“It’s so expensive, nobody wants to be there”
Kind of like “nobody drives, there’s too much traffic.”
> Most Canadians I know have multi generational wealth so they are going to be fine
Translation: Canada is wealthy including most Canadians I know. That’s why things are expensive.
Canadian cities rank highly for livability, including expensive ones Toronto and Vancouver. No US cities were on the list that I found.
Canada ranks higher than the US on the human development index.
Canada has better healthcare than the US (#5 in the world according to US News and World Report, ahead of Switzerland).
I straight up don’t believe you that there aren’t decent jobs in those cities. They’re like the NYC and LA of Canada.
My hot take is that living in a small rented apartment isn’t some kind of catastrophe. For one thing, North American housing is already considered large by the standards of many countries.
More importantly, the size of your dwelling is only one aspect of quality of life, and it’s a factor that’s less important than most people give it credit for. Are Dutch people unhappy because their apartments are small?
People want big McMansions to store their consumerist junk because of our HGTV culture but you can live a good life in much less. Your kids can share a bedroom, they’ll even likely be happy with it.
Just as a cherry picked example, I’d rather live in a tiny apartment in Vancouver than live in a big house in places like New Orleans, where I have to worry about higher crime and gun deaths, worse education, worse and more expensive healthcare, worse city services and infrastructure, weather and climate flooding my house away, and worse job opportunities.
Obviously, Canada needs better housing and immigration policy, but I’d call those pretty minor and resolvable problems for a country that is doing so well.
Kind of like “nobody drives, there’s too much traffic.”
> Most Canadians I know have multi generational wealth so they are going to be fine
Translation: Canada is wealthy including most Canadians I know. That’s why things are expensive.
Canadian cities rank highly for livability, including expensive ones Toronto and Vancouver. No US cities were on the list that I found.
Canada ranks higher than the US on the human development index.
Canada has better healthcare than the US (#5 in the world according to US News and World Report, ahead of Switzerland).
I straight up don’t believe you that there aren’t decent jobs in those cities. They’re like the NYC and LA of Canada.
My hot take is that living in a small rented apartment isn’t some kind of catastrophe. For one thing, North American housing is already considered large by the standards of many countries.
More importantly, the size of your dwelling is only one aspect of quality of life, and it’s a factor that’s less important than most people give it credit for. Are Dutch people unhappy because their apartments are small?
People want big McMansions to store their consumerist junk because of our HGTV culture but you can live a good life in much less. Your kids can share a bedroom, they’ll even likely be happy with it.
Just as a cherry picked example, I’d rather live in a tiny apartment in Vancouver than live in a big house in places like New Orleans, where I have to worry about higher crime and gun deaths, worse education, worse and more expensive healthcare, worse city services and infrastructure, weather and climate flooding my house away, and worse job opportunities.
Obviously, Canada needs better housing and immigration policy, but I’d call those pretty minor and resolvable problems for a country that is doing so well.