Is relocating to Canada really a thing?

[Luv2play]

Getting back to the original subject I think it is hard to make a move to another country unassisted. I only moved once for a four year posting overseas by my employer but that was a different matter. 
I knew it wasn’t forever but a good 4 year stretch appealed to me as sufficient time to get immersed in a different culture and language, although I could speak that fairly fluently already. 
Living there I  acquired a live in boy friend so the assimilation  was pretty complete with his friends combining with mine that I acquired on my own. 
All good things come to an end though and my job there ended after 4 years and my relationship with my bf a half year later. 

 

Edited August 23 by Luv2play

[+ purplekow]

On 8/22/2025 at 11:58 AM, BSR said:

Factoid I heard recently:  24 US states are farther north (if you take the state’s northernmost point) than the city of Windsor ON.

Parts of 24 states are north of Windsor but using the 42 degrees north latitude which is actually a bit south of Ontario, you have Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts and Alaska  which are mostly or entirely north of that 42 latitude, in addition to Michigan and Wyoming have a large percentage north of that.  The 42 latitude is actually the border between California, Nevada and Pennsylvania and their neighbors to the north and is a bit south of the Massachusetts Connecticut border.  I am sure someone will check this and find that there are perhaps others. 

Some countries which have significant land north and south of that 42 degrees include Spain, Italy and Albania and Turkey and clearly most of Europe is north of it.  

Edited August 25 by purplekow

[+ Jamie21]

On 8/20/2025 at 2:18 PM, sync said:

In the interest of any cultural misunderstanding, "All Blacks" is the name of New Zealand's national rugby union team for their all black uniforms.

And that picture of the All Blacks isn’t them demonstrating with their hands the size of their 🍆…it’s them doing the Haka which they perform to their opponents before a game (which I think gives them an unfair advantage but that’s a different issue). 

Anyone emigrating to Canada will have the King as Head of State. Americans might not like that. 
 

[Luv2play]

7 minutes ago, Jamie21 said:

And that picture of the All Blacks isn’t them demonstrating with their hands the size of their 🍆…it’s them doing the Haka which they perform to their opponents before a game (which I think gives them an unfair advantage but that’s a different issue). 

Anyone emigrating to Canada will have the King as Head of State. Americans might not like that. 
 

Some major hunks and cuties there.
As for King Charles, he has mellowed over the years and is seen as acceptable as our head of state I think, altho I haven’t seen any recent polls. 

[CuriousByNature]

On 8/25/2025 at 3:28 PM, Luv2play said:

Some major hunks and cuties there.
As for King Charles, he has mellowed over the years and is seen as acceptable as our head of state I think, altho I haven’t seen any recent polls. 

I think people are being more gracious than they used to be towards him, and have accepted that we'll never see the likes of Elizabeth II again.  

[Luv2play]

24 minutes ago, CuriousByNature said:

I think people are being more gracious than they used to be towards him, and have accepted that we'll never see the likes of Elizabeth II again.  

I think people realize Charles was dealt a different hand than his mother. She came to the throne early in her life and had a long run marked by exceptionally good health. Hardly a day in the hospital except when having her children.

Charles came to the throne in his relatively advanced old age and immediately fell ill with cancer. His reign is not likely to be a long one.  I think no-one is in the mood to be a spoil sport and criticize him given the situation he finds himself in. 

[CuriousByNature]

2 hours ago, Luv2play said:

I think people realize Charles was dealt a different hand than his mother. She came to the throne early in her life and had a long run marked by exceptionally good health. Hardly a day in the hospital except when having her children.

Charles came to the throne in his relatively advanced old age and immediately fell ill with cancer. His reign is not likely to be a long one.  I think no-one is in the mood to be a spoil sport and criticize him given the situation he finds himself in. 

And two very different personalities and upbringings.  Elizabeth grew up in a relatively sheltered family unit until her father unexpectedly became King, whereas Charles was born to the anticipated heir who ascended the throne when he was only 3 years old.  She had a more affectionate father, while Charles's father did not have time or patience for his son's sensitivity.  Elizabeth also had the commitment to duty and tradition that was imparted by her grandmother, Queen Mary, who had grown up during the Victorian era.

Edited August 27 by CuriousByNature

[+ Charlie]

I suspect that most US citizens think of Canada as a simple unit, when in fact it is in many ways as diverse as the US, and not only in geography and climate. A native of Nova Scotia may have as little in common with a native of central Manitoba as a New Englander with someone from New Mexico. Anyone thinking simply of moving to "Canada" needs to be thinking in terms of a particular place in Canada and its distinguishing characteristics..

[CuriousByNature]

2 hours ago, Charlie said:

I suspect that most US citizens think of Canada as a simple unit, when in fact it is in many ways as diverse as the US, and not only in geography and climate. A native of Nova Scotia may have as little in common with a native of central Manitoba as a New Englander with someone from New Mexico. Anyone thinking simply of moving to "Canada" needs to be thinking in terms of a particular place in Canada and its distinguishing characteristics..

Exactly.  When I lived near Vancouver, I had very little in common with the neighbours just two streets over...lol.  Most of them owned their $5million homes, while I was renting a basement suite.  They drove their Mercedes and BMWs and I had my little Tercel.  

[mike carey]

2 minutes ago, CuriousByNature said:

... They drove their Mercedes and BMWs and I had my little Tercel.  

At least it wasn't a Trabant.

[Luv2play]

6 hours ago, CuriousByNature said:

Exactly.  When I lived near Vancouver, I had very little in common with the neighbours just two streets over...lol.  Most of them owned their $5million homes, while I was renting a basement suite.  They drove their Mercedes and BMWs and I had my little Tercel.  

I don’t think your economic circumstances necessarily made you different from those neighbours in Vancouver. Social and cultural affinities are more important in determining social interaction. 
Consider The Great Gatsby. The interactions between Nick Caraway, who lived in a hovel beside Jay Gatsby, and Daisy Buchanan, his rich friend but social equal, were based on that connection. 
I’m just reading a novel based on Hadley Richardson and Earnest Hemingway when they lived in Toronto in 1924. They were poor as  church mice and lived in a small cheap apartment across the street  from the super wealthy Conables in their estate on Bathurst St and they mixed and were friends. 
They had friends in common and their own circumstances did not hinder their interaction with these Toronto plutocrats.