Advantages to staying:
- Maybe I can make a difference in the way things turn out.
- Much less of a headache.
Advantages to going (to one of a few industrialized nations, most prominently Canada):
- better educated citizenry
- gay marriage
- less drug paranoia.
- healthier economies
- universal health care
- better development of alternatives to petro
- better development of alternatives to car
- more (local) environmental conservation
Just a few thoughts, time for class, back in a few.
Whoawhoawhoa…
Healthier economies? Canada’s economy isn’t so hot! I agree with your other reasons, but disagree with the whole “i’m moving!” thing. Let me know if you decide you’re serious about it, so I can add you to the list.
That depends on what metric we’re using. Imports v Exports is a reasonable one, but not the one I’m using.
I’m thinking more in terms of quality of life. It’s at best awkward to quantify, and probably sounds like a slippery answer. However, they’re doing a good job of providing adequate shelter and what not for their population. If you walk the streets of san fran, chicago, or nyc, you can see that it is not so here.
No, I’m not using a conventional metric. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_of_living_in_the_United_States http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/webpages/livingin.shtml
from what I have heard, the health care in canada can be atrocious.
have heard the same – from canadians. it sometimes works well, sometimes works awfully, especially for not-so-serious things – like say, a joint problem that isn’t job-interfering…
and they say “eh?” all the time.
it’s not necessarily all that great here either. I actually have pretty decent coverage now. Not so much for the time between cmu and umn.
well, the difference is that here you have the potential to get better coverage. is that true in Canada? I honestly don’t know what the potential is for “other than gov subsidized healthcare” is…
err, chop that last “is”. damn nyquil.
http://www.fact-index.com/p/pu/publicly_funded_medicine.html
So, you do. Though, it is true that they don’t have the whizbang technology as readily available as it is here.
NO! Please don’t go! We need you here, even if life would be easier in Canada. Really I mean it; stay and fight.
Then again I’m already part of “The Man”, so I may be tainted goods in Canada. Plus I left cold winters for the U.S. Quebec does look good though…no must stay, must stay.
Well, gay marriage is better in the US than in all but four other countries. And if we all leave, then there will be no one to make things better in the next election for the poor people we abandoned.