• ImplyingImplications
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    Any American moving to Canada would need to be trained in an in-demand job. In-demand jobs typically pay well, but jobs in Canada pay less than their equivalent job in America. The reason Canada attracts Indian engineers and not American engineers is because Indian engineers get paid less than Canadian engineers, but American engineers get paid more than Canadian ones. There’s no economic incentive for American engineers to immigrate.

    On top of the pay cut, Canada is also experiencing a housing, food, and healthcare crisis. Moving to Canada isn’t the best option if an American is hoping to escape economic troubles. If their plan is to instead escape political troubles, I unfortunately don’t think Canada is much better. Poilievre is a jerk and a bully but looks set to win as big as Trump did. Many provinces are also already firmly run by climate change denying, healthcare privatizing conservatives.

    Also they’d have to learn celsius.

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      To you last point, only for outdoor weather.

      They can comfortably live in Fahrenheit for house temp, water temp, body temp and cooking temps.

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        I wonder if that’s a regional or an age thing. I grew up in the eastern half of the country, and clock in as “younger than Boomer.”

        I’ve only heard folks under sixty refer to oven temperatures in fahrenheit, everything else is Celsius.

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          I’ve only heard folks under sixty refer to oven temperatures in fahrenheit, everything else is Celsius.

          Thats because Grandmas cookbook is in Fahrenheit, well mine is anyway

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          I’m from BC and my experience is the same. I will say however I have stayed in hotels and Airbnb’s with thermostats/hot tubs set in F. So whether or not that was deliberate, it’s a simple setting to change. You could easily get by with F for all your personal temperature needs, just not talking to others about the weather.

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          Crazy!

          Mid 30s millennial here from the prairies.

          When we moved out, the thermostat didn’t have Fahrenheit it only had Celsius. My parents could never understand what our house temperature was and it took me forever to figure it out because I grew up with Fahrenheit indoors, Celsius outdoors.

          Ovens are only set to Fahrenheit, and we would always check the pool temperature in Fahrenheit

          Even now, when my kids have a fever I measure it in Fahrenheit

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      Also they’d have to learn celsius.

      No properly educated engineer is unfamiliar with metric measurements.

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      It would be a difficult move. For anyone doing well in the US, it would be a decrease in pay and an increase in expenses.

      Many provinces are also already firmly run by climate change denying, healthcare privatizing conservatives.

      I was glad to see Higgs lose. Pity about Moe though.