[gdevenyi]

The Canada the author refers to is gone.

[glouwbug]

It was a time of post WWII boom and unrivalled economic prosperity. For the vast majority of human existence wealth like that was never offered to regular commoners.

Canada today might be expensive to rent in and buy in, but the quality of life in terms of safety, culture, political stability, nature, and medicine (minus the temporary shortage in health professionals) is still unmatched globally. Canadians who complain about Canada haven’t faced or lived life outside of Canada

[amrocha]

I’m Canadian, have lived in 4 different continents, and there’s plenty of countries that are just as good or better than Canada out there.

Case in point, I live in Japan. Some things are worse than Canada, but the things that are better line up with my priorities in life.

Don’t fall for the americanism of being blind to the rest of the world and thinking we’re the best. There’s plenty of areas for Canada to improve on.

[jleyank]

Some of the HN community have lived in multiple places - look where they end up not where they go at the start of their career. Such people don't have to sweat families, health, ...

[gdevenyi]

I find it very amusing the number of 'Canadians' in this thread saying how great a place it is after prefacing the comment explaining they now live in the USA.

[Waterluvian]

Hard to know what accounts to bother responding to these days. This is likely one of them as it fails to offer any worthy substance beyond a barely whined grievance. But I have first hand experience that the things described in this post are absolutely not gone.

I suspect there are agents of lesser minds at work hoping to stir instability. We aren’t swindled as easily as other peoples.

[gdevenyi]

This is not a greivence this is a lamentation.

[jonapro]

Quite the statement there bud. Care to back it up?

[gdevenyi]

Every province except Alberta is in dire financial states(Venezuela events will finish them off) . We have no gold reserves. In the next 5 years there will be a mortgage cliff for those who bought at the peak. Major Universities are about to be bankrupt.

Canada is going to get very poor soon. These social goods will be gone, and we will be worse for it.