[Hondaracer]

I had two interesting perspectives on that in the last couple days

A colleague of mine is moving back to Japan, his wife is from there and her parents have a house there, they went back for a trip and kinda came back here and said Fuck Vancouver there’s nothing here for us anymore (renting a place, struggle to keep up etc.) I told him I was happy for him because it’s 100% understandable

Then I met up with a friend who lived and worked here for 6-7 years, a couple from Ireland. They both got citizenship while here but then moved back to Ireland right before Covid because each of them could make what they were making here, and slightly more, but in Euros, lower cost of living etc.

I told her I figured Canada was kind of turning into a shit hole and no real reason to stick around much more and she said after being in Canada for so long, moving back to Ireland she’s like fuck things are even worse in terms of social aspects, govt. etc.

I know Ireland isn’t really the pinnacle for quality of life but it was interesting.

Personally and I’ve said this before, if you don’t own a home and make a decent income, or at least have the possibility of both, I don’t see the appeal here. If you’re making 40-60k a year you can’t even live a lifestyle of going out and having fun, you can barely afford a roof over your head and food lol