Canada -- an alternative for some Americans???

Set, The country up north has more seasons than just "winter." Believe it or not, when my wife and I go up there next month, we're expecting 80 degree weather. c.i.

Well, I'm sold.
I don't have any real ties to my current location, beautiful though
Lake Tahoe is, and I'm just tired of all the crap in the U.S.

My resume is going to companies in Canada at this moment. A truck and a trailer and I'm so outta here! Not to worry, I'll still campaign and participate in U.S. elections, but I'd rather not be a citizen because I'm discouraged by what America has become in the last couple decades. The U.S. is not by the people, for the people anymore.

Too crass, pushy, manipulative, political, bureaucratic, commercial, deceitful, superficial, disconnected, frantic, non-free, out of balance, and inhuman for my taste. I know three other people who used to work in Silicon Valley who are also in the process of moving to Canada. These are bright, sharp, talented people leaving the country --- entrepreneurs who create jobs and hire people. Hard work gets ripped off or abused too often in our business environment. So many things are scams in the U.S., without integrity or honesty.

Plus I'd rather have a sense of community, and I've always found Canadians to much more friendly and real. Good folk, stunningly beautiful country, and lots of unspoiled nature! :-)

Those are my reasons anyways. I have to imagine there might be a lag, but I think Mr. Bush's presence will be increasing the emigration statistics over the next year or two.

Well, Au, it seems to me that you're assuming a lot. I know some here have said they wish to leave because they don't like the situation

Hey all,
New to the board here, but found it looking for info. Me and my partner are seriously considering a move to the North, from Ohio. Several reasons, ranging from personal to political, yet the fact remains, we just haven't decided yet.

For those Americans that have moved North. If you wish to, please tell me, honestly, what do you miss about the States? What is the best thing of your move? Any advice?

Thanks again,
RCMitch

What political reasons could anyone actually have that would lead them to leave the US?

No More Mercury

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Standing beside a giant inflated model of a fish in San Antonio on June 30, TexPIRG's Hugh Williams announced that over 600,000 Americans have written to the EPA since January criticizing the Bush administration's mercury pollution plan and calling for real action to reduce mercury pollution. This is nearly three times as many comments as EPA has ever received on any other rulemaking.

Instead of protecting mothers and children from mercury poisoning by cutting mercury emissions by 90 percent like it said was feasible, the Bush administration's proposal protects the energy industry by setting targets so weak that the industry will be allowed to continue polluting without using state-of-the-art mercury controls. In a July 8 opinion-editorial in the Austin American-Statesman, TexPIRG Advocate Luke Metzger wrote "The White House approach would allow a generation of children to needlessly suffer severe learning disabilities and other developmental and neurological disorders. It's time for Bush to start listening to the medical experts and the American public, instead of the polluters."


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Like lead, mercury can cause severe neurological and developmental problems in unborn fetuses and very young children whose brains are still developing. The principal way that people are exposed to mercury is by eating fish, a staple of the American diet. The EPA and 43 states have issued advisories warning people, especially women and children, to avoid or limit eating fish. Even with such warnings in place, the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 1 out of 6 U. S. women of childbearing age have unsafe levels of mercury in their blood.

Like we did with lead pollution that was emitted from American cars' tailpipes, we need to eliminate mercury pollution from its largest source: power plants. Electric power plants are the largest uncontrolled source of the country's mercury emissions, responsible for approximately 30 percent of it. And Texas' power plants lead the nation in mercury emissions. Two years ago, EPA's own scientists said current technologies could eliminate 90 percent of power plants' mercury emissions.

Unfortunately, the electric and coal industries have been pressuring EPA to do as little as possible. And it now appears that the Bush administration is buckling to that pressure. One EPA proposal announced this December allows more than six times more mercury than the reductions EPA's scientists said could be achieved. Another proposal, the EPA's preferred approach, no longer treats mercury as a toxic chemical, and allows power plants to emit six times more mercury between 2010 and 2018 and three times more mercury after 2018. Under this approach, power plants could avoid reducing mercury by buying credits and trading away emission reductions.

EPA should act without any further delay to protect people from the dangers of this extremely dangerous substance. EPA should require 90 percent mercury reductions from the power industry, consistent with the Clean Air Act's requirement that every plant use the most aggressive mercury controls.

Moving to Canada is for those who give up. If people had that attitude when this country was born we would still be singing "God save the queen".

What political reasons could anyone actually have that would lead them to leave the US?

Montana, everyone in my band is anti bush. Can we crash at your house when we expatriate?