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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?"
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Well at least you won't have to worry about getting drafted into the "war on terror" anymore!
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FUCKING FAGGOT
I hope high gas prices are depriving your children, you fucking dumbass.
Well, since you work in an igloo, you need to dress a little warmer than normal.
Also, you do not get breaks for lunch. You just have to drink uRINE FROM A GOASTS ASSHOLE!
YUCK! DIRTY GOAT ASSHOLE URINE!
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.
The companies are pretty much the same, but the government services are even crappier than in the US.
Don't Get Sick. Or if you do, come south of the border and pay for a doctor in cash. You'll get better service faster than waiting for the Canadian national health service to get around to you.
Hope you don't like guns, because Canada is rabbidly anti-gun.
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Canada does not need more "War on Terror" Americans wrecking what Canada does have left. We really don't need anymore immigrants taking what little jobs are left.
Stay in America, and be proud. Oh yeah, good luck with the draft coming up.
Just realize you will be paying 50+ percent of your income to the Fed, will have subpar healthcare (but it is universal) and will be lucky to find a decent paying job. With all the weird labor laws in Canada most companies hire contractors rather then actual employees, since it is so difficult to fire and hire people. And be prepared for MORE bueracracy, being a socialist country the Canadians LOVE red tape and most people take there jobs WAAAAYY to seriously. Oh and don't forget the French, those whacky French speaking Canadians make the real French seem practically friendly.
And yes I did actually work in Canada for 6 months made me glad to come back to my job in the states.
There's much more of an "open collar" atmosphere in Canada
Yes... but you have to suck each others dicks.
Apparently canadians are stupid too.
It's horrible up here, stay down there, you're better off. Yup, we're all full up here, no more Americans need apply.... just look at who you elected president. None of that up here please. Steven Harper is bad enough. But please, take this bacon as a door prize.
Seriously, why are you just moving up here? If you don't like America's attitude, change it. By leaving you're just going to increase the asshole quotiant down south, the number of "true blood americans" or whatever those conservative capitalist types like to call themselves. And the Republics just might win again and again and again. Of course if you are American, definitely stay down there, you won't like it up here and we won't like you (unless you go hang out with the rednecks in Alberta, but I don't consider them very Canadian, private healthcare, ha, that's not the Canadian way, they should move south)
Sounds like he couldn't do anything to decrease the asshole quotiant up north though, you seem to be all full up.
>>Uh, I make a six figure income, and my tax rate is around 35%. Yes, every dollar I make over $110,000 is taxed at 50%, but the first $7000 I pay no tax, and the tax rate increases from there.
:yawn:, from $3501 to approx. $50,000 taxed at 35%, and the Feds will take half of everything you make over $50k. And don't forget to add sales taxes, property taxes, misc. fees, etc. on top of that. Your purchasing power is only about 40% of your gross salary, when all's said & done.
Have you checked the currency conversion rates recently? That first $7000 won't even pay your heating bill this winter! A six-figure Canadian income is like claiming an eleven-figure income in Japanese Yen -- not that impressive - because those Canadian dollars are worth roughly 50% of American dollars.
So, in American terms, You'll get the first $3500 in income tax-free
Of course, you aren't charged directly for health care in Canada. But then again, not being seen by a doctor or dying while waiting for care is free everywhere. (BTW, while I'm on the subject, the only reason Canada's so-called health-care system can even pretend to work is because the majority of Canadians can travel to the US for emergency care when they need it. It's like living in a tent in your parents backyard, crowing about "living off the land" while raiding their refrigerator three times a day. Don't believe me? Try to schedule an MRI for a brain tumor scan. Good luck. I can get an MRI for $600 in almost any American hospital TODAY -- You'll be lucky if you can get one by year's end, if ever.)
Really? Healthcare is better in Canada?
I have full health, vision, dental and mental. I have $10 copayments ($50 to emergency rooms) and $10 prescription co-pays. My employer picks up most of the tab. I earn well over six figures. I have no college or highschool education.
There's plenty in America - both in terms of money, success, positioning and health care. You just have to get off your ass. On the other hand, if you're just a lazy fuck who wants to live in a shack in your own filth and do the minimum amount of work you can possibly get away with and have no work ethic to speak of and let other people and the government provide for you, then by all means - get the fuck out of my country and get up to Canada. We need goal-oriented, hard-working people here. Not lazy moochers.
In my (most definitely biased) opinion, it's the best place in the world to live.
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Actually, it's the third best place in the world to live.
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Would be nice to see that feeling reciprocated one day.
I hope you are joking. Wake me up if Canada ever does anything worth reading about.
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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Wish I could mod you +1 dumbass.
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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Makes up for the insanely high gasoline prices.
Gas in canada is CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP. Have a look at the *Real* costs of gasoline, sprawl, pollution, roads, wars, disease etc etc...
Gas in canada is the second cheapest on the planet (guess who's is the cheapest...)
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.
Honestly, what makes you think you'll magically be welcome here? We do just fine without needing you assholes to save us.