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Would you recommend a Scandinavian with two kids and wife, move to a province of canada, and be able to afford a good home with affordable institutions for the kids, and a good pay in the broadcast/infrastructure/energy/ai-automation/orchestration-industries, without the wife working, would this be possible in canada? 🙂
On a single income? I don't think so.
By the way, our healthcare system is in serious crisis, take that into account too.
Having moved here from Sweden, it's about the same honestly. From my read on it, just about every public healthcare system is in crisis the world over because moneyed interests are applying political pressure and forcing the market towards privatization everywhere.
Mate, the rest of the world looks at Scandinavia as the place to be. Literally where the grass is greener. What's got you itching to leave that? What are the problems we're not hearing about? I'm from Melbourne Australia and wouldn't recommend abyone come here without a job lined up. It's my home town so I have a massive network here which is a huge advantage for me.
Even though I like my country, and it IS a great place to live if you like stability and to be forced to live a certain life, it is really great. But the tax pressure is just going to be rediculess after the next election, and I am tired of the retarded laws getting made every god damn year. The freedom of choice seems to become limitted. You have to give up 60% and then you don't even feel like you are in charge of the last 40% of your income. We even set ourselves up at the cheap country side, living affordable, reducing our consumption to are minimal, and yet, both gotta work full time jobs to have a life where we can also go on vacations from time to time and just renovate the house. I would love a life where we are able to live the life we want to, of cause we will say good bye to other great things, but atleast we will be happy with what we got. I also love the nature, and canada is a beautiful country!
Yeah, the being forced to live a certain life I can get. In Oz, we do have tax brackets that increase as you earn but we're pretty free given how much "nanny state" politics gets thrown about. Our system does feel like its designed to help the rich and punish the poor, but I've also worked in Bihar, India, where there is a whole other level of poor that I haven't seen here. Good luck mate, wishing the best for you and your fam.
My sister in law has ensured their kids and her husband are set to come to Canada from Sweden if Putin invades another country. They have excellent jobs and are set to retire soon but they'll upend it all in a heartbeat and go live in Tahsis.
Québec would work if you speak French.
Otherwise the concentration of those jobs in Anglo-Canada has a very high cost of living.
On the flip side, pay in Quebec for tech jobs is pretty terrible. I got an offer from several QC firms over the years and on average it was 20% below my current salary. I know that's just anecdotal evidence and I will wholeheartedly accept that I may be the outlier, but it has failed to sway me to move out east personally.
That's fair, I know here is a big (and growing) tech sector; but i know little of the salaries. Let alone enough to do a PPP between the salaries in various locations.
We did pretty much that when we moved to B.C from Sweden, and while it'll be hard to make ends meet without having two incomes the rest of the equation is pretty much doable.
Education isn't (fully) covered by taxes here, but tuition is nowhere near as exorbitant as some other places. Similarly, public transportation in major urban areas is pretty good and affordable (compared to car ownership and maintenance at least), and health care (while struggling with the same issues of staffing as in Sweden) is covered by taxation (with the exception of supplemental secondary care like physiotherapy, but most employers offer this kind of additional coverage as part of your employment benefits).
As for employment, you're in luck with the industries you picked, as the west coast seems to attract many businesses in those fields (and is actually getting a boost off the increased migrant hiring difficulties in the US right now).
This is very interesting to hear from another fellow Scandinavian. Did you get a job offer that made you do the jump? (Helped with setting up a place to live and such) or did you actively look yourself? How did it practically work for you guys?
I took a job that had me working US west coast hours, which didn't work too well time zone-wise. After a year or so I told my manager I was going to put in my resignation, and they offered to rehire me from their Vancouver, Canada office if I moved there myself. No moving support other than getting my temporary worker visa set up, so I had to find a place to live, move my belongings, etc. out of pocket. In hindsight I could've probably negotiated that, but that's not really in the Swedish nature so I didn't.
Ultimately, I am happy with the move though. I now hold permanent resident status and my wife has received citizenship. We've moved around inside B.C. a bunch as well over the past 10 years, but we're now settled in a lovely place that combines all the things we loved about our home in Sweden and the amazing scenery this province has to offer.
DM we if you want more practical hands-on advice on things to do first, second, etc. when moving here and getting set up to work and live here.
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