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Tyler, thanks for your entertaining and fun videos. My grandfather is a dual citizen but has never renewed his passport or anything and when asked to do so, he outright refuses. He says he hated living there. We live in the Vancouver area of Canada right now. My wife is finishing her registered nursing degree and we are considering moving to washington state, within an hour or so of the Canadian border on temporary work visas (TN1) for a few years. The main reason is the cost of living differences, mostly in housing but a lot of things are cheaper down there too. For example though, the costs of rent or to buy a house in the Vancouver area is insane - 1.5 million is generally a starting point. The cost of a detached house south of the border between Bellingham and Blaine starts around $400,000 ($500,000 CDN). If renting, it's crazy cheaper than here. \n\nThe area we are considering going to is very close to the canadian border, I've never heard of major violence problems in the area. Like one of the other comments you read, we're basically considering moving there to take advantage of a lower cost of living and higher salaries for a bit to try to get ahead. Living in the Vancouver area is such an absolute DRAIN on our finances that it is intolerable. If we didn't move to the US, we'd have to find another place in Canada to go to, but we do like the climate on the coast here. I'd actually just keep commuting to Canada daily to work in Canada since it's so close to the border, and writing the bar exam to be able to practice law in any US state except California, Massachusets, or New York is a pain in the backside to even be able to write it, let alone prepare for it. Just easier for me to keep working here unless we decided to try to make a permanent move somewhere further from the border.\n\nIf we decided to change our minds and apply to stay in the US in the future, there are a lot of the other considerations that other people have raised on top of my own ability to continue as a lawyer. Gun violence in the US is crazy, extreme polarized political views and increasing intolerance against diversity of race, culture, religion, (and while it doesnt affect us directly, it bothers us how LGBTQ people are increasingly targeted with backwards policies and by certain segments of the public), the health care system in canada has it's problems but it's also got it's strong points. We'll never go bankrupt because of a health care issue since we can move back to Canada IF it's ever a problem. Thankfully we are all pretty healthy so it shouldn't be much of a problem for a while at least. And we wouldn't even move there at all if her employment as a nurse doesn't offer health care and better pay than she can obtain here. \n\nOur kids will probably attend post-secondary (college/university) in Canada as dual citizens unless they get a scholarship to a top US school. The costs of post-secondary in Canada appears to be much cheaper than in the US and we have some good colleges/universities that consistently rank high globally.

person living in Canada; I would consider least for a while, my reasons are most people I've met from US on the internet have been mostly pleasant(Minnesota, California, Florida, or Pennsylvania all seem great:) )...I agree with a little bit more flexible gun laws(if there was a happy in between I'd go with that:P)........ don't think the political scene would completely bother me(centrist at heart; mostly accepted by Conservatives and get along with Democrats/etc); I'm ok with the contrast....

I could live in Southern California, Washington state or Miami area. Been there many times. I love going shopping and eating there.\n\nMy wife is from a foreign country and prefers Canada. She only likes North Vancouver as well to live.

I’ve loved California after visiting several times…and sooo wanted to move there. Since Trump, and what he’s done to your country…I’d never consider it now, sadly. I love Gavin Newsom though, and Joe Biden ?♥️?♥️?

I don't think I would move to the U.S. for many reasons. Healthcare is great in Canada. I don't think I'd be able to afford insurance in the U.S. , I also would be afraid of guns, the coastlines will rise by the 2030s, so my dreams of California and New York are out as well, never mind the outrageous cost of living there and being an arts person, I wouldn't want to be there now with the strike. I don't think I'd be affected as a stand-up comedian, but the opportunities would be way less with the industry shut down.

Hey Tyler...ask the question in reverse...see how many Americans would move to Canada....and I have a question for you, Why should I have to make a choice where I live, directly in response to gun violence and mass shootings, lousy uber expensive health care , discrimination, racism, bigotry, and hatred?...like I said in my 1st post, I lived in Cali. and Arkansas in the mid 80's, as different as environments can be...yet all of the same issues, just some more pronounced than others ( surprisingly, I saw and HEARD a lot more racism in Southern California than I did in Arkansas)....but now, in the 21st Century, the fact that politicians are actively trying (and in a lot of cases succeeding) to return the U.S. to the 1900 ( taking the vote away from minorities, especially blacks and native Americans), making women bend the knee to what men say and want them to do ( the reversal of Roe v Wade, 100% total bans on reproductive rights, and the restrictive, totalitarian, Nazi/fascist bans on the rights to choose who you want to be, how you want to be addressed, LGBTQ people and lifestyles) when I see this, hear the right-wing racist, elitist,MAGA, B.S., I wonder how ANY people in their right minds could want to live in 2023 America, the Land of the Lost !

That comment is bang on about the batshit crazy political religious racist fusion that seeps into daily life…..nailed it.\nI’ve got family and relatives in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, California, Florida Nevada. My second home was in Pinellas Park Florida.\nI’m living in Canada now , thank god , the situation in the USA at this time is a joke sorry to say

We visited the USA ( California, Ohio, MD ) and Canada (Toronto) some 7 times during the last about 11 years, and loved these countries. But I would still I would like to live in india only, mainly because we love Indian vegetables, fruits, food items and our home life in India.

We do not owe them a debt. They (or any other migrant) are not entitled to become US citizens solely bc their home country is in turmoil. Sympathy can only go so far but when you try to invade our country all sympathy is lost. I feel for them greatly but these kinds of actions harden the hearts of our people and make the hate expressed toward LEGAL immigrants 100x worse. We have families that we need to protect just like them. Who knows what dangerous person is in the crowd liable to do anything one they cross that border without any record of their presence or existence. ?‍♀️ The united states is not a fucking charity help the homeless people in California and strengthen the support for legal immigrants before giving hand outs to these people who have fuck all to offer but a bunch of desperation that we do not have the resources to fix. Have we already forgot our country nearly went bankrupt in June? We cannot afford the influx of all these people.

Where are you going to put these people? I know that in New York City and I believe in California, imagine my shock, they’ve kicked homeless vets out of the rooms that were being provided for them in place of the fence jumpers because they can get $100 more a night from the government or from us because the government doesn’t have any money. The money they have is ours and they’re killing us with it.

There really is no affordable ousing left in California unless it's a hole in the wall. Keep them out, they all come here eventually.

They should visit the statue of Abraham Lincoln near the California border first, and kiss it goodbye.\n\nIsn't that right, Nancy Pelosi?

Forget parents, even many immigrants are unhappy in Canada. Every time I run into an Indian who has studied or lived in US he is frustrated. 2 people in my team received their Canadian citizenship and have started trying for positions in US. 3 white Canadians in our company moved to US in last 2 year itself.\nCanada is not a great country from parents. It's cold, white and depressing throughout. Many parents can stay for relatively longer in California or Texas where there is vibrant community and weather is very much like India. I lived for 10 years of life in snow before moving to Canada - Massachusetts, North Carolina and Virginia. I just 2 winters, I feel depressed in Canada as it's white for 4 to 5 months.

Technically Mexico can reclaim California Texas and Florida just like Russia can reclaim Ukraine

Send them to California. No where else.

we are being invaded and Biden don’t give a damn. Look at southern California. The national guard needs deployed there to get rid of the illegals and cartels

My son is in California. But I enjoy there

Aaaand.. Another reason to not be in California

The States need to take control of their Southern border away from Border Patrol and DHS they are controlled by the corrupt Biden Administration. They facilitate the invasion. All states need to contribute to the Border States of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas for security of our Country. Screw California, it's a lost cause. STOP the invasion of our Country.

Send them to California and New York, job done

Sanctuary city ruined California and sacramento

Soon California will be as same as Juarez ?

We Texans would rather have illegals then California's real shit

I’m Puerto Rican, and don’t like or dislike Mexicans, don’t really see much in common other than Spain’s relation to both them and us. I use to think why Mexicans are crossing over, into the USA, but went to the books and found that technically Mexicans have more right to the land in the east of the US, and some even south than white anglo Americans, Why? I’ll be quick. Even though Mexico sold land to the US to make the US like Arizona California, Texas and such, the US stole further more land than they bought from Mexico. Further more Anglos took over natives lands and gave them loop concentrations. Mexicans are native to those lands also.So conquest and expansion from Anglos took their lands. So if you want to go to the books and be politically correct, Mexicans have more right to those lands than Anglos. Think of it like a native population going back to their lands they are same.

California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas and Colorado were once part of Mexico itself. United States stold them from Mexico.. U.S.A. citizens are proud of being ignorants.. Congrats idiots..

Texas is blue collar state California has more billionaires than anyone.

Black Friday in California

BRING ME YOUR POOR BRING ME YOUR IMPOVERISHED BRING ME THE PEOPLE WHOSE LAND IS FOR THE BELONGS TO BRING THEM ALL TO ME, LATINO BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND TAKE BACK YOUR LAND TEXAS EL PASO CALIFORNIA

They belong here this was all there’s Texas, California etc just because we signed papers and kicked them off their land doesn’t make it ours in the first place.

California Love ? Always US ...USA is the best economically and doing business is easy and golfers are more in US then in canada canada is lil more chill and good for residing after your 50's

So be honest, Texas and California should be part of Mexico and if you don’t believe me, go research how we obtain California and Texas if you don’t know we stole them from Mexico and the sad part is it’s the only parts of Mexico that really had real economically rich resources if you look at the rest of Mexico, pretty much 60% of it is uninhabited and that is because there are zero resources or they are just very scarce and it’s impractical to put a society there. That’s why a lot of Mexico lives along the coast line. It’s also why most of Mexico is very poor and the other sad part of reality is it’s the same thing America does. It moves and says it’s helping but in the end, they screw people over and it’s not America. It’s just our corrupted government doing it and the other sad part of that is, if it wasn’t our government doing it, it would be someone else is doing it. Human beings in a whole are nasty, maniacal creatures, and we have stopped teaching morals across the world this stop being on teaching those morals has put humans into a spiral downfall of Self damnation

What they did to California , , your next texas !! Mexico trash

We need to hold Joe responsible for this happening. We’re having millions and millions of people crossing our border they planned this this just didn’t happen. It was a plan. I remember like eight months ago governor Newsom, the joker from California he went over to a lot of these companies on vacation was gone for months so it’s planned.

California paying them 300 a week that’s why they keep coming we need to just send them back and take care of our own first.

It's like that in California that's why they came up with black lives matter

Why not. Progress has been slow. Too many games of powers. Mexico is apart of California'. Always has been. They know our prophecy better than we do. Overturn that conviction start. Alonso Ronnie Smith. If you know what's good for us.

Yea I hear you but they don't like us anywhere and the fact no one kind like us I can say the absolutely Mexicans out here in California definitely don't like us they will kill a brother for real they will surround you and jump you or stab you over you arguing with one of them they come out of nowhere and defend each other that's why we need to keep these foreigners out of our country and get our own people help

I was there with DONALD CAVANAGH ON OUR HONEYMOON ON OUR WAY TO CALIFORNIA

They're coming to take California back because it's theirs

Solution…fields of land mines leading up to automatic M60’s with motion sensors then right into miles and miles of fenced in wild predators to finish off any that makes it thru. Survive the gauntlet and you win your freedom and right to live in New York or California ?

They government bogus as hell. Cartel got they ass scared ass hell. Thats messed up. Mfs in California, Texas like come on man . This shit sad.

10000 homeless people in California rn just a reminder to the people that thinks this is ok.

At this point we just need to send troops to Mexico to eradicate these gangs. Thats why all these people are leaving honestly. Yall ever heard interviews of them and why theyre leaving? Alot of them are leaving because theyvhave death threat's from gangs. Id probably be doing the same shit if i was in their shoes but we already have so many homeless people here and we're in shambles ourselves. I dont understand why they just dont make a massive community for people like this or the homeless. Make it like that one city in America. I forget what its called. Its in California but there's basically no laws and you can do whatever. We took the land from Mexico so why not atleast give SOME back to people in need? Im not saying make it free. But im not saying make everyone's lives harder either. Theres definitely something the govt can do they just DONT want to

Well just give back what the US have taken back. Texas belongs to the Hispanic. Alone with California and Arizona

Those are illegal immigrants not migrants what white Corporate America doesn't understand is their rulership is over black Native Americans we want our land back and according to our ancestors white people are they illegal immigrants Hispanics and Mexicans Latinos they always had New Mexico California and Phoenix Arizona Nevada that's beside their tribal people stayed on

Show them SKID ROAD CALIFORNIA! what is like for illegal entry in the US.

Indians from Haryana are like flooded all over Texas and California in donkey visa.

The United States took the State of Mexico which sets on Texas and California which was once Mexico what does the United States expect ?

WAIT ITS CALIFORNIANS TRYING TO BREACH THE JUAREZ BORDER LIFE IN CALIFORNIA IS A NIGHTMARE LMAO TRUST AND BELIEVE AS FAST AS THEY RUN INTO CALIFORNIA THEY WILL GET A TASTE OF THE RIDICULOUS COST OF LIVING IT IS THE HIGHEST COST OF LIVING IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY CALIFORNIA IS MILES ABOVE SITTING NUMBER ONE AS BEING THEE MOST CODTLY LOWEST LIVING WAGE WHICH IS SO BELOW POVERTY LEVEL OUR STREETS ARE LINED WITH HOMELESS PEOPLE ALL CALIFORNIA CITIZENS WHO COULD NOT SAVE UP THE ANNUAL EVER RISING PROPERTY TAXES HORRIBLY IMPOSSIBLE TO CUT ANY OTHER CORNERS WHEN GASOLINE IS OVER $5 A GALLON GAS UTILITY COSTS NOW$290 ELECTRICITY $340 WATER TRASH SEWAGE STREET SWEEPER $180 AND A BURGER FRIES AND COKE FOR ONLY 3 PEOPLE COSTS $32 A LOAF OF BREAD $6 A JUG OF COOKING OIL $21 LAUNDRY SOAP $24 A 12PK OF COCACOLA $9.99. A 6 PK COCA COLA $6.99 AN 18 PK COKES COST $19. COME ON PEOPLE

Just for them to end up in California ?‍♂️