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(QIIP) Québec investor immigration programme has a major contribution to Vancouver housing crisis. It's basically a "pay for citizenship scheme" Québec gets to keep the money for 5 years before returning it to the investor and BC pays the price for it. These investors have no obligation to set foot in Québec or start a business in Québec !

All other provinces have discontinued this programme except Québec.

I am not sure where you got that definition for high literacy.

High literacy in Kerala lead to:

Higher life expectancy, lower infant mortality rate. Higher standard of living, knowing your rights, demand for equal pay, women's empowerment & many more. In Kerala the male to female ratio is healthy unlike rest of India where female feticide is still a problem. Kerala is also way ahead in terms of health & sanitation than rest of India.

While the problems you listed is not unique to Kerala, let me also remind you that India's first IT park is in Kerala and it paved the way for the rest of IT parks in India.

The narrow roads are due to the geography of Kerala which has beautiful winding green mountains, the entire state is on a mountain slopes towards the Arabian sea.

The secular nature of Kerala is worth mentioning too. You will not find any other place in India where people of all faiths live in such harmony & peace. This secular nature of Kerala is one of the reasons why BJP political party is unable to have any headway in Kerala.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/09/poor-bu...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopark,_Trivandrum

Worlds first solar powered airport too.

https://money.cnn.com/2016/03/14/technology/india-cochin-sol...

Not surprising as the FSF India is HQed in Kerala, one of the progressive states in India with a high HDI.

https://www.gnu.org/press/2001-07-20-FSF-India.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_states_and_te...

You haven't missed anything. St Catherine's street is all the nightlife you get in Montreal. As a resident of Montreal in my opinion, a tourist will find the city good for a week or so partly because of its unique look n feel European style. After that the reality of Montreal's worn down infrastructure kicks in. I would say Montréal is just riding on its old glory days before Bill 101.

> So did the English not want to learn the language of the rest of the country

Conquerors always imposes their language and culture to their colonies. British never learned Hindi,<insert lang> of British colony.

Likewise when the French settled, they imposed French rather than learning the many languages of the First Nations people.

It's a great city for tourists in summer.

But to live in Montreal is another ball game. Shops close at 9. On weekends by 5. Never ending construction. Old noisy apartments. Crazy drivers. Badly marked road signs.

The only good thing I have experienced so far is the metro system & the underground city.

That's a very tall claim in regards to learning a language especially French.

You will have to be a resident in Montreal to experience it. Tourist spots don't count.

Im a temp. resident of Montreal but contemplating on moving out of Quebec soon. As a non white minority, I don't feel welcome in Quebec at all.

There are more, but here is the latest:

https://twitter.com/sleeCJAD/status/1192881494689288192

Also good luck getting customer service in English. Its worse if you are not white.

I am not sure you can call it 'culture', but I find Québec is culturally friendly to "white French speakers"

Heard of 'pastagate' ?

If given an opportunity, the French language police of Québec would have adopted and enforced it in Québec.

I am sorry for my ignorance. I am a new citizen of this part of the world. Too late to edit it.

I am very interested to see how many Latinos work here. At least here in Canada elderly care workers are mostly indentured Filipino workers whose immigration files are delayed by the Federal govt essentially making them indentured servants. It is appalling to see first world countries exploiting third world workers by indentured servitude to take care of their parents & elderly.

Not significantly, but less. I get the double of that avg salary mentioned in that link. (I am a 10 years exp dev)

But I think the salaries will go up as more US companies setup shops here as the talent pool rises because of economic immigration.

I consider the pay ok because I get healthcare for free, do not have to worry about my visa, childcare is cheaper, spouses can work, my Canadian equivalent of 401k will not be lost like when I was in US on H1B. If I ever want to work in US, I can work on TN visa too.

It also depends on what you want. I opted for certainty and a good family life over the money.

This has been discussed many time in HN. Indian and Chineese H1Bs can keep complaining or they can immigrate to Canada with Express Entry system which levels the playing field. Business will soon follow. I made the switch and it has improved my life and career in many wonderful ways.

One sad thing I see though is they consider Canada as Plan B. They will get their permanent residency visa but will still stay in US.

Why an expat. Is it something with the work permit. How does one transition from expat to immigrant ?

I moved to Canada after 3 years into my H1B. I don't have I-140.

If I want to go back and work in US, will I be subjected to the quota ?