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I remember helping a friend get a splashy condo in etobicoke 2 bdrms in 2021 for 1,900 a month :francis:

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Not too sure what I'm gonna do the next couple of years. My bro and I have enough for a down payment for a crib in provinces like Nova Scotia/New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, Alberta.. I could stay in Ontario but it be a spot like Sudbury or something. But I've noticed a lot of young folks migrating around Canada, which is dope. I got friends living in the Yukon, I don't think it's much of a difference aside from affordability.

Funnily enough my uncle was suggesting the same thing, working 9 months over here and living 3 months in Ghana.
 

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Not too sure what I'm gonna do the next couple of years. My bro and I have enough for a down payment for a crib in provinces like Nova Scotia/New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, Alberta.. I could stay in Ontario but it be a spot like Sudbury or something. But I've noticed a lot of young folks migrating around Canada, which is dope. I got friends living in the Yukon, I don't think it's much of a difference aside from affordability.

Funnily enough my uncle was suggesting the same thing, working 9 months over here and living 3 months in Ghana.

When you're older you don't really care. My cousin and his wife are both nurses and they work up north in one of the territories.


I could live anywhere I don't club go to lounges as long as I have internet and a grocery store near me I'm good :ehh:



If your job is remote you can live like a king in tons of places
 

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Perfect description of a Canadian attitude. Cowardly low risk, refuse to face challenges, ignore issues as if they will go away.

lol sounds like the cdn government

honestly a foreign nation could attack canada right now and we wouldn't do nothing :francis:, just beg the us for help and if they tell us to shutup we'd just be :sadcam:
 

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Not too sure what I'm gonna do the next couple of years. My bro and I have enough for a down payment for a crib in provinces like Nova Scotia/New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, Alberta.. I could stay in Ontario but it be a spot like Sudbury or something. But I've noticed a lot of young folks migrating around Canada, which is dope. I got friends living in the Yukon, I don't think it's much of a difference aside from affordability.

Funnily enough my uncle was suggesting the same thing, working 9 months over here and living 3 months in Ghana.

Praries, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia are ripe for new blood from internal migrations.

Places like Sudbury and Chatham should encourage businesses to open there, they have alot of potential. Also places like Brandon Manitoba.
 

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If you are a Biblical person, they say that a place like Canada is controlled by a Jezebel and Ahab spirit.

Basically a rebelious woman that promotes witch craft and sexual immorality and weak man who lets his wife Jezebel rule over him. That sounds like Canada and more so Toronto.
 

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If you are a Biblical person, they say that a place like Canada is controlled by a Jezebel and Ahab spirit.

Basically a rebelious woman that promotes witch craft and sexual immorality and weak man who lets his wife Jezebel rule over him. That sounds like Canada and more so Toronto.

Amen!
 

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Praries, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia are ripe for new blood from internal migrations.

Places like Sudbury and Chatham should encourage businesses to open there, they have alot of potential. Also places like Brandon Manitoba.

It's a shame ontario never invested in infrastructure and transit.
 

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i am considering moving to the US in 2025 because of this very reason

literally every industry is oligopolistic and they know they can pay employees less as a result despite the cost of living issues in Toronto

in banking for instance you have the big 5 banks
  • in the USA you have the JP Morgans, BofAs and Citis, but also have the Evercores, Goldmans, Moelis, William Blair, Baird, Guggenheim, PJT etc.

in private capital you have a few pension plans, brookfield and onex - Brookfield and Onex at least compete with the US firms so pay accordingly.
  • US you have at least 50 prominent firms lol.

in law - you have 7 prominent firms List of largest Canada-based law firms by revenue - Wikipedia

in VC - you have damn near zero prominent firms
  • in the USA its flooded


Not to mention for entrepreneurial aspirations they have firms that actually can start up, innovate, compete and gain customers who are willing to take risks + VCs who are willing to take risk.

i gotta gtfoh

America has another issue. Its not as safe as Canada and health care costs are going up again. They just barely avoided recession so, you have to be strategic. Just like Canada, trades is where it's at there, but you get the experience/apprenticeships way faster. As a culture it's a high stress country.

If you go there, just make your money there and keep your head down, and bounce like a passport bro to somewhere safer and cheaper.
 
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