Honestly Canada vs USA is kind of a “grass always is greener on the other side” situation if you’re a middle aged white guy like me. Clearly for women or POCs it’s a lot safer up here.
But as far as starting a life, not a lot of housing options, new builds are all hella expensive, not a lot of entry level work opportunities unless you can afford trade school or want to go work up north.
You still gotta pay for the schooling. There are grants for in demand things. It all comes down to demand and where that demand is. Like if you wanna go weld on a pipeline or work on a mine/rig 2 weeks at a time than you’ll have way more options. In town trades have a lot more competition for apprenticeships and our lower population density means you’re once again going where the demand is. I got a cousin building houses on an island I had never heard of until he told me.
Any Canadians want to adopt a guy in his mid forties? I can cook and clean and love poutine.
Honestly Canada vs USA is kind of a “grass always is greener on the other side” situation if you’re a middle aged white guy like me. Clearly for women or POCs it’s a lot safer up here.
But as far as starting a life, not a lot of housing options, new builds are all hella expensive, not a lot of entry level work opportunities unless you can afford trade school or want to go work up north.
I’ve got a job I can do remotely so that helps.
Is your job cool with that though? I’d lose my remote gig if I wasn’t stateside anymore.
Since I’m in a pre-sales role it matters less.
Honestly it would be nice to hand off those customers to someone else.
Sign me up for trade school then
Here in burgerland the trades are apprenticeship based and you get paid to learn, I’d hope it was the same up there in Canada?
You still gotta pay for the schooling. There are grants for in demand things. It all comes down to demand and where that demand is. Like if you wanna go weld on a pipeline or work on a mine/rig 2 weeks at a time than you’ll have way more options. In town trades have a lot more competition for apprenticeships and our lower population density means you’re once again going where the demand is. I got a cousin building houses on an island I had never heard of until he told me.
I might import a few Americans to clean up the yard, they have cute national costumes of khaki shorts and shoes that say “New Balance” on them.