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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
I live in the US after moving from Calgary a year and a half ago and make frequent trips back to Calgary. Unequivocally now the cost of living is higher in Canada, especially when you factor in incomes and earning potential in the US. There are positives and negatives of both places and I think Canada has such a complex with the US that makes Canadians blind to anything that might actually be better in the US and also blinds them to things that are objectively awful in Canada.
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Cost of living in Canada has always been higher. The tradeoff is we have public health care, much better public education, lower poverty, lower crime rates, far fewer slums. And overall a more cohesive, egalitarian high-trust society. YMMV on whether that’s a desirable tradeoff (and I don’t mean that sarcastically - people have different values).