For those of you living outside of Canada

[Joe MacCarthy]

I'm very relaxed thank you. Your comment made it sound like the whole of the Maritimes wants to go to Boston which is totally untrue. But, taken literally, as you have gone to great pains to explain, how many people do you know from the Maritimes? One? Apparently, I missed the news where healthcare is now free in Boston.

[Soccerpro]

I'm very relaxed thank you. Your comment made it sound like the whole of the Maritimes wants to go to Boston which is totally untrue. But, taken literally, as you have gone to great pains to explain, how many people do you know from the Maritimes? One? Apparently, I missed the news where healthcare is now free in Boston.

I lived in N.S for 25 years. One person is all I know, correct. Don't start going on about healthcare, please. Turning this into a Canada vs USA debate with healthcare, taxes, etc is off topic.

[Joe MacCarthy]

I lived in N.S for 25 years. One person is all I know, correct. Don't start going on about healthcare, please. Turning this into a Canada vs USA debate with healthcare, taxes, etc is off topic.

Why is that off topic? Because it's true? Has nothing to do with Canada/US, it's about providing for oneself and family. Why would I go to Boston for a construction/labour job and have to pay taxes twice, risk injury/illness and pay for my healthcare when I don't have to do that in Canada. Makes no sense.

When Maritimers "go down the road" they're going to Alberta not Boston. Personally, I see 60 guys a day get on a plane to go west.

[Canuck in Boston]

You see people head west because that is the option now, in the 50s and 60s south was an option. Times have changed, things are more complicated, if you go the legal route. That is the point, which you miss.

What is stopping you from living in PEI? I assume you are Canadian, you can live and work where you choose in Canada.

Pay taxes twice? Why would you do that? I have only paid taxes to the US while here. You risk injury and illness no matter where you live. Health care, you dont know much about MA, do some research. On top of that if you have a job with health benefits (which most people have) you dont have a multi-month wait list for a medical procedure.

I think you are generalising MA with the rest of the US, which again proves you miss the point.

Why so bitter?

[Canuck in Boston]

Personally, I see 60 guys a day get on a plane to go west.

At which airport do you work?

[Joe MacCarthy]

You see people head west because that is the option now, in the 50s and 60s south was an option. Times have changed, things are more complicated, if you go the legal route.

What is stopping you from living in PEI? I assume you are Canadian, you can live and work where you choose in Canada.

Why so bitter?

Not bitter, just peed off that a guy would make it sound like everyone wants to leave the Maritimes for Boston, which isn't true. And you're right the migration to Boston is ancient history, few people do it now (compared to going west)... The legal route?

And yes there is nothing stopping me from going to PEI aside from the fact that I now have a great job and decent lifestyle. To have the same thing on the Island would be icing on the cake, unfortunately it's not available. Sometimes you sacrifice money for lifestyle, sometimes lifestyle for money. Now it's all about making money.

This all just goes back to the insinuation that all Maritimers want to go to Boston which is something I've never heard living in all three provinces in my several decades on the planet. Maybe it wasn't intended that way but I took it as a direct insult. That's my only objection, not to slight you Bostonians. I'm sure it's a nice place.

Maritimers are a proud lot. You can take the boy out of the Maritimes...

[BearcatSA]

Based on some of the current selections of the German...er, USMNT by Klinsmann, we need to have more ex-pats fathering kids in soccer hotbeds of the world! (he says with tongue firmly planted in cheek)

[Soccerpro]

Not bitter, just peed off that a guy would make it sound like everyone wants to leave the Maritimes for Boston, which isn't true. And you're right the migration to Boston is ancient history, few people do it now (compared to going west)... The legal route?

And yes there is nothing stopping me from going to PEI aside from the fact that I now have a great job and decent lifestyle. To have the same thing on the Island would be icing on the cake, unfortunately it's not available. Sometimes you sacrifice money for lifestyle, sometimes lifestyle for money. Now it's all about making money.

This all just goes back to the insinuation that all Maritimers want to go to Boston which is something I've never heard living in all three provinces in my several decades on the planet. Maybe it wasn't intended that way but I took it as a direct insult. That's my only objection, not to slight you Bostonians. I'm sure it's a nice place.

Maritimers are a proud lot. You can take the boy out of the Maritimes...

It's unfortunate that you get so offended when one poster states everyone he knows from the Maritimes would like to move to Boston.

[Joe MacCarthy]

Yeah, I guess so, it's kinda like how everyone I know in the Prairies wants to live in Minneapolis. Dumb isn't it?

[amacpher]

Net - migration from Mexico to the USA is now zero, so yeah, I would imagine not that many people want to move to Boston from Canada.

Personally I do not see myself moving back to Canada. Almost all my friends are here in New York since I suck at maintaining long-distance friendships over many, many years. So short-term: no. Long-term/retirement: also no. I sure as hell would not stay here for retirement, but if I'm starting over again anyway, I sure as hell wouldn't go back to Ottawa either. This is the only world we're ever going to live in, so might as well live in as many different places as possible, especially if you're no longer tied down with a job. So yeah, long-term probably move to Europe or South America (depending how much/little money I have).

The health-care issue is not really an issue unless you don't have a job. And please stop calling Universal health care "Free health care". That's like calling car insurance "free". Just because its mandatory to have it, doesn't mean its free. I think every civilized country should have health care but it's damn expensive!