economy is not one of them.
Perfectly well said. I'm not new to the country - I'm Canadian, and all these issues make it impossible to get ahead. Housing in particular is a challenge - we have the second-largest country in the world, but buying a house is an impossibility for entire generations of hardworking families, even in a small town nowhere near as expensive as Vancouver. It's insane, and you have described the causes of the crisis very accurately.
You have a lot of points I agree with. True it’s hard to get a house but I know a lot people who have bought house in small including new Canadians so I disagree to the small town part. Here in saskatchewan you can get an affordable place then a lot of other places in the country. In my area there are lots of jobs and not enough people to fill the positions. So things are a little better here but the problem like said in the video is having enough doctors and nurses.
@@geertstroy There are lots of people who came to Saskatchewan and stayed because they like. That includes people from different countries as well as citizens from other provinces.
Very well said. I grew up near Vancouver and never had a chance at owning anything. I, like you should be a high paid professional, but that's not the case in Canada. Now I work for an American company remotely and live in South America. Finally, for once in my life I can get ahead financially.
Seriously thinking of going back to my home country and working remotely, after spending 3.5 years in Canada. This way I can save the full salary as my family owns a large house (it is common in Bangladesh, society is different there. Houses in rural areas are very large, joint family living together), and everything else is also much cheaper. If I ignore the corruption of the govt in BD, and only focus on my own life, BD is a great place to live.
@@balanibakits6488 Corruption is alive and well here in Canada as well so don't let that dissuade you. Born and raised here in Canada, 43 and looking for a way out.
Thank you Alex , very honest and clear description of Canadian reality . I came to this beautiful country 15 years ago to give a better future and , the most important, choice to my kids . Can support every your word . You have better understanding than probably half of Canadians, with all my respect towards them. .
Derick, I am an Indo-Canadian - BORN Canadian. Canada s slide into the current morass of corruption and moral turpitude (to the point where now, as a matter of STATE POLICY, doctors are encouraging people to submit to medical murder), was sown at the time of "free trade"'spearheaded by the absolutely corrupt, largely foreign financed Brian Mulroney; From that time onwards, the country has been hollowed out - its best industries taken over, its manufacturing sectors had their backs broken, and with that, went an exodus of all manner of well paying jobs and positions. Sadly, with each passing administration, the corruption simply gets worse, such that now, the apogee of unfettered corruption - masquerading as "extreme left" courtesy of handsomely paid presstitutes sucking off the government s covered udder, is ushering in the uktimate sacrifice ofnthe Canadian population on the altar of the golden calf, while undoubtedly being shiwered with benefits, which will probably come to full maturity after theese shameful profiteers' terms of office come to an end.
As a Canadian, whose family immigrated here inthe late 70’s, I agree with you 💯. It’s a shame what’s happened to my home country. The worst is the homelessness issues. Very sad indeed.
Yes! I was born and raised here but the situation is dire. I’m looking into emigrating to the US. I know a lot of the prospective immigrants to Canada just want to be anywhere but their home country but I hope they do their research and realize Canada is not “the one.”
@@giniolamy the grass is always greener, I guess. My thing is that I have zero debt, save the majority of my earnings and it will never be enough to buy a house in British Columbia. My parents came here in the early 80s and were able to buy a 5 bedroom house by 1989 with my mom working retail and my father being a student. With my savings, I could already buy a good sized house in the southern US while I can’t qualify for a 1 bedroom apartment here.
Then where? Certainly not the U.S., the "American dream" is long over. Europe isn't doing too good either. So maybe Asia? But I believe no Asian country gives citizenship
Your observations are spot on! I immigrated to Canada in the mid 2000s and worked and lived in Mississauga, ON and Montréal, QC. I left Canada in 2012 when I landed a job in the Middle East. But I hear the costs of living skyrocketing in Canada from familles and friends, and it keeps me from ever returning. And the winter weather in Canada is awfully unbearable. Living through more than seven severely freezing winters is enough for me.
Likewise I moved to the Middle East as well and resonnate the same story. Just decided to atay here and perhaps will invest in property here instead. Where in the Middle East did you move to? I'm in Qatar. Fifa's been great, too.
Hi Paula! I lived in Canada for 20 years but later moved to Ukraine and spent another 10 years there. Between 2014 and 2022 I kept deliberating moving to Canada but every year it was getting Worse and Worse! Houses were getting more and more expensive and looking from the outside in I didn't see the economy growing or any infrastructure investment. And don't get me started on the weather, which was horrible, and politics, which were getting increasingly left leaning.
Born and raised in Canada. If I want an enjoyable retirement, I will have to go somewhere else where there is no winter and a reasonable cost of living. Thank you Alex for this video.
I moved to Toronto in ‘89. It took me a month to figure out that Canada was not the US. Went back to my home country to regroup; and moved to New Jersey in ‘94. Best decision I’ve ever made. Certainly, things are rough globally…specially after the pandemic. But Canada takes the price. That said, I was intrigued by your comments related to healthcare as these issues weren’t clear to me. Maybe a separate video addressing your impressions on the healthcare area would be an amazing project.
My parents moved to Toronto in '95. It took exactly one year to realize that Canada is not America. And back then, it was as close to America as you could get. Housing was actually affordable and gasoline was 65 cents a liter.
@@Ukrainiancouple So what did they end up doing, if I may ask? Just as an fyi....a huge portion of the Indian migrating to the US are coming from Canada. Can't blame anyone making the attempt.
Healthcare is a joke. In some cities you are unable to access a family doctor, forcing you to go to walk in clinics, unable to build a relationship with one doctor. Also, consider a referral to be a gift
people need to stop fearing mortality and bovcott the healthcare system. it is not even healthcare anyway. the government has made it into a disease and death business.
I agree with you everything you said originally I'm from Ethiopia and I came to Canada 🇨🇦 before covid 19 but nothing changed my life it only got worse Canada used to be the land of an opportunity but not anymore and it's very hard to get a job these days I'm in college and I tried to get an evening job but I wasn't able to find it even if you get a job you have to drive 1hr or more only someone who owns a car can get a job we struggle to pay for rent how can we own a car that's not easy or maybe impossible I'm not saying Canada is a bad country or anything but it's not for me also I would like to go back home I have to look after my dad who still receiving some treatment also most of my relatives back home think we are having a good time in Canada and they expect us to support them financially but they don't know the real situation we are living in I used to be a funny and happy guy but Canada changed my personality and it's been years since I felt real happiness in my mind it became my routine thinking and worrying about what will happen next ➡️ I think Canada is good for travelling and staying for weeks but not for a long time also I was surprised by how many people in the comments section telling their stories I thought I'm the only one who feels that way but I hope everyone will overcome any challenges they are facing I wish you all the best ❤❤❤❤❤
Hey brother, I’m Ethiopian & currently living in next door (USA) ….The US is just little bit better compared to Canada but, u also have to overcome many problems here …the people r not like in our country even ur own families or friends…..they all fake and artificial…my story is pretty much similar with u with little bit difference…my health also got hit in the past 2 years(had surgery and, I was in/out in hospital for the past 3 years) …I had really happy life in Ethiopia…I had my small business,a lot friends and was pretty much fan and happy life ….now I’m behind in life,lonely and, My health is gone down ….my world is upside down ….anyway, I wish u the best and,don’t stress out too much ….it will hurt ur health & work out 💪🏾 (it’s gonna help u out) ….I wish u the best
I’m so sorry to hear it, I wish you can figure it out. Must have been a tough decision to move from a hot bright country to Canada. Is it okay to ask why did you leave home for Canada?
I think people with You Tube videos promoting Canada as a place to live are paid to do those videos. Your assessment regarding Canada is bang on. I feel sad for people who come here with the belief that their lives will be better, Only to find out that they are far worse off. I've noticed the cost of groceries and housing have tripled in the last few years. Very difficult to get a Dr in Canada. 50.000 people in my small province are without a Dr. People are being neglected by Canada's healthcare system to the point of dying right in the hospital waiting rooms or while waiting for an ambulance. Yet, A huge chunk of taxes go toward healthcare. Homeless encampments are on the rise as landlords are gouging people for exorbitant rent. Streets are lined with homeless people and with the high cost of living it could be anyone of us carting our humble belongings around in a shopping cart. If you have children I'd avoid sending them to Canadian schools and opt for homeschooling. Your children will be read to by drag queens while sitting on some strangers lap. This week in class my neighbors son class will be showing boys how to paint their nails. They've already been taught about every kind of sexual position and how to use condoms and butt plugs. Yes, Even elementary students! The school libraries are filled with books that promote pedophilia. They want your children dumbed down and sexualized at an early age. Wars are instigated because the greedy globalists want the land and resources and the politicians regardless of their colors are all in the pockets of a few elitists who rule over the many. The globalists know that war creates all of the things they support. Depopulation, Refugees, Who they want for cheap Labor, Land the refugees left behind for the resources to fill their troughs with. My apologies for the long diatribe and Thank You Sir for being an honest and informative voice regarding the truth about Canada. I was born and raised here and my dream is to leave. Even Russia or China is starting to look good compared to Canada.
I am from China and currently residing in Vancouver. Actually, I would like to say that if you are in the software development industry, salaries in China can be even higher than in Canada, and there are even more opportunities for software engineers in China. Currently, I am considering moving to California.🤣
I’m Ukrainian Canadian who lived in Toronto for 30 years before leaving Canada in 2019 because of those issues you’re talking about. I do return once a year to see my family but even that is hard to do today because my very basic (2-3 week) yearly visits back home costing me 4-6k $CAD., Where I live now in South East Asia same money goes a long way.
Born in Vancouver it beaks my heart the deliberate destruction our politicians wrought. The story you so accurately stated kicked off after Expo 86. I have not been able to afford to live there for years.
I used to live in the Seattle area during those years. I think you're right because we heard about Vancouver housing prices went up around that time. Seattle prices were far behind that was what I thought.
As a Canadian living in Canada now for 30 years, I am ashamed at what's happening. Our government is to blame and responsible for inviting people to come to Canada only to shatter their dreams. This seems to be a repeated theme in all the commonwealth countries. There is a time for immigration and NOW is not the time.....
Thank you for making this video. This summarizes the reality of Canada. I am a software engineer as well with a few years of experience. For a software engineer with an engineering degree why does life has to be so difficult that he/she needs to live month to month. Cant imagine how it is for people who do a less paying job. Just a small visit to grocery store 100 dollars goes away just like that. I feel like everything around me awesome but I am not part of it. Feel like lower class citizen. In silicon valley the rent is high, but there are also people who make a lot of money there. Here nobody makes that kind of money for the prevailing rent. Even the commercial properties are better when it comes to pricing their apartments. Private renters are notorious with their pricing. Pricing it as they wish. Basement apartments are almost 1300 CAD in Kitchener-Waterloo. I hate it when these long time settlers give advice like work hard and be patient. Software Engineer as it is a mentally very draining job.
Vancouver is the worst place to live with respect to housing market. I work in Ottawa but bought a house in the Quebec area (30 minutes away from my office) and I pay $1200.00/months for my mortgage.
Before moving to Toronto in 2018, I had the dream of living the "Canadian Dream". I have seen so many documentaries about Canada and the beautiful landscapes, the great quality of life and the kindness of the people. I chose Toronto, ON because again, based on my searches, they were saying that it was easy to find a job, cheaper than Vancouver and had more activities to do as a young man in his early 20s. I left the country a year later... The only positive thing I retain was that I have met great people and have made friends with people from all around the world. For the rest, I think that your video is a great summary of the situation (especially the housing market...).
@@jaimesmith1086 I was in a co-op program (6 months in a school and 6 in a job). End of my contract, I was not allowed to work anymore with my visas. I got 2 choices: - To work illegally in a restaurant or any business willing to have me to be able to afford rent and food. - Get back to my country with the few Ks I was able to save during my journey. I chose the second one. I have a lot of great memories from this year and will always be grateful for the people I have met there. Unfortunately, Canada is not a land of opportunities like most people are saying.
@@thomasc8560 thank you for sharing. I think if someone does a 1 year program, there's a 1 year post grad work permit to help stay & work for 1 year in Canada.
@@jaimesmith1086 You're welcome. It is important to me to share my failures. If it can help people to be aware of certain things, it is awesome. I thought about this visa but my school was not a regular university. It was a language school pretending to be an "International College". There is a lot of "dreams sellers" in Canada. Don't believe in the random schools saying that they are number one in different categories thanks to stupid "awards" they won. It is not easy for young professionals with a Bachelor or a Master degree to find a job in the GTA, so imagine for someone like me with a "fake" diploma. If I could go back in the past, I would take a bigger student loan and go to UofT. At least, I would have a Bachelor degree haha.
I was born in Ontario my Mom immigrated from the U.S. and my Dad is from here. I agree with your pros and cons. I think Canada is overrated but I am still very thankful for the good things. I think people who are born here have a hard time admitting Canada is not as great as we've been made to believe, but still awesome in a lot of ways. We don't really have a full perspective until we've spent some time outside of Canada (and I don't mean at a resort in the Caribbean I mean like actually travel). Thanks for the video, I enjoyed it.
Canadians have an inferiority complex. They need to constantly tell themselves how Canada is the best and require others to agree with them or they won't be able to sleep at night.
I know how you feel. I came to Australia with hope and energy. Paid full price for university. But soon after I graduated with 5000 dollars in my bank account, I realized that I might be doomed for the rest of my life. No matter how hard I work, I can’t compete with those rich immigrants and older generations. I don’t know what I can do to have a life that they have. Basically working is only paying the bills, with no extra money to explore my hobbies or anything travel. Worked all year around, apart from my age is growing. I don’t feel I have a life here. I only survive here. Some people saying being poor is a disease. I don’t know what is the cure. Life will slip away quickly. I don’t want spend the rest of my life surviving. Just like you said when your home country is worse and where you live is mess. I really starting to lose hope. Not exactly feeling the hope and energy when I first landed in Australia. I guess this is nobody’s fault, except for me be poor,I’m sorry.
Do not lose hope and accept the fact, that you will have to survive, and will not live like older generation of immigrants. But your kids and their kids will do.
You need to stay put by working to maximize your income and not hesitate relocating. Meanwhile try to live as cheaply as possible by renting an inexpensive bedroom in a cheap area of the city. Invest wisely the saved money and make it grow for you (and protect it from inflation). Do not drink, do not smoke. Avoid restaurants and theatres. Cash the money from paid vacations. Just go jogging. Do not eat bad food, focus on quality veggies and fish. Do that 2 years max and you will have enough cash on your own to make a big deposit on a 2 bedrooms condo. Once on the property ladder you can start relaxing. I've done it so I know it's do-able.
I have lived in Canada for 28 years, the last 7 years since Trudeau came into office has been the worst, no wonder he is considered the worst PM is Canadian history, I have seen the rapid collapse of Canada under his regime, a country that took a century to build, has been taken down in a few years, thanks to the Liberal/NDP coalition. I will admit I am guilty, I voted for Trudeau 7 years ago, I had no idea he was a narcissist and incompetent leader. Now I am 100% going to vote Conservative.
The nature in Canada is world class, it's an aesthetically beautiful country, but the opportunities are limited. My parents came to Canada in the late 80's and didn't speak English but could easily buy a house, back then everyone was approved. They paid off their home and raised a middle class family with only my father working. I'm 42 and still can't buy a house, I finished university and have a small business but my life is way harder than my parents. I rent houses and only dream of owning a home and gave up having kids because it's impossible to raise a family with 2 adults working full time, my husband and I. Life in Canada is extremely hard, extremely mentally straining. People are exhausted and hate their life. The Canadian dream is dead at the moment and we have our government to thank for the bad communist policies.
People say Canada is socialist or even more extreme communist but socialism would imply free education, affordable housing and easy access to medical care (none of those it has).
@@vancouverbill I think Canada has free education till high school with somewhat affordable university education prices (compared to US). Agreed with housing and timely access to medical care.
You are spot on, as a child of immigrant parents I really enjoyed growing up in Vancouver in 80-90s but after getting my Bachelors & Masters I worked in US & Asia. Salaries, career opportunities are better & overall living is better. Canadians right now have it tough, political elites have created a mess in housing as majority of MP’s are multiple property owners. Healthcare is falling apart as I visit my ageing parents regularly.
They lure educated young people in my countries with the promises of opportunities, that they need people with knowledge & experience. When we came in, we played by their rules, from studying in their education institutions, to paying taxes & re-building our credit in here. Paid 3-times as much as what Canadians paid for tuition fees, then we're on our own to survive. Furthermore, we're abandoned from every aspects. When we graduated, we were mistreated by the things called "CANADIAN EXPERIENCE". Like WHAT THE FUCK, they brought us here and hope that we may change our career from business, IT, analyst... to construction workers,wielders to fill the gap... ???? Why didn't they, initially, advertise that they need construction workers, general labourers so save out times --> IT MADE NO SENSE AT ALL. I left Canada 10 days ago, never felt more alive. I just hope whoever feel stuck, they can find a way to figure out. To me, it is a dead land masquerading as a first-world country, with the illusion that they're more superior. Like please, In America they have Silicon Valley, in Vietnam they have Quang Trung Software Park. In Canada, I have never heard about an IT hub in Canada. If you need people to pay for the tax because of the aged population, just admit it first, then build the programs to facilitate new immigrants. Don't just bring them here for money then treat them like cattle with disdain. GLAD THAT I ESCAPED THAT SHITHOLE
I am 36 years old. Buying a house is a pipedream. I make 70k/year and live to survive. CANADA IS NOT FOR MOST PEOPLE. Efit: i do not see my family living in canada in the next 3 years.
I am 68 and in good health. I left Canada because family doctors are extinct. Seniors are not faring any better and many will die from long waiting periods and a broken degraded system. I was not willing to wait for them to shove me into a home for the aged because of incompetence and non existant healthcare. Thank God I have a Euro passport, I now reside in Italy and the warm winter is a bonus!
@@ellenmorse8559 So happy that your plan does work for you. I have been to Urbania, Urbino, Rome & Venice before, the tranquility and atmosphere of Italy have captured my heart up to this day. Sorry I am a little bit curious about the healthcare system in your country. Is it easy to get to the hospital if you have non-emergency problem ??? Like flu, fever ?? How much do you pay for your healthcare service within a year ???
@@rally_chronicles Actually I felt something was wrong with this country since I first came in there in 2018. The vibe, the way they govern people's activities. Why do they have the zoning for houses & shopping areas. Like many people have to walk 20 mins, wait 30 mins to get grocery. Even in Italy the convenience store is at the middle of the street, takes me 2 minutes to get there. World-class city? it will never be. The layout and architecture look boring and plain as hell. Most of the houses are pretty much the same in Scarborough. Downtown is a just a forest of concrete placed together. The only good-looking neighborhood I saw, was the area around Glen Stewart Ravine near Victoria Park Station
I have lived here my whole life. I have been in every Province but NFLD. Have lived in 6 Provinces. Served in the Canadian Military and then after that started an Oilfield Servicing Company in Alberta. Managed to see that in 2008, about two weeks before crash. What has happened since, is a crime. We import Oil when we have our own. We do not allow Coal for energy, yet ship it overseas for other Countries to burn. We are Carbon Taxed yet ship it across the ocean. I have decided in the last year that after 52 yrs here. I am leaving for good. I am taking my pensions and done. I have begun to sell off everything. This is a beautiful Country. Yet, those born and raised here are treated like trash. Those who serve, be it Military, Doctors, Police, Firemen, Nurses. Those are only just a pin drop of professions that are treated as replaceable. I know immigrants who came here with skills in Aviation. Helicopter and Jet engine mechanics that could not get work. They drove Taxis and Tow Trucks. That was in Calgary. I recently talked with a Doctor in the Philippines about coming here and practicing medicine. She said no way. She has researched the Plus's and Negatives. She is better off not making as much, yet keeping more of it. How and why is that possible in a Country like Canada. How have we fallen so quickly. In just 7 years we have become the laughing stock of our Allies. The British, Australians, Germans, US and many others are covering the news in our Country better than our media does for sure. They are also shocked at what Canada is becoming. Hence. I will leave and take my money with. There are several others in far better financial positions than myself that are also leaving. What you are going to be left with is Immigrants who will suffer the same as the previous and the skilled and wealthy going away. As fast as they can.
i can understand what you hv faced back home, i am also a software engineer and my 90% team is form Ukraine , i work with them on daily basis. I hope and pray for the safety and well being of ur people.
I am a full stack Software Developer here in Greater Vancouver, BC. I shared your views on job salaries here are not at par with cost of living. You are bang on, and your videos are interesting to watch. You and I have common interest in macro economics too so it seems. :)
I live in brampton, and I've talked to a lot of immigrants, especially from India. They all say the same thing. They regret coming here because it's too financially difficult here. The cost of living here is higher, property costs are insane, there are longer working hours than most countries, and transportation is a must. As a result, they come here and have a lower quality of life and often times left family.
All my Brazilian friends that went to Canadá in the past 5 years now they are in the us or Portugal, they never seem to tell exactly why they leave Canada, I used to think that Canada was overrated, just because I didn’t buy all that thing about the dreams that they were selling to immigrants.
I immigrated to Canada in 1994. In GTA Toronto, 30 years ago, price for a decent 3 bedroom house was in range of 180K - 280K which was 4, maybe 5 yearly salaries for mid-range IT developer or an engineer. Now similar house is >=10 yearly salaries for IT professional or an engineer. Life for new immigrants became much more difficult. Canada as a country also change dramatically.
You have summed everything up perfectly. With part of my family in Kelowna since 2018, we have been feeling the blow, and it is only getting worse. I recently watched an Aaron Gunn video (his videos are great). It is called "Why Are Housing Prices in Canada So High?". It deepens into the real reasons behind your video's description. To be blunt, if you pay attention to the comparison charts on the video, you cannot help yourself except getting mesmerized by the difference in prices between Canada and other countries like GBR, the USA, and Japan (yeah, those small islands with 4 times more people than Canada). And those countries cannot be considered exactly cheap markets. It is impressive!!!! Among many reasons, he cited money laundry, taxes, and cumbersome regulations!!! Canadian families cannot afford to pay the same prices. It is simply unaffordable, even in the long run!! Concerning prices in small cities, I feel sorry to tell you that small and medium cities like Kelowna have been facing skyrocketing prices over the last 18 months. You will not be able to find one bedroom below $1,800/$2,300. The same happens in many cities in the Okanagan Valley. I was told that people from Vancouver metropolitan area move to the valley for cheaper rents. So that drove prices really up in that locations. This whole thing is like an immigrant trap. The Canadian government attracts hundreds of thousands of immigrants, but Canada still needs one program to provide affordable houses or rents. In 2023, it is expected an influx of half a million immigrants!!! You also mentioned how the local, provincial, and federal governments seem apart from the situation. Yes, this is damming true! A lot! I see many groups and agencies selling services to immigrants, and I feel sorry for them because they do not investigate the whole situation thoroughly!!! The ROI of the Canadian dream is negative! It is a shame! Another issue is the problem with drugs. Even in towns like Kelowna, the problem is grave. The associated problem of homeless people resembles what you can see in many cities in the US and Latin America. I can only say it is huge!! As a result, violence statistics are mounting. Again, you can watch another interesting video from the guy above: "Vancouver is Dying." Unfortunately!!!! Congratulations on the testimony!
Hey there. I reside in West Kelowna/Westbank. Moved from Vancouver in 2017 .Looking to move to Penticton. Either people are copying my idea or I am copying their idea ? Next it will be Osoyoos ? It is a viscous cycle in BC
Nicely explained all the points in the video.. I had planned to move to Canada in 2018 but it did not workout due to some reasons.. Now that I see the inflation problem in Canada getting worse than my home country, I feel lucky that it did not work out.. people think that moving to a different country will solve their life’s problem, but that is not the case.. I’m living happily in my home country.. People need to look around for opportunities in their home country itself rather than starting from scratch and wasting their golden years (30-40 age group) in a new country in such a scenario..
or the other thing is to move to a less developed country. after living 51 years in Canada I moved to Mexico. there are so many things better here, not just the lower cost of living. there is more freedom from government interference in your life.
17 years in, and it's getting worse. I lived in Ontario only so I am not sure how it is in other provinces. But man, I feel that everyone just wants to rip off everyone in terms of doing business. The mentality of something like "I've got my own share and to hell with the others." The greed is growing.
Alas, your commentary is mostly correct. I was born and raised in BC but have lived overseas for the past 20 years. Over the years, I used to think that I would move back there some day with my wife and kids, but in recent years I have come to terms with the fact that this probably wont happen. I have been watching my beautiful homeland deteriorate from a far and it is very saddening.
Well said Alex, these were my experiences when I migrated to Canada even though I was in a top earning bracket but it was a struggle to keep up with the payments. It gets worse once you have a family and buy a house, you literally can't afford much after that. Lifestyle is great though, beautiful sites and scenery, lovely people and communities. What I think Canada needs is to create more opportunities in other sectors, encourage entrepreneurs and people with ideas, create enabling environment for other sectors to flourish especially in those areas that are mono sector based and they shouldn't view new entrants or business ideas as a threat but opportunities for growth and diversification of the economy
The wealthy are very content with the status quo. They are not thinking too deeply or seriously to change what is easy and beneficial to them. Just lie to the world, attract skilled people with lies to arrive and empty their savings, then keep them in desperate, enslaved conditions for mere survival or go homeless. The more people arrive here, the more they need to spend -----> taxes. I agree with your ideas but this is not the objective of the elite. Look at the shameful handouts given out when the public complains about tough times? They're laughing all the way to the bank in the face of despair. Look at the videos on the MAID program. Is it any wonder it is now expanded to the homeless?
maybe if you are on the west coast its beautiful but much of Canada is drear and depressing with third rate architecture and neglected public spaces. the level of apathy from the public sector who are supposed to maintain and beautify our public spaces is terrible because they get paid even if they dont do their job and it very hard to fire them. and we have teachers unions who are indoctrinating our children into communism rather than teaching them anything useful.
I think this is also the case of other rich countries with much better climates like Australia or New Zealand. I also had my immigrant dream in Australia for almost 10 years. Beautiful country, but unlike Canada, with an excellent climate all year round particularly in cities like Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, but I did find it so hard to own a place because of the super high housing prices. Like you mention about Canada, the renting business is huge in Australia too, so renting is also very expensive and add to the equation the super high cost of living I found myself earning enough just to pay my rent and get by. Now, healthcare was good down there on Medicare. I did have my visits to physicians, even had a procedure at a hospital and didn't have to worry about medical attention. But yes, half my wage went straight to the taxation office. So, long story short I couldn't afford my own house or place which is pretty frustrating, and the most affordable places were far out from workplaces or places I wanted to live in or nearby. So I decided to kiss my australian dream good bye and get back home where now I own my place and even though salaries are low, costs of living are low too. By the way, I mentioned New Zealand because I know things are worse there. In fact a lot of New Zealanders migrate to Oz for work, live and work there for a long while and retire back in beautiful NZ.
It's very hard to get PR in Australia, even for asylum seekers. Their immigration tightly controlled. Imagine having too many residents and not enough public hospitals to take care of sick ones
I was backpacking Australia and NZ during covid and was paying 60 AUD a week for a hostel in Sydney lol, which was about 1 hour of work. Just be smart and you can live great.
thanks to remote work , I took my laptop and enjoying nice weather in Antalya :) no rent, exchange rate 14x , instead of giving 1,5k for an apartment in Canada , I bought one for myself here in two years
Great video and perfect description of Canada’s main issues! I’m an immigrant as well, moved to Canada in 2018 and share the same views! I have the same feeling that things got way worse after 2020.
Canadians really ought to give the border states a chance( US). We would be close to your home country. The weather would be similiar. Culturally we would be similiar. Where I live a lot of folks commute to work( to larger city) to take advantage of small towns & their lower housing costs.
Such a good video, every immigrant has to agree with most, if not all of this. Canada is an amazing country, but it does feel like having a good life it’s reserved for the elite.
Thank you so much for voicing out everything I have to say about immigrating to Canada. We migrated to Manitoba first in 2016 and after a year moved to Ontario. I don't want to repeare everything you said but I am aligned with you 100%. Thank you and keep doing this please!
This is all completely true. I only graduated and started working in 2020 (as a software engineer), so my quality of life hasn't been too great. I recently moved (temporarily) to Brazil, and I'm dreading when I'll have to move back, because my quality of life will drop drastically. My only hope is to somehow become a multi-millionaire so I can afford to comfortably live in Vancouver again.
In Europe there is a lot of advertising to go to work in Canada but no one wants to go and one of the reasons is because of the weather it is very difficult to find people from countries like the UK, Germany, France or the Netherlands who want to go so far even a country with such a difficult climate
100% Accurate. Canada was the place to be when I moved here at the age of 6...1973. It was the new frontier. So, I'm set up now and own a house just outside of Toronto, etc...but my 3 children, who are around your age, Alex, do not own homes. It breaks my heart to see them paying ransom-style rents every month. I am powerless in helping them, unless we all figure out some sort of a plan. I am working on something to help out the kids. If it works, I will share it with you! Having said that, kudos on your TH-cam channel. It should start to produce something for you!
I must say, I am quite relieved to have found your channel. I think you are speaking nothing but the truth. Together we must raise our voices..I wish you add one more point here...about the immigrant students. I believe young students coming in are the most vulnerable, not knowing better and also kind of just accepting everything
Alex, thank you for the clear and honest description of the situation in Canada. I just intend to apply for a Canadian work permit. These issues are very important to take into consideration. Thumb!
Wow!!! this video is epic. If parliamentarians hear this, you would definitely get a standing ovation. Alex, I hope you make more of such logical simple-to-understand and absolute ground realities and facts. Kudos to you man!
I stayed less than 18 months in Canada and gave up my PR card. I left because of high taxes (53% marginal in Ontario) and low salaries overall (I was making a 150k cad as an engineer for Amazon in Toronto). People asked me what are you doing back in 2018, happy to see my point of view has become mainstream. What am I going to do? Raise a family while living 1 hour away from work? This is nonsense.
Alex: this is an excellent, factual video. Your description on the other video that the immigration system feels like a scam is accurate… there are lots or pros like safety and people, but I came to this country with $150k in cash and have been working in a great job in a great country within my specialty. I wanted better lives for our kids so came to Toronto …. I struggled at first to find a good paying job and had to settle for a bad one. Few years after, i became a high income earner , but I pay around 50% in taxes… I do have a house, a passport that is worth something, but with a 650k debt and zero in my bank account, I feel Im incentivized to leave vs stay… the only reason I’m still here is to make sure that my kids get a proper education, and get an opportunity to have a better life. I just can’t imagine how all of them will afford housing when they get to university, but my recommendation for them will be, unfortunately, to leave
Something to add, for this that mention salary should be better for these positions. For non whites and in general… unless you are a business owner, odds are stacked against you… you are not setup to be successful. Exceptions are available everywhere of course, and this country still is better than many many others in that regard, but if I apply to a job, all things equal, an Anglo Saxon name on a cv will almost be prioritized over African, middle Eastern, or other names… again, exceptions are always there.. but the deck is not in your favor in general..
This guy is on point, Canada is a good place to live if you have no other choice.. Expensive…and don’t forget the inhospitable weather in 90% of the country.
@@mikeguy1940I know a lot off Canadians also don’t like the winter. … and most of the immigrants came from countries with almost no winter. And they are not happy with that. But why does they come to Canada then in the first place? Easy immigration laws and easy to get a “ western “ passport. After they get the passport they will soon search for other place … not Canada anymore. They was here for few years get the Canadian passport and Good bye 👋
@wolfgangselle3272 well if you are from Canada and you don't like the Winter, that is fine. You didn't chose it. It's not the same. If you don't like fish, don't order it at a restaurant and complain. If your mom makes you fish at dinner as a child, feel free to complain about it. Unfortunately most of the best countries in the world have winter. Maybe Australia being one that doesn't. They got their problems too from what I can tell. There are enough people in Canada, if you came here, and don't like it, go home. Don't whine and complain about it.
As you mentioned 300,000 new immigrants arrive in Canada every year. The vast majority end up in one of the big 3 cities. Nowhere near 300,000 new housing units are added in those markets every year. Which is one of the main reasons housing is so expensive in those markets. If you leave Vancouver and go to Alberta you'll be able to afford a home. In Saskatchewan and Manitoba you can buy a mansion!
@@desigamer4342 yes but there are exceptions. For example St John's, Newfoundland. The housing there is extremely cheap. And incomes there are on par with many other parts of Canada. With the oil & gas and fisheries industries providing good paying jobs.
I am in my 30s with a good job (also making over 100K) and live with my family still. We live in the Toronto area, and while I am willing to and would like to move, most places that I would move to, not only do I know no one, but the rents are not much lower. I cannot justify paying $2500 for the average one bedroom when I can help my mother with her entire 2010 mortgage for less than half of that. Even small cities have rents of $1700+ for a one bedroom, so I cannot justify leaving my immigrant single mother and brother alone in Toronto while I chase just a couple of hundred dollars of monthly savings compred to Toronto rents ($2250-2300 for the cheapest one bedroom rental). I recently looked at some buildings in Hamilton, about just an hour away from Toronto. The rents are quite a bit cheaper, and it's possible to find a nice condo for rent for "just" $1850 or so. Well, it turns out the neighborhood for these condos is downtown Hamilton, and I truly have only seen such poverty, desperation and squalor only in the poorest, poorest areas of the third world country my parents are from. Homeless people, unwashed people, everyone limping, dirty clothes, visible drug use, clear mental ill health, etc., etc. I left the condo viewing wondering what I could do to volunteer or help these homeless people. I felt so much sadness at the sheer desperation that seemed to be so pervasive in Hamilton. As the child of educated, skilled immigrants, and in many ways, despite the difficulties of immigration, I am lucky. But I cannot understand how born Canadians are accepting what is happening to this society... How are people okay with this? How is it okay that such a large number of people are being left behind? How is no one blinking an eye at tent cities in public parks or the fact that university students are now regularly homeless? Attending the best universities in Canada is no longer about attaining the grades to enter, it's about having rich enough parents who can afford to either pay your rent or who they themselves live in those expensive cities. Otherwise, OSAP or bursaries are simply not enough in most cases to cover Toronto or Vancouver rent.
I have live in Canada for 53 years and I tell you in the 70'S housing was very affordable. The reason for the out of reach high prises of housing are many but one for sure is decisions made by governments. I well give you an example. I had a home in 1983 with my wife, it was 16000 sq. ft. it was $90,000 , we made a down payment of $ 30,000. We paid it off in 5 years and the price of the home went up to $ 250,000 in 5 years. Just at that time there was a large exit of Chinese people from Hong Kong, they would come to Canada with millions of $ in cash and purchase multiple homes. There is no way that the average Canadian could ever compete with that. The Trudeau government announce not too long ago that they want to bring in 500,000 immigrants per year for several years. Where are these people going to live or work? In my opinion we do not have a true democracy in Canada but a Family Compact as originally described by William Lyon Mackenzie back in 1834. Apparently the combine income that you have to make to purchase a house in TO is $350,000/year you do the math.
Health Care is just getting worse. Specially in Ontario. My son got RSV and we had to wait almost 12 hours just to see a ER doctor. I saw bunch of people sleeping on the floor because lack of beds and rooms. Government takes half of our income and yet we don't receive proper facilities. I'm seriously thinking of moving to US.
Healthcare is third world and completely degraded. I sold my house last spring and moved to Italy. Family doctors are being phased out and most haven’t had one in years. Now the government is so corrupt that the only recourse we have is a malevolent and dangerous “virtual” nurse on a comic strip who will guess where our health issues fit in. I’m not falling for it and at great expense, decided to leave Canada as I am a senior and my health here was seriously in jeopardy. No one is going to shove me in an old age home instead of treating my issues as they present themselves. In Quebec, it’s shocking!
@@ellenmorse8559 I live in a 3rd world country (India) and we don't have to wait 12 hours to see a doctor. We book an appointment for the sake day or a day after. We wait 60-90 minutes at max and then see the doctor.
Considering that people go bankrupt from medical bills, the US might not be the ideal place if you want good healthcare. If you are rich then it is a different story but even then you might develop a condition that is extremely expensive to treat and still go bankrupt anyway. I don't live in the USA (I live in the UK) but from what I have seen of the US medical system, capitalistic greed over human wellbeing is rampant. Just look at the price of insulin in the US compared to other developed countries. It's insane.
Great analysis. And as a landlord, I totally agree, Canadian society lately has been about Realestate. Little capital is being invested into R&D and IP, we need to change this mentality.
Vancouver is one of the most expensive cities in the world. A 1.5m home in Vancouver is 500k in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sadly, the government allowed very wealthy people who are not Canadians to buy up the market which has caused a lack of affordable housing for actual Canadians.
Everything you said is true. The living costs in big cities are disproportionately higher than salaries. Even renting in places Toronto and Vancouver is super expensive. We are talking $1,800 to 2,500 for one bedroom apartment
Ex-Torontontonian and Ex-PR of Canada here. I left Canada in 2019 for familial reasons, but considering coming back this year. Even got two rounds of job interviews to work in my field. Definitely had good chances to get a job, but then I checked renting prices. Back my job search, I was living in Zurich, Switzerland which by no way is a cheap city to live. Yet, I had cute 1 bedroom apartment for less than 1/3 of my net income. Then I realized my 2,000 budget will give me studio only. Once I realized it I withdrawn my application. Instead, I accepted a job offer in Liechtenstein and live in cute Swiss town. Here, 1/3 of my salary gave me gorgeous 2 bedroom apartment. I am missing Canada terribly. I am missing feeling welcome, meeting pepole from around a word, socializing opportunities. I have none of this here. But I have friends thanks to the Internet. Feeling welcome and opportunities will not pay my rent.
Yah Canadians are more chill, the language is easier, more space, etc. I'm Canadian and nothing to complain about the people who I had fun with here. Unfortunately the finance controllers or government as a whole= dipshit
@@heroeus8173 both countries are great place to live. Switzerland is pricy but salaries are good. Financially it's a better choice. But outside job... Country is beautiful but for non sporty people not much to do. And much harder to make new friends. Swiss people are cordial and polite but reserved. So it's all about prons and cons. Toronto has insane costs of living and tough job market without networking.
Glad I got out of Canada while I could. I was in grad-school in Toronto thinking one day I could live a nice normal Canadian life there but the housing market was and is just so insane there that working there as a researcher would never pay enough for that kind of lifestyle. So I left.
I worked as a Software Engineer in Vancouver, then I sold my 1 bed room condo and moved to Seattle. Even though Seattle is expensive in the US and I was earning the entry level salary for Amazon, I could still afford to buy a single family with 4 bedroom here.
are you a canada citizen? without TN visa i can not enter the usa for work.. I just came to canada as a student..initially i thought canada is an easy way to get a job in usa.. but the price of stuff and the low-pay income make me realize that it would be a long journey which i do not know if i could make it or not..
@@briand9822 I got a job from Amazon, then applied TN. I also used TN to go to school in UW. And yes I am a Canadian. I long realized the government policy makes my living very difficult in Canada, So I decided to leave.
@@rockmanxdi that's a good minestone. at least you have a chance. this goverment is tend to please the rich man. and fullfill with labors to lower the salary. what's more, it is strange that the utinities are the highest in the world because of no competition, but in a democracy country why no citizens to fight them..
All accurate. I’m born in Canada, also make good money and left Vancouver. It’s unfriendly, soulless, massively overpriced and full of braggers. The problem with Canada is the whole economy is based on resources, banking and real estate, and all of these are intertwined. I thought Canada was great until around 2015 then Trudeau was elected. It’s gotten more oppressive ever since.
What exactly did he do which made the station worse? In the late 2000s houses in Vancouver were already about a million and that was in harpers time. It seems the golden age was mid 90s and before. Houses back then affordable for people on any job, ski tickets cheap and medical care a lot more accessible. Seems many things such as Olympics, world expo, lack of regulation on foreign housing buyers have caused huge problems but I haven't seen either left or right parties make any meaning change to slow the unaffordability.
@@vancouverbill dude, get your head out of your ass! I voted for Trudeau the first 2 times but he is on the verge of destroying this country! he is trying to kill off the base of our economy - oil and resources - because he claims to be "saving the planet". and he doesnt care how many Canadians he has to kill to do it. the green agenda is all a scam though. its just a disguise for wealth trabsfer and depopulation.
Exactly, Turdeau all talk, no action. Lots of virtue signalling but doesn't care about everyday working people. He is also trying to kill over 180,000 high paying resource sector jobs in western Canada in next few years (with many thousands more in spin-off jobs that will be affected) all in the name of saving the world from climate change (but we are less than 1.8% of global emissions and have hundred millions of trees.
Great video. My parents immigrated to Canada in early 2000. I did my school/university in Canada. Lived in Toronto, Vancouver, but left for US. Moving to US was the best decision of my life. In regards to Canadian being nice, I prefer American personality (especially East Coasters) for being direct, to the point and not beating around the bush.
@@jaimesmith1086 First you need to be hired by a company in the US. Why would they hire me and have to wait for the visa process that could take months, when they can just hire someone in the US right away?
@@James-nv1wf I hear TN visa can be easily gotten at the border (TN visa is very different than H1B visa). They would hire you if you are good & skilled in your area & they feel you can add a lot of value compared to other candidates.
Vancouver looks very beautiful. This problem of cost of living seems to be getting worse all over the world. Greed seems to be behind much of the rent prices as well as cost of buying a home.
The world needs to move towards creating systems that serve people and humanity and all the basic needs of human beings before serving corporations. When I see how much is spent on space exploration while millions starve, are homeless, it just makes me sick.
@@QueenBee-mk8xm We have the power to help each other, charity is more powerful than government policy. As government will always be in bed with bad elements. We the people can support each other! We need to unite and cut the government out! Let them crash and burn 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Government will always be in bed with corporations. Government loves bribes $$$
Dude I was born in Canada. I make the same wage as u as a logger. And my family are barely making it. My kids will never afford a house. I feel your pain
I am an immigrant from Belgium. Health care is really bad . No family doctors . I am going back to Belgium for surgery because the wait time to get surgery is it’s like forever and I’m living in pain . It’s hard to progress in Canada. All you do is work, pay bills and repeat. You are lucky if you can afford a house . Not very much fun stuff going on here either . Canada is a great country if you are ok living paycheque go paycheque .
Hello Kristine, sadly, Canada has become that. The other side of that coin, is the rampant corruption in the so called health, social service and education sectors. To give one really tragic example, teachers and nurses unions' pension funds are heavily invested in big pharma. The teachers in the classrooms have been pushing ritalin on children, using entirely fake diagnoses of "adhd - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - diagnosed for any normal childhood behaviour, or indeed where a child questions too much if what is imparted upon them by their teacher ; School nurse's and social worker's professional expertise" is marshalled; Parents ar e told that their child MUST get onto ritalin; They see a doctor, who invariably prescribes it; and presto, a few tears later, child s mind is FINISHED!!! IF parent refuse or resist, then the same bureaucracies will present a motion of seizure before "youth court" taken against "neglectful parents" under emergency circumstances - what is called an injunction at law. The parents won t even know of its having been filed against them (even though the laws of every province stipulate that the target of any lawsuit MUST be served with the impending kawsuit a set time in advance thereof), and the youth court judges (all of whom acted for the social service sector prior to their appointments as judges) invariably hear, and grant the orders of seizure if the chikdren. These are then taken over by state authorities, whi have absolute authority and power over them, with parents having "visitng rights" So they are subjectedto the drug, they are "given" an "education" that is in fact and in law, inferior to the general one their non seized peers get, and when they turn 18, are simply thrown out onto the street, with literally NOTHING other than a bus tocket or two and a very nominal amount of money - usually $20. All the while the parasites in labcoats and suits havw been minting FORTUNES from the bonuses they receive for each child so kidnapped, as well as from drug company kickbacks. That, is just ONE example of the enracinates corrupt set up That permeates Canada s so called social safety net
I stayed in Vancouver for almost 6 years and became baker, warehouse coordinator, and IT and now web developer. we transferred here in Ontario now knowing that some how we might be able to afford housing here however, it looks like US is still the best bet if we want to buy a house and save up for our future. In the US we are going to pay for healthcare but it looks like from our computation we can afford for our healthcare there pulse we may able to buy a dissent house there. So yeah, by the way my wife is a nurse but we are still planning to go to US next year, maybe Texas or Michigan. Thanks Alex for your honest video, I tough I'm the only one in Tech that feels that our income is not enough.
Your videos opened my eyes. I'm a Belarusian and I live in Poland. This country is good regarding to my homeland, but I've been searched for other relocation variants after getring citizenship of EU. And Canada interested me for its quiety, safety, nature and other conditions good for not such socialized people like me. But your and other peoples videos helped me to better understand the real situation in that place. It's sad, but these reasons are foundamental to make a decision to not move into this country. I enjoy your videos, hope to see your further content. Yes, suddenly Russia and its neighbour Belarus is one of the worst places to live in Asia and Europe now
Земляк. Сейчас такие времена, что уютных гаваней становится все меньше. Но, большого смысла ехать в Канаду как я понял давно нет. Чумовая стоимость аренды и невозможность купить свое жилье сомнительная перспектива. Будешь ходить в офис если повезет как папа карло, чтобы в конце месяца отдать половину за рент, остальное за тачку, еду и налоги. По итогу смысла ноль. Польша нормальная страна, в центре Европы откуда можно путешествовать. Нормальная версия Беларуси. А любой переезд очень сильно высасывает деньги и душевные силы и по итогу лучше не дергаться. Такие мысли на твой коммент 5 месячной давности. Играть в гринку и строить свою жизнь на местности более здоровая стратегия чем тягаться с богатыми азиатами в Канаде.
I lived some time in Toronto and now living in Chicago, in both cases - I work/worked in IT, as software engineer. In Toronto, my salary was around 80k, 1bed was in 400k range. In Chicago, my salary is close to 200k and I can get a 1bed in Lakeview for around 200k too, yearly salary. Also, taxes are lower and city is prettier too - architecture etc. I'd never go back to Canada. I'd rather just move back to Europe. I did working holiday in Sydney too, also working as software dev, and similar situation to Canada - low salaries vs expensive living, but at least weather is good. For me, Canada is the most overrated country in the world (lived in Poland, Uk, Australia, Canada and US and visited almost 80 countries).
Not everything is about money. I don’t feel safe in the states. Would not want to live there even if you paid me. I can get 250k in Chicago easy too
Gun culture is the worst nightmare in America. Every year hundreds of children killed in the gun fire in schools. Not money is the matters. 😂
Oh my gosh you really hate Canada. I agreed.
@@mujkocka Im just here for an experience, 2 years and already roughly planning to move back to Europe in some time. I am lucky to have a fully remote job so I am in Europe half the time anyway.
@@mujkocka Software companies aren’t located in the ghetto ; they tend to be in low crime neighbourhoods .
My mom came to Canada in the 90s and was a top rated doctor from Syria. She ended up spending her time in Canada doing every odd job from cleaning and painting, to car sales and real estate. She was never able to practice medicine, even after passing the exams in Canada, and it’s a shame because she had SO much to offer the healthcare system.
This video needs more recognition.
Why she passed exams and couldn't practice?
So sorry to hear that
Sorry to hear that. Could you give some details on why she could not practice @judeshamsi8420 ? Seems a very acute problem in Canada
I DO agree wholeheartedly with you , from Netherlands. Can no do is a lutsched off lolly.
I have met so many people throughout the years with similar stories. I am sad to say. They tell you how easy it will be for someone with your skills to succeed, and when you arrive here you quickly realize it's not the case.
I am a "old stock" Canadian (all my ancestors moved here in the colonial era), and I find this very informative. When you said people feel deceived, it really resonated. I absolutely believe our newcomers are being deceived; I have even called our immigration system a "scam" because of how it fails newcomers AND how the results of our immigration system do not really live up to the expectations to the existing population. Immigrants come with extraordinary education, but get roped into odd, low paying jobs far too often. We say we love immigration, but then we don't build houses, and newcomers and our youth pay far too much of their income for shelter. The government claims immigration will fill every labour shortage, but the data published by the federal government shows that is not true, particularly in the desperately understaffed skilled labour sector.
I think it is disgraceful that we try to attract newcomers, but do not insist on having a perpetual EXCESS supply of housing to welcome people (and for ourselves!). I think there is a deeply chauvinistic undercurrent of people who think that newcomers don't really deserve the best of what we have, thinking "hey, driving an uber in Ottawa is still better than being a doctor in Egypt" or whatever.
I agree with you. I have been here for 30 years (started off in Toronto). I was stuck in menial jobs and found that even price of a condo was out of reach. Most government jobs, both provincial and federal, were closed to me because I was white. I eventually moved to Calgary and started my own business. Canada is vastly overrated, expensive, and poorly run. The current PM is more concerned about his international image than the overall well-being of Canadians. Many immigrants here are leaving, and my oldest son is considering moving to Latin America (his wife is Hispanic) because he can enjoy a better quality of life there. Sad, ain't it?
@@PM-nr1yo You have to be willing to move to more rural areas, there are opportunities for average joe's and houses that are affordable
Currently living in Canada but finding my way out. Canada is becoming a playground for the rich and average people are suffocating with the high housing price, high living cost and low income. You made a very good point that the elites do not wanna change the status quo since they are benefiting from the very speculated housing market in Canada. But guess what, eventually Canada will become less appealing to immigrants when they realize the pay is so low and living cost is so high.
Canada is more than just Toronto and Vancouver… Calgary, Edmonton, small town Ontario, the east coast, they’re all beautiful places with reasonable housing. Most of Canada has reasonable housing, it’s only Toronto and Vancouver that are overpriced.
@@Pairofkingsup But for an immigrant, living in a less populated area is very difficult. They won't find their local food, no friends, less jobs, social isolation. It's a mental torture.
@@balanibakits6488 the whole point of immigrating to a country is to absorb its culture and assimilate into the mainstream. What’s the point in immigrating if you’re only willing to be surrounded by those in your home country?
@@Pairofkingsup did you even watch the full video
The Porsche 911 in Canada is half price of that of Australia.
As a Canadian, I've never heard the plight of Canada described so accurately. Bravo and welcome!
You don't realize how bad it is until you leave. It has been getting worse in the last few decades and it looks like it really nosedived after that idiot Trudeau was elected.
@@sexygeek8996 Joke's on you! ;-) I left in 2001 and agree with you completely. Every year I go back to visit I notice the quality of life is decreasing appreciably. The deterioration was slowly underway in the late 90s but accelerated under Trudeau, no doubt. Compared to when I grew up (in the 80s mainly), access to healthcare, safety, and general infrastructure have gone way downhill. I tell me friends back home that they are frogs in boiling water. They don't realize how bad it is until they leave. It's been such an insidious decline that they've just grown used to it. They say stuff like: "You mean in other countries you don't have to wait 6 months to see a dermatologist?!" Everyone is starting to notice now, though. Trudeau is one of many factors to blame. Canadians and their "Just be happy with what you have." mediocre approach to life is another. We could go on.......
@@jimbobkentucky yep, where did you go?
@Max Milučky Korea
@@vadimbytsiv9461 Korea.
In 2004 I wrote a somewhat famous article called 'Top 8 reasons not to immigrate to Canada'. In short, the Canadian authorities tried to destroy my life. They made it so that I could not be employable in Canada. So I moved to the U.S. in 2005 and then some years later I moved permanently to the Philippines. I am happy that so many years later videos like yours are saying essentially the same things that I did. I was ahead of my time. I will never go back to Canada. Not to live, not to visit, not even a connecting flight. Too cold, too expensive, taxes are astronomical, no freedom, no jobs, no opportunities, xenophobic people, too depressing. It has become the North Korea of the western world.
you renounced your canadian citizenship?
Amen, to that
How is Canada xenophobic?
@@Alien2799
Wtf is “Xenophobic”??
Sounds like something from Aliens!
Nah that’s why Canada’s a dump. Liberal bs.
I'm from Edmonton and the police there simply would not leave me alone. They used the media against me and I lost most of my friends and employment was difficult. My father had political enemies and the harassment just would not stop. I spent $thousands on legal costs and during an intermission between criminal charges I applied for a visa to Australia. 3 weeks before I emigrated in 1991 I had to go to court yet again (offensive driving). Once again I beat the charge and left. The Edmonton police continued to visit my parent's house for years. It sounds like the STAASI but living in Edmonton was horrible. I feel that Canada is a land of hypocrisy led by minority interest groups.
Canadian born and after 50 years still working hard with no end in sight. I wish I had another country to go to because the Canada of my childhood is long gone. The past decade has been the worst as far as finances, healthcare, education, cost of living, everything is out of control due to terrible government policy. You hit the nail on the head with this video.
Those crisis was deliberately designed by education mafias who had lobbying some entities in immigration to make everything difficult except you pay 50000 cad tuition fees. Have you wondered for farm labourers, construction labourers, or Personal support workers one should have diploma of agriculture/constructions/PSW ? Since nobody pay it, they locked the occupations with tons of requirements, thats the crisis happened. In south korea, japan, hongkong, singapore, dubai, etc. They just come, get training and work. thats why everything far more cheaper. In canada they deliberately make it complicated.
looking in Asian counties. ?
I am a Canadian who spent the past 7 years in India and Nepal and have returned to Canada just this year. I can't wait to leave. My new passport will be ready in 10 days and I will be gone.
@@brahmanjnananithya7913 I was born in Canada many decades ago and I'd like to say to you. I think you are making a wise decision to leave Canada. As long as Trudeau is the Prime Minister nothing good is going to come out of here
@James Silverton I'm Canadian born 70 years ago and I'm glad I'm near the end of life. Trudeau has torn Canada to shreds. How people could vote for this tool is beyond/
Canada is a great country I migrated here with my wife in late 1969 thats 54 years ago. We came only with our suitcases not wealthy but built a life of progress iwith family born here and all educated here in Toronto . We came from economic poverty and worked very hard in Canada build our lives from nothing. The political Social economic and religious climate has drastically changed in our half of century living in Canada. Leaving our younger generation to make tough choices to remain or stay in Canada.
As a 26 year old Canadian you hit the nail on the head. Unless you were born into money, owning a home is unaffordable in the big cities. And you have to live in the big cities because that’s where the jobs are. Furthermore, Covid exposed how broken the healthcare system is here. I love Canada but in the US you get paid more in a stronger currency, taxed less, and the cost of living is lower.
I mean US didn't handle covid well either 🤷. I'm a software engineer like the guy in this video. And you can definitely get jobs over 150k here. It's mostly for senior engineers and people who have worked a while. I have no idea how he is spending 350 per week on groceries. For comparison my family of three adults spends less than 200 a week on groceries. His rent is definitely reasonable for a family of four though. I there are definitely ways he could cut his spending though. He should also consider finding remote work that way he can save on fuel for travel. You can definitely have a higher standard of living here compared to most of the world earning that amount.
Although specifically software engineers can get way higher pay in the US that's mostly in cities that have even higher costs of living like silcon Valley and new york city or texas. But I don't think his complaints are all reasonable. Some of them for sure like rent in major cities. However, you can avoid some taxes with a mixture of tfsa and rrsp. You can use both to help pay for your house and there are rent to own programs as well. Many Canadians do not know how to manage their money and are very finicially illiterate.
So move
@@KManAbout thanks for that comment, it sounded to me that the videos like that were exaggerating and been too choosy or irrational. I'm Belgian, I'm 29 and i consider to move there.
It seem to me that it's doable. Isn't it ? I mean life in belgium is 10 times worse than anything in Canada. A part from health care and social security.
@Traductions culture En-Ar vers Fr maybe Belgium seems decent to me. There are disadvantages and lifestyles changes that make more sense in Canada but less so in Belgium. And also depends where you want to live here.
I moved Canada on last June '22. 100% accurate representation of my emotions. Great work man. It's horrible work-life balance here.
Still better than garbage india
You work so you can make just enough to keep going to work...
@@spmarket4188 this is a free country, man you can do whatever you want
@Derick is it free tho? Canada has rules on rules you can't actually do what you want, not sure if you have seen some of the freedom in other countries... Like I said in my last comment it's so expensive in Canada most ppl can't save any money so if you have no money how do you make moves?
@Derick save to as you say "do what ever you want"... funny thing is Canada it's not a free country you are highly taxed. you also can't just do what you want. There are always rules and regs holding you back. Government controls everything...
I immigrated to Canada in 1996, and lived in Vancouver for 8 months then left Canada for good because I couldn't find any job there , I had a master degree in computer science in US and worked as a software engineer in Taiwan for some years, and all the immigrants I met in Vancouver were jobless, and they came from all over the world and had good education and good experiences.
It. Job market is idiotic, they need local experience preferably in the same city. It like the worst traits of UK and united states job practices were collected in canada
@@bestintentions6089 No it can be worse...most crappy place was New Zealand , gumboots boors telling you coming from THE WORLD to these emaciated windy clear cut urinated upon by trilions of cattle that you need is NEW ZEALAND "experience" which equals fixing all with "wire number 6" made in the uk....houses are moldy shags and an extortionate klepto-boorish parvenu -ism has flipped the shags to 1million kiwi dollars proclaiming that it is the Côte d'Azur down there at the windiest chilliest nastiest moldiest climate zone one can imagine....paltry wages , extortionate mentality...beware , stay clear , dont believe the kiwi flippers , never....always prefer lousy Can no do....
LOL...how is it possible you have master degree in CS and you cannot get a job. That is Not possible.
@@sebastijanp3 in Canada it happens a lot. I have never seen a country that wastes skill more than Canada
@@KellynFx Finland pulls the same BS. they have Europes highest educated toilet cleaners...
After quite horrible 7 years of living, I moved out of Canada with my Canadian passport in 2008. Now I work as an academic in Türkiye. Even tough I love and respect Canada, I would never ever go back to there. Yes Canada allowed me have expat life experience and one of the most respectable passport in the world. Yes I am so grateful!
I’m originally from Ukraine. I have been living in Canada for the past 4 years and agree with each word Alex had said.
Will you stay or look for better options abroad?
Why would you stay in Canada nowadays, even with the war?
why are u not in your country fighting?
@@ShomoGoldburgler Welcome in the EU , WELCOME in Netherlands...here you will thrive close to your soon victorious Ukraina.
@@frankihatch that statian puppet state?
You took the words right out of my mouth my friend. Also a Software Developer with ~100k salary and could not afford anything outside the bare minimum in Vancouver. So my wife and I moved to Calgary for the housing but later realized Vancouver wasn't the main problem; Canada was.
My wife already went back to our home country to scout out possible plans for the future as we don't see it in Canada; at least for now.
Some still think Canada is the utopia of the past but the last decade seems to have changed that quite significantly.
*Ambulance is not free by the way.
@@alexcalive they have a good opposition leader now.
@@alexcalive What is happening is all part of a larger design, regardless of the government in power. There is a purposeful re-distribution of wealth which will continue when the Conservatives win. Poilievre is also in the elite tier - he is not the average Canadian. Sorry but there is still worse to come but I won't be here.
@@alexcalive As a 55 year old Canadian, this downward trend started LONG before 2015. That is just anti-T propaganda and diminishes the value of your video. Canada, like every other Western country, got hit with neoliberalism starting in the *1980s*.
An article, "Rhetoric vs. Results: Shaping Policy to Benefit Canada’s Middle Class", by Don Wright, on the Public Policy Forum website, outlines this history.
You arrived nearly 40 years later and are seeing the result of neoliberal policy. Unfortunately ALL Canadian governments have been neoliberal now. Some are just a little more obvious about it.
You have a decent grasp of the Canadian situation but please read and learn more before pinning all its problems on one electoral result.
@@alexcalive How will a conservative government fix the issues you laid out? Especially housing. No political party has an actual plan that would solve the housing crisis.
This problem won't be fixed by the conservatives unfortunately. The housing market was already a mess during the Harper days and they didn't have any intention to fix it. The only thing that conservatives and liberals have in common is not having idea (or intention or both), on how to fix the housing problem and how to develop more other cities so Canadians can move there without lowering their chances of getting a job.
Glad to see finally someone is telling the truth in Canada
Me too.
The bad truth of Canada
Yeah, I agree 100% with what you said in this video. I went back to Japan after living a decade in the Vancouver metropolitan area working as a software engineer because of all the reasons that you've mentioned in the video. I'm very grateful to Canada for everything that the country provided, but unfortunately, I was working literally to survive and pay for the daycare, and expenses and save money for SOMEDAY (spoiler... that never came) to be able to buy a decent house not 100 km away from working place. Cheers from Osaka-JP. :)
Did you move away ? Back to Japan ?
@@budsyremo yep
Japan is ahead than rest of world then why you went there
Don’t mind me asking how much did you make ? Software engineer and you still had a problem ?
@@dhruvitdhodia2279 canada doesn't have big tech companies
I am from Zimbabwe and a certain woman came back from Canada for a funeral and she was looking so poor that everyone was asking why she went there. Everyone else who had stayed at home looked better!
Yes ,living in Africa is best ever,i am from Eritrea the only problem is no democracy matter of management
@@shabatshalom693 Democracy doesn't belong in Africa and that's why it doesn't work there. Our system of governance in Africa is communal. Every community gather together and make their laws and regulations and things work perfectly. That was how it used to be for generations until democracy came ruined the whole thing. Africa wasn't a lawless place before the arrival of democracy. We had laws and rules that guided how our forefathers lived.
What do you mean by looking poor because some people dress down
@@neverlookback1244 She had dirty unkempt hair! Had dry and malnourished skin and was thinly!
She had no money!
Canadian are not exactly reputed for dressing up. That does not mean they are poor.
My friend, your analysis and presentation are UNBELIEVABLY AMAZING.
I worked 3 jobs in Canada in 16 years. First was plumbers helper (Masters degree in Mechanical engineering). 16$ hour, found via social connections. Second was junior shipboard engineer. 28-35$ hour depending on the ship plus OT. Social connections. Third job after I got my full fledged license 65$ hour, government mechanical engineering inspector. Very advanced social connections, I used to work with the guy who then joined government and recommended me. Took me 11 years to get license. In 5 years after that I left Canada because the country went into tyranny mode. All my work to get licensed went to shit thanks to Turdo and obedient Canadian sheeps.
Without social connections forget about having a decent job. You need someone who knows someone who knows who's hiring. It's harsh over there, new immigrants.
Social connections!! Like a third world country !!
That happen in any country
@@DAVID1986. Bro, its like every country. You need connections to go up the social ladder.
@@DAVID1986. Actually I was shocked with the amount of nepotism in this country. They don't even post jobs because they don't want indigenous to apply because you can't deny any of those, you'll get a discrimination case thrown at you! But on the other hand they easily discriminate based on so called "vaccination record".Because it's ok, society accepts that practice! It's an idiotic country. That's why I left. Common sense has departed
@@DAVID1986. wich dream do you live in this the real world touch some grass
I am from an immigrant family, born here in Canada. But one of the things I think makes it tough, is that we have too much immigration, without having the good paying jobs to support the present numbers. Our present federal government has so much on their minds, but the economy is not one of them.
Perfectly well said. I'm not new to the country - I'm Canadian, and all these issues make it impossible to get ahead. Housing in particular is a challenge - we have the second-largest country in the world, but buying a house is an impossibility for entire generations of hardworking families, even in a small town nowhere near as expensive as Vancouver. It's insane, and you have described the causes of the crisis very accurately.
You have a lot of points I agree with. True it’s hard to get a house but I know a lot people who have bought house in small including new Canadians so I disagree to the small town part. Here in saskatchewan you can get an affordable place then a lot of other places in the country. In my area there are lots of jobs and not enough people to fill the positions. So things are a little better here but the problem like said in the video is having enough doctors and nurses.
@@kurtfuchs4500 Who wants to end up in Sakatchewan...totally self-loathing , when you can live in the EU.
@@geertstroy Have you been there?
Honestly I would take the EU just to get a from the winter.
@@geertstroy There are lots of people who came to Saskatchewan and stayed because they like. That includes people from different countries as well as citizens from other provinces.
Very well said. I grew up near Vancouver and never had a chance at owning anything. I, like you should be a high paid professional, but that's not the case in Canada. Now I work for an American company remotely and live in South America. Finally, for once in my life I can get ahead financially.
Same!
Seriously thinking of going back to my home country and working remotely, after spending 3.5 years in Canada. This way I can save the full salary as my family owns a large house (it is common in Bangladesh, society is different there. Houses in rural areas are very large, joint family living together), and everything else is also much cheaper. If I ignore the corruption of the govt in BD, and only focus on my own life, BD is a great place to live.
@Internet Ecuador
Well done. Making good use of your passport and living that nomad lifestyle
@@balanibakits6488 Corruption is alive and well here in Canada as well so don't let that dissuade you. Born and raised here in Canada, 43 and looking for a way out.
Thank you Alex , very honest and clear description of Canadian reality .
I came to this beautiful country 15 years ago to give a better future and , the most important, choice to my kids .
Can support every your word .
You have better understanding than probably half of Canadians, with all my respect towards them. .
Yes, he was exactly spot on! Unfortunately the last 15 years things have been going downhill in Canada. Not all things, but many...
I am Canadian and agree 100 percent with him.
Derick, I am an Indo-Canadian - BORN Canadian. Canada s slide into the current morass of corruption and moral turpitude (to the point where now, as a matter of STATE POLICY, doctors are encouraging people to submit to medical murder), was sown at the time of "free trade"'spearheaded by the absolutely corrupt, largely foreign financed Brian Mulroney;
From that time onwards, the country has been hollowed out - its best industries taken over, its manufacturing sectors had their backs broken, and with that, went an exodus of all manner of well paying jobs and positions.
Sadly, with each passing administration, the corruption simply gets worse, such that now, the apogee of unfettered corruption - masquerading as "extreme left" courtesy of handsomely paid presstitutes sucking off the government s covered udder, is ushering in the uktimate sacrifice ofnthe Canadian population on the altar of the golden calf, while undoubtedly being shiwered with benefits, which will probably come to full maturity after theese shameful profiteers' terms of office come to an end.
@@kenfernanadez3110 what is indo canadian?
As a Canadian, whose family immigrated here inthe late 70’s, I agree with you 💯. It’s a shame what’s happened to my home country. The worst is the homelessness issues. Very sad indeed.
Yes! I was born and raised here but the situation is dire. I’m looking into emigrating to the US. I know a lot of the prospective immigrants to Canada just want to be anywhere but their home country but I hope they do their research and realize Canada is not “the one.”
Same. Born and raised in Canada, and planning to move to USA
Why the USA 🇺🇸 alot of us want to get the hell out the USA if it wasn't for the cold I probably would move their
@@giniolamy the grass is always greener, I guess. My thing is that I have zero debt, save the majority of my earnings and it will never be enough to buy a house in British Columbia. My parents came here in the early 80s and were able to buy a 5 bedroom house by 1989 with my mom working retail and my father being a student. With my savings, I could already buy a good sized house in the southern US while I can’t qualify for a 1 bedroom apartment here.
Then where? Certainly not the U.S., the "American dream" is long over. Europe isn't doing too good either. So maybe Asia? But I believe no Asian country gives citizenship
I'm from the US AND ALLL MY friends ar trying to come up here. USA is way worsers than here
Your observations are spot on! I immigrated to Canada in the mid 2000s and worked and lived in Mississauga, ON and Montréal, QC. I left Canada in 2012 when I landed a job in the Middle East. But I hear the costs of living skyrocketing in Canada from familles and friends, and it keeps me from ever returning. And the winter weather in Canada is awfully unbearable. Living through more than seven severely freezing winters is enough for me.
Hi Paula..howz quality of life in middle east ?
Was it ever your intention to settle in Canada or was just getting the citizenship and passport your end game?
Likewise I moved to the Middle East as well and resonnate the same story. Just decided to atay here and perhaps will invest in property here instead. Where in the Middle East did you move to? I'm in Qatar. Fifa's been great, too.
Hi Paula! I lived in Canada for 20 years but later moved to Ukraine and spent another 10 years there. Between 2014 and 2022 I kept deliberating moving to Canada but every year it was getting Worse and Worse! Houses were getting more and more expensive and looking from the outside in I didn't see the economy growing or any infrastructure investment. And don't get me started on the weather, which was horrible, and politics, which were getting increasingly left leaning.
Same here
Born and raised in Canada. If I want an enjoyable retirement, I will have to go somewhere else where there is no winter and a reasonable cost of living. Thank you Alex for this video.
If you manage to have an asset of around 500k you would have a beautiful retirement abroad.
In canada you gonna waste it in 10 years 😂
I moved to Toronto in ‘89. It took me a month to figure out that Canada was not the US. Went back to my home country to regroup; and moved to New Jersey in ‘94. Best decision I’ve ever made. Certainly, things are rough globally…specially after the pandemic. But Canada takes the price. That said, I was intrigued by your comments related to healthcare as these issues weren’t clear to me. Maybe a separate video addressing your impressions on the healthcare area would be an amazing project.
My parents moved to Toronto in '95. It took exactly one year to realize that Canada is not America. And back then, it was as close to America as you could get. Housing was actually affordable and gasoline was 65 cents a liter.
@@Ukrainiancouple So what did they end up doing, if I may ask? Just as an fyi....a huge portion of the Indian migrating to the US are coming from Canada. Can't blame anyone making the attempt.
@@EdValencia I made my way to the US.. After over 20 years of having the idea at the back of my mind
Healthcare is a joke. In some cities you are unable to access a family doctor, forcing you to go to walk in clinics, unable to build a relationship with one doctor. Also, consider a referral to be a gift
people need to stop fearing mortality and bovcott the healthcare system. it is not even healthcare anyway. the government has made it into a disease and death business.
I agree with you everything you said originally I'm from Ethiopia and I came to Canada 🇨🇦 before covid 19 but nothing changed my life it only got worse Canada used to be the land of an opportunity but not anymore and it's very hard to get a job these days I'm in college and I tried to get an evening job but I wasn't able to find it even if you get a job you have to drive 1hr or more only someone who owns a car can get a job we struggle to pay for rent how can we own a car that's not easy or maybe impossible I'm not saying Canada is a bad country or anything but it's not for me also I would like to go back home I have to look after my dad who still receiving some treatment also most of my relatives back home think we are having a good time in Canada and they expect us to support them financially but they don't know the real situation we are living in I used to be a funny and happy guy but Canada changed my personality and it's been years since I felt real happiness in my mind it became my routine thinking and worrying about what will happen next ➡️ I think Canada is good for travelling and staying for weeks but not for a long time also I was surprised by how many people in the comments section telling their stories I thought I'm the only one who feels that way but I hope everyone will overcome any challenges they are facing I wish you all the best ❤❤❤❤❤
Hey brother, I’m Ethiopian & currently living in next door (USA) ….The US is just little bit better compared to Canada but, u also have to overcome many problems here …the people r not like in our country even ur own families or friends…..they all fake and artificial…my story is pretty much similar with u with little bit difference…my health also got hit in the past 2 years(had surgery and, I was in/out in hospital for the past 3 years) …I had really happy life in Ethiopia…I had my small business,a lot friends and was pretty much fan and happy life ….now I’m behind in life,lonely and, My health is gone down ….my world is upside down ….anyway, I wish u the best and,don’t stress out too much ….it will hurt ur health & work out 💪🏾 (it’s gonna help u out) ….I wish u the best
I’m so sorry to hear it, I wish you can figure it out. Must have been a tough decision to move from a hot bright country to Canada. Is it okay to ask why did you leave home for Canada?
I'm Canadian living in Mexico now... and Canada IS a bad country. one of the most corrupt on the planet.
Bro im from 🇪🇹 too
I plan to winnepeg is that a good idea
I will pray for you , sorry to hear . You’re not alone . I’m born in Canada and also struggling :/
I think people with You Tube videos promoting Canada as a place to live are paid to do those videos.
Your assessment regarding Canada is bang on.
I feel sad for people who come here with the belief that their lives will be better, Only to find out that they are far worse off.
I've noticed the cost of groceries and housing have tripled in the last few years.
Very difficult to get a Dr in Canada. 50.000 people in my small province are without a Dr.
People are being neglected by Canada's healthcare system to the point of dying right in the hospital waiting rooms or while waiting for an ambulance. Yet, A huge chunk of taxes go toward healthcare.
Homeless encampments are on the rise as landlords are gouging people for exorbitant rent. Streets are lined with homeless people and with the high cost of living it could be anyone of us carting our humble belongings around in a shopping cart.
If you have children I'd avoid sending them to Canadian schools and opt for homeschooling. Your children will be read to by drag queens while sitting on some strangers lap.
This week in class my neighbors son class will be showing boys how to paint their nails. They've already been taught about every kind of sexual position and how to use condoms and butt plugs. Yes, Even elementary students!
The school libraries are filled with books that promote pedophilia.
They want your children dumbed down and sexualized at an early age.
Wars are instigated because the greedy globalists want the land and resources and the politicians regardless of their colors are all in the pockets of a few elitists who rule over the many.
The globalists know that war creates all of the things they support.
Depopulation, Refugees, Who they want for cheap Labor, Land the refugees left behind for the resources to fill their troughs with.
My apologies for the long diatribe and Thank You Sir for being an honest and informative voice regarding the truth about Canada.
I was born and raised here and my dream is to leave.
Even Russia or China is starting to look good compared to Canada.
I am from China and currently residing in Vancouver. Actually, I would like to say that if you are in the software development industry, salaries in China can be even higher than in Canada, and there are even more opportunities for software engineers in China. Currently, I am considering moving to California.🤣
I’m Ukrainian Canadian who lived in Toronto for 30 years before leaving Canada in 2019 because of those issues you’re talking about.
I do return once a year to see my family but even that is hard to do today because my very basic (2-3 week) yearly visits back home costing me 4-6k $CAD.,
Where I live now in South East Asia same money goes a long way.
very smart move. I was born in Canada in 1969 and moved to Mexico 18 months ago. it is criminal what is being done to my country.
good decision, man 👍
I think it's a good decision too! If you don't mind sharing what country did you move to and was it hard to get a permit or residence there?
but you wouldnt renounce your canadian citizenship?
I moved to Mexico 😁
Born in Vancouver it beaks my heart the deliberate destruction our politicians wrought. The story you so accurately stated kicked off after Expo 86. I have not been able to afford to live there for years.
I used to live in the Seattle area during those years. I think you're right because we heard about Vancouver housing prices went up around that time. Seattle prices were far behind that was what I thought.
yep, Expo '86 was the marker that kicked off the Hong Kong/China invasion and housing prices have never looked back.
Definitely the beginning and the Olympics was the next really destructive decision
As a Canadian living in Canada now for 30 years, I am ashamed at what's happening. Our government is to blame and responsible for inviting people to come to Canada only to shatter their dreams. This seems to be a repeated theme in all the commonwealth countries. There is a time for immigration and NOW is not the time.....
Thank you for making this video. This summarizes the reality of Canada. I am a software engineer as well with a few years of experience. For a software engineer with an engineering degree why does life has to be so difficult that he/she needs to live month to month. Cant imagine how it is for people who do a less paying job. Just a small visit to grocery store 100 dollars goes away just like that. I feel like everything around me awesome but I am not part of it. Feel like lower class citizen. In silicon valley the rent is high, but there are also people who make a lot of money there. Here nobody makes that kind of money for the prevailing rent. Even the commercial properties are better when it comes to pricing their apartments. Private renters are notorious with their pricing. Pricing it as they wish. Basement apartments are almost 1300 CAD in Kitchener-Waterloo. I hate it when these long time settlers give advice like work hard and be patient. Software Engineer as it is a mentally very draining job.
Why’s your job draining?
Vancouver is the worst place to live with respect to housing market. I work in Ottawa but bought a house in the Quebec area (30 minutes away from my office) and I pay $1200.00/months for my mortgage.
@@dojagi1461 Wow, what part of Quebec? I heard the taxes are highest there.
@@imt3206 Software engineers made TH-cam, where you're now watching this video and posting comments with ease. Now you understand?
@@ktp. Gatineau I think, it's really close to Ottawa but in Quebec province
Before moving to Toronto in 2018, I had the dream of living the "Canadian Dream". I have seen so many documentaries about Canada and the beautiful landscapes, the great quality of life and the kindness of the people. I chose Toronto, ON because again, based on my searches, they were saying that it was easy to find a job, cheaper than Vancouver and had more activities to do as a young man in his early 20s. I left the country a year later...
The only positive thing I retain was that I have met great people and have made friends with people from all around the world.
For the rest, I think that your video is a great summary of the situation (especially the housing market...).
why did you leave Toronto a year later?
@@jaimesmith1086 I was in a co-op program (6 months in a school and 6 in a job).
End of my contract, I was not allowed to work anymore with my visas.
I got 2 choices:
- To work illegally in a restaurant or any business willing to have me to be able to afford rent and food.
- Get back to my country with the few Ks I was able to save during my journey.
I chose the second one.
I have a lot of great memories from this year and will always be grateful for the people I have met there. Unfortunately, Canada is not a land of opportunities like most people are saying.
@@thomasc8560 thank you for sharing. I think if someone does a 1 year program, there's a 1 year post grad work permit to help stay & work for 1 year in Canada.
@@jaimesmith1086 You're welcome. It is important to me to share my failures. If it can help people to be aware of certain things, it is awesome.
I thought about this visa but my school was not a regular university. It was a language school pretending to be an "International College". There is a lot of "dreams sellers" in Canada.
Don't believe in the random schools saying that they are number one in different categories thanks to stupid "awards" they won. It is not easy for young professionals with a Bachelor or a Master degree to find a job in the GTA, so imagine for someone like me with a "fake" diploma.
If I could go back in the past, I would take a bigger student loan and go to UofT. At least, I would have a Bachelor degree haha.
@@thomasc8560 thanks for sharing
I was born in Ontario my Mom immigrated from the U.S. and my Dad is from here. I agree with your pros and cons. I think Canada is overrated but I am still very thankful for the good things. I think people who are born here have a hard time admitting Canada is not as great as we've been made to believe, but still awesome in a lot of ways. We don't really have a full perspective until we've spent some time outside of Canada (and I don't mean at a resort in the Caribbean I mean like actually travel). Thanks for the video, I enjoyed it.
Canadians have an inferiority complex. They need to constantly tell themselves how Canada is the best and require others to agree with them or they won't be able to sleep at night.
I know how you feel. I came to Australia with hope and energy. Paid full price for university. But soon after I graduated with 5000 dollars in my bank account, I realized that I might be doomed for the rest of my life. No matter how hard I work, I can’t compete with those rich immigrants and older generations. I don’t know what I can do to have a life that they have. Basically working is only paying the bills, with no extra money to explore my hobbies or anything travel. Worked all year around, apart from my age is growing. I don’t feel I have a life here. I only survive here. Some people saying being poor is a disease. I don’t know what is the cure. Life will slip away quickly. I don’t want spend the rest of my life surviving. Just like you said when your home country is worse and where you live is mess. I really starting to lose hope. Not exactly feeling the hope and energy when I first landed in Australia. I guess this is nobody’s fault, except for me be poor,I’m sorry.
Do not lose hope and accept the fact, that you will have to survive, and will not live like older generation of immigrants. But your kids and their kids will do.
Go live in a cheaper place. I was thinking of Bali, Thailand, or south America
Don't lose hope man. Good luck to your endeavours.
move to a less developed country! at least there you will have a life even if you are poor.
You need to stay put by working to maximize your income and not hesitate relocating. Meanwhile try to live as cheaply as possible by renting an inexpensive bedroom in a cheap area of the city. Invest wisely the saved money and make it grow for you (and protect it from inflation).
Do not drink, do not smoke. Avoid restaurants and theatres. Cash the money from paid vacations. Just go jogging. Do not eat bad food, focus on quality veggies and fish. Do that 2 years max and you will have enough cash on your own to make a big deposit on a 2 bedrooms condo. Once on the property ladder you can start relaxing. I've done it so I know it's do-able.
I have lived in Canada for 28 years, the last 7 years since Trudeau came into office has been the worst, no wonder he is considered the worst PM is Canadian history, I have seen the rapid collapse of Canada under his regime, a country that took a century to build, has been taken down in a few years, thanks to the Liberal/NDP coalition. I will admit I am guilty, I voted for Trudeau 7 years ago, I had no idea he was a narcissist and incompetent leader. Now I am 100% going to vote Conservative.
Politics is not real. Please wake up.
Trudeau did a great job helping everyone during Covid. Go Trudeau go go go!!!
Bro, you vote 3rd time for him as well as your friends. You Canadians are insanely delusional. Wanted liberalism in any shape or form? You got it
The nature in Canada is world class, it's an aesthetically beautiful country, but the opportunities are limited. My parents came to Canada in the late 80's and didn't speak English but could easily buy a house, back then everyone was approved. They paid off their home and raised a middle class family with only my father working. I'm 42 and still can't buy a house, I finished university and have a small business but my life is way harder than my parents. I rent houses and only dream of owning a home and gave up having kids because it's impossible to raise a family with 2 adults working full time, my husband and I. Life in Canada is extremely hard, extremely mentally straining. People are exhausted and hate their life. The Canadian dream is dead at the moment and we have our government to thank for the bad communist policies.
agreed
People say Canada is socialist or even more extreme communist but socialism would imply free education, affordable housing and easy access to medical care (none of those it has).
@@vancouverbill I think Canada has free education till high school with somewhat affordable university education prices (compared to US). Agreed with housing and timely access to medical care.
@@jaimesmith1086 compared to the US it is slightly socialist sure but most of Europe university/college is free and all education before that.
@@vancouverbill thanks for sharing
You are spot on, as a child of immigrant parents I really enjoyed growing up in Vancouver in 80-90s but after getting my Bachelors & Masters I worked in US & Asia. Salaries, career opportunities are better & overall living is better. Canadians right now have it tough, political elites have created a mess in housing as majority of MP’s are multiple property owners. Healthcare is falling apart as I visit my ageing parents regularly.
They lure educated young people in my countries with the promises of opportunities, that they need people with knowledge & experience. When we came in, we played by their rules, from studying in their education institutions, to paying taxes & re-building our credit in here.
Paid 3-times as much as what Canadians paid for tuition fees, then we're on our own to survive.
Furthermore, we're abandoned from every aspects. When we graduated, we were mistreated by the things called "CANADIAN EXPERIENCE". Like WHAT THE FUCK, they brought us here and hope that we may change our career from business, IT, analyst... to construction workers,wielders to fill the gap... ???? Why didn't they, initially, advertise that they need construction workers, general labourers so save out times --> IT MADE NO SENSE AT ALL.
I left Canada 10 days ago, never felt more alive. I just hope whoever feel stuck, they can find a way to figure out.
To me, it is a dead land masquerading as a first-world country, with the illusion that they're more superior. Like please, In America they have Silicon Valley, in Vietnam they have Quang Trung Software Park. In Canada, I have never heard about an IT hub in Canada.
If you need people to pay for the tax because of the aged population, just admit it first, then build the programs to facilitate new immigrants. Don't just bring them here for money then treat them like cattle with disdain.
GLAD THAT I ESCAPED THAT SHITHOLE
I am 36 years old. Buying a house is a pipedream. I make 70k/year and live to survive. CANADA IS NOT FOR MOST PEOPLE.
Efit: i do not see my family living in canada in the next 3 years.
I am 68 and in good health. I left Canada because family doctors are extinct. Seniors are not faring any better and many will die from long waiting periods and a broken degraded system. I was not willing to wait for them to shove me into a home for the aged because of incompetence and non existant healthcare. Thank God I have a Euro passport, I now reside in Italy and the warm winter is a bonus!
@@ellenmorse8559 So happy that your plan does work for you. I have been to Urbania, Urbino, Rome & Venice before, the tranquility and atmosphere of Italy have captured my heart up to this day.
Sorry I am a little bit curious about the healthcare system in your country. Is it easy to get to the hospital if you have non-emergency problem ??? Like flu, fever ?? How much do you pay for your healthcare service within a year ???
You're right it is a dead land. No matter how many times the mayor of Toronto says "Toronto is a world class city." I won't swallow the BS
@@rally_chronicles Actually I felt something was wrong with this country since I first came in there in 2018. The vibe, the way they govern people's activities.
Why do they have the zoning for houses & shopping areas. Like many people have to walk 20 mins, wait 30 mins to get grocery. Even in Italy the convenience store is at the middle of the street, takes me 2 minutes to get there.
World-class city? it will never be. The layout and architecture look boring and plain as hell. Most of the houses are pretty much the same in Scarborough. Downtown is a just a forest of concrete placed together.
The only good-looking neighborhood I saw, was the area around Glen Stewart Ravine near Victoria Park Station
I have lived here my whole life. I have been in every Province but NFLD. Have lived in 6 Provinces. Served in the Canadian Military and then after that started an Oilfield Servicing Company in Alberta. Managed to see that in 2008, about two weeks before crash. What has happened since, is a crime. We import Oil when we have our own. We do not allow Coal for energy, yet ship it overseas for other Countries to burn. We are Carbon Taxed yet ship it across the ocean. I have decided in the last year that after 52 yrs here. I am leaving for good. I am taking my pensions and done. I have begun to sell off everything. This is a beautiful Country. Yet, those born and raised here are treated like trash. Those who serve, be it Military, Doctors, Police, Firemen, Nurses. Those are only just a pin drop of professions that are treated as replaceable. I know immigrants who came here with skills in Aviation. Helicopter and Jet engine mechanics that could not get work. They drove Taxis and Tow Trucks. That was in Calgary. I recently talked with a Doctor in the Philippines about coming here and practicing medicine. She said no way. She has researched the Plus's and Negatives. She is better off not making as much, yet keeping more of it. How and why is that possible in a Country like Canada. How have we fallen so quickly. In just 7 years we have become the laughing stock of our Allies. The British, Australians, Germans, US and many others are covering the news in our Country better than our media does for sure. They are also shocked at what Canada is becoming. Hence. I will leave and take my money with. There are several others in far better financial positions than myself that are also leaving. What you are going to be left with is Immigrants who will suffer the same as the previous and the skilled and wealthy going away. As fast as they can.
i can understand what you hv faced back home, i am also a software engineer and my 90% team is form Ukraine , i work with them on daily basis. I hope and pray for the safety and well being of ur people.
Woah man! You nailed it. These all things were like sitting in the subconscious and needed to see day light. Respect.
I am a full stack Software Developer here in Greater Vancouver, BC. I shared your views on job salaries here are not at par with cost of living. You are bang on, and your videos are interesting to watch. You and I have common interest in macro economics too so it seems. :)
I live in brampton, and I've talked to a lot of immigrants, especially from India. They all say the same thing. They regret coming here because it's too financially difficult here. The cost of living here is higher, property costs are insane, there are longer working hours than most countries, and transportation is a must. As a result, they come here and have a lower quality of life and often times left family.
Careful what you wish for!
All my Brazilian friends that went to Canadá in the past 5 years now they are in the us or Portugal, they never seem to tell exactly why they leave Canada, I used to think that Canada was overrated, just because I didn’t buy all that thing about the dreams that they were selling to immigrants.
I immigrated to Canada in 1994. In GTA Toronto, 30 years ago, price for a decent 3 bedroom house was in range of 180K - 280K which was 4, maybe 5 yearly salaries for mid-range IT developer or an engineer. Now similar house is >=10 yearly salaries for IT professional or an engineer. Life for new immigrants became much more difficult. Canada as a country also change dramatically.
You have summed everything up perfectly. With part of my family in Kelowna since 2018, we have been feeling the blow, and it is only getting worse. I recently watched an Aaron Gunn video (his videos are great). It is called "Why Are Housing Prices in Canada So High?". It deepens into the real reasons behind your video's description. To be blunt, if you pay attention to the comparison charts on the video, you cannot help yourself except getting mesmerized by the difference in prices between Canada and other countries like GBR, the USA, and Japan (yeah, those small islands with 4 times more people than Canada). And those countries cannot be considered exactly cheap markets. It is impressive!!!! Among many reasons, he cited money laundry, taxes, and cumbersome regulations!!! Canadian families cannot afford to pay the same prices. It is simply unaffordable, even in the long run!!
Concerning prices in small cities, I feel sorry to tell you that small and medium cities like Kelowna have been facing skyrocketing prices over the last 18 months. You will not be able to find one bedroom below $1,800/$2,300. The same happens in many cities in the Okanagan Valley.
I was told that people from Vancouver metropolitan area move to the valley for cheaper rents. So that drove prices really up in that locations.
This whole thing is like an immigrant trap. The Canadian government attracts hundreds of thousands of immigrants, but Canada still needs one program to provide affordable houses or rents. In 2023, it is expected an influx of half a million immigrants!!!
You also mentioned how the local, provincial, and federal governments seem apart from the situation. Yes, this is damming true! A lot!
I see many groups and agencies selling services to immigrants, and I feel sorry for them because they do not investigate the whole situation thoroughly!!! The ROI of the Canadian dream is negative! It is a shame!
Another issue is the problem with drugs. Even in towns like Kelowna, the problem is grave. The associated problem of homeless people resembles what you can see in many cities in the US and Latin America. I can only say it is huge!! As a result, violence statistics are mounting. Again, you can watch another interesting video from the guy above: "Vancouver is Dying." Unfortunately!!!!
Congratulations on the testimony!
Hey there. I reside in West Kelowna/Westbank. Moved from Vancouver in 2017 .Looking to move to Penticton. Either people are copying my idea or I am copying their idea ? Next it will be Osoyoos ? It is a viscous cycle in BC
@@alexcalive holly shit!!! My city is possible to live in a very nice place paying 100 dollars. Brazil.
Hello from Kelowna 🫡
Nicely explained all the points in the video.. I had planned to move to Canada in 2018 but it did not workout due to some reasons.. Now that I see the inflation problem in Canada getting worse than my home country, I feel lucky that it did not work out..
people think that moving to a different country will solve their life’s problem, but that is not the case.. I’m living happily in my home country.. People need to look around for opportunities in their home country itself rather than starting from scratch and wasting their golden years (30-40 age group) in a new country in such a scenario..
or the other thing is to move to a less developed country. after living 51 years in Canada I moved to Mexico. there are so many things better here, not just the lower cost of living. there is more freedom from government interference in your life.
That's a valid point! However, it doesn't work for everyone especially when your country is in a blood-shedding war.
17 years in, and it's getting worse. I lived in Ontario only so I am not sure how it is in other provinces. But man, I feel that everyone just wants to rip off everyone in terms of doing business. The mentality of something like "I've got my own share and to hell with the others." The greed is growing.
So true.
The same thing is happening all over the world. You keep hearing "I only care about myself and f*** the others". This system can't continue.
More true in smaller towns. Lots of greedy culture trying to take as much as you can.
Alas, your commentary is mostly correct. I was born and raised in BC but have lived overseas for the past 20 years. Over the years, I used to think that I would move back there some day with my wife and kids, but in recent years I have come to terms with the fact that this probably wont happen. I have been watching my beautiful homeland deteriorate from a far and it is very saddening.
Well said Alex, these were my experiences when I migrated to Canada even though I was in a top earning bracket but it was a struggle to keep up with the payments. It gets worse once you have a family and buy a house, you literally can't afford much after that. Lifestyle is great though, beautiful sites and scenery, lovely people and communities. What I think Canada needs is to create more opportunities in other sectors, encourage entrepreneurs and people with ideas, create enabling environment for other sectors to flourish especially in those areas that are mono sector based and they shouldn't view new entrants or business ideas as a threat but opportunities for growth and diversification of the economy
The wealthy are very content with the status quo. They are not thinking too deeply or seriously to change what is easy and beneficial to them. Just lie to the world, attract skilled people with lies to arrive and empty their savings, then keep them in desperate, enslaved conditions for mere survival or go homeless. The more people arrive here, the more they need to spend -----> taxes. I agree with your ideas but this is not the objective of the elite. Look at the shameful handouts given out when the public complains about tough times? They're laughing all the way to the bank in the face of despair. Look at the videos on the MAID program. Is it any wonder it is now expanded to the homeless?
maybe if you are on the west coast its beautiful but much of Canada is drear and depressing with third rate architecture and neglected public spaces. the level of apathy from the public sector who are supposed to maintain and beautify our public spaces is terrible because they get paid even if they dont do their job and it very hard to fire them. and we have teachers unions who are indoctrinating our children into communism rather than teaching them anything useful.
You are exactly right! Everyone I know that sees the future of Canada are leaving or have left!
I think this is also the case of other rich countries with much better climates like Australia or New Zealand. I also had my immigrant dream in Australia for almost 10 years. Beautiful country, but unlike Canada, with an excellent climate all year round particularly in cities like Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, but I did find it so hard to own a place because of the super high housing prices. Like you mention about Canada, the renting business is huge in Australia too, so renting is also very expensive and add to the equation the super high cost of living I found myself earning enough just to pay my rent and get by. Now, healthcare was good down there on Medicare. I did have my visits to physicians, even had a procedure at a hospital and didn't have to worry about medical attention. But yes, half my wage went straight to the taxation office. So, long story short I couldn't afford my own house or place which is pretty frustrating, and the most affordable places were far out from workplaces or places I wanted to live in or nearby. So I decided to kiss my australian dream good bye and get back home where now I own my place and even though salaries are low, costs of living are low too. By the way, I mentioned New Zealand because I know things are worse there. In fact a lot of New Zealanders migrate to Oz for work, live and work there for a long while and retire back in beautiful NZ.
It's very hard to get PR in Australia, even for asylum seekers. Their immigration tightly controlled. Imagine having too many residents and not enough public hospitals to take care of sick ones
I was backpacking Australia and NZ during covid and was paying 60 AUD a week for a hostel in Sydney lol, which was about 1 hour of work. Just be smart and you can live great.
@@toniownez during COVID, flying, hotels , Disney Parks were super cheap too.
@@toniownez good for you! But that doesn't sound like living great to me!
I live in Victoria BC. It’s a part of Canada that does have a nice climate.
thanks to remote work , I took my laptop and enjoying nice weather in Antalya :) no rent, exchange rate 14x , instead of giving 1,5k for an apartment in Canada , I bought one for myself here in two years
Very well articulated.. I can definitely resonate.. as an Indian I started to feel the same
I an coming soon are restaurants jobs available
You have nailed every single point absolutely accurately!!
Great video and perfect description of Canada’s main issues! I’m an immigrant as well, moved to Canada in 2018 and share the same views! I have the same feeling that things got way worse after 2020.
Canadians really ought to give the border states a chance( US). We would be close to your home country. The weather would be similiar. Culturally we would be similiar. Where I live a lot of folks commute to work( to larger city) to take advantage of small towns & their lower housing costs.
Such a good video, every immigrant has to agree with most, if not all of this. Canada is an amazing country, but it does feel like having a good life it’s reserved for the elite.
Thank you so much for voicing out everything I have to say about immigrating to Canada. We migrated to Manitoba first in 2016 and after a year moved to Ontario. I don't want to repeare everything you said but I am aligned with you 100%.
Thank you and keep doing this please!
Manitoba a lot cheaper to live than Ontario.
This is all completely true. I only graduated and started working in 2020 (as a software engineer), so my quality of life hasn't been too great. I recently moved (temporarily) to Brazil, and I'm dreading when I'll have to move back, because my quality of life will drop drastically. My only hope is to somehow become a multi-millionaire so I can afford to comfortably live in Vancouver again.
Where you Live in Brazil?
Great insight,
Housing in general is a mess in all major cities around the world, we are seeing similar trends here in Australia.
In Europe there is a lot of advertising to go to work in Canada but no one wants to go and one of the reasons is because of the weather it is very difficult to find people from countries like the UK, Germany, France or the Netherlands who want to go so far even a country with such a difficult climate
100% Accurate. Canada was the place to be when I moved here at the age of 6...1973. It was the new frontier. So, I'm set up now and own a house just outside of Toronto, etc...but my 3 children, who are around your age, Alex, do not own homes. It breaks my heart to see them paying ransom-style rents every month. I am powerless in helping them, unless we all figure out some sort of a plan.
I am working on something to help out the kids. If it works, I will share it with you! Having said that, kudos on your TH-cam channel. It should start to produce something for you!
get them to live in the same city and buy a house together. I have some cousins who did that.
They started investing ever since they have their first job. That's the plan I have for them.
If only you were 26 when you arrived in ‘73. Things could have been so different. Oh well.
I must say, I am quite relieved to have found your channel. I think you are speaking nothing but the truth. Together we must raise our voices..I wish you add one more point here...about the immigrant students. I believe young students coming in are the most vulnerable, not knowing better and also kind of just accepting everything
Alex, thank you for the clear and honest description of the situation in Canada. I just intend to apply for a Canadian work permit. These issues are very important to take into consideration. Thumb!
Wow!!! this video is epic. If parliamentarians hear this, you would definitely get a standing ovation. Alex, I hope you make more of such logical simple-to-understand and absolute ground realities and facts. Kudos to you man!
Very well put, many who look at Canada as their dream should see this and have some realistic view of the life here.
You’re good God bless
You put your fingers on the right issues
Please continue to send new analysis
I stayed less than 18 months in Canada and gave up my PR card.
I left because of high taxes (53% marginal in Ontario) and low salaries overall (I was making a 150k cad as an engineer for Amazon in Toronto).
People asked me what are you doing back in 2018, happy to see my point of view has become mainstream.
What am I going to do? Raise a family while living 1 hour away from work? This is nonsense.
Eastern Canada absolutely blows why anyone would wanna live there is beyond me . I've talked to many people from there lately all said its terrible.
@@daryl9799 agreed. But Vancouver weather is trash
@@patienceisalpha Ya been there once is rained the whole time
@@daryl9799 lived in WA for 4 years. It rains 80% of the time. Sucks.
Alex: this is an excellent, factual video. Your description on the other video that the immigration system feels like a scam is accurate… there are lots or pros like safety and people, but I came to this country with $150k in cash and have been working in a great job in a great country within my specialty. I wanted better lives for our kids so came to Toronto …. I struggled at first to find a good paying job and had to settle for a bad one. Few years after, i became a high income earner , but I pay around 50% in taxes… I do have a house, a passport that is worth something, but with a 650k debt and zero in my bank account, I feel Im incentivized to leave vs stay… the only reason I’m still here is to make sure that my kids get a proper education, and get an opportunity to have a better life. I just can’t imagine how all of them will afford housing when they get to university, but my recommendation for them will be, unfortunately, to leave
Something to add, for this that mention salary should be better for these positions. For non whites and in general… unless you are a business owner, odds are stacked against you… you are not setup to be successful. Exceptions are available everywhere of course, and this country still is better than many many others in that regard, but if I apply to a job, all things equal, an Anglo Saxon name on a cv will almost be prioritized over African, middle Eastern, or other names… again, exceptions are always there.. but the deck is not in your favor in general..
This guy is on point, Canada is a good place to live if you have no other choice..
Expensive…and don’t forget the inhospitable weather in 90% of the country.
Some people like winter. If you don't, don't bother with Canada. People that live in Canada and whine about the weather all the time are the worst.
@@mikeguy1940I know a lot off Canadians also don’t like the winter. … and most of the immigrants came from countries with almost no winter. And they are not happy with that. But why does they come to Canada then in the first place? Easy immigration laws and easy to get a “ western “ passport. After they get the passport they will soon search for other place … not Canada anymore. They was here for few years get the Canadian passport and Good bye 👋
@wolfgangselle3272 well if you are from Canada and you don't like the Winter, that is fine. You didn't chose it. It's not the same. If you don't like fish, don't order it at a restaurant and complain. If your mom makes you fish at dinner as a child, feel free to complain about it. Unfortunately most of the best countries in the world have winter. Maybe Australia being one that doesn't. They got their problems too from what I can tell. There are enough people in Canada, if you came here, and don't like it, go home. Don't whine and complain about it.
As you mentioned 300,000 new immigrants arrive in Canada every year. The vast majority end up in one of the big 3 cities.
Nowhere near 300,000 new housing units are added in those markets every year. Which is one of the main reasons housing is so expensive in those markets.
If you leave Vancouver and go to Alberta you'll be able to afford a home. In Saskatchewan and Manitoba you can buy a mansion!
Canada problem is housing/living cost of any city doesn't match the job and after tax money/saving of the family in that particular city.
@@desigamer4342 yes but there are exceptions. For example St John's, Newfoundland. The housing there is extremely cheap. And incomes there are on par with many other parts of Canada. With the oil & gas and fisheries industries providing good paying jobs.
Canada is boring as hell except Toronto and vancouver a bit
@@didiss400 Boring is what only boring people feel.
@@sapientum8 boring weather , no beach , boring tax system ...
The same issues exist in Australia and New Zealand as well.
I am in my 30s with a good job (also making over 100K) and live with my family still. We live in the Toronto area, and while I am willing to and would like to move, most places that I would move to, not only do I know no one, but the rents are not much lower. I cannot justify paying $2500 for the average one bedroom when I can help my mother with her entire 2010 mortgage for less than half of that. Even small cities have rents of $1700+ for a one bedroom, so I cannot justify leaving my immigrant single mother and brother alone in Toronto while I chase just a couple of hundred dollars of monthly savings compred to Toronto rents ($2250-2300 for the cheapest one bedroom rental). I recently looked at some buildings in Hamilton, about just an hour away from Toronto. The rents are quite a bit cheaper, and it's possible to find a nice condo for rent for "just" $1850 or so. Well, it turns out the neighborhood for these condos is downtown Hamilton, and I truly have only seen such poverty, desperation and squalor only in the poorest, poorest areas of the third world country my parents are from. Homeless people, unwashed people, everyone limping, dirty clothes, visible drug use, clear mental ill health, etc., etc. I left the condo viewing wondering what I could do to volunteer or help these homeless people. I felt so much sadness at the sheer desperation that seemed to be so pervasive in Hamilton. As the child of educated, skilled immigrants, and in many ways, despite the difficulties of immigration, I am lucky. But I cannot understand how born Canadians are accepting what is happening to this society... How are people okay with this? How is it okay that such a large number of people are being left behind? How is no one blinking an eye at tent cities in public parks or the fact that university students are now regularly homeless? Attending the best universities in Canada is no longer about attaining the grades to enter, it's about having rich enough parents who can afford to either pay your rent or who they themselves live in those expensive cities. Otherwise, OSAP or bursaries are simply not enough in most cases to cover Toronto or Vancouver rent.
I have live in Canada for 53 years and I tell you in the 70'S housing was very affordable. The reason for the out of reach high prises of housing are many but one for sure is decisions made by governments. I well give you an example. I had a home in 1983 with my wife, it was 16000 sq. ft. it was $90,000 , we made a down payment of $ 30,000. We paid it off in 5 years and the price of the home went up to $ 250,000 in 5 years. Just at that time there was a large exit of Chinese people from Hong Kong, they would come to Canada with millions of $ in cash and purchase multiple homes. There is no way that the average Canadian could ever compete with that. The Trudeau government announce not too long ago that they want to bring in 500,000 immigrants per year for several years. Where are these people going to live or work? In my opinion we do not have a true democracy in Canada but a Family Compact as originally described by William Lyon Mackenzie back in 1834. Apparently the combine income that you have to make to purchase a house in TO is $350,000/year you do the math.
3 cheers for the rebel Mackenzie.
Don't sell your houses to the rich Hong Kong people. Problem solved 🙂
Health Care is just getting worse. Specially in Ontario. My son got RSV and we had to wait almost 12 hours just to see a ER doctor. I saw bunch of people sleeping on the floor because lack of beds and rooms. Government takes half of our income and yet we don't receive proper facilities. I'm seriously thinking of moving to US.
Healthcare is third world and completely degraded. I sold my house last spring and moved to Italy. Family doctors are being phased out and most haven’t had one in years. Now the government is so corrupt that the only recourse we have is a malevolent and dangerous “virtual” nurse on a comic strip who will guess where our health issues fit in. I’m not falling for it and at great expense, decided to leave Canada as I am a senior and my health here was seriously in jeopardy. No one is going to shove me in an old age home instead of treating my issues as they present themselves. In Quebec, it’s shocking!
@@ellenmorse8559 I live in a 3rd world country (India) and we don't have to wait 12 hours to see a doctor. We book an appointment for the sake day or a day after. We wait 60-90 minutes at max and then see the doctor.
Canadians always brag about free healthcare to Americans but we don’t wait that long in the ER
@@praggyab I didn’t know India is a third world country. I am glad that you have proper healthcare. Cheers! From Trapani, Sicily. 😊
Considering that people go bankrupt from medical bills, the US might not be the ideal place if you want good healthcare. If you are rich then it is a different story but even then you might develop a condition that is extremely expensive to treat and still go bankrupt anyway. I don't live in the USA (I live in the UK) but from what I have seen of the US medical system, capitalistic greed over human wellbeing is rampant. Just look at the price of insulin in the US compared to other developed countries. It's insane.
Great analysis. And as a landlord, I totally agree, Canadian society lately has been about Realestate. Little capital is being invested into R&D and IP, we need to change this mentality.
Vancouver is one of the most expensive cities in the world. A 1.5m home in Vancouver is 500k in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sadly, the government allowed very wealthy people who are not Canadians to buy up the market which has caused a lack of affordable housing for actual Canadians.
Everything you said is true. The living costs in big cities are disproportionately higher than salaries. Even renting in places Toronto and Vancouver is super expensive. We are talking $1,800 to 2,500 for one bedroom apartment
After moving to BC five years ago from different province still on the waiting list to see a doctor.
Ex-Torontontonian and Ex-PR of Canada here. I left Canada in 2019 for familial reasons, but considering coming back this year. Even got two rounds of job interviews to work in my field. Definitely had good chances to get a job, but then I checked renting prices. Back my job search, I was living in Zurich, Switzerland which by no way is a cheap city to live. Yet, I had cute 1 bedroom apartment for less than 1/3 of my net income. Then I realized my 2,000 budget will give me studio only. Once I realized it I withdrawn my application. Instead, I accepted a job offer in Liechtenstein and live in cute Swiss town. Here, 1/3 of my salary gave me gorgeous 2 bedroom apartment. I am missing Canada terribly. I am missing feeling welcome, meeting pepole from around a word, socializing opportunities. I have none of this here. But I have friends thanks to the Internet. Feeling welcome and opportunities will not pay my rent.
Switzerland is better than canada in my opinion
But yeah Switzerland is much more expensive than canada
Yah Canadians are more chill, the language is easier, more space, etc. I'm Canadian and nothing to complain about the people who I had fun with here. Unfortunately the finance controllers or government as a whole= dipshit
Where are you from?
@@heroeus8173 both countries are great place to live. Switzerland is pricy but salaries are good. Financially it's a better choice. But outside job... Country is beautiful but for non sporty people not much to do. And much harder to make new friends. Swiss people are cordial and polite but reserved. So it's all about prons and cons. Toronto has insane costs of living and tough job market without networking.
@@Supersup.campos Poland and Canada was my first foreign country of residence. Costs of living and networking made experience harder.
Glad I got out of Canada while I could. I was in grad-school in Toronto thinking one day I could live a nice normal Canadian life there but the housing market was and is just so insane there that working there as a researcher would never pay enough for that kind of lifestyle. So I left.
I worked as a Software Engineer in Vancouver, then I sold my 1 bed room condo and moved to Seattle. Even though Seattle is expensive in the US and I was earning the entry level salary for Amazon, I could still afford to buy a single family with 4 bedroom here.
are you a canada citizen? without TN visa i can not enter the usa for work.. I just came to canada as a student..initially i thought canada is an easy way to get a job in usa.. but the price of stuff and the low-pay income make me realize that it would be a long journey which i do not know if i could make it or not..
@@briand9822 I got a job from Amazon, then applied TN. I also used TN to go to school in UW. And yes I am a Canadian. I long realized the government policy makes my living very difficult in Canada, So I decided to leave.
@@rockmanxdi that's a good minestone. at least you have a chance. this goverment is tend to please the rich man. and fullfill with labors to lower the salary. what's more, it is strange that the utinities are the highest in the world because of no competition, but in a democracy country why no citizens to fight them..
@@briand9822 don’t give up.
As a software engineer, I think the best route is to live in a cheaper city and try to find a remote job with a high salary...
Right, let us all know how it went with finding a family doctor and a vet for your pet in a small town.
All accurate. I’m born in Canada, also make good money and left Vancouver. It’s unfriendly, soulless, massively overpriced and full of braggers.
The problem with Canada is the whole economy is based on resources, banking and real estate, and all of these are intertwined. I thought Canada was great until around 2015 then Trudeau was elected. It’s gotten more oppressive ever since.
What exactly did he do which made the station worse? In the late 2000s houses in Vancouver were already about a million and that was in harpers time. It seems the golden age was mid 90s and before. Houses back then affordable for people on any job, ski tickets cheap and medical care a lot more accessible.
Seems many things such as Olympics, world expo, lack of regulation on foreign housing buyers have caused huge problems but I haven't seen either left or right parties make any meaning change to slow the unaffordability.
@@vancouverbill dude, get your head out of your ass! I voted for Trudeau the first 2 times but he is on the verge of destroying this country! he is trying to kill off the base of our economy - oil and resources - because he claims to be "saving the planet". and he doesnt care how many Canadians he has to kill to do it. the green agenda is all a scam though. its just a disguise for wealth trabsfer and depopulation.
Exactly, Turdeau all talk, no action. Lots of virtue signalling but doesn't care about everyday working people. He is also trying to kill over 180,000 high paying resource sector jobs in western Canada in next few years (with many thousands more in spin-off jobs that will be affected) all in the name of saving the world from climate change (but we are less than 1.8% of global emissions and have hundred millions of trees.
Great video. My parents immigrated to Canada in early 2000. I did my school/university in Canada. Lived in Toronto, Vancouver, but left for US. Moving to US was the best decision of my life. In regards to Canadian being nice, I prefer American personality (especially East Coasters) for being direct, to the point and not beating around the bush.
Not everyone can easily obtain a US working visa, consider yourself very lucky.
Why was moving to America the best decision of your life?
@@James-nv1wf I hear if you are a Canadian citizen, you can get TN visa to work in US.
@@jaimesmith1086 First you need to be hired by a company in the US. Why would they hire me and have to wait for the visa process that could take months, when they can just hire someone in the US right away?
@@James-nv1wf I hear TN visa can be easily gotten at the border (TN visa is very different than H1B visa). They would hire you if you are good & skilled in your area & they feel you can add a lot of value compared to other candidates.
Voice of my heart. Can’t agree more; you described the real issue so well
Vancouver looks very beautiful. This problem of cost of living seems to be getting worse all over the world. Greed seems to be behind much of the rent prices as well as cost of buying a home.
Government controlling the amount of buildings or homes allowed to be built is the problem.. Canada needs more free market economy and less socialism.
The world needs to move towards creating systems that serve people and humanity and all the basic needs of human beings before serving corporations. When I see how much is spent on space exploration while millions starve, are homeless, it just makes me sick.
@@QueenBee-mk8xm
We have the power to help each other, charity is more powerful than government policy. As government will always be in bed with bad elements.
We the people can support each other! We need to unite and cut the government out! Let them crash and burn 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Government will always be in bed with corporations. Government loves bribes $$$
Keep speaking truth brother. Look at house price trends as Turdeau came into power and it is so obvious what went wrong.
The feeling is mutual , couldn’t agree more !
Dude I was born in Canada. I make the same wage as u as a logger.
And my family are barely making it. My kids will never afford a house. I feel your pain
What a shame!
I moved to Vancouver in July and I agree to every word you have said here 100% true!
I am an immigrant from Belgium. Health care is really bad . No family doctors . I am going back to Belgium for surgery because the wait time to get surgery is it’s like forever and I’m living in pain .
It’s hard to progress in Canada. All you do is work, pay bills and repeat. You are lucky if you can afford a house . Not very much fun stuff going on here either . Canada is a great country if you are ok living paycheque go paycheque .
Hello Kristine, sadly, Canada has become that. The other side of that coin, is the rampant corruption in the so called health, social service and education sectors.
To give one really tragic example, teachers and nurses unions' pension funds are heavily invested in big pharma.
The teachers in the classrooms have been pushing ritalin on children, using entirely fake diagnoses of "adhd
- attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - diagnosed for any normal childhood behaviour, or indeed where a child questions too much if what is imparted upon them by their teacher ;
School nurse's and social worker's professional expertise" is marshalled;
Parents ar e told that their child MUST get onto ritalin;
They see a doctor, who invariably prescribes it; and presto, a few tears later, child s mind is FINISHED!!!
IF parent refuse or resist, then the same bureaucracies will present a motion of seizure before "youth court" taken against "neglectful parents" under emergency circumstances - what is called an injunction at law.
The parents won t even know of its having been filed against them (even though the laws of every province stipulate that the target of any lawsuit MUST be served with the impending kawsuit a set time in advance thereof), and the youth court judges (all of whom acted for the social service sector prior to their appointments as judges) invariably hear, and grant the orders of seizure if the chikdren.
These are then taken over by state authorities, whi have absolute authority and power over them, with parents having "visitng rights"
So they are subjectedto the drug, they are "given" an "education" that is in fact and in law, inferior to the general one their non seized peers get, and when they turn 18, are simply thrown out onto the street, with literally NOTHING other than a bus tocket or two and a very nominal amount of money - usually $20.
All the while the parasites in labcoats and suits havw been minting FORTUNES from the bonuses they receive for each child so kidnapped, as well as from drug company kickbacks.
That, is just ONE example of the enracinates corrupt set up
That permeates Canada s so called social safety net
I stayed in Vancouver for almost 6 years and became baker, warehouse coordinator, and IT and now web developer. we transferred here in Ontario now knowing that some how we might be able to afford housing here however, it looks like US is still the best bet if we want to buy a house and save up for our future. In the US we are going to pay for healthcare but it looks like from our computation we can afford for our healthcare there pulse we may able to buy a dissent house there. So yeah, by the way my wife is a nurse but we are still planning to go to US next year, maybe Texas or Michigan. Thanks Alex for your honest video, I tough I'm the only one in Tech that feels that our income is not enough.
As a software developer living in London, UK, I can say here we have exactly same problems but without that initially described advantages!
Your videos opened my eyes. I'm a Belarusian and I live in Poland. This country is good regarding to my homeland, but I've been searched for other relocation variants after getring citizenship of EU. And Canada interested me for its quiety, safety, nature and other conditions good for not such socialized people like me. But your and other peoples videos helped me to better understand the real situation in that place. It's sad, but these reasons are foundamental to make a decision to not move into this country. I enjoy your videos, hope to see your further content. Yes, suddenly Russia and its neighbour Belarus is one of the worst places to live in Asia and Europe now
So you got eu citizenship and want to leave it immediately. Wow, so grateful you are. Begone then, never return
Земляк. Сейчас такие времена, что уютных гаваней становится все меньше. Но, большого смысла ехать в Канаду как я понял давно нет. Чумовая стоимость аренды и невозможность купить свое жилье сомнительная перспектива. Будешь ходить в офис если повезет как папа карло, чтобы в конце месяца отдать половину за рент, остальное за тачку, еду и налоги. По итогу смысла ноль. Польша нормальная страна, в центре Европы откуда можно путешествовать. Нормальная версия Беларуси. А любой переезд очень сильно высасывает деньги и душевные силы и по итогу лучше не дергаться. Такие мысли на твой коммент 5 месячной давности. Играть в гринку и строить свою жизнь на местности более здоровая стратегия чем тягаться с богатыми азиатами в Канаде.
Well spoken, concise, thorough, no music, no fluff, no b.s. great chanel, week done