Honestly, it depends on money.
If I won the lottery, I'd probably move to Zurich. Or maybe Vancouver. Or back to NYC.
If I don't (which I've started to realize may be more realistic), we'll probably stay in Calgary and/or Canada till the kids are at least in Uni. After that, I'd love to move somewhere a bit warmer or cosmopolitan again.
The safety-net in Canada is something you really learn to appreciate once you've lived in the US. The biggest costs of living in the US are health care and education related...something that is much more reasonable in Canada, especially when you have kids. People who think of moving to the US don't realize that you can spend $1500 per month for your family for health insurance, $10-20K+ a year for property taxes, and $10k a year for K-12 in places where public school is crap. The places where people want to be in the US (ie California, New York etc) can be pretty crazy expensive.
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