You can’t always compare dollar to dollar. You have to see what cost of living and social services are. America is stupidly inflated as I found as I’ve looked overseas.
Some things simply have no dollar value.
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Not getting disappeared for being the ‘wrong’ colour
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Not worrying about your kid being shot at school (or even thinking about guns in general)
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Not having to avoid food containing chemicals or made with processes banned everywhere but the USA for health reasons.
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Only have to use imperial for bodyweight and height
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Little to no anti-piracy enforcement (YAR)
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Being smug about not being American
Being smug about not being American.
About 7.6 billion people can do that, not just Canadians.
Not living in a country that sees women, legally and culturally, as subhuman.
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It is true for the most part but US still pays professions disproportionately high. I looked into moving to Europe as a physician. I can speak…could …speak Norwegian decently. I thought about moving there and relearning the language, but the salary for my specialty is what nurses get here. I know it isn’t all about salary alone but I could work in the US for 5-10 more years and move to Europe and not work ever again and be about even.
Hmm, shitty dictatorship whose government hates your guts or friendly democracy with healthcare for all?
🍁True North Strong and Free 🍁
If I offered you $1M/yr to live in a septic tank, would you do it? Same applies here.
I (US prof) would 100% take a job at a Canadian university, even if we weren’t sliding headlong into ur-fascism. The corporatization, anti-labor policies, constant erosion of faculty autonomy in how and what to teach, and the general aggressive conversion of US higher ed into a collection of anti-inrellectual authoritarian hierarchies has turned what used to be a respected and satisfying (if difficult, underpaid, and frequently organizarionally insane) profession I into a Kafkaesque parody of Office Space.
I loved my job for years. I fucking hate it now, and there are hundreds of thousands of us in this situation.
Don’t worry, our government will keep them out.
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