I am 37 and recently moved from TO to MTL and have net worth of 350k. Thinking of leaving the country. Everything is grossly overvalued in this Liberal Socialist wasteland, with jarsh winters, cold people, ignorance from both Anglophone and Francophone alike, all cities essentially below 1 million in population numbers slowly eroding from chronic opiate consumption, and now with marijuana legalisation, the mind numbing effects of a glazed-over populace, where mem have no balls and women have no scruples.
I am at my wits end. Bermuda as an essentially tax-free haven of high technology work opportunities is looking mighty rosey. As is the US (eg Austin TX, Miami, NYC, San Fran, and even Seattle.) Canada really kind of sucks. 42 percent income tax is nigh unjustifiable.
And quite frankly, people in Canada by and large are a reserved, ignorant lot who have a weed smoke-leaning, judgemental stance against Americans, mindless left-leaning political beliefs that don't represent a truly global way of thinking, and are victims to our unsustainable overtaxed nanny-state idealism. Corruption is rampant, feel-goodism takes the place of logic and rational thinking.
Time to leave this wack fucking place, methinks. Justin Trudeau was everyone's golden boy and now his ministrations and cabinet are racked with controversy and legal complications regarding his impropriety regarding Canada's largest engineering firm, and his legacy will likely never receover, hopefully, dependant on the fourth estate doing its job, because the populace are so dumb and weed choked, filled with concepts of frivolity, that they dont care and dont understand the gravity of the indiscretion of our highest office.
Our head of state is as inadequate, or even more so, than Donald Trump. Trudeau's handlers and entourage are essentially the only reason, coupled with his "good looks" that he has lasted this long in office. He is an incompetent. A feel good bandaid that is easy on the eyes of his mindless supporters, most of whom reside in the well to do neighbourhoods of "Toronto the Good" where glad handing the prolitereate of this ilk grants their agendas and subverts the agendas of the everyman of this 'nation'. while he boosted pot legalization, which was a genius move, he essentially guaranteed compliance of the voter base, essentially guaranteeing the majority's disinterest and dissafection of all his actions while in power as PM, as long as they got their right to puff the magic dragon, and hell, even better, it had the added effect of numbing them from any future dissention. Master stroke. Guaranteed he didnt come up with it.
Any. conversation drifted from net worth to politics. I dont care. Now you know what Canada is like. Haha. More than a third income tax paid by the most succesful, only to result in the same 6 hour hospital wait times....Ugh this country blows.