Why did you choose the US?

[mawilson 2,133]

No-one mentioned the weather yet?

[Flames9_RN 358]

I would take Canada's weather any day over DC!! Much toO humid here!! I much prefer cold and snow!!

[Emancipation 2]

I would take Canada's weather any day over DC!! Much toO humid here!! I much prefer cold and snow!!

Amen.. humidity sucks..

and don't get me started on the "other ways" Canada rocks vs. US hee heee...

[Cassie 8]

I would take Canada's weather any day over DC!! Much toO humid here!! I much prefer cold and snow!!

Amen brother! Oklahoma summers suck -- way too dang hot.

[Melyssa 0]

We decided on the US because I had a job/roots and my wife just moved back to Ontario with her parents after they spent six years in Alberta. She had no job/no career/no school and we figured it was better for me to keep my job than for me to find one in Canada. Since she's going to be a stay at home mom, that helped on that department too. We talked about retiring in Canada one day but once we have kids and they grow up and possibly live in the Philadelphia area, it would be hard to leave them.

Yours are similar reasons to ours but not entirely... ! I work but only temporarily, and I also plan on being a stay at home mom once children are in the picture...

[Melyssa 0]

We talked about both options (him, USC, moving to Canada/me, CDN, moving to the U.S.) but ultimately it made more sense for me to be the one to move since he loves his job and there is no opportunity to work at that job in Canada. We will BOTH miss my family a lot though!

[mozplay 28]

I would take Canada's weather any day over DC!! Much toO humid here!! I much prefer cold and snow!!

Amen brother! Oklahoma summers suck -- way too dang hot.

Ditto here in Baltimore ... it SUCKS being so hot and sticky all the time. It feels like a really awful day in August in T.O.... any it's only May ... ok... June by now.

Mo

[Autumnchik 6]

My Canadian hubby LOVES the heat and I can't stand it. He is so bummed that we no longer live in Georgia.

When we go to bed at night, I am usually sweating and uncomfortable, begging to use the AC. He is under a comforter!!!

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Well, I prefer the heat and my husband likes the cooler weather:-). I had enough snow during the first 48 years of my life to last me a lifetime so I am happy to live here in Georgia. While weather was not a consideration in our decision of where to live, I LOVE it here in Georgia. Winter is the way it should be:-) - above freezing during the day and hovering around freezing overnight:-). I must admit though that July and August's heat and humidity combination becomes hard to take. Thank God for AC.

Edited June 2, 2007 by Kathryn41

[MissStacey 1]

New Orleans in the summer is torture! The heat and the humidity. Yes, Thank God for AC!! There are days there I would love to feel some -30. Just for a few minutes!

Mel is very settled in Louisiana, he has a good job, he has shared custody of his 5 year old son and that is reason alone he wouldn't move to Canada.

As a Hairstylist, I can easily find work anywhere. Before I met Mel, I was offered a job in the Cayman Islands. I thought about it, chatted with the Owner several times, but turned it down. Glad I did!!

[Eli 0]

This is an interesting question. My hubby, the USC, is actually a dually, USC by birth and Canadian citizen (do we have a short-form for this? CAC? ) by naturalization. He was into college in Washington state and I hadn't started in BC, although I'd been accepted into universities in 3 different provinces. We decided it made more sense for me to fall behind a year in school rather than have him transfer. He also feels the job market will be better for the two of us in the USA (him-economics and me-civil engineering). He had only lived in the GTA area in Canada and he wasn't impressed (I don't blame him) and I grew up in rural Ontario, and being adventurous left home after high school for Kamloops, BC, so moving again to WA wasn't a big deal, just another adventure. We'll finish school in the USA and then go where the money takes us, be it anywhere in the USA or the world, as we are quite the globetrotters (especially him, he's lived in Wisconsin, Arizona, Japan, India, Canada, and we've visited China where his dad teaches english). We do ultimately want to buy some land in Montana and retire there someday!

-Eli-

[Uzume 0]

I've seen this question asked for VJers from everywhere, but I'm wondering what factors led Canada/US couples to decide to live in the US instead of Canada. Of course some factors to consider will be the same for all couples. But like some other countries, Canada shares with the US the same language (well, most of Canada does), a culture that's similar in many ways, and the same standard of living more or less. Most Canadians have probably travelled in the US, and we get US TV, so there's less for us to get used to. Most of us aren't deciding on the language or continent, just which side of the border to live on (and all the changes that either decision brings).

My fiance was prepared to move to Canada to be with me. But when we took the emotion out of the equation (we both love our own countries), it made more sense for me to move to the US. I'm self-employed and work at the computer, so I can continue doing the same work almost anywhere that has an Internet connection. I earn most of my income in USD already. And he has a closer connection with his family, where he lives, than I do with mine.

Since you're here at VJ, you decided to live in the US. How did you make that decision? Or if you've lived in Canada together or plan to later, how did you decide that?

Well, I'm not there yet.... but whilst in the long term it makes more sense for us to live in the UK, for now the USA is the more practical choice.

I am somewhat nervous about it, living overseas is quite a daunting prospect and I will be leaving my family, including my son, behind and some amazing and close friends who I have known for about 20 years or so.

However, it is an adventure and I can come home if it is unbearable. I'm looking forward to my new life... with some trepidation and excitement in equal measure.

[Reba 2]

Originally the plan was for my hubby to move to Canada. I have more family that I'm closer to, more close friends that I had to surgically remove than he did, and an established carreer where I made quite good money, better than a comparable job in North Carolina anyhow. He was all for it, sick and tired of the life-style here in the south, not particularly looking forward to moving to "the big city" of Toronto, but then I showed him my hometown of Stouffville and he quite liked that idea, so I got an apartment there, getting ready for him to move up. Then Canadian Immgration put the kybosh on that, declaring him a menace to society because of a stupid juvenile record, and then I got laid off from my job, so here I am.

I've been bugging him ever since to get his paperwork sorted out so that we can go to Canada. I'd like to move back at least to retire, hopefully before. The prospect of having to pay for medical care in the US into our old age is not something I look forward to. I miss my family and friends, I miss the life--style, and his parents are dead now (they died within less than a year of each other, since I moved here) and he's not especially close with the rest of his family. We never see them, not even his brother who lives across the street! We hear from his neice only when she wants something from him.

At the very least I'd like to move up to a border town so that I could drive up to TO and Whitby to see family and friends more often. Somewhere around Buffalo or Rochester or or or...so even if James never sorts out his mis-spent youth that haunts him (crikey, even the Marines didn't care...why the hell should it be such a problem for immigration? bleah ) I'd be able to see my family more often than once or twice a year. This year it looks like I'll only get home once, and as my eejit Mother and Sister *still* have not managed to get their passports, it is unlikely I'll see any of them south of the border at all. eejits. Its not like they didn't know it was coming! sheesh! Plus, my brother-in-law also has a criminal record that will likely make him inadmissable to visit the US, so I only get to see them when I can get up there.

Parents teach your children well! Especially as you're cross border families, if they get themselves into trouble, they won't be able to go visit the other half of their family! Man, it is such a bother.

[Fuzzness 2]

I moved to Georgia because I love bass fishing. There just ain't no good places in north georgia.

[AndreaK 1]

No-one mentioned the weather yet?

we both hate the cold and snow, so i'm all for a 3 month (max) winter that only gets about 5-10 degrees Celsius below freezing. what i'm not looking forward to is the summer heat and humidity. at least we have a brand new a/c system in the house...