In terms of relative geographical location, Canada is infinitely easier for me. These three are on completely different continents.

Canada also has less work permit requirements than any of the three I mentioned. At least in my situation.

Norway has also completely closed their immigration stuff last I checked a few months ago.

Thought that might be where you were headed with it. It’s definitely on my mind, but I mentioned elsewhere that I have a pretty deep personal reason to be close-ish to Washington State.

If I had complete free-choice and the means to go anywhere, it’d be Finland, Norway or Iceland.

As in, further north? east? Not CA at all?

Curious what makes you say it in a slightly cryptic way.

Haha, good distinction. There’s “the king of dumping on you” and the “king of fun” kinda snow.

I know Whistler is pretty much THE ski spot in the entire world.

When a lot of Canadians say they hate the US (including myself) we are more so saying that we hate the government

I’m just so used to how the southern confederates act towards things like this. They’ll vilify an entire country like China, and then practically tar and feather any Korean that walks by because of it. Crazy shit.

As for businesses, I have started to use co-op a lot more especially for gas.

Are you speaking of this? https://canada.coop/en/

Looks like they have stuff pretty much all over CA, and even possibly some jobs to look into as well. Thanks for that tip! Co-ops are something I really miss about the western states. They’re practically illegal on the east.

The only issue with Ontario is that I have some personal reasons for wanting to be somewhat close-ish to Washington State. I have considered it, though. I used to work with some devs up there, but my company canned them before I could get transferred…

Which one is the snow king, Ontario or BC?

Yea, the rich folk thing is exactly why I would expect to have issues. They do that to places, New Zealand is another good example. I am definitely not rich, though. Kinda curious, are there “vanlife” type people up there? I live in a RAV4 right now, used to live in a skoolie. I won’t take away any of your houses, I just need a water/food source and maybe a gym.

I like the sound of this Smithers town. And looking at the map, there are a bunch of peaks in the area, definitely my style. Zooming out a bit, it seems that whole general area right there is right up my alley and on a major road.

Thanks for the offer and the infos, I may just hit you up for some more insight at some point! Especially since you’ve sorta done what I want to do, although you had the benefit of being from CA originally.

I’ll do my best to stand next to a crowd of them

Good idea on the fibre map!

I’ve experienced cold-as-shit, but I’m not sure I’ve experienced proper cold yet. Lowest was -8F (-22C) and even then it only lasted for the coldest part of that night and went just above 0F (-17C) as the sun came out.

I lived in Vermont at the time, house was heated by an oil furnace. The furnace died 2 days before this happened and didn’t get replaced until a week after 🥲

Duly noted!

Oh my, you’ve sold me on Prince George with that. Any group of skiiers that are that pissed it’s summer are OK in my book, lmao

Do you want to live and work in Canada temporarily (while orange man in power) or looking to eventually get permanent residency?

Preferably permanent eventually. I’ve been done with this country long before the fat cyst got political. Up until now, I’ve had the national parks and forests to keep me sane. That’s slowly fading, though.

If I could find a tech job in the US, then that’d be sweet to get transferred like that, but it’s been rough here in that regard. I’m also fairly stubborn in who I work for. I’ve been treated very badly in the past, and most of the companies I could work for that have Canadian offices are not on my list of “OK to work for”, at least that I’m aware of. Besides, I’d still be under the ultimate leadership of an American Capitalist. If I can, a Canadian company would be awesome, but we’ll see.

Thanks for the direct link and insight on the lawyer, I’ll definitely dig through it!

I was born in southern US (Georgia), but I’ve traveled around a lot and lived in almost every climate (I was in a School Bus for a while, floating between national parks and forests). Vermont was definitely the coldest, but Texas surprised me one year.

Damn, the housing bits I didn’t really know about, which means that expensive is probably an understatement.

It’s almost sounding like I may need to consider anywhere else in CA. I do love remote, though. I really love remote areas. The sound of nature does wonders for my tinnitus and focus.

lmao, I replied way too fast! Thanks again for the other infos.

On the topic of temperature, the only nice weather in the entire country is southern vancouver island. Vancouver is ok but it’s wet. It’s cold in the rest of canada.

I meant more the temperature of how I would be received. I absolutely love cold and shoveling snow, weirdly enough. Lived in Vermont for almost 10 years.

Maple syrup in coffee? Bro that’s unhinged lmao

Don’t knock it 'til you try it!

Damn, that’s rough to hear! I appreciate it, though. PM inbound.

Ok, so stop buying online entirely then.

If you continue to say, “well, it’s hard” then it’ll never get easier or better and will remain at status quo.

It’s really easy to not shop at any of the major big box stores owned by USA megacorps, physical or digital.

The trouble is, everyone around me is either on-board with the administration or a left-wing coward. I can’t believe people actually think a single day of non-spending is going to do anything, and part of me thinks it’s the corps pushing that idea as well.

I spent time finding the small asian and latino markets around me, and that’s the only places I buy anything in the USA. I’ve been doing this for 5 years, trying to get others to follow.

No, it will never happen and I finally see that now. Even my closest friends don’t get it, they willfully give Sam Altman and Google money every month. This place is rekt and I’m losing my mind.

I feel like I either need to find a Canadian or Mexican friend to defect to, or just go ahead and pull my own trigger.

Mmm. I like your veracity.

I see, I’ve never looked super deep into F-Droid or released anything there, I didn’t realize that a requirement for releasing on F-Droid was that they build it. Just read their inclusion criteria, interesting.

ETA: Read through the whole article, and godamn. I don’t really trust anything Android any way, but this is actually a pretty damn big WTF from F-Droid. Thanks for sharing!