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Canadauni1 · 11 days

Any standard 4 stroke engine?

RaspberryPaul · 1 month

I was raised by spectacularly incompetent parents, so I pretty much had to educate myself on intellectual and spiritual matters. The Cartesian approach made the most sense to me, so I went with that. Religion was promptly ruled out by Occam's razor.
If someone made religion actually make logical sense, sure, I'd consider it.

Pharien · 1 month

I does, but as far as I can remember it has different (read: somewhat saner) rules for situations such as when you haven't been a resident in Canada for tax purposes for a given tax year, i.e. when you lived, worked, and earned your income outside Canada. In any case, the absolute worst case scenario as a dual citizen is you have to pay the higher of the two tax rates (Canadian and US), not the two combined.

Pharien · 1 month

the US likes to continue taxing you

Yes.

we'd be paying Canadian and US taxes

NO!!! Taxes paid in Canada will be subtracted from what you should pay in the US, which in practice means you will pay nothing in the US because taxes are higher in Canada. Check with a tax consultant to be absolutely sure, but I have this information from a CRA employee (they did public tax consulting sessions at my university while I was a grad student, and this question came up every single time).

Pharien · 1 month

I second the Canadian experience thing, it's pretty big here. Very dependent on your field, though. In fields like accounting and engineering, it's almost impossible to get hired without Canadian experience. In software development, nobody cares.

Pharien · 1 month

Here's a few scattered thoughts from a relatively fresh immigrant to Canada (I just passed my citizenship test last week):

With regard to procedures, this is your bible. Read it thoroughly. Me and my wife have immigrated successfully using only information available on that web site.
You don't have to become a Canadian citizen. You can live and work in Canada just fine with a permanent resident card. The only things you get as a citizen that you don't get as a permanent resident are a Canadian passport and the right to vote.
You can get into Canada much faster on a study permit if you can get accepted at a Canadian university or grad school. As a bonus, your spouse will get an open work permit allowing her to work while you study (this may or may not have changed since I last looked, you should check). Then you can prepare your application for permanent residence at your leisure.

Pharien · 1 month

You can actually apply for permanent residence together as spouses.

Pharien · 1 month

This page might help.

AppleEater · 2 months

Definitely want. I've never borrowed money in my life (I don't have student loans, a mortgage, or even a credit card), I save almost half the money I make, and I still manage to live comfortably. But I'm always on the lookout for new ways to cut spending on stuff I don't care about, so I can have more money to spend on the things I do.

Cutsman3 · 2 months

what is a clever way of dealing with these people that isn't too harsh?

Get older.
Don't change your mind.
(Optional, if they're relatives and if you, like me, are the last fertile carrier of your family name) Watch with amusement as they get increasingly desperate and they start to add "...please?" at the end of the quip in the title.

Alternatively, get permanently sterilized. Then you can reply "even if I do change my mind, I still won't be having children"

kyzu · 2 months

And the royal anthem.

kyzu · 2 months

Not so fast! We still have traces of god in our important documents.

SamuraiSevens · 2 months

This is a good place to start looking.

dafones · 2 months

Seconded. I have no desire whatsoever to own my residence, if it wasn't for landlords I'd have to live in a hotel or something, and that would suck big time.

Thrasymachus · 2 months

Check this out: if you can let go of the idea that you must own a house (if you're American, this might be very difficult if not impossible), then you don't have to go into debt for anything. Your mind will never have to concern itself with things like credit scores, interest rates, identity theft, property values, homeowners insurance rates, property taxes, maintenance costs, credit card grace periods, emergency repairs, the state of the real estate market, stupid homeowner association rules, and on and on. Ever. All the time you would have spent stressing about that would be yours to enjoy in any way you wish. True, you won't get the 1% discount or whatever, but your life will be simpler and more stress free.

Thrasymachus · 2 months

If you rent, you are paying your landlord's mortgage, plus profit. And you aren't building up any equity. But if you Buy, you are paying your own mortgage

This line never ceases to amaze me. The US has just experienced its largest real estate market crash ever. House prices have been falling for 6 straight years. Last quarter one third of US mortgages were underwater. One third! There's wave after wave of foreclosures and people getting wiped out. And yet, throughout all this, americans still go "yep, gotta build that credit, gotta get that mortgage, gotta get that (possibly negative) equity, it's the smart thing to do". Wow. Just wow.

glaciator · 2 months

When I went to France I took my pentaband Galaxy Nexus for map lookups and quick local searches on the go, and an Asus Transformer tablet for more leisurely web browsing, email & such. Popped a local SIM card in the Nexus (12 euros for 1 month of unlimited data, gotta love Europe) and turned it into a wifi hotspot for the tablet. Worked like a charm.

jingowatt · 3 months

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jedlib · 3 months

Also, when the calculator asks you how much you think your house will appreciate in value, this graph might help.

bjs525 · 3 months

Meanwhile in Romania...

bjs525 · 3 months

Meanwhile in Canada...

dallad · 3 months

Have you tried gypsy funeral music?

obvious_karma_whore · 3 months

Some of the hate is prompted by behaviors mentioned in this thread (littering, smoking in the vicinity of non-smokers), but some of it is just irrational. A co-worker recently demanded I stop using my non-smelly and completely harmless electronic cigarette in a meeting claiming it was "distracting".

batnastard · 3 months

I just pronounce foreign words the way I feel like pronouncing them that day and give zero fucks about how I sound.

AshleyAsthenia · 3 months

TIL France isn't in Europe. Because the average French espresso is shit.

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