I'm at a point in my life where I feel this is the last opportunity I have to make a major pivot, and I'm torn. All my friends since childhood are here, established, own property, they tell me it's foolish to go anywhere, just nose to the grinder and hope for the best. Unlike them though, I had some severe issues for the first ten years of my adult life that made me start the rat race late, I didn't manage to grab property before the average price of a home became over a million dollars, and working a residential construction job, I likely will never afford one at this rate. Same thing with my goals, the vast majority of women I've known or talk to aren't marriage material if I'm being honest, to the point where none of the decent women any of my close friends managed to find have any female friends of their own they could recommend.
If you want my honest advice, you already said it. If you feel youre at the last point in life to make a major pivot (myself included, and ditto with a tough 10 years), now is the time.
With your skills, I won't say go abroad necessarily, as its something tough psychologically to pick up and start in a new country entirely.
My advice for you however would be, if you have something of a career, if you have some money saved, etc- go for one big concept right now. Future stability and money. Now is the time to forge forward towards that.
Where can you get that? In my opinion, look domestically within Canada, but at other provinces.
If I were in construction in Onterrible, for instance, I'd either be looking out west to the plains, north, or to the Maritimes. Find a small town, find a job you can do, start a proper life there, and get away from all the hustle and bustle.
If you want something, try the east coast. Move out to Nova Scotia. Nothing there? Go to the north, head to the Yukon, go somewhere
out of urban Canada, basically. Now is the time. If you don't like it, come back. If you do like it, if the pace of life is easier, stay.
The biggest challenge now is financial, so that should be your top goal. To find a stable career related to what youre already doing. You're already halfway there, so good job. Next, find a place where that money can be stretched, and actually gets you a decent life for what it is that you're doing.
You won't get this opportunity in 5 years, let alone 10, so nows the time to figure it out if youre able.
Will Canada get its shit together? Honestly, I don't know or care to find out myself. Treat it like it won't. If its not going to figure its shit out, the best place to be is one away from the big cities, and where, as a result of that, your rent actually goes father and people are more self-reliant, imo.
Anyone that says 'I'm gonna go live like a king in Thailand/Colombia/Bali/Kenya' never comes across as serious to me. You're gonna flee a fading first-world country for an outright third-world one?
I did that, though not going to say where.
If you want the pros and cons, I can tell you them in more detail. I will say that its worked out better than if I stayed in Canada, even with limited skills on my part. Sucks that I still have to pay taxes and do though.
Where Im at now though, is Id like to earn some cash- so its the gulf states next. I just get the feeling that over the next several years, I don't want to just be making it, I want to be thriving.
Things are honestly better in the 2nd world in a lot of ways. The big problem is not living in it in your 20s and 30s, which is very viable, fun, cool, based, sigma, or whatever you want
There is legitimately a wide world out there, embrace it.
The problem however is what do you do after your 30s? What do you do after your body starts to slow down, when you start having major health problems, how do you settle down and start a family, etc.
2nd world rocks, till you hit these hard notes. So there, the question is more do you want to
settle down in the developing world? Not really, unless its somewhere like the first world, or you have a lot of money.
In a way, it all comes back to maybe you should stay in Canada, return there eventually, etc- but just make sure that for whatever you plan, you plan
long term basically.
