Canadia

[judecorp]

I think I'm tired of trying to change things here. I could move just a few hours away and not have to think about it.

I wonder how long and difficult it would be to emigrate to Canada.

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[posthaste.livejournal.com]

take me with you.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

You can hide in the trunk!

[oppendonnell.livejournal.com]

and me....

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Let's go!

[jodied.livejournal.com]

Canada wants people with advanced degrees. You're in. Don't think I haven't considered this.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Let's all go!

[loretta78.livejournal.com]

I can take technical questions :) Having worked for Customs, I have a fair amount of experience with Immigration law in Canada.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I guess I just wonder how long it usually takes.

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

talk to kpht. She's done all the research, and is working towards moving!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Okay, thanks! :)

[tea-soaked.livejournal.com]

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/index.asp

We did it and it's been a good thing for us.

[tea-soaked.livejournal.com]

Free health care.

1 year paid maternity leave.

Marriage rights for all.

You don't have to adopt your own kid.

Niagara Falls.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

How did you decide where to move? I mean within Canada.

[photodork.livejournal.com]

could you please bring ms jones with you when you come?
thanks in advance.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

That would be fun!!

[llunabelle.livejournal.com]

NOOOO! Don't go! stay here with me and revolutionize this bitch!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I just don't think it will ever happen.

[gabriellag.livejournal.com]

I don't disagree that Canada would be awesome.

But, but...we need you here.

And I can't help but think, while slow, things are changing. Not fast enough sure, but they are.

We are choosing amongst a black man and a woman for President.

I guess I'm an optimist. If all the progressives bailed for Canada in the sixties/seventies, the Civil Rights and Women's Movements would never have happened.

Of course, I don't have a spouse and/or a baby, so I have much less to lose by staying than you.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I just think about what the future holds for my family here and it's not pretty. All of the crap we go through just for Jen to have legal rights to her own kid, and yet we still have to do all this weird stuff with federal taxes, and it sucks to not have your marriage recognized.

Add to that the fact that college tuition in the US is crazy NOW, what the heck is it going to be like in 18 years? I'll never be able to send my kid(s) to school. Ugh.

[bookgrrrl.livejournal.com]

Seriously. I'm too damn young to feel this old and jaded about this joint.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Word.

[childlight.livejournal.com]

Actually I have another LJ friend who went to Canada for college and stayed. She has to jump through all kinds of hoops every year to renew her work permit. I think she has recently started the process of trying to get approved to become a citizen. If you are serious I can refer you to her LJ.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Maybe I will take you up on that.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Maybe you were joking, but I have a friend who's been trying to emigrate from the US to Canada for 18 months.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I am not joking. I seriously wonder how long it takes and how much it costs. For real.

Good luck to your friend. :)

[jonesingforbaby.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

A friend of mine did this, after the 2004 elections and all the state marriage initiatives. He moved from DC to Montreal. He'd worked on Capitol Hill for many years, hoped one day to be an openly gay member of Congress from Texas, where he's from. Instead, he decided to move to a country where he'd have full and equal rights. Last I heard, he was loving Montreal and hasn't looked back.

[tea-soaked.livejournal.com]

Montreal is brilliant!

[sudrin.livejournal.com]

What?! You don't enjoy a Corporate Plutocracy? Okay, I admit I didn't know what a Plutocracy was until yesterday. I thought it had something to do with space aliens, but that's SCIENTOLOGY. ;) And I know you are still pissed at me for "Throwing" my vote away in '00. I just wish I could be able to vote for who I want. That's how goverment is SUPPOSED to work, not this idea of voting for the lesser of two evils the way it works now. I HATED Kerry in '04. I thought he was a shriveled windbag (Sorry Democratic party) but I voted for him because you kept coming to me in a dream threating me not to vote independent. (Sorry, Nader)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong of me to be pleased that I'm a regular in your dreams?

It's like so SCI-FI! :)

(And yeah, Kerry was no prize.)