Neue Einwanderer sind laut Umfrage weniger glücklich als Kanadier mit langjähriger Aufenthaltserlaubnis

People who own homes valued at a million dollars are happier than people paying 2k a month to rent a dingy apartment with a view of a hobo urinating on a dumpster.

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Canada is only good if you already got your stuff

I work with a bunch of them. They were sold a bill of lies. Many are forced to work jobs they hate to get PR points. They feel trapped. None of them realized how expensive life is here.

I am a Chinese Canadian. I speak Cantonese and Mandarin (and, sometimes, I am perceived as being from Hong Kong even though I have only vacationed there for a total of 8 days combined in my lifetime and I am 29). But anyway, I got the GDP PPP shock when I vacationed in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan this past summer.

Now, I am well aware that people in mainland China don’t make anywhere near the amount of money that Canadians make because China isn’t a developed country (but my cousins, who work in either municipal agencies or Chinese state owned enterprises) have salaries that come close to the lower end of Canadian salaries (implying they are at the top end of the income spectrum in China). Anyway, this means you can easily find cheap food and cheap places to stay in China. In the city of Zhuhai (where that vehicle ramming attack that ended 35 lives just happened days ago), I stayed at a nearly brand new 5 star hotel for $100 Canadian per night. It was a very spacious room with extreme automation (including a robot that would deliver your online orders straight to your room, and a voice-activated device known as Xiaodu, similar to Amazon Alexa that controls the lights, TV and window coverings (not blinds, but either cotton or nylon). The hotel is within walking distance to Macau (the Special Administrative Region powered by casinos).

Now, what really shocked me is Hong Kong. You would think that the City with so many high earners (whose salaries are so high, that if you were working as a banker, teacher, doctor, etc…), that you would need to be willing to accept a massive pay cut to move to Canada. The hotel room for the 5 star Royal Plaza Hotel cost us $200 Canadian a night. It was right next to the mall called MOKO (so named for Mong Kok, or “busy corner” in English). There is also a ramen restaurant in Sham Shui Po (a poor area of Hong Kong) that sells ramen and lets you stack different ingredients on it. When you stack enough of the ingredients for it to be full, it costs maybe $16 Canadian, and it is bigger than similarly priced ramen in the GTA, where I live. My mom is a cheapskate and even she has to acknowledge that “Hong Kong is, in many ways, cheaper than Canada”.

Taiwan is even more obvious in this regard. Taiwanese minimum wage is half that of Ontario minimum wage (and it appears that Taiwanese average incomes are similarly only half that of Canadian incomes.). Taiwan’s minimum wage is about $1240 a month, whereas a minimum wage Ontario employee makes $2866. But there are small little restaurants in Taipei and New Taipei that have dishes sell for $2 to $5 Canadian. You would be really hard-pressed to find anything under $10 in Canada that would make you full (I am using this calculation because that’s what GDP PPP is: if people in one country make 50% less than that of another country, you expect things to cost about 50% to have the same standard of living).

Canada’s problems go well beyond the housing crisis. Even if you have a paid off house, the grocery costs would still be extreme, even outside the North (where it is outrageously high the last time I read on the Internet). While housing crises exist in these Chinese-speaking jurisdictions, that seems to be the only cost of living crisis in Hong Kong and Taiwan. What makes this even worse is that Hong Kong and Taiwan are not car-dependent, which means you can thrive without a car. While Taiwan has lower gas prices than Canada, Hong Kong has substantially higher gas prices. But bus passes that are actually usable and convenient because of the infrastructure makes all the difference. Not being required to own a car allows one to save a substantial amount of money.

You mean it’s hard? Ofc it’s hard coming to a new country. Plus now instead of gratitude we have entitlement…….

Go back. It’s a trap.

This surge of immigrants has made Canadians youth very unhappy. Our Canadians youth are paying four time more for their rents than we did few years ago. You think I care about immigrants being unhappy, I do not. But I care about our Canadians youth, seniors and veterans who are struggling. Meanwhile asylum seekers ( economic migrants) get free hotel, free groceries, free dental and prescriptions. Wake up Canadians! 

I don’t think a poll was needed for it, you would have to put in work wherever you are in this world.
I am in country jeez from almost 9 years and I can’t say I have made something for myself and I can consider myself to be skillful and hardworking, I am still in late 20s, so I can say I have some time, but life still hasn’t progressed at the pace I was hoping for.
I can go home at any point, no family so I am certainly not trapped.
Now on the contrary, know this woman, 40s, Ukrainian refugee, 9 year old son, not great income, rent a room with her son, can’t go back home, not skillful enough to something for her, things could work out for her but it be struggle and there are thousands of new comers like her.

Send the unhappy ones home.

If only there was a way to assess the country before making such a decision

Unfortunately, it’s the same for young Canadians as well.

Long-term Canadians less happy with new immigrants.