10 years too late tbh.
Smart people are leaving the Untied States…I wonder why
Science is bad anyways, right?
/s
The transition is taking a lot longer than I predicted in 2000, but I’m still convinced the future of American workers will be hand-painting plastic happy meal toys for fast-food restaurants in China.
after a 5 hour day just to see a doctor for 15 minutes I think we could take their doctors too, if only there was a reasonable way for them to be legally entitled to work
It looks like this is already in the plans: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/doctors-recruitment-1.7480911
Well they’re not legally entitled to work but US residency-trained doctor have those qualifications accepted in Canada and New Zealand. At least for now.
We should call it " Project Tropical Nectar"
Hey all y’all refugee professors. Cost of living is still very good in Winnipeg, and the winters are very survivable. And if anything funky happens with the Panama Canal, Winnipeg will be booming again.
I won a full paid interchange scholarship to the University of Winnipeg, to start classes on the second half of 2020. It was sadly “postponed” for the pandemic, and I could choose to wait until everything came back to normal but had to pause my studies at home, or give it up and continue with my life. I have a little vacuum on my heart, for the time I couldn’t live there and every time someone talks about Winnipeg I felt sad 😞
Winnipeg has such a cool mix of architecture. It feels like an unplanned mess of different eras when you’re going through the financial district.
If I lived in a high cost of living place I’d probably move to Winnipeg.
if anything funky happens with the Panama Canal, Winnipeg will be booming again.
Why? Chicago is the rail hub.
Chicago first, then Winnipeg to get to Churchill for northern shipping. Winnipeg used to be quite an important city until the Panama Canal opened up.
the winters are very survivable
sounds very attractive lol selling 3/4 of the year as “survivable”
Haha, you have to manage expectations. And it’s more like half the year. Winter lasts from November to April.
Interrogator: “what did you do the night between 15 november and 16 of March?”
Welcome to brain drain gang, America.
Anecdotally almost all the people who went to the states after graduating my compsci degree (about 40% of my cohort) have come back now. One guy in my cohort died in a firefight with ICE, it just isn’t safe.
A friend of mine at Tufts was telling me about their ML/comp sco programs falling apart. She’s doing her PhD and was handed a project previously led by a green card holder who fucked off. Now she’s left managing expectations for a project she didn’t write the codebase for.
And that was BEFORE the recent disappearing of a Tufts student earlier this week.
I’m a productive SWE at a big tech firm and I’m looking pretty seriously at offices in Canada. Better than hoping I don’t get abducted because my voter registration has (D) on it.
I’m a productive SWE at a big tech firm and I’m looking pretty seriously at offices in Canada.
Come. We need more progressives in technology. You might feel the pay cut but it’s so worth imo
Good to hear, I’ve honestly been wondering how US folks would be received moving to Canada.
Various estimates do put me at nearly a 50% pay cut. Which, if the CoL doesn’t scale down at least a little bit, could actually put me in a bit of a bind when supporting my wife as well.
That’s if I could actually convince her to consider it, though.
One guy in my cohort died in a firefight with ICE
what
Yeah I need to hear this whole story.
@[email protected] as well
This is kinda exposing my identity a bit even though I was a distant acquaintance, but fuck it. It happened before trump really took power, and the guy’s hands were not completely clean, but it definitely still dissuades me from doing anything in the US.
woah
your friend overstayed his h1b then fired on border agents?
what the fuck do you “geniuses” expect to happen there? fuck this thinking, you can’t excuse that level of incompetence
There are good reasons anyone would mistrust self identified ICE agents: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-20/ice-impersonators-scams-target-immigrants-tips-to-protect-yourself
Fuck ICE
i’m not saying that there isn’t, i’m saying anyone with intelligence will tell you don’t fire a gun (especially at anyone claiming to work for the government) in a country you aren’t a citizen of
and don’t cry foul when consequences come knocking. you should 10,000% comply to ICE if you know you are in the wrong. if you aren’t, then fuck with them all day long. otherwise you are asking to be deported or worse.
it’s not black and white like everyone loves to claim these days. as soon as a gun was involved from the immigrant, like duh why am I even explaining this
i’m not saying that there isn’t, i’m saying anyone with intelligence will tell you don’t fire a gun (especially at anyone claiming to work for the government) in a country you aren’t a citizen of
and don’t cry foul when consequences come knocking. you should 10,000% comply to ICE if you know you are in the wrong. if you aren’t, then fuck with them all day long. otherwise you are asking to be deported or worse.
it’s not black and white like everyone loves to claim these days. a
also yeah, fuck ICE, but fuck them smartly. otherwise you are validating their actions and continuing the struggle.
Its funny that the “I’ll move the canada” thing is actually becoming real.
I’ve known of (met briefly) 2 families that moved to Canada during the first term. Still there and happy from what I’ve heard.
Project Paperclip in reverse.
Operation stapler
Operation Mapleclip
Operation Treetap
As someone from the US, if researchers, scientists etc. want to leave, I’d much rather they go to countries who will actually value the work they do so this ain’t all bad
@theacharnian If true this would be huge. #TimothySnyder #MarciShore at #UofT
This is a fantastic opportunity for Canada
And the rest of the world, less investment board driven research and more open results.
Our gain, their loss.
This is the way.
