Rekrutierung von Expats, die im amerikanischen Traum säuern
https://financialpost.com/feature/trump-souring-expats-american-dream-canada-edge
Rekrutierung von Expats, die im amerikanischen Traum säuern
https://financialpost.com/feature/trump-souring-expats-american-dream-canada-edge
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For what jobs exactly? The unemployment rate in Canada skyrocketing, just hit almost 10% in Toronto. Every perfessional forum is filled with people complaining they can’t find work in Canada often even with decades of experience.
Sounds good, but we need capital investment and inflows, not just disgruntled academics and office workers. We need people moving here with a billion dollars to open new businesses and innovate new ideas.
Some of this resonates with me.
I’m a Canadian who left for the US after graduating from Waterloo over twenty years ago. I’ve lived in a few countries since then but came back to the US last year. I’m going through the normally arduous, but presently torturous process of getting my foreign wife her green card, and right now I can hear her in another room watching Brazilian TV news where they’re talking about random ICE abductions and I’m not even surprised by anything anymore. My wife and I keep asking ourselves if this is what we really want. Like the first guy they interviewed in this article, I remind myself regularly: „This is what Americans voted for. This is apparently what they – *we*, now, as I got my US citizenship a long time ago – want from our government.“
Still though it would be a massive sacrifice to move back to Canada. I’m already lucky in that I could keep my job and my salary and transfer it from the Philadelphia office to the Toronto one. But I would pay thousands more per month in taxes in Ontario than in Pennsylvania. And I’m looking at buying a townhouse here, which would be $400k USD or so. That does not buy you much in Toronto. I have maybe one good working decade left and as much as I would love to live in Canada again it just really doesn’t feel like the smartest financial decision.
Yes, but unfortunately we just had an election where people thought that we could reduce housing prices by reducing immigration, and we just cracked down on our own university sector by cutting their primary source of revenue. EU is much better positioned to drain US of brains.
A lot of things could give Canada an economic edge were it not for the fact these hypothetical people have to live somewhere and the mid-career professional is not going to move to Canada to live like a broke student and pay taxes like a Los Angeles plastic surgeon.