What's up crodies! Is canada good place to live? and is it asian friendly? I want to move haha I'm bored with life and I waaaant some adventuuuuuuurreeeeeeee!
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Is Canada good place to live?
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Huge country, so lots of variance depending where you live.
British Colombia, Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta are the largest provinces (mostly referring to populous, but as a consequence, they tend to have the best infrastructure and major towns/cities to live in. Southern Ontario, for example, has a massive proportion of the country's population, so most jobs are there (here, for me). Housing is expensive, but not as pricey as BC.
Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, on the other hand, are way cheaper, but are generally colder, less culturally diverse, and have less infrastructure outside of major cities.
I'd say it's generally pretty friendly, but we're not without our own forms of bigotry like any country.
depends where you're looking to live - BC has super friendly worker rights but cost of living is high as fuck(though there's been some very good work to lower housing prices), about 1800CAD/month for a 1bed iirc, Montreal has relatively very low housing costs(ive seen places at 600 if you can find a setup with roommates on facebook or something, my 1bed was about 900) for a big city in Canada but it's somewhat difficult to find a job if you don't speak fluent French(i haven't been able to work at even the english-speaking universities in QC because of my French proficiency, despite having spent years living there), Toronto isn't worth considering(upwards of 2100), Calgary is solid price-wise but weather there is tough and Albertan politics is a nightmare(not sure how much you care about that lol), Halifax prices are comparable to BC(1700), but they're heavily trying to limit external population increase for the express purpose of keeping their prices lower, so you might be paying an even greater premium(i didn't have this issue, but i just got lucky with timing)
figure out what qualities in a city matter to you - do you want a place where there's a lot of night life, something where you can be in nature a lot, something with good public transit, something super cheap, maybe something rural, something with really good food, something more diverse, something with politics that fits your ideals - i'd assess that and then do deeper research into some of the cities i've mentioned, because there's really a lot of different things that you can find depending on what you're looking for
I haven't lived there but I visited for 2 weeks and stayed with family so I got a taste of the living experience
honestly it's really nice, idk how it is during winter but at least during summer the weather is perfect, it's super green and the scenery is beautiful. I could see my self becoming one of those 'daily hour walk before breakfast' type of people if I lived there.
I was staying like 30 mins away from Toronto, kinda near Niagara
if you're content with a cardboard box for a house and an egregious amount of homeless people ( of course it depends on where you are, but its a serious problem in canada that the gov chooses to ignore) and can stand the french speakers, other than that its a jolly place to live with im ngl boring weather ( and cold winters)
Never heard of any stories about racism from asian friends who grew up all over the country, so you'll probably be fine
unless youre indian, but I don't think you are
sigh people don't like the harsh reality of Canada
- If you're smart about it, you can find a modest apartment can be around $1500 a month (speaking from experience)
- There is a smaller percentage of people without homes than most Western countries
- 99% of all French speakers live in Québec and New Brunswick, and a ton of them speak English as well (Montréal might even have more English speakers than French speakers—again, speaking from experiences)
- The weather is NOT boring, especially not if you live next to the Great Lakes, where it can actually be wildly volatile on certain days
- Canada's tensions with India are entirely diplomatic, and there is next to no racism against Indians that stems solely based on that issue, as far as I'm aware
Yes, every country has its downsides, and Canada has a ton of them. But your "harsh reality of Canada" is just wrong
Montreal is the best place I have lived in out of every Canadian city in the past 8 years
Victoria also incredible if you can afford
Halifax is beautiful
Calgary is pretty nice
Vancouver/Toronto is probably out of your price range
Edmonton is a miss
Winnipeg will get you stabbed
Ottawa is boring
Quebec City is only nice for francophones
lmk if you want more specifics on some of these, I've lived in quite a few of them
i havent lived in all(or even most) of them, many of these i included purely based on other professor friends living there/general reputation(never had a friend that spent more than a year in winnipeg), and simply because they're big enough to warrant mentioning
most of these places that ive lived have been for work - ottawa was interesting for me as someone that has done work with the NDP in the past, but it's honestly mostly just a government city, not too much going on, victoria i grew up in, montreal was where i studied for my undergrad and mcgill was extremely high ranking at the time(still is), halifax i went to for a job offer, calgary i've visited many times on vacation(alberta is much nicer to visit than live, see banff), van ive been to about 80 times as someone that grew up in victoria(not that i would ever want to teach at UBC, fuck that place)
QC is just based on reputation from friends, same as edmonton, winnipeg is notorious for their stabbing rates, and the 6ix speaks for itself lol
If that's where you're thinking of going, you might as well just live in Mississauga. It's a LOT more developed than Brampton is, has a ton more job opportunities, and is generally easier to commute in and from. Brampton has much better parks and recreation centres but other than that, Mississauga's just better
Lived in Markham before I immigrated to the US for high school. Pretty sizable asian community here (mostly Chinese) so its prob asian friendly. I don't think there is much to write off about living in Canada as it feels like living in a less crowded, french inspired, tax heavy version of the U.S. However, I would recommend visiting Canada (especially montreal).
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