I am starting the process to immigrate to Canada from the US. Maybe unsurprisingly I find I have no ideas where I would like to live. I do enjoy mountains, and don't want to be in the heart of a city.

Coming next there too

I like Quebec but it is preferred to learn French (I am horrible at spoken languages, I'm having enough trouble with English let alone another language) and I don't like their secession movement.

There was a huge exodus at the time with French education becoming illegal in some provinces and French Canadians not being allowed to work (similar to what happened to the Irish), my grandfather learned he was born in the USA when he got his passport at 65 y.o., his parents just came back while he was an infant and they never talked about the years they had spent in the USA to work.

Just invent a bunch of racist stuff towards the French Canadian minority and you'll have an idea what most Anglo Canadians think of Quebec for daring to protect the French Canadian culture.

Ever heard of Lord Durham? You would believe the guy is a freaking hero to them.

In the 1970s there was a domestic terror group who wanted to separate from Canada so bad they started assassinating politicians and our current PM’s dad, who was also PM at the time, had to call in the army.

Their provincial politics are confusing because it’s not liberal/conservative spectrum - you also have to throw in the Quebec nationalists too. Like their ruling provincial party right now is conservative + Quebec Nationalist to the extreme that businesses must provide public advertising/public facing services in French only.

Pollievre is a snivelling rat man, but anyone who claims he's equivalent to Trump needs to turn off their screens

Hah for now it is….

You also have Danielle Smith (Alberta Premier) cozying up to Tucker Carlson, Poilievre (National Conservative Party leader) and the convoy, India and Russia.

And GOP operatives who coincidentally, I’m sure, also supported the convoy.

Canadian right wing influencers caught up in the Russian payment scandal.

I don’t believe for a second that Pierre and elements of the federal conservative party wouldn’t want to get rid of our rights in Canada. It’s just unpopular to say that part out loud.

Accessible abortion rights will almost certainly be back on the chopping block next election.

I don't think we'll have it nearly as bad as America because our political system works a bit differently but the conservative leader/party definitely have the hallmarks of trumpism with white nationalism, climate change denying, anti-women and anti-trans issues. They're going to play the same "we're better for the economy" game as well.

Yeah, that is what I assumed

True pretty much everywhere. Rural folk dislike the government and prefer to rely on themselves. They're right wing. City folk do the opposite.

That pattern is followed almost everywhere, from America to Canada to Australia to Finland.

You're going to want to stick to cities for the most part.

Good luck :)

But the Christfuckers we do have are obnoxious and loud enough to make you think otherwise

Most of western Canada is right-wing. Especially Alberta and Saskatchewan. Outside of Vancouver (where living is beyond unaffordable for most), BC is also pretty conservative, albeit less overall I'm sure than Alberta. The tricky part is that quality of life is quite good in Alberta. Housing is affordable and we're the least taxed province, so if you can live with the occasional stupid hick with a "FUCK TRUDEAU" flag or decal, life is pretty good here. It's really your only affordable option if you want to live near the mountains. Otherwise the Appalachians do extend into the eastern maritime provinces. Jobs are just extemely scarce and often seasonal out that way.

I immigrated from Michigan back in 2017. I'm very left-wing and so is my wife who has lived here her entire life. The province nearly flipped last election so things have been improving on that front, and you're certainly not going to be the only leftist around. Well, unless you move to a small town or Grand Prairie or Fort Mac.

Lethbridge and Edmonton are the most left-leaning places in the province. Edmonton, however, is fucking huge.. So you're not getting away from the city up that way.

There is no escaping the right-wing brain rot. It's everywhere now. 2016 spread into Canada like wildfire. But when I came here my life improved tenfold. I make three times what I did back home for the same line of work (retail/produce management). I have healthcare, a daughter, bought a home with my wife this summer. It's a million times better than the States, but we are looking down the barrel of gun. I wish you the best on your immigration, and I hope you're as happy here as I am, wherever you wind up.

The thing about Alberta is that they consistently elect the most hardcore right wing crazies in all of Canada.

And they also consistently elect genuinely progressive, openly socialist governments of the kind you imagine Bernie Sanders might run.

There are no middle of the road centrists in 'Berta. You're either a frothing mouthed "Jewish Space Lasers" kind of crazy, or you're a proud union member ready to give everyone UBI and free education.

The latter tend to be found more in the cities, as always.

Unfortunately the former seem to have the edge overall in elections.

So, politically, it's definitely not a great environment, but culturally you'd actually find a lot of like minded folks there. The problem is that right now you'd probably spend your time hanging out with those like minded folks grumbling about your QAnon premier as she sells off the entire healthcare system and deletes sex education from schools.

Compared to US it's nothing lol

Go to any Canadian news website and search Danielle Smith.

She is Alberta's premier (equivalent to a US governer).

60km/hr all the damn time...

You'll still need a work permit to work in Canada, even for a US company remotely. So hopefully you're up to speed on that process. In terms of where to live, there are some places in BC outside major cities that are affordable. Might be worth taking a road trip around to check some out

Will you be able to work remote from Canada?

That's enough money to live basically anywhere. 90k usd is a lot more money than most people make in Canada.

If I could live anywhere and work remote it would probably be Masset, Ucluelet, Nelson, or maybe Whitehorse if you don't mind the cold. Victoria if you really want city

A bit over $120k Canadian. Enough but not as rich as you think in Vancouver.

Bit of a curveball, but for remote work have you considered Barbados?

In Toronto or Vancouver, you'd be a peasant.

In Winnipeg, you'd be a king.

This might surprise you, but Canada has angry dumb rednecks too.

Yes, USA is in a for a really bad time, and Canada definitely looks better in comparison. And while it is, as a Canadian I still fantasize about trying to move to europe. Grass is always greener.

Just don't expect to escape all the nonsense automatically by coming here because for all we know we're just lagging behind a few years. I have had the disspointing experiences of finding some of my Canadian friends were in favour of the Trump victory.

And then the housing prices.

Many of us are quite familiar with American politics. If you emigrate, you'll figure out why.

You can have mountains i n BC, you don't need to live downtown Vancouver to see them. Lots of rural areas

Manitoba has, uh... hills ;)

But also has a left leaning government (for at least another three years, probably longer with our voting patterns) and low CoL. $120k CAD can be very comfortable here, even in Winnipeg.

Donair always helps

Oops, sorry... That was an oversight; my mind skips over Manitoba when I'm thinking of the large, southern provinces.

I also didn't bring up the Northwest Territories, Nunavet, Yukon, New Brunswick, or Newfoundland and Labrador. If they like mountains, NT and Yukon might both work, although getting any kind of supplies in will likely be difficult.

As an Albertan, I'm perfectly fine with less people coming here

It's a shithole folks. Stay away.

Or taking one place in the annual quota for someone that would come here to work in a field where we need people, like healthcare.

That doesn't really count on a citizenship application, though.

So anyone who wants to come build a life im Canada is welcome? Or is it as long as they have money?

Their income comes from a job that doesn't benefit Canadians and we have immigration quotas. Anytime an immigrant comes to Canada to work remotely for a foreign company they're taking the place of someone that could come here to work in a field where we need workforce.

couple of details though: Canada right wing is a long ways away from US for the most part. Also AB almost got NDP elected last election which is, after 40yrs of unbreakable concervative hold on province is telling. So yeah right wing is correct but you've got to pay attention to nuances. Calgary and South of Calgary are good places to live with decent infrastructure. You go most places BC you'll be surrounded by a lot of conservative minded folk. In both provinces I've been surrounded by conservative minded folk which were persistently calling POTUS45/47 a nutcase. So... don't get too hung up on labels.

Maybe visit. In practice, probably not as right wing as you are thinking.

Name a left wing issue in the US that you do not have in Alberta. Universal health care, abortion, and same sex marriage to name a few.

On the climate side, Alberta just moved completely off coal ( though the biggest local industry is oil and gas of course ).

Compared to where I live, Alberta is right-wing. I am not sure where you live in the US, but there is a good chance that Alberta is what your local democrats are shooting for.

The UCP and their anti-trans agenda is not great. Does that directly impact you? The problem is that we are not far from the US. Southern politics are dragging us to the right, though it is more rhetoric than action so far. That is happening everywhere in Canada.

I recommended BC but, if I had the remote income to pull it off, living in Canmore would be pretty great for me honestly.

I you don’t mind colder winters, the Maritimes is also something to think about. You might really like Halifax or St. John’s. Both are big towns more than major cities, real estate is cheap, and the people are lovely.

Odd they always called it an air raid siren, but I also know it has been replaced a few times now. Might have been one at one point.

Natural disasters are definitely a concern

Have you run that by them? If you become a resident of another country, they may have payroll restrictions that prevent them from paying you.

I mean, I don’t really have mountains where I live at all. While I would enjoy a property at Whistler, I wouldn’t mind just having a good view out the window. Maybe Squamish? Anywhere within an hour or so drive of Whistler

Ugh, I was looking at prices like “these aren’t that bad”. Then I saw the 1/8-1/10 ownership…