Is Canada much worse than the US?

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I was born in the US but if I knew now back in the 70s what I know now, I would have moved to Canada straight out of college.

Yeah Canadian weather sucks, the population is bunched up, like Australia not much population in the center. You do have that French, English language BS fight, feud, they think maple leaves grow on trees stem down and that curling is a sport which is not, but other then that, as an immigrant, you would be far better off.

Canada is more progressive, better health care, for all, better public transportation, none of the Civil War baggage, does not have the evangelistic Christian issues, doesn’t have a gun culture, isn’t controlled at the political level by the NRA.

We live in a very good neighborhood but gun shots once a week is common. I wouldn’t walk at night anywhere around where I live outside of my neighborhood of about 500 acres, just 3 blocks is a Section 8, low rent housing, 75 year old woman mugged just going under an overpass walking to some stores, son held up at gun point, just to point out that problem.

We’ve had knife holdups in a small park area next to an elementary school, dead baby, I kid you not. Two nephews held up at knife point in North Carolina just walked to a convenience store.

Where my parents live in another “good” neighborhood up the road about 10 miles, same thing, city had built another section 8 housing, same crime problems. I would never consider walking anywhere around that area at night. There is a huge Asian/MexicanJapanese market we like, it even has real fish mongers something like out of another country. I would never go there at night, ride a bike by there, the area is a known drug trafficking area. It’s 5 minutes from my parent’s old house. 10 minutes from the Section 8.

What happened is people in the 50s and 60s left the crime ridden cities for the newly built suburbs, malls, these days the city has caught back up with them, hence the popularity of gated neighborhood.

Where I live they have simply run out of land, we are on a very long email peninsula. People move an hour, hour an half, two hours away from work to get gated, or planned expensive neighborhoods that urban growth has not caught up to. They tore down at indoor mall to get rid of the undesirables using the hallways like a city street for an outdoor mall, thinking the lack of AC or heat would improve things, they had to move a police annex in an empty store, signs up how its police patrolled.

The US is a car society, mainly because of the lack of good public transportation and crime.

If you would like to live like a European like in Germany moved to Canada.

If you can afford a 1.5 million house in a gated community, send your kids to private school, lease a $50,000 Lexus, afford the 12,500, $20,000 for healthcare insurance, which doesn’t include co-pays, prescriptions, may not include eyeglasses or dental come to America.

Life is very very good.

-- Randy Long