Question about possible ways to move to canada

[jshun1234]

Hi, past few monthes I have been thinking about moving to Canada... I am currently living and working in US (NY) with a US Green Card (Citizenship is Korean) so is the only way of obtaining PR in Canada through skilled migration ?

I really would like to know this before doing some serious research about Canada because if skilled imigration is the only way it would take a while for me to even start preparing for that..

So i only have US green card and Korean Citizenship.....
Moving from Australia to US was a huge downfall for me and seems like Canada seems much better place to live for me personally so any help would be great..... Thanks

 

[ahaboubi]

There are many ways to immigrate to Canada and become a PR. This link should be useful for you: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/apply.asp

Good luck

 

[newtone]

May I ask you a personal question? Why do you want to leave USA to come to Canada?

Here are some of the comparisons I can see right away

I'll take Toronto as an example:

1. Auto Insurance $200/month to $600/month, if you dont like to drive a car, no problem using the subway will cost you $3 one way, if time is not an issue then there is no grantee when you'll reach your destination on time.

2. If you want to buy real estate the average price of a house in Toronto is a mere $482,000 only, if you want to rent its only $1000/month depending on the number of bedrooms, cheaper in neighborhoods with higher crime rates obviously.

3. Service and commodity prices are more than what Americans pay

4. Higher income tax (if your gross pay is $4700/month your net pay will be $3200)

5. Higher price of gas

6. There are plenty of jobs at minimum wage $10.25 but employers are very selective and competition is very high. Also its very hard to get professional jobs cause employers demand Canadian experience add competition to that.

Lastly I dont want you to have a bad experience here, atleast this way you are aware of the facts.

 

[jshun1234]

Thanks for the heads up but living here in new york it is not what i had in mind.. I do know living expensed are higher but at the moment its not money that made me dislike new york its just not the city for me... I am only 21 this year so if Canada isnt the place for me i can always move to another country by all means but i just cant take other peoples words since everyone told me how great America is and it really wasnt...

so money isnt my my main concern although it is a factor....
As i mentioned i am only looking into this not 100% sure yet but that being said i dont want to move to another country wIthout PR (lived in sydeny with student visa for 11 years..) any way thanks for the facts / info i will take it into my consideration when i do decide later...

 

[newtone]

Your most welcome and good luck

 

[Leon]

The US is big and maybe you should consider another city because you already have a Green card and can move anywhere. Skilled migration is one way to get to Canada but another is going on a work permit and work on your immigration later. You would need to find a job for that first though. You need an employer to prove that he has looked for Canadians for the job and did not find any. Only then can you get a work permit.

 

[YorkFactory]

May I ask you a personal question? Why do you want to leave USA to come to Canada?

Here are some of the comparisons I can see right away

I'll take Toronto as an example:

1. Auto Insurance $200/month to $600/month, if you dont like to drive a car, no problem using the subway will cost you $3 one way, if time is not an issue then there is no grantee when you'll reach your destination on time.

The subway is more far reliable than a car during rush hour. Have fun sitting on the Gardiner.

2. If you want to buy real estate the average price of a house in Toronto is a mere $482,000 only, if you want to rent its only $1000/month depending on the number of bedrooms, cheaper in neighborhoods with higher crime rates obviously.

Yes, there's a housing bubble in Canada. This will correct itself.

4. Higher income tax (if your gross pay is $4700/month your net pay will be $3200)

The only fair comparison includes the cost of health care in the U.S. as a tax. It's pretty much the same; you can either pay it or suffer the consequences.

 

[newtone]

The subway is more far reliable than a car during rush hour. Have fun sitting on the Gardiner.

Yes, there's a housing bubble in Canada. This will correct itself.

The only fair comparison includes the cost of health care in the U.S. as a tax. It's pretty much the same; you can either pay it or suffer the consequences.

The Gardiner stretches from one end of the city to the other, the subway dosen't cover the entire route. One has to change multiple buses and streetcars to get to where they want to go, not very efficient when people are cramped like sardines. I like my space and air-conditioned car thank you very much.

If the housing bubble is going to correct itself we do not know by how much? are average prices in Toronto going to come down to $300k, $200k, $100k? By how much and when no one knows, the only thing people can do is speculate, which is not really constructive. No transparency or accountability. Right now average prices of homes are over $400,000 and thats a fact and its not going anywhere.

I don't quite understand what you mean here. What do you mean by suffer the consequences? why should I pay for someone who chooses to smoke, take drugs and lead a risky lifestyle resulting in a burden on our healthcare system, while I am a healthy individual, just like millions of other Canadians and we choose not to smoke, do drugs or lead a messed up life. How is that fair to us? Where is the accountability? Its just like auto insurance where the Insurance company jacks up my premiums because someone else got into an accident and they had to make a payout. So lets jack up the insurance premiums of all our customers who have an impeccable driving record so that we can recover our cost!!!!

 

[Peter Rabbit]

This is what a call socialism!

And, as Margaret Thatcher claims, "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”

 

[newtone]

And when you run out of other peoples money you relax the immigration system so more people can come in and then the process starts again. They have it all figured out. And so socialism continues as a never ending cycle. I dont think Canada is completely socialist. I would call it a mix of Socialism and Monopoly policies, loosely defined as Socialopoly.

 

[YorkFactory]

Right now average prices of homes are over $400,000 and thats a fact and its not going anywhere.

If you are saying that housing prices cannot decrease unexpectedly, that is unfortunately not at all correct.

 

[newtone]

If you are saying that housing prices cannot decrease unexpectedly, that is unfortunately not at all correct.

I said:

"Right now average prices of homes are over $400,000 and thats a fact and its not going anywhere."

I did NOT say:

"housing prices cannot decrease unexpectedly"

If housing prices can decrease unexpectedly then they can also increase unexpectedly. If you look at most of the houses in Toronto they are obviously not what they are actually worth, the market is obviously defying logic and economics.