Resolutions for the New Year?

[Guest]

Pretty tough to become a citizen of another country without outrightly moving to said country…what is your point? It is about having an escape plan.

I will agree, Canada is/was better than the vast majority. But it is noted that it is sliding in the standings. And our “leader” (if you can call him that) is doing everything in his power to make Canada swirl down the hole in the bottom of the toilet.

You only live once. At the end of the day there's more important things than politics and money. If you don't like where you've come from you likely won't be happy where you end up so it would be wise to question your motives for making a move. This place is bloody awesome. We entered Oz on permanent residency visas. Essentially had all the same rights and privileges as citizens except we didn't have to vote. Voting is compulsory here for citizens. For different reasons we eventually took up citizenship. Now, from the outside looking in, I agree that Canada seems to be in the toilet, I would even say it's already in the septic tank.

[shtferbrains]

I just googled “the best country in the world” Finland is #1, yay 😃 for the motherland, sadly 😞 Canada is #12 and slipping fast!

Costa Rica is on that list to.
Friend has lived there maybe 40yrs. Comes home here in the summer for more moderate climate.

Phones on WhatsApp with vidio. Looks great but looks too hot for an old bird like me.

He always try's to get us to come visit. Big adventure but always good to have a local guide.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

If you don't like where you've come from you likely won't be happy where you end up so it would be wise to question your motives for making a move.

How true. And I know you are still pretending to ignore me, so this is for everyone else.

We had a neighbor briefly. Older couple (80ish) and their daughter bought a quarter with a farm yard. A bunch of draft horses and some starving cows. I got to know the horses personally when they dropped them off and left, I found 20 of them stomping all over my canola field, no fence between us, and the owner in a different province. Wouldn't let the previous renter take his crop off. etc.
Promptly made enemies with all the neighbors, which required a lot of effort, all really good easy to get along with people. Shortly after pissing off everyone, he put the farm back up for sale. It wouldn't sell, he told me it was because the neighbors were so difficult to get along with.
Eventually sold and he moved 20 miles away. Ran into him one day told me he had moved becaue the weather was so bad here that you couldn't put up hay. I asked how much better the haying weather was in the new place... Much worse, looking to move again.


And to my credit, I put the horses back in, rebuilt a fence, closed gates further in, and didn't say a word, or ask for damages.
Until he tore a strip off my hired hand much later, and threatened me, and told me what terrible neighbors he has. Then I brought up the horses.

As it turns out, they had moved 20 or 30 times ( I forget exactly). All over Alberta and different provinces. Always the same story. Had another neighbor 20 years ago, a real con artist who had to move every few years as his past would catch up to him. The name is infamous.

[Guest]

Costa Rica is on that list to.
Friend has lived there maybe 40yrs. Comes home here in the summer for more moderate climate.

Phones on WhatsApp with vidio. Looks great but looks too hot for an old bird like me.

He always try's to get us to come visit. Big adventure but always good to have a local guide.

At the time we considered France, Italy, Switzerland, British Columbia. Lots of things to consider especially if you have children etc. Now I would consider Spain,Bhutan and maybe Nordic countries although I hate dealing with snow. I must say one of the last places I would go is the U.S.

[flea beetle]

You only live once. At the end of the day there's more important things than politics and money. If you don't like where you've come from you likely won't be happy where you end up so it would be wise to question your motives for making a move. This place is bloody awesome. We entered Oz on permanent residency visas. Essentially had all the same rights and privileges as citizens except we didn't have to vote. Voting is compulsory here for citizens. For different reasons we eventually took up citizenship. Now, from the outside looking in, I agree that Canada seems to be in the toilet, I would even say it's already in the septic tank.

From their response to covid, I don’t think Australia is on my radar…

[Guest]

From their response to covid, I don’t think Australia is on my radar…

That's unfortunate. Are you using MSM to make that judgement call? Perhaps travel first to where you might consider living,as we did, see for yourself. Politics of all stripes come and go in most countries, think longer term. Governments just exist, they don't dictate how you live. Apparently we have a VAX mandate here!! Ohhhhh scary. Turns out when you push back with informed assertion they crawl away. Don't fall for the superficial narrative. Much like the mavericks. Want to leave Canada, govt changes, oh want back in. Govt changes again, oh want back out...

[flea beetle]

Unfortunately you have to look at governments and how they treat their people. Want someplace where they let their people live, instead of thinking they know what the people want, and dictating their views onto them.

[shtferbrains]

God Bless Texas!