Post Ironic

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Feb 9, 2013
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Not really. Gonna do some training and try to get a job offer then apply for a work permit. Kinda winging it but it worked for some people I know.

Couldnt pick an easier people to conquer :D
:tup: :lol2:

I’ve also heard the studies —> work permit is a good way to move here. Only unfortunate part is studying here can be pretty expensive for international students.

Sounds like you are doing work-related training though, not a university thing?

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It's relatively easy to move to Canada as a foreigner. They need plenty of people.
Unless you are from Bolivia. The only nation we refuse all immigrants from. :p
 

Quetzalcoatl

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Aug 22, 2007
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It's relatively easy to move to Canada as a foreigner. They need plenty of people.
Supposedly :xfinger:

Sounds like an adventure
:agree: really looking forward to it

I’ve also heard the studies —> work permit is a good way to move here. Only unfortunate part is studying here can be pretty expensive for international students.

Sounds like you are doing work-related training though, not a university thing?

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Expensive is right...

Yep doing some flight training
 

IliveForJuve

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Jan 17, 2011
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Supposedly :xfinger:



:agree: really looking forward to it


Expensive is right...

Yep doing some flight training
I have family who live there, and I went to one of the conferences they do in Bolivia to attract people to Canada.

Basically if you're young and have Uni education, it should be really easy. Oh, and at least a year of work experience.
 
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AFL_ITALIA

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I honestly never got it, people would rather stay in a city and be miserable and or poor, perplexing.
It depends on what you want out of life.

Looking back, I liked my upbringing. I was exposed to so many different ideals, cultures, and ways of life that I consider to be priceless. As an adult, there's anything I could ever want here. There are plenty of people that just spend extended time living and working in different places, renting an apartment here or there, but that's just not for me. I want to put down roots here and own something. If I manage to meet someone and we decide to have children, I want them to have a similar upbringing that I did. I could visit other places whenever I want, but this is where I want to always come back to.

Now on the other hand, my 42 year old coworker that moved here from Arizona with no connections or real history here, and decided he HAS TO live in Manhattan so he takes on like 5 roommates with one sleeping in the living room, that doesn't make sense to me.
 

GordoDeCentral

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It depends on what you want out of life.

Looking back, I liked my upbringing. I was exposed to so many different ideals, cultures, and ways of life that I consider to be priceless. As an adult, there's anything I could ever want here. There are plenty of people that just spend extended time living and working in different places, renting an apartment here or there, but that's just not for me. I want to put down roots here and own something. If I manage to meet someone and we decide to have children, I want them to have a similar upbringing that I did. I could visit other places whenever I want, but this is where I want to always come back to.

Now on the other hand, my 42 year old coworker that moved here from Arizona with no connections or real history here, and decided he HAS TO live in Manhattan so he takes on like 5 roommates with one sleeping in the living room, that doesn't make sense to me.
I understand all of that, what i don't understand is its cost, no way do i live in nyc if i ain't pulling at least 200-300k a year. I guess i don't relate because i just don't have that sense of belonging, home is where opportunity knocks.
 

swag

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Sep 23, 2003
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Brooklyn’s a good spot.
Still floors me to compare it with the Flatbush and Bed-Stuy reputations of the 1980s...

NYC is also the biggest city in the world, I can see why people would want to work/live there.
Tokyo says "hi".

NYC has everything, which is great. But the one drawback I always felt about it is that there doesn't seem to be a whole lot to like about NYC other than, fundamentally, so many other people are there. It's as if you could take the population there, drop it in El Paso, and there's really no difference.

I'd only want to live in 90s New York with cheap rents and chicks like 0:57 and John Travolta
Yes!!!!

I honestly never got it, people would rather stay in a city and be miserable and or poor, perplexing.
I kind of like cities for the stimulation, options, etc. I love not having to need a car. Lisbon is a lot more manageable in size than most cities... it's no São Paulo. But there's a stimulation here I wouldn't get after too long in the middle of nowhere.

It depends on what you want out of life.

Looking back, I liked my upbringing. I was exposed to so many different ideals, cultures, and ways of life that I consider to be priceless. As an adult, there's anything I could ever want here. There are plenty of people that just spend extended time living and working in different places, renting an apartment here or there, but that's just not for me. I want to put down roots here and own something. If I manage to meet someone and we decide to have children, I want them to have a similar upbringing that I did. I could visit other places whenever I want, but this is where I want to always come back to.

Now on the other hand, my 42 year old coworker that moved here from Arizona with no connections or real history here, and decided he HAS TO live in Manhattan so he takes on like 5 roommates with one sleeping in the living room, that doesn't make sense to me.
You can always travel. But to make meaningful friends and build a local community? That doesn't happen without time, commitment, and developing roots. It can make all the difference in enjoying where you live.

I understand all of that, what i don't understand is its cost, no way do i live in nyc if i ain't pulling at least 200-300k a year. I guess i don't relate because i just don't have that sense of belonging, home is where opportunity knocks.
Of course, not all of us are the same... and that's a good thing.
 

AFL_ITALIA

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Jun 17, 2011
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Still floors me to compare it with the Flatbush and Bed-Stuy reputations of the 1980s...
Not that I was alive then, but I can't either. But even compared to when I was young, many places are unrecognizable. My Grandpa and Dad used to get robbed at gunpoint doing their garbage route in Greenpoint, now it's all cafes and white people. Want to be in Red Hook or Carroll Gardens? Better be a millionaire then.

At some point though, it has to all collapse. This isn't sustainable imo.
 

swag

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Sep 23, 2003
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Not that I was alive then, but I can't either. But even compared to when I was young, many places are unrecognizable. My Grandpa and Dad used to get robbed at gunpoint doing their garbage route in Greenpoint, now it's all cafes and white people. Want to be in Red Hook or Carroll Gardens? Better be a millionaire then.

At some point though, it has to all collapse. This isn't sustainable imo.
Major gentrification. In the late 1980s, I worked in a mailroom on the 61st floor of the (then-)Sears Tower in Chicago with a guy who grew up around Bed-Stuy. He got out of there and moved to Chicago because too many people he knew were ending up dead. :eek: Times change...
 

AFL_ITALIA

MAGISTERIAL
Jun 17, 2011
31,792
Major gentrification. In the late 1980s, I worked in a mailroom on the 61st floor of the (then-)Sears Tower in Chicago with a guy who grew up around Bed-Stuy. He got out of there and moved to Chicago because too many people he knew were ending up dead. :eek: Times change...
I understand what triggered this. Don't get me wrong, it's great that these neighborhoods are getting a lot safer, but holy shit is everything expensive. My dad bought our house all the way in south Brooklyn for $175,000 in 1991, it's around $600,000 now. We don't even have a subway line near us, it's insane.
 

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