Nope, I am not lucky. You are lucky getting PR when it was still easy.
Nothing to do with luck. This person had enough points to be selected. And there was hard work involved to get there.
Oh please dont be so modest. There is nothing comfortable about Singapore. In Canada, you can build your life in a cold country where there is cold chilly air which gives you a fresh feeling, that doesnt make u tired and sticky, large landed houses, CARS, welfare government, free schooling, free healthcare, a huge country with places you can keep exploring for life... u can drive for thousands of miles being in the same country.. exploring new places every weekend. Come on.. i call that a clear win and a huge promotion from this tiny little red dot.
I have dedicated hours and days for this. Even if i max out my IELTS, i get only around 430-440 score and that too assuming ECA would recognise my degree as canadian equivalent (it was distance education part time). May be a little hope around PNP but my profession doesnt favor me. Nobody wants NOC 0213 and non technical IT guys. Getting job offer in Canada using AIPP program is the only feasible way which I am trying hard by creating different kinds of cover letter, resumes everyday. setting up alerts also help me to see the vacancies immediately they are posted.
Partially free healthcare (No national pharmacare, no dental coverage, no optical coverage only eye exams for children and seniors but no glasses, no physiotherapy, no medical devices, payments even for subsidized longterm care, etc.) Those without benefits that they pay into through their employer struggle to pay for many of these things. Many don’t have the option for benefits through their employer. Welfare payments keep you under the poverty level so nothing to get too excited about although I realize we are lucky. Most welfare recipient are dependent on charity for food and basic necessities. Many in Canada rarely leave their city. Most are way to busy to explore new places every weekend. They need to do their cleaning, shopping, other chores, potentially a child’s activity because on the weekdays most people essentially have time to get to work and come home to cook dinner and maybe relax a bit. Would not really say that winters are refreshing in most places in the country. Have you experienced a real winter? I am not a fan of the crazy heat and humidity but also can’t take the cold winters. 4 hours shovelling snow? Sun going down at 4pm and being too cold to go out many days. Bad driving and hours stuck in traffic. Ice storms. Hot summers. It has been 40 degrees with the humidex many days during the summer. Not trying to discourage you but you seem to have an over romanticized view of Canada? Have you ever visited?
Even in the hottest days in Singapore, the heat seldom goes above 33 degrees and it does rain occasionally.
I have not visited Canada but I have visited minus temperature places and absolutely loved it.
-20-30C or even -40C+? Think most Canadians (Except some parts of BC) can easy tolerate 0 - -15C but that isn’t the typical winter temperatures in most areas and most certainly don’t love it when it is both very dark and freezing. In the winter most go to work when it is dark and return home when it is dark. It is a hard adjustment for most immigrants unless they have grown up with this weather and the lack of light. Although seasons are nice they also come with a lot of work from raking all the leaves, to shovelling for hours even before work and the gardening during the summer. On the cold days many need to plug in their cars so they start. You also really need to purchase both winter and all season/other tires unless you live on Vancouver island or maybe Vancouver. Again not trying to discourage you but you don’t seem to have realistic expectations.
Looks like first world problems to me. In Singapore, it is so bland... like a safe and secure and clean school campus with a good hostel. No one would like to live there for ever with family.
I have been in Singapore for few months
