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Yeah the worst I can see happening to europe outside of general global reductions in quality of life would be an increase in racism/nationalism and the political parties that ride those emotions. But if europe has turned into a neo-fascist racist nightmare canada would have already "solved" the question of first-nations sovereignty and sent the poor to work off their welfare in special "debt camps" along side TFW's who have their passports taken away for their own safety while they toil in the condo mines of vancouver.
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Baronjutter posted:It's pretty hard to predict what the future holds or how bad the sky will be falling, but Canada seems like a pretty safe place to be. Safe as in "won't be killed in a bloody revolution or war" or "won't starve to death after the food riots". It's not a good place though if your main worries for the future are ridiculous things like maintaining a high income and status. Most of the world will be worried about food, water, shelter, and violence, not which country has the highest paying jobs for their university degree. I dunno, we have a lot of space, but not a lot of our land is good for growing a lot of food, and we seem intent on paving over what good foodlands we have because of how close they are to major cities. And a lot of that land is unequally distributed across the provinces, and the really good farmland is more unevenly distribtued. If Canada had to suddenly feed itself, it could probably still do that now, but in 10 years at current housing development rates? Although given all the evidence in this thread it's not likely things are going to continue as they are for another 10 years. And there's no feudal-fascist nightmare on the horizon either. Dreylad fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Apr 14, 2015 |
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EvilJoven posted:My wife has French citizenship through her mother in theory but won't give her the satisfaction of filling out the paperwork due issues between them. If she has it through the fact that her mother is French, your wife would have had to claim her French citizenship before she turned 18, I think. Either that or it's just WAY harder afterwards. I had to go to the consulate just before my 18th birthday to register with them in order to keep it since when I was a kid I was just on my mom's French passport.
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Oh well. Ya it woulda been nice if my wife were rational about this but it's kinda a lot to expect because reasons.
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HookShot posted:If she has it through the fact that her mother is French, your wife would have had to claim her French citizenship before she turned 18, I think. Either that or it's just WAY harder afterwards. I had to go to the consulate just before my 18th birthday to register with them in order to keep it since when I was a kid I was just on my mom's French passport. Yes, it is very hard after the age of 18. My sister's husband was born in Poland and they started the process for all six of her kids to get EU passports last summer. It was at my insistence that they got it done and it is just in time because my eldest nephew turns 18 in June. He picked up his passport just today, in fact.
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My mom had the chance to do this but didn't see the point. She could have gotten Hungarian citizenship and that could have gotten me into europe. I could be living in a cheap apartment near the centre of Prague desperately trying to pronounce Czech right now  My parents also could have been fairly wealthy right now if they hadn't sold their rental house at the very bottom of the 80's. Oh well, hindsight and boomers and all that.
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jet sanchEz posted:Yes, it is very hard after the age of 18. My sister's husband was born in Poland and they started the process for all six of her kids to get EU passports last summer. It was at my insistence that they got it done and it is just in time because my eldest nephew turns 18 in June. He picked up his passport just today, in fact. I applied for my Irish passport a few months ago and paid 300 EUR for it. If you can get citizenship elsewhere, I advocate it.
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Goddamn my grandmothers parents giving birth to her in Toronto before taking her back to the UK! 
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If you're Mom is still alive she may be able to apply for UK citizenship still. Or you might be able to. I've had it since birth, but my sister (born in the US) only just applied for it through my mom having it and it was no trouble at all. Had her passport in like 2 months. Maybe check it out.
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Unfortunately the Ancestry Visa just gives you "indefinite leave to remain" after five years now, not a shortcut to full UK citizenship. EDIT:  B.C. 'hosed' in Coquitlam land sale to Liberal donor quote:VICTORIA - The Opposition New Democrats say British Columbians were "hosed" in a Crown land sale that was snapped up by a Liberal donor at $43 million below the appraised value. Hassan Khosrowshahi, by the way, is the billionaire owner of Future Shop. Rime fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Apr 15, 2015 |
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Rime posted:Unfortunately the Ancestry Visa just gives you "indefinite leave to remain" after five years now, not a shortcut to full UK citizenship. LemonDrizzle fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Apr 15, 2015 |
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Rime posted:Unfortunately the Ancestry Visa just gives you "indefinite leave to remain" after five years now, not a shortcut to full UK citizenship.
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I'm eligible for the ancestry visa through my grandmother and I should probably take it. If nothing else, the UK is hungry for teachers in a way Canada will never be. I just wish I could end up in Northern Ireland.
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Canadian Debt Bubble: Got my EU citizenship today
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cowofwar posted:Worthless governments holding fire sales on crown assets, selling below market price in order to plug budget gaps. Ridiculous. Still the best story so far was canadian government losing 3 billion in the GM stock sale. Basically they did the bailout for stock in hopes it would prevent GM from moving jobs out to lower cost areas.
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Rime posted:Unfortunately the Ancestry Visa just gives you "indefinite leave to remain" after five years now, not a shortcut to full UK citizenship. What Shop? Future who? You must be thinking of some other store....
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unlimited shrimp posted:I'm eligible for the ancestry visa through my grandmother and I should probably take it. Congratulations - this is an original English-language sentence!
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cowofwar posted:Worthless governments holding fire sales on crown assets, selling below market price in order to plug budget gaps. Ridiculous. Loot 'em, we can't be seen running a deficit!
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I was actually looking at video games jobs in Germany a few weeks ago. This country is going to poo poo, another CPC majority mandate seems increasingly likely, our infratructure is crumbling and no one wants to address it. In comparison, Germany has excellent economic diversity, the government actually intervenes to keep the gap between rental and ownership at a reasonable level, the country hasn't spiralled in debt with the eurozone recession, basically the more I read about it, the more I popped a euro-boner that still hasn't gone away. Then it struck me how depressing it is that the only apparent way for me to fix my rapport with this country I used to love is... to get the gently caress out. 
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Jan posted:I was actually looking at video games jobs in Germany a few weeks ago. This country is going to poo poo, another CPC majority mandate seems increasingly likely, our infratructure is crumbling and no one wants to address it.
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cowofwar posted:Germany's success is on the back of the weaker eurozone countries. It isn't sustainable. Yeah not to mention the Euro only benefits a strong export focused economy.
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This last page has been really amusing. Europe is just as rough as Canada, and then some, just take a dive in the EU thread. On top of a dysfunctional economy with high cost of living and low wages, you've got racial/national tensions, Euro falling apart, simmering conflicts, etc. I've even heard many UK, Spanish, Potuguese , Italian and eastern european people refer to Canada as their ideal country to migtate to (seen as USA but with the crazy toned down a bit). But then again, the weather is better and most of it is not a frozen thundra so idk.
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Yeah, if you go to Europe expecting it to be in any way better than Canada you're in for a pretty big shock. My favourite part of Germany is spotting the obvious Neo-Nazis on the train, which happens a lot more often than you would think for a country trying to get past that part of their history!
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Freezer posted:This last page has been really amusing. Europe is just as rough as Canada, and then some, just take a dive in the EU thread. On top of a dysfunctional economy with high cost of living and low wages, you've got racial/national tensions, Euro falling apart, simmering conflicts, etc. I've even heard many UK, Spanish, Potuguese , Italian and eastern european people refer to Canada as their ideal country to migtate to (seen as USA but with the crazy toned down a bit). EU zone was basically a god tier response of how to deal with a recession.
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lol look at you dumb bitches I still get 3 to 4 emails from London recruiters per week for 6 figure jobs. I get zero from Vancouver
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Cultural Imperial posted:lol look at you dumb bitches A vibrant economy that attracts people from around the world.
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The only good countries are the ones that are so far north that they get like no daylight in the winter and it's cold all year round, who would want to live in those ones ever? Maybe Denmark is okay but I doubt it. Pretty much everywhere in the world sucks pretty hard, there's no getting away from it.
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etalian posted:A vibrant economy that attracts people from around the world. No you see, my parochial world view is gospel truth because
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Here's another fact that is gonna rock your sjw world: those hong Kong Chinese that came to Vancouver in the 90s mostly all went back to HK because the job market in Canada is so terrible. That's right, a city state with more unaffordable real estate and a lousy social safety net is more attractive. But I guess they'll never know the joys of playing take top games in a cafe on a dark cold rainy day 
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Cultural Imperial posted:they'll never know the joys of playing take top games in a cafe on a dark cold rainy day ... sans alcohol no less! Because 'something something games of chance and the devil's elixir'. Oh, BC.
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Nah, Ludica manages to have a full-service bar somehow. I don't know how, especially since there are also pictures of children in there, but they do. 
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Lexicon posted:... sans alcohol no less! Because 'something something games of chance and the devil's elixir'. Oh, BC. I have high hopes that I will someday be able to legally drink a beer on the beach in Vancouver before I die currently I just do it anyway, but it's the principle of the thing really
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Rime posted:Nah, Ludica manages to have a full-service bar somehow. I don't know how, especially since there are also pictures of children in there, but they do. restaurant (food primary) licenses allow for kids in bars, that's probably what they got
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well at least the eurozone crash means cheap stocks
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etalian posted:well at least the eurozone crash means cheap stocks I initially read this as "cheap socks" and it made me laugh. Tired of eating dirty old sock soup during the next great depression? Not anymore! New sock soup can be had for just
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Furnaceface posted:I initially read this as "cheap socks" and it made me laugh. Tired of eating dirty old sock soup during the next great depression? Not anymore! New sock soup can be had for just maybe someone can invent a tasty greek soup recipe for the next recession(made with real greeks)
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If I had the opportunity to move to San Francisco from Toronto for the same job, would you guys recommend it?
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If they would get you on the path to a green card, definitely. It will open up a whole new world in tech industry opportunities. It would also put your resume way up the pile on top of idiots who worked at hootsuite and business objects.
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The benefit of living in European countries is more than just economic. Way friendlier and much more attractive women are pretty common compared to a place like Toronto. I suppose if you're female the same applies to the men too, minus any men located East of Poland. It's pretty amusing coming back from Europe to see frumpy Toronto girls thinking they're hot poo poo.
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sitchensis posted:If I had the opportunity to move to San Francisco from Toronto for the same job, would you guys recommend it? San Francisco is great, but I lived there from 2007-2009 and its only gotten way more expensive and even more overly-techy since then. I don't think I'd move back, unless it was a job that I really couldn't turn down. You're talking $3k+ monthly rent for a lovely apartment at this point. NYC or Seattle would be my pick. I'd take SF over Toronto (i.e. Chicago weather with LA traffic at NYC prices) in a heartbeat though.
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