Hi,

I am a permanent residence of Canada and I have been working in US in H1B for 5 years. My employer has filed green card in EB3 but I must move to Canada soon with my family to keep our residency as it is expiring in 3 months. Its being very hard to take the decision as we have lived in US for so long (almost 12 years, did undergraduate and master’s here) but if we don’t go, we will lose our Canadian PR and not sure  if we will ever get US green card or not!!!

I was wondering if there are people in sajha community who have moved to Toronto from US and  are currently living there, who can share their overall opinion about moving there ( Job prosperity, quality of life, raising children, cost of living, health care etc.).

 I would really appreciate any suggestions which will help us to make the decision.

Thanks a lot.

Thanks All,
All you comments have been helpful.

@jonny, Thanks much for the information, it’s very helpful. Now, I  feel that I really want to move there.

 

@peacefulsoul,  When I  made up  my mind to move and told them abt it, the company wants to file on EB2, but I think it's more wiser to take what to have in your hand than to wait for which you aren't certain abt.

@jonny
I have first hand experience of uk health system where free comes with wait, if canada is different, I am happy for you dude.

 I was wondering if there are any IT consulting firm in Canada like in US, where they train and find job for you. I tried to google but couldn't find one. 

Anybody got answer to my million dollar question?

 LOL @ dallas7.

So folks, don't try for Canada. Try to stay in US.

Here are my thoughts.
Job wise in canada its limited, you either have to live in TO or Montreal (need to know french) or vancouver and now they are getting good jobs in alberta. Other than that there is no jobs period but here in US almost every city has better oppertunity compare to what they have to offer for the city listed above except TO.

Living expenses: Lived down south paid 300/month for one bedroom appt, Moved to TO and paid 1000 dollars for 2 bedroom basement appt.
Weather: no spring (they call it winter break for spring break here in US)
Auto Insurence: Was paying 25/month for a car and moved to TO and ended up paying 175/month for the same car.
Gas price: 3.77/gallon here now and in TO its 1.29/liter now (3.8 liter/gallon)
Booze: Govt sales them and its double compare to here (that includes beer as well)
Sales Tax: 6.75% sales tax here now and it was 15% GST and PST in TO
Had a career job in TO but paid way less than what I was making here.

Savings wise Now you all do the math...:)

Good thing about canada: If you are female you get one year maternity leave in canada, where in US its not even a month.

  If you have a career job in US who offers you insurence (which all of them does) you still can't compare .its almost the same.

Tired of srilankans trying to act like they are kale's...:)

I heard that one other person from Mad-Wisconsin is also coming to Toronto, leaving USA forever. Does it mean that USA is worse than Canada? (for raising family and getting PR)??

Aastha-TM...the answer to your question goes back again depends on what place you are in US. I love where iam at now to raise my kids.
Leaving the US forever for canada= better than going back to Nepal...(my opinion)

Johnny said: No waiting and less rude clinical staff compare to US...Hope you are not kidding me. Forget about the clinical staff I used to live in downtown TO and I know the grocery store is always packed (being inbetween 240 and 260 sherbourne) and one time one of the guy was waiting in line to check out his grocery and reading a magazine to kill time and a grocery stocker came upto him and asked him if he was buying the magazine and he said No,  the stocker took the magazine away from his hand and put it back in the shelf. Now you call them less rude...:)

 

johny, it depends. You got lucky ...
and based on what you are saying,
don't forget, they're the same englishmen who came 525 years ago and outrooted natives.
There are pros and cons everywhere, so does it even matter to discuss it? 
Since you guys said so much stuffs, now for some onlookers, could be helpful to decide on where and how to live.
Other than that, this discussion is going nowhere.
Canada is good/bad
and
US is good/bad.
Happy?? cheers now

Bittertruth brother, Living in US for so long I bet you don't want to go back to Nepal right and you have your degree in your hand , want to start a career but you don't get H1 sponsored and don't want to be illegal here in US. So your last option is to go to canada and start your career and family down the line
Conclusion: If you don't have a choice from US get a PR and move to canada...

Canada?? there are other places too :D 

For those who think CANADA AS A LAST OPTION 

Canada and last option, then you guys are day dreaming. Eventhough u come Canada, I am pretty much sure that u will keep complaining about this and that of Canada because you did not come because you really wanted to move. It is just because you could not succeed in US.

Getting PR in Canada has become as complicated as getting Green Card in US. It WAS easy... it WAS.
How are you applying? On what category? Does your skill category fall in the list? If not then, forget Canada. 

Most of the skilled category gets exhausted within a day or two. Do not forget, people from around the world are applying and US graduates do not get any priority over rest of the world. You are no different than trash from India and Phillipines. 

 hello sathi ho,

please let me know if someone is looking for roommate in toronto??  I also send email to nepali community there but didnt get any response. Also I am not being able to send personal message here in sajha. khoi kina ho? Any idea

Try to live by yourself. Try kijiji.ca it is like craigslist in Canada.
Find some basement apartment which are normally cheaper. You will suffer a lot with Nepalese, so just stay away from them.

 aaba tehi garnu parla. la thanks

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