Hi all!
I am a northern American gal (I know that sounds cheesy) but I visited Canada 5 months ago and I just can’t stop thinking about it!! Fun fact I actually have distant relatives that are from Canada (prior to settling there were from Norway and Sweden) . I am actually very interested in the prospect of moving and settling in Canada. I am in the medical field (in the process of becoming a doctor) and really want to know the honest truths and feelings of Americans moving to Canada. It’s no secret that we are a shit show. But I resent visited (only for 1 week) but I couldn’t find a damn thing to dislike about the place!
If there anything to consider or opinions that I should be aware of? As much as I would like to migrate, I wouldn’t want to move to a place where I would be unwanted.
BTW one of my fav bands is Fion and I CANT WAIT for them to have a concert in America so I can go.
Thank you for the honesty in advance!
No city in Canada can really compete with cities like New York and L.A. for size, but we have comparable cities below those sizes. Toronto and Vancouver would probably have the right feel for you if you’re looking for the big city feel. Montreal is also pretty vibrant from what I hear, but I’m not sure how good a fit it would be if you don’t speak French.
Yeah toronto is basically a lot like my city but you can bring your dog on the train. I had to put a muzzle on my dog when she was a pup because while walking everything would go in the mouth. She hated it. I guarantee though that if I put one on and went on a train then the next time I pulled it out she would be sticking her snout in to go to the people tube. Montreal is also really neat but I don’t speak french. One of my do over life things would be to take french in high school and maybe in two years of community college and then see if I could get any scholarships in toronto/montreal. Honestly though when it came to grades foreign language was my lowest grades and english classes were my second lowest.
Lived in Montreal for ten years. You can get by without it, but it’s way more enjoyable if you learn it. The food is amazing and there’s always events going on.
French is definitely a learnable language! Bonne chance!
You can get by without it but it’s generally considered bad manners to not at least try to speak French in Montreal.
Depends which part of town you’re in, but I agree. Even making a token effort is generally warmly received.
yeah its more of an in the spirit of going to school there from a if I had to do over again thing. Also though I took spanish because it was kinda the default in the us and looked at as the easiest to learn because so many words were close to ours. I found the sentence structure really killed me. The other language I wish I had maybe took is german but that was because many german words on used in science. In particular chemistry and then I also did a fair amount of choral stuff and there are many german classical works.
Yeah, I grew up in Canada and know almost no French. Outside of some government and service-side jobs, it isn’t really a requirement. This might be different in Toronto. As for English fluency, most Americans would do okay here, and if they were struggling we would give them a pass like with most English as a second language people. It might cause issues for your immigration application, but I haven’t seen anything striking in your texts. I get that being older would make it harder, both from an application and a change perspective.
yeah its more to do better if I found something in montreal. Im basically in my last decade of my career and have a wife with medical issues. Its just not feasible at this point. Im a native english speaker just a bad speller and with writing along the lines of official english rules you get graded on. My best english grades were like creative writing.
Yeah, those would all make it harder, for sure. Life is hard enough, I just don’t understand all these people who want to make it harder for others.
oh I feel this sentiment. I feel so many bad things in the world are people just making life harder when it could be so much better.