Canada or bust?
@butterflysedai (25)
United States
10 responses
@Truewater2 (322)
• United States
7 Nov 06
Yes, I have considered moving to Canada, but not because of political issues. I considered moving because I have friends there I wish to see more often than once a year.
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@butterflysedai (25)
• United States
6 Nov 06
between political issues like that, and healthcare, I've often considered it myself.
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@Alloy42 (372)
• United States
7 Nov 06
Yeah, healthcare was another one of the considerations.
The main problem is with the temperature... my wife can't tolerate the cold :-(
I would be nice to live in a place where the trees do this color-changing thing I've heard so many rumors about :-)
@purplewolf (462)
• Canada
7 Nov 06
Being a Canadian, I would like to state that we also have our political issues, although our healthcare is better. It does get very cold here in the winter, but we build fires...LOL. As for the fall colors, they are beautiful and I have included a photo just for you.
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@srhelmer (7029)
• Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
6 Nov 06
This is my home, for better or worse. Every country has it's problems, Canada included (just ask anyone who is looking for specialized medical care, such as cancer treatment about wait times in their government-funded health care system).
Rather than whine about it, or threaten to move, why don't you exercise your voting powers to change it?
Polls open tomorrow at 8 a.m. If you're over the age of 18 and stay at home, then, next time you complain about what's wrong with the United States, be sure to look in the mirror.
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@Alloy42 (372)
• United States
7 Nov 06
Unless you're out-voted such as what happened with me the last time around. I was completely against the war-mongering son of an oil-baron we currently have.
Of course, since he put the pressure on his opponent until he withdrew from the race, I guess I wasn't REALLY out-voted.
No, I have absolutely ZERO faith in the validity of the voting process in this country. That is why I, rather than whining, have considered other options; moving to another country among them. Action of that nature is, in my opinion, one of the few remaining to me that stand any chance of actually producing a favorable result.
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@Juli_angel (1063)
• Israel
7 Nov 06
i don't live in US but
i still woud'nt move to canada.
my uncles though, did.
@soonergirl980 (261)
• United States
6 Nov 06
um thats a big fat no thanks I am proud to be a U.S. citizen
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@Alloy42 (372)
• United States
7 Nov 06
I'm glad that you can look past our many problems and find something of which to be proud. I'm proud of the IDEA of America and of many things about America, but I am VERY ashamed of many, MANY, other things.
There is a reason that, while traveling in almost any other country, one will receive better treatment if one claims to be Canadian rather than American and I don't believe that reason is jealousy.
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@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
7 Nov 06
I've heard it takes a long time to get medical care.. I'm proud of the U.S., helped save the world from Hitler's madness, and some communist/Stalinist like takeovers, and got rid of one potential source of roving WMD's.. [No one will do it again tho, and risk being so villainized, and their efforts hexed from early on.]
@Idlewild (6090)
• United States
3 Dec 06
Some people that I know have mentioned moving to Canada out loud a few times because they didn't like political happenings in the States, but I doubt they would ever do it.
Many people would like to get free health care, but of course it's not really free because the taxes are very high to pay for that and other social benefits. And Canada doesn't perform well on creating jobs, partly because the high taxes give employers little incentive to create jobs.
