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Originally Posted by Oroku$aki
If you believe it's big city life or bust when it comes to places worth living. Sounds a bit snobby to my ears, but whatever.
I've gone on record itf as preferring and advocating mid-size cities, and I currently live in a very small one. This started as a discussion of affordable alternatives to major, expensive US cities. It's not a question of somewhere being a comfortable place to lead a good life, it's whether a place is special enough to uproot everything and move to for somebody who already lives in a great city. I think there's a handful of Canadian cities that qualify, but like all desirable urban areas, they aren't very affordable.
It's something I actually spend a fair bit of time thinking about because there's maybe a 50/50 chance I end up in Canada sometime in the next 10 years, not because of the current political climate but simply because I can and I think it might be a better place to spend the last couple decades of my life. From the POV of somebody seriously considering it who has already spent a fair bit of time in the country and visited most of the provinces and major cities, it's a pretty mixed bag of pros and cons everywhere I've considered. Nowhere really stands out as a perfect destination, although many would be fine, and I'm sure I'd be content in many more if I already lived there.
It's also interesting to me in the context of the GTFO movement where people swear they're so pipin' hot furious they're going to pack their bags tomorrow when they clearly haven't put even 30 seconds of thought into what it would really mean to leave the country. I spend time drilling down into specific neighborhood demographics of cities I've already been to and like, in a country I already have citizenship in, and I'm still like, meh, maybe some day.