Can't talk about Mexico being better, but can talk about Spain and Portugal being better. That's where I wound up, ultimately.
I'll give you a comparison. Wife is Portuguese, and we were looking at real estate across the peninsula. She tells me that real estate in Barcelona is absurdly expensive, as is Andorra. But what does
absurdly expensive mean to her?
Now, Andorra is essentially the Switzerland of Iberia, its a tax haven for the rich and playboys.
Can you guess how much a three or four bedroom apartment there costs, facing the Pyrenees, in the midst of a beautiful landscape with cafes nearby at the heart of Andorra Vella (old Andorra)?
300 - 500 thousand euro.
Barcelona, the most inflated place in Iberia, is probably going to net you up to a million euro for a 5 or 6 bedroom apartment, but in the old citys downtown, for some beautiful art noveau architecture. Imagine how much this would cost in Toronto, in the center of the city, in a historic building. Chances are as well, you can actually find single apartments for 100,000 there, unironically
Beautiful street view by the way
Want to know the average price of buying an apartment in Iberia? between 40,000 euros to 200,000. Imagine paying 100,000 for a three bedroom apartment. This is in the 3rd most expensive real estate market in Europe, apparently. Canadians, move to Europe if you can, seriously. I'm not even exaggerating in the slightest here.
Meanwhile, in Canada, our real estate market, well- you know the doom spiral.
Million dollar single bedroom bachelor pads in a shitty area of Toronto where your view is a brick wall outside the window. Where some cracked out drug addict is shooting up on your front porch, and there's literal shit in the street now.
Things aren't necessarily ideal in Iberia, but relative to the cost of living, price of food, price of amenities, quality of life, etc, there's just no comparison with Ontario. Some things, I have to go without (theres no wal mart, most people don't speak English, etc), but my god, the prices in Canada reached clown levels years ago, in comparison, and the people tend to be so much friendlier and theres a much stronger sense of social cohesion, even with immigrants.
No pajeets taking all the real estate and jobs as well.
When it comes to higher education, I received a post graduate in an IT related field awhile back. The diploma mill thing is real, and I can echo a lot of the sentiments of people from reddit (
disgusting to agree with redditors now, because- when I brought up many of these points in the mid 2010s, I was called a racist for it)
Most of these colleges are just diploma mills at this point, and are simply in it for the money. They know the jobs for various fields don't exist, that their students are unlikely to get jobs in X field, and on top of that, will simply take international students money because the bottom line is that they are businesses that rely on false expectations for dreams of a job in a field that hasn't existed in years at this point.
Canada, frankly, doesn't have higher education jobs. Its a literal rat race to compete for the elite jobs that we do have. Canada is historically a resource extraction economy. We have very limited management positions outside of that, and it used to be that your job field was either going to be services, a manufacturing plant, or something in mining, oil, or logging. We've gutted all of that practically, so now everyone is scrambling for the same tech and finance jobs in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal that are just ultra unsustainable. If you want to compare it to the US, they actually have tons of higher level management or financial jobs, because they have a very vibrant financial market- Canada has an effective oligopoly of three business cartels that have zero global impact past the domestic level because they are uncompetitive, so we have very limited growth there.
On top of that depressing fact, my last experience with Indian students in the mid 2010s was that many of them do not care about an education, jump from one graduate certificate to the next, with the prime goal being to stay within Canada. They often did cheat, submit poor projects, and barely spoke English. More often than not, they'd get one certificate, then another, then another- whatever was cheapest, easiest, and kept them here. The college system
is just a way for them to get a visa to come here and work
whatever job they can find (if they can find one), nothing more. It got even more naked when you saw how they expanded the available hours to work from 20 maximum, to full time, while importing millions over the course of the pandemic. They are there as
coolies. Literal
coolies, we've recreated this exploitative system in
progressive Canada, of all places.
I've heard its an offensive term, but I literally cannot see any differences in how it is being managed now, with how it was managed previously, except in the past they wern't working at McDonalds, but in sugar cane fields.
Glad to see people coming to terms with this
now, I guess.
Noone should give the politicians who enabled this the time of day, nor the culture that enabled this, because years ago when we could do something to prevent the problem, noone gave our opinions the time of day.
The culture is gutted, rotten, they effectively eliminated it (theres a 50 foot statue of a hindu god in brampton now), called the history and historic bonds that united us racist, theyre euthanizing the poor under the guise of compassion, etc.
Again, if someone has the audacity to appeal to a sense of nationalism that has been spat on and "claimed to be non-existant" for the past decade ('bla bla bla, the canadian identity doesnt exist, you are a racist, wait, come back, arent you a good canadian, help us, your countrymen!")
Just forget them. My countrymen are largely gone and forgotten, its just Khalistan north and liberal cucks who are left now.
