I've lived in Canada (Quebec) for five years and my experiences have been almost competely positive. As an anglophone in Quebec I feel slightly looked down upon but never enough to be a problem.
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1st - You live here long enough you will find this goverment has a VERY Anit-American stance and they make it very clear they do not want us here at all.
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I've had immigration workers look at me like I'm crazy for coming to Canada from the US but never experienced any hostility. Amusingly one of them even told me she wished she could move to the US.
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2nd - The cost of housing is WAY higher than in the U.S. In Canada even with the exchange rate you will pay a lot more for a lot less.
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Depends on where you are. Rents have sky-rocketed in Montreal recently but they're still much cheaper than in Boston. Also, I recently closed on a house on Ile Perrot (just off the island of Montreal) for atleast half of what I would have paid for a similar house in one of the far out Boston suburbs.
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3rd - With taxes being 15% the exchange rate is not all its cracked up to be, especially the past few years with the declining economy.
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The exchange rate still makes it much cheaper to do business in Canada than in the US.
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4th - Canadian immigration is the worst to deal with in the world. Good luck ever trying to live here legally. If your ever lucky enough to speak to an English speaking person not Chinese, they will still nto help you work things out.
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Odd. I've found the Canadian bureaucracy very easy to deal with. There have been a few times when I've gotten people who's first language was French and who spoke little English but they've always made an effort.
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BTW: If you do move here, dont let anyone know your American because all you will ever here is "America sucks because, America sucks because, America sucks because, The States this, The States that, You runin our lives bla bla bla bla bl ablabla bla bla....."
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I don't go around advertising that I'm American but the worst hostility I've experienced is along the lines of "The Habs are going to kick the Bruins asses!".