A recent bill in Canada restored Canadian citizenship to thousands of people living abroad. I'm helping my friend move to Canada and giving her a place to live after she claims her citizenship. After she stays here three years, all her children get the same opportunity to claim citizenship. Am I operating an Underground Railroad?!
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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I feel people tend to forget that Canada almost voted in a Trump clone.
Ontario is governed by a Trump clone, as is Alberta.
Like, things can be bad in different ways. It's not meaningful to describe every corrupt politician as a Trump clone, Trump didn't invent sucking, and his form of suck is pretty unique.
Oh, we've commonly elected people just as evil as Trump. So have the Americans. Just not as stupid. Meanwhile, we threw away our pretense of "rule of law" at the Toronto G20 in 2010 just so Harper could impress China, and no following government ever did a damn thing about it.
But if you're talking about the last election, it was not even close, there was no "almost" about it.
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Does this number reflect only people who left by choice, or does it also include those who have been deported? The composition of this group would be interesting to see.
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Why should I leave? They're the ones who suck
Same reason conservatives don't want conservative women.
They don't want something that fits their interests and opinions.
They want to beat and conquer something that thinks differently from them, and mold them into something that is subservient to their interest and opinions.
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No borders but damn, you have to support your local antifa if you have left your fellows alone
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If ı would get a job offer with 100k$ ,I would still not consider on USA
100k isn't that much money over here.
what is the minimum threshold ?
100k USD is barely anything in a big city.
what is the minimum threshold ? assume florida
Michael Green, a really big Wallstreet portfolio manager, says that 140,000 might be the new poverty line. So, that might be a peetty good guess?
Thanks to Elon, Bill, Mark like bastard oligarchs.
At least you can be certain the Americans who are disgusted enough with their country to make the non-trivial effort of uprooting themselves are good folks, and they'll be a net positive for whichever new society they choose to become part of.
True. Side effect is probably that the usa sinks faster with each good person leaving. Still it's hard to blame them for leaving.
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I mean I would if my support system didn’t have serious roots here.
If I was single you bet I would.
But being married with children it’s a lot harder to do that.
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They're fleeing
Wish I could leave. This is going to get bad ...
I wonder if just like Brits and French, Unitedstaters emigrating elsewhere will call themselves "expats" instead of immigrants.
We, white people of the west, can go anywhere in the world for work, affordability and/or safety without considering ourselves immigrants.
Many years ago I was chatting with someone from Malmö. He was complaining how immigrants were "taking over his city". But when I mentioned that I, a Canadian, would also like to move to Sweden, he told me it would be fine, that he would not consider me "an immigrant" because I'm from the west.
Anyway, I understand why anyone would want to leave. It's just that it seems the vocabulary used is different for different people.
I’m an American immigrant in Germany. It’s infuriating how many Germans complain to me about immigrants, then when hearing that I’m an immigrant, wave their hand and say I’m not like the others. I’m now a German teacher and married to a German, so they’ve always got plausible deniability that it’s about language or integration, but I wasn’t always good at German and I only met my husband after a few years here. It used to be much more fun to push back on why.
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The price of land in Sweden increased 10x the last 3 months. Now i see who is buying. This is clearly the time to feel lucky being in Europe.
If we could leave, we would leave.
You got to have a way to do it though. You either have to have a job already lined up or you have to be under 30 so you could work some crappy job for 2 years or you have to be independently wealthy. The average Joe working at the Ford factory isn't going to be going anywhere anytime soon.
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My husband and I are moving to Mérida, Yucatán, México in April. We don't feel safe in Los Angeles anymore. And despite all the stuff going on in Mexico, Mérida is one of the safest cities in all the Americas.
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If I could realistically leave, I would. I suspect this is true or lotssss of people here who can't just pick up and go
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I think my plan B if I get laid off is to cash out everything and flee. Not too sure where, but I don't have a lot of hope with the current administration or job market.
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