World's strongest man, 2023 & 2026, is fleeing Canada

Koba

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRlrr9aSBXQ

He tries to softball his rationale to avoid controversy so I'll just summarize

Work is more available

Properties are affordable. His child might actually be able to have a career

Healthcare system actually works

Education isn't full of woke far left bullshit

Rentals won't be constantly trashed by tenants who refuse to pay rent

Capital gains tax is much more reasonable
World's strongest man (2023,2026) is fleeing Canada.
 
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Work is more available

This entirely depends on where you live and what you do for a living. Jobs are not that plentiful in the U.S. at this point. Exp I'm in IT US has just as many issues in IT with Indians as Canada does. You have no job protections in the U.S. like you do in Canada. Most places, honestly, are going to treat you more shitty than most places would in Canada because I will say Canada is a bit more relaxed overall when it comes to the working environment. Also, very few companies in the U.S. have ever heard of compensation when you get fired or laid off, unless you're very high up in the food chain.

Properties are affordable. His child might actually be able to have a career

Again, this just depends on where you're at. For example, in Calgary right now, I'm selling my 1,100 square foot I think it is anyway home with a fully finished basement for $525,000. And it's in the southeast, which downtown is only 12 miles from me. It takes an hour to drive there because of traffic, but again, I'm still in the city. So it depends where you're in Canada for this kind of price. Same with the U.S. I might be going to Virginia. Some of the properties there are insanely expensive.

Healthcare system actually works

Again, this is an apples-to-oranges example. Just because you have insurance in the U.S. doesn't mean you can actually go to all hospitals. Some insurance companies only cover visits at certain hospitals, so therefore you have to go to a hospital or doctor that's within your plan. And this is just a stupid example. My mother got sick. They told her if she went home and checked out, they would have to check her back in and insurance wouldn't cover her first stay this would have been like thousands of dollars. But if she stayed there multiple days until her surgery time, the insurance would cover the full thing. So she literally had to stay at the hospital for three days for absolutely nothing between when she first got checked in and until her surgery.


Also, yes, in the U.S., if you don't have insurance and you do get sick or hurt, you are going to go massively into debt for something basic like breaking an arm, where in Canada that won't happen. And if you've got a broken arm, you will get the care pretty quickly you need. So it's a toss-up. But if you need certain tests, well, you'll have them done very quickly in the U.S. or in Canada, you're gonna wait months. Also in the U.S., in some parts of the country, especially in the cities, yes, the wait times are just as bad as in Canada because all the freaking illegals in there waiting for free care and who have no insurance.

Education isn't full of woke far-left bullshit

Again, this entirely depends on where you live. It's the same way in Canada. Some schools are doing this crap, some aren't.

Rentals won't be constantly trashed by tenants who refuse to pay rent

Again, this depends who you rent to. In the U.S., if you rent to what they call Section 8, which is people on welfare in the U.S., you're guaranteed they're going to destroy your house, but you're also guaranteed to get money because the government's paying for it. This is where it really gets interesting because who the hell is going to fix up a nice house in a shitty neighborhood of Section 8 when the person's going to destroy it? So you end up with a fucking ghetto and slums.

Capital gains tax is much more reasonable

I'm not educated enough on this to say I have an opinion.


It's like I keep trying to tell my wife: if we're going to move, it's not going to be all sunshine and rainbows.


One single election cycle is all it will take for Democrats to rule the roost, and it'll have just as much censorship and just the same amount of bullshit Canada has, plus %20 even more. It also depends what state you live in. That is one good thing about the U.S. over Canada. The federal government has very little control over what the states do. So even if the federal government is a piece of shit, your individual state still can be nice. You also have 50 to pick from.


The thing is, though, in America, you can make an insane amount of money. So if you can save right and invest right, you'll be fine. But everything's not perfect. So anyone who thinks they're going to have a great life in the U.S. just because they're in the U.S. is full of shit. I find most people who say randomly, oh, I'm gonna go to America, it's gonna be better than Canada, are reacting more with emotion than logic.

I mean I may be moving there in a few months but I'm not going to lie to anyone and say you're going to have a better life just cause you went to the US at least right now depending on where canada goes.
 
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your argument seems to be that you just need to move to a nicer part of Canada to escape all this, but where exactly? My district has provincial townhomes of no significance being listed at half a million. It is true that the States could tip into an even worse dictatorship than what Canada has, but they seem to be looking pretty good right now
 
I would gladly pay out of pocket to see a specialist at a private clinic/hospital. Those don't exist up here, they all require a referral from a GP and the wait times are literally years. Unless you are native, in which case you get moved to the front of the line.

Literally just saw a specialist for an issue yesterday and he told me "gee, we could have solved this easier if we had met four or five years ago, but now the damage has been done".

Don't get me started on all the dogshit GPs from Africa and Asia either. Unprofessional, unhelpful, literally communist doctors.

for all those people that work in healthcare and support this shit - from the bottom of my heart go fuck yourselves. You are as bad as the rest of them.
 
‘World’s Strongest Man.’ A moniker that would have one imagine the absolute best of the noble warrior caste of old. Turns out he’s of the merchant class, like so many self-proclaimed ‘patriots’ and ‘conservatives.’ Homo Economicus. ‘I need muh comforts ‘n stuff.’

The guy could stay here and be a voice for others. He’s in a line of work that would unlikely cancel him for speaking his mind. Nope. ‘I can’t maintain my economic standard of living, so I’m going to go where things are easier.’ Imagine if the American and Canadian pioneers decided to all move back to Europe or somewhere more prosperous because, as it turns out, it’s hard here.
 
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