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Corporate Work in the US vs. Canada?
No One You Know asks: "I've been working as a sysadmin for an insurance company in the US for the past six years, and have decided to move to Canada. I've had it with corporate America, but I'm trying to keep an open mind while job hunting. How does Canadian corporate life compare to that of the US?"
It's basically the same, except you get paid less and you're taxed more. Also, instead of the company providing health insurance, you get state-provided health care that is roughly about as good as health care in Uganda.
Sounds like he couldn't do anything to decrease the asshole quotiant up north though, you seem to be all full up.
If Canada's damn healthcare worked so well then a family friend would not have had to come here TWICE to get operations. The first saved his life, heart surgery, which was "delayed" in BC. The second was for knee surgery, since it wasn't life threatening, was also "delayed"... If he had not had the knee surgery the damage could have been irrepairable.
No person in the US is without availability to healthcare. Emergency rooms treat all who come. The US still has the finest hospitals in world and will remain so until someone manages to foist governmnet health care upon everyone.
Seems to me, based on numerous sites and the Economist, federal health care in major countries isn't all its cracked up to be. In Britian if you pay you get better accomodations.. go figure.
PS: I don't see how Republicans are a problem to your National Health Care's standing... You have a chip on your shoulder and apparently its far better for you to act emotional then provide facts.
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Quite simply, if you've had it with corporate America, I can bet that either it is because the promises are false, or they are true and worthless.
Quite simply, rather than just picking up and going to another country -- which might be decent, or might be a very bad move [let's not pick up and go to Iraq, unless we want to be kidnapped and murdered] -- it might be good to ask God what he wants, in prayer, and then start trying to follow his lead as completely as possible.
To do that, though, you're going to have to read your Bible, and pray, and especially take God's word seriously.
Seriously.
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Silly, they're not part of the US; they're only our hat.
That's funny, because we think of you as our asshole.
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Oh and lower wages/standard of living, but don't worry there is the higher crime rate to make up for it. Don't insult any designated victim group either or you can be arrested for "hate speech." Of course the socialized medicine is good, except when you need surgery or have cancer. Other than that nice place, but cold climate.