Yes! I moved to Costa Rica from the USA 35 years and I’ve seen MANY people leave for that very reason. They expect it to be more like where they came from. It isn’t, honey. It’s a different country, a different culture, with different customs and language ( although more and more English is being learned and spoken by the locals.) If you move somewhere else you have to learn to adapt, which some people just can’t, or don’t want to do. Simple as that.
It’s the laws that might suprise you…..try Singapore…..ever hear of a beating with a Singapore stick?…Your put up on a scaffold in middle of town…long heavy stick used to beat you…in public….bones break…scarring…..etc….law broken….litterbug…..no kidding….it’s taken seriously…so are the other laws…you will not be hassled as a girl walking down the street at night…..they administer quick and efficient punishment…..geez….no deplomatic exemption there…should have seen the beating a diplomats kid got for graffiti….he will never again…do anything…surgeries needed …lucky to be alive….the humiliation was the worst….
I am now 83 but when I was 20 years old I went to Paris to learn better French. I was an "au pair" looking after 2 young girls, cleaning the apartment and do the grocery shopping. I was attending night school every evening to learn French. When shopping I would ask people on the street where is the bakery, butcher, etc. but because my accent was bad people would just look at me and then turn and walk away. I have never experienced this bad behaviour in any other country I have visited.
That's because you were in Paris... a city which I have visited twice and loathed both times. However, I believe that this rudeness may not be true in the rest of France.
@@heatherhoward2513 I lived in Lille for 2 years, Aix en Provence for 1 and Strasbourg for 2 and frequently visit France because ... I taught French at University level. Paris is not France. You are quite right. What is true is that the French if such a generalization is possible, don't make superficial friends but once you know someone you have a friend for life. That is real. They aren't across the board rude so much as that they say exactly what they think so there is less hypocrisy. And it's also common in large groups for people to become animated and all talk at once, a habit I have myself and am mindful in anglo environments. I thought this feed was idiotic and was making lunch and laughing but pissed off but tx for your great comment.
@@heatherhoward2513 The French expect you to speak perfect French…even if you are a 5=day visitor and your native language is Swahili. In the USA we are more interested in what you can cook that we may not have tried..
I got revenge. I lived in SF and when I got some rude French customers, I told them we hated them and they should just go back to Paris. They actually shut up and ate.
Once you've learned the language well, that problem disappears. When I was in Paris, I spoke French all the time, everywhere I went, and I was always met with friendliness and warmth. The only rude people I saw were tourists who thought "the locals" should have learned English, just to accommodate THEM. (BTW, try speaking mangled English in London or New York and see how well you are received.)
This video is complete bullshit.I have lived in Japan for over 21 years, and I moved there from the UK. In the UK I was working as a customer service agent for DHL international and I hated my job and i never got on with my Family. I moved to Japan in 2003 and I worked as a Junior high school English teacher and loved the culture, lifestyle and work. I met a beautiful Japanese lady and got married in 2006 and have never looked back. I am happy to live in Japan for the rest of my life, until the day I die.
We could learn a lot from the Japanese about how to be a quick learner when you get a corporate transfer. Or from the Mormons, who send missionaries all over the world…after intensive study in their needed language…
That SHOULD go without saying. Even for tourists, it's extremely rude to expect that "the locals" should have learned English just to accommodate YOU. You're in their country, why should they?
In the case of voluntary emigration, I totally agree. The exception would be INVOLUNTARY emigration....like, when you are scrambling to grab your kids and escape murderous violence with just the shirt on your back....like my ex's family had to do with the fall of the Shah.....and as my great-aunt had to do in 1930s Germany. My ex's family was vocally PRO-America and that was a death sentence for them.
@@bdc1960 You’d be amazed. San Francisco’s famously foggy, chilly summers were written about by Mark Twain, who has been dead for a long time…and tourists still come dressed for a day at the beach in San Diego…or Miami.
@ble971 You're right! All English speaking ppl know no foreign word, and know zero about foreign cultures. I live in Perth, Western Australia and they live in a bubble, totally clueless about other ppl. They are most isolated & inward looking and show zero interest in other ppl's languages & cultures. They don't know one foreigner from another. Ridiculous in this day & age 😂😂😂😂
Squad toilets in Japan? I moved to Japan from San Francisco in 2017, and ever since then, all I see are Western-style and I rarely see squad toilets. Also, the Japanese don't work excessively anymore. According to colleagues, Japan’s labor laws are extremely strict and the penalties are harsh. Employers don't want employees to work more than 40 hours a week. I think you've got outdated info. Besides that, I found out that most Japanese are party people and it was surprising for me. Affordable living costs, great foods, cleanliness, kind personalities, and rich cultures. It was a good decision for me to move here.👍
The word you wanted is "squat" not "squad." Squatting is hunkering down on your haunches. A "squad" is a group, a collection of people, men, soldiers, etc.
Suprising it's number one. Good fresh food, clean, ppl are mindful respectful, and the number one thing I felt was that I've never felt so safe in my life until I came to Japan.
Maybe you spotted something I didn’t, but all images appeared to be France. Just what exactly makes you think it was Italy or Switzerland? Or were you confusing the Arena of Nîmes (shown) with the Colosseum?
Having been a professional artist, brother-in-law an wife are HAPPY 2 years in retired to an AMERICAN "ex pat artists colony" on northern coast of Mexico close enough to fly back to Los Angeles on a regular basis for his major medical issues for doctor visits.
@@mijas-rus2715 The fact that these people have emigrated illustrates that they were dissatisfied with their country of origin so it is unlikely that they will be happy in the new one. I say this as a Brit who emigrated to South Africa 20 years ago. I am not very happy here but would not return to the UK.
Seeing as the other two are also on this list, it's very North American. 😆 Seriously though, I think the implication here is that people from Europe or El Norte expect Mexico to be cheaper to live than it is.
Oh yes , especially in the context of vacuous strangely self enamored sterile Vanecouverites...Hopeeelessly overrated and meanwhile out of global attention bc in the end it is a real estate repository only
I live in the Tokyo area so I can tell with 100% assurity that the work / life balance sucks here but restuarants seldom allow smoking & regular western toilets are easy to find here but 30 years ago, it was a different story.
Since April 2020 smoking is only allowed in designated areas of restaurants & bars. It's not allowed to smoke in the street outdoors, or at a bus or train station outdoors.
Le minimum syndical quand vous allez à l'étranger c'est d'apprendre les bases de la langue du pays. Le reportage est biaisé car vous ne parlez que des capitales en général.
We moved to France in 1996, when my husband retired, and I took an opportunity for 'voluntary redundancy'. We have never regretted it, but then, we both speak reasonable French, and live in a small village: I never want to live in a big town again! I've been there, done that, my whole life, and hubby was looking for the tranquillity of his early roots in the UK countryside. Yes, French bureaucracy is a nightmare, and if WE are struggling, I can't imagine how you would cope if your French is not good. However, we live opposite the village 'mairie', where they know us, and are always tremendously helpful, despite not speaking any English at all. And as for eating out in France being expensive, that's nonsense! It's ALWAYS been cheaper than the UK, except in big towns and 'let's rip off the tourist' places (same as everywhere else): there are still hundreds of small restaurants where you can get a 3 course meal with wine for 15 euros or less. And houses are still WAY cheaper than the UK. In fact, the only problem is that the vast majority of French people do NOT speak much English, though many of them can understand a fair bit. Americans expect everyone else to speak English; Brits hope they will; and the French resent the fact that English is now the dominant language!!!
Also you forget that for non natives English suxx and is an effort that logically people in their own house only want to use so far. You have to live with that. As much as they are put up with your claiming .
English is the international language, not French. Basically, more people speak French in Africa. And yes, the French do resent Americans, their success, money and their language.
I'm an American from New England who has been to the UK 3 times (most recently November-December of last year) and that has not been my experience with the people at all. My first two visits were to London, Sunbury-on-Thames, and Oxford, then most recently I visited Manchester, Liverpool, and Chesterfield. Over all visits I found people to be very welcoming, helpful, cheerful, and friendly. Manchester made 2 lists of "top places to be worldwide in 2023" and as far as I'm concerned it lived up to the ranking. As a solo female traveler I felt very safe and "at home" there, even in the seedy areas. Everyone was positive, confident, and outgoing. I realize that there is a huge difference between visiting and living in a place as I have experienced living abroad, but I just found that what I experienced does not match the reports of gloom and doom from the UK.
What comes as a shock to many of us Canadians is the number of recent immigrants who have decided not to stay because Canada is not what they expected. The weather (very cold winters & increasingly hot summers) isn't the problem. Principally, the outrageous cost of housing in most popular urban centres makes home ownership unattainable and rents unaffordable. If they have educational & professional credentials, it is difficult and time-consuming to have them recognised in Canada. Even though the national health service is short of doctors, credentialed staff arriving from foreign countries are forced into scrambling for alternative employment. The cost of living is high, and the current federal government is oblivious to the problems. A note about the need for a car. The video got it wrong. Increasingly, residents in major cities no longer buy cars because public transportation is pretty good. It is in smaller or rural areas where a car becomes a necessity, or if you're trying to travel between urban centres.
@@louiseleite3866 I lived in the UK for a few years. I found it overpriced, overcrowded and sidewise it is small for all the ppl living there. I felt quite claustrophobic. Crowded buses, the underground a nightmare and London's pavements so crowded, I couldn't move. It was like that back in 1980 & even worse over a decade later.
@@WL-xb3iv I've been visiting 2 -3 times per year for the last 18 .. taught myself spanish, have many tico friends yet still enjoy the best of both worlds ... Canada/Costa Rica
That's BS about Mexico there's thousands that move to Mexico every year from the US and very few hundred only return and the price of living is a lot cheaper and crime is only hyped up by videos like yours in the US government.
Do your homework before moving to another country. For example, if you move to Canada and you don't know that it gets cold in winter you are in for a big surprise.
You actually made these statements in the video (I’m paraphrasing): 1)French is a difficult language to master, particularly if you’re not already fluent in it. Huh? 2) Public transportation in Canada is not only inadequate, it doesn’t cover all areas. You don’t say, doh! 3) The cost of living is high in the US, so that expats have a hard time adjusting to lower living standards than the lifestyle they were accustomed to. Really? Are these expats millionaires or royalty? Because the US is a developed country and the majority of immigrants come from third world countries, I highly doubt they have to lower their standards of living, buddy. So do you see any problem in the logics of the above statements? They’re clear examples of what’s called muddled thinking.
People I know from third world countries have housekeepers, drivers, cooks with what would be considered middle class jobs in the USA. Nurses that I worked with from third world countries described the housekeeping/gardening support they had at home on their third world wages, but find unaffordable in the US.
It was a joke so pathetic. Who are expats? White Americans. They can't be French because the Vietnamese actually speak French. They were under French rule between the 1880s and 1954 .. France got the US into the Korean war it was a former colony. I was laughing and crying making lunch and listening to this bs. The real criminals in Brazil, a country I know well because my best friend forever whom I met at school was born there and still there ... were the obscenely rich kids riding around the streets of Sao Paolo gunning down the homeless. It even got as far as 60 minutes. Fuck.
@@huubvermeulen7320 That's what I said. AI said that racism is the major problem in the US. I've been around and Americans are amongst the least racist.
Sorry but I don't think so The word mateship defines Australia the most New comers never feel isolated Majour key word fair go and living together also define aus People never suffer from racism Eng pronunciation is much more clearer than US But... sad to say things are expensive especially in Sydney
@@abtrdg Try living in Perth. I have no friends at all here. I've been here several years & I can tell you I've never seen or experienced mateship here. You are living in la la land. You say no one is isolated here. I call your BS! The Aussie way of life is living & dying alone. Bad neighbours who build walls around them & who wouldn't dream of inviting you over. If you invite them over, they take great offence & snub you forever. There's no small talk here either when in public. If they see someone who wants small talk, they turn their faces the other way. Friendly ppl here? My arse they are. They just stay within their family, if they have one. Nobody visits anyone here as friends are impossible to make. They are inward looking & xenophobic. Thank God for the few foreigners here who do show kindness. Perth is like Australia in the 1950s. They are paranoid about outsiders and secretive too. They share nothing with anyone. Most individualistic lot. Btw, it is dead boring here too. Quite rough as well .
@@pnp3894the COVID camps meant we avoided over flowing funeral homes like in New York. We only lost a few old people that were past their use by date.
I don't knnow where they got their cost of housing figures from, but the average cost of a house in the U.S. was $48,000 in the 1980s maybe--today that amount will get you a shack in Appalachia.
I moved to Canada and regretted it. I have travelled and lived in countries on four continents and nowhere have I encountered a country as culturally boring as Canada. I live in the capital, ottawa. It is known as the city where fun came to die. I am moving soon because I can't stand its dullness for much longer.
@@supermash1 It's a long story. Prior to coming to this disaster of a place, I had lived alone or with my Canadian husband in the UK, the Canary Islands, Spain, Costa Rica, Iran, and Morocco. He basically whined about not having lived in Canada for many years and persuaded me to come here for just "two years". Even though I cannot stand North America north of the Mexican border, I agreed but it turned out that he had no intention of ever leaving again. He lied. We had one baby of two years old and another on the way, and he refused to move, so I was stuck. At least I resisted his original intention to move to "California North" (Vancouver, British Columbia) where he is from. We ended up in Ottawa, which is around half way between the UK and Vancouver, and he got a government job at a time when one in five jobs in Ottawa were federal, provincial, National Capital Commission and local government jobs - hence its very boring nature. At least I have been fortunate enough to have been able to escape from Canada for three months or so every year. Every time I return I start planning my next escape. It makes life here bearable. No 'staycationing' for me. I've travelled in every province and with the exception of Newfoundland and cities in Quebec such as Montreal and Quebec City, and found that Canada is pretty much the same as far as being culturally boring is concerned, and all of the remoter places I would like to visit are inaccessible by public transport. Canada is a car culture and some provinces don't even have trains or buses, so I go to culturally interesting countries where I can travel by public transport.
@@AAC2446 I moved to Canada Ontario Mississauga back in the 90's and I can tell you this country is considered very boring for English speaking people. With the influx of immigrants from different nations hopefully in the next few years things will change HOPEFULLY
@@supermash1 Partisan northwestern USA citizen here…you picked the wrong region. But sadly, even lovely Vancouver has been hit by the cartels and is awash in fentanyl. We know too much about this scourge…
I moved to the Canary Islands for four years from 1990-1994 and regretted it. Once I realised my error I gave notice at my job, bought my return air ticket and racked off out of there. I would never go back to Spain (or Europe) again. Never again.
Canada is a cold country, but minus 40 degrees C in Vancouver! You are misleading people! Vancouver is rainy, dump, humid, yes and sunny once in a while to take the pictures they advertise! For minus 40 go to Winnipeg! Anyway, coming to Canada you have to know French, English or both! When you move to a different country you have to learn the local language. Right? Some day they may ask you to know one or more of the many "first nations" languages! Ahahah!...
I know, the French can be something. I was raised by parents of French descent. I can't and won't say this of all French, but they can be judgmental and "better than everybody else ". It took me a while to shake that. I have met other French people that are like that
Whoever wrote this junk should go back and do their homework. The greater Toronto and Vancouver areas are the last places where you absolutely must have a car. And if you're moving to another country, the first thing you need to look at is the cost of living, so if you find Canada so awful, go home. We do have airports here and the planes fly both ways. And our Healthcare system is one of the main reasons people want to come here
You're delusional. Every major Canadian city has become a cesspool of crime and poverty. Healthcare is absolutely broken. We packed up, sold the house, and left 4 years ago and moved to Europe. Couldn't justify raising the kids there, there is no future.
I so regret moving to Canada! It has been a huge mistake. The healthcare, the systemic racism, the passive aggressiveness of people here, the cost of living and many more make it impossible to thrive in this country. I am not materialistic even though I am an ambitious person in the sense that I always set goals such as learning new skills and improving myself. Most things in this country run around materialism and competition with the johnses. This life is quite miserable.
If you tell me the name of the city where you live in Canada, I can give you the address of the nearest airport so that you can return to your country as soon as possible and stop suffering...in fact, I will even pay for your airplane ticket. Si me dices el nombre de la ciudad donde vives en Canada, te puedo dar la direccion del aeropuerto mas cercano para que te tomes un avion y regreses a tu pais lo mas pronto posible asi dejas de sufrir.....es mas, ...hasta te pago el pasaje.
In terms of passive aggressiveness only rivalled by sucking Sweden and noxious New Zealand. Typically all those mellifluous anglo-tilting coercive societies. Btw , NZ sucks most , cold damp irrationally expensive , no future for people who dont like gumboots and the lowlife of rugby.
Look you made a wrong a choice. this is not even immigration. this is the deception of western imperialism. so the richest people from china, middle east, Africa and India and eastern Europe move there. so there is huge propaganda about western countries. all the main stream medias, all the institutions, everything belong to them. so they rate their own countries as the happiest, safest, best countries around the world and then rate other countries like Kazakhstan or Russia or ... as shittiest places in the world 🤣🤣🤣
I was born here in Canada; and have travelled around the world quite a bit. I can honestly say there's no place like home. There's excellent healthcare, no racism or passive aggressiveness of people here. I own my own home on a large property and there's no materialism or competition with the Jones' anywhere. Life is awesome living here! So josieramirez9483 the above person who regrets having moved to Canada and calls it a huge mistake and she actually mentions our healthcare as being miserable. So she isn't happy living here but i've got to wonder why she finds life to be so miserable and yet she's still here......and for what reason is it that she hasn't moved back to somewhere she'd like better in the U.S.? So many of these people are trashing us while they're living here! We don't do that to our American neighbors! Most people who complain will stay because of our FREE healthcare and they're battling something that would cost them big bucks in the U.S. so some will likely never move away and yet never praise the country they're living in. So, why all the hate remarks and yet still stay here Josieamirez9483? ? If you hate Canada that much why don't you move back to where you want to be and pay for your own medical issues there in support of your own country. But NO, she wants free medical and will get it here and she'll never admit that's what it was all about. It was awful when i read what she said including racism and passive aggressiveness of the Canadian people because none of us are like that and we'll never trash someone elses country! She's a liar and won't admit that she's never going to move back to wherever it was that she came from. We don't use those kinds of words bashing our system. We are PROUD CANADIANS and if you don't like it Josie then lump it and PLEASE go back to your home wherever it is in this world and good luck to you.
I live in the US; in fact I am native born... I was born in Peekskill, NY. Forgive me but I find this video INCREDIBLY flawed when talking about the US. 1) I just returned this last April from living in Poland for seven months, and one thing Poles don't understand about living in the US vs. living in Poland is that you CANNOT just generalize about specific topics and talk about ANY one topic as if it is a NATION WIDE thing.... Cost of living is different from state to state... NOT just the difference between major cities like NYC and L.A. in CA. You ABSOLUTELY NEED to specify between EACH STATE. Even our addresses are a lot different as you absolutely need to include the name of the state when writing or saying your address here; partly because we have a lot of city names that are REPEATED in multiple states... Like the name Salem, or Portland, there are EVEN TWO Las Vegases here in the US... one in Nevada and one in New Mexico... 2) I would like to know WHERE you found houses for $48k.. MAYBE $90k is possible, but I would be HARD PRESSED to find $48k... and yes again....depending on the STATE we are talking about; it IS possible for houses to go into the millions.... 3) Even health care depends on multiple factors since each state may or may not have services for people dealing with limited income.... You really need to check your facts...
This is probably one of the worst video I have seen in years. The images are mixed up and some of the fact are wrong and the dialogue seems to have been created by a not properly trained chatbot.
Honestly, the main issue for most people moving to Canada is the cost of living - housing, utilities, food, general items. They are all much more expensive than how they are priced in the US and most of Europe. And then on top of that more than a third of your paycheck goes to taxes. So people are struggling. And its compounded by the issue that Canadians don't protest for things to get better. They just grumble about it, while corporations and government continues to do their worst.
When I visited Paris I found the people very friendly. I have first cousins in Paris but I never met them - they were always on vacation. And I spoke the language somewhgat - I could speak French clearly and people understood me. But in most cases I could not understand what they said.
@@EvelynBaron yes, family helped. I stayed at my cousin's apartment in the 18th and the bneighbors were friendly, often leaviung little gifts at my door. This cousin from Ireland converted tio Judaism for mnarraige. Noi problem with Catholic parents or relatives. SAnother cosusin, heiress to a fortune in today;s money about 50-60 million dollars, attended a posh convent school in paris. She became a nun to work among the poorest of the poor in mExico. I met her as a child in NYC as she was on her way back to Irelaqand toi settle her estate, overseeing how it was to be given to the poor.
I live in Australia. A relative married a Frenchman. We were invited over & went to visit them one day and he had his family there too. Not one of them even glanced in our direction. They only spoke & communicated with each other. We never went back there! What disrespectful & rude brutes.😮😮
@@johanna5688 One instance. I stayed in Paris for month and had many encounters with different people. I lived and shopped in a French neighborhood, the only American there. Everyonme was either friendly or courteous. BTW, I fell in with a diverse young crowb my own age-all Europeans except for 2 Algerians.. One was Australian. All could speak English. But I had to translathe Australian English for the otrhers. They could not understand it. Admittedly the Australian had a severe accent and many Australians have an accent but their Engish is pperfectly clear.
I think this is a very biased video. You don't realise how annoying it is to hearing the word "ex-patriates" constantly. Why Americans, so proud of their GREAT country, move abroad? Just because it is more affordable? Not interest on adapting to the new place? Nor make the 'sacrifice' of learning a new language?...Instead of complaining, change your country and make it to an unselfish one, where people count as human beings, where they don't get sucked out of money for basic rights like healthcare and education...Then you won't have the urge to move to another country and have all those unpleasant experiences!
This video misleads people about Canada , I have been living in Canada for more than 15 years and it is not accurate information about some of aspects of life .
First - Why should one use English as the defacto language that one is expected to speak as a criteria Second - Why should the Anglo-Saxon value or lifestyle be the yardstick as the de facto standard Third - How much of what you mention are still current, e.g. your narrative of Vietnam, China or even Mexico (associated a Chinese visual as corruption in Mexico, etc). Do you have a secondary agenda when preparing this clip.
Weird how the part about Canada is clearly Toronto centric. Car insurance prices vary wildly from one province to another. Ontario costs more than 2x Quebec because in Quebec there is a collective insurance system.
Average house in America 48K Where the F**K is that? maybe in very rural town in the southern part or maybe slums of Pennsylvania (No offence intended PA.), Average cost here is probably closer to 500K that's realistic price. I live is Reno Nevada and home prices here start around 480K and that's Reno
I guess he means an annual rent. In my neighborhood (Charlotte NC) a one bedroom apt goes for 1700 + (20,400 annual rent) and 2 bedroom is 2500 (30,000 annual rent) And just across the street from my home the new luxury townhouses were built with units leasing from 8 to 10,000 per month (96,000 -120,000 annual payment). So for a family of 4 an average annual rent for a decent apt might be close to 50,000. Home price here is around 400-450 K. Depends, you know.
No place in the Globe is perfect or ideal for retirement or relocation ,mainly because abuse of language and cultural ,value difference, It takes great courage ,sacrifice ,compromise to move out of your home country ,thank you for the nice and fair reporting
Very surprised that Spain is not on the list? Totally regretted moving there…..a very unwelcoming nation. Not to mention their ‘mañana’ mentality. How does this country survive in the modern world?
Same in SE Asia. It's all manana. I went to open a bank account and had to wait for the young woman to tidy her desk first. She moved at a snail's pace. Their retail staff is like something from a farce. Shop girls sleeping on the floor behind the counters. Other retail staff go missing when a foreigner turns up. Being followed round the store as if a wanted thief walked in. Supermarket girls doing each other's hair instead of helping customers & doing a little work. Get the picture? A lot of very stupid service there.
You don’t know me!! And you have no idea about the miserable experience we had in Spain. So please don’t be so defensive….it is a VERY unwelcoming nation…..FACT!!
That's true that the info about Canada in this video is not true, as well as the info on all the other countries too. But having said that the only advice I would give about living in Canada is don't move there, or if you're already there get the heck out now! 😮😅
🤔🙄 Actually, if you move cities , depending on where you moce, if you've spent Thousands on a Moving Van, Thousands on Bond, Thousands on Rent & depending on how nany in your fam, possibly THOUSANDS on Transport plus THOUSANDS on Storge ... You CAN'T AFFORD to move "back home" either! 😢😂
#1 Reason People Regret Moving; Unrealistic Expectations.
Big, constant lies.
@@peter58petercontinuous lies!
Yep.
Many people think they can wave a magic wand when moving abroad.
Yep!
Yes! I moved to Costa Rica from the USA 35 years and I’ve seen MANY people leave for that very reason. They expect it to be more like where they came from. It isn’t, honey. It’s a different country, a different culture, with different customs and language ( although more and more English is being learned and spoken by the locals.)
If you move somewhere else you have to learn to adapt, which some people just can’t, or don’t want to do. Simple as that.
People are People Everywhere! You have good and bad folks everywhere. 😢
It’s the laws that might suprise you…..try Singapore…..ever hear of a beating with a Singapore stick?…Your put up on a scaffold in middle of town…long heavy stick used to beat you…in public….bones break…scarring…..etc….law broken….litterbug…..no kidding….it’s taken seriously…so are the other laws…you will not be hassled as a girl walking down the street at night…..they administer quick and efficient punishment…..geez….no deplomatic exemption there…should have seen the beating a diplomats kid got for graffiti….he will never again…do anything…surgeries needed …lucky to be alive….the humiliation was the worst….
... and clichés are clichés...
IMMIGRANTS! Stop saying expatriates. They are all IMMIGRANTS!!!
Thank you.
Actually immigrants are mostly running illegals, here we are talking about leaving your
home for what ever reason - VC
I am now 83 but when I was 20 years old I went to Paris to learn better French. I was an "au pair" looking after 2 young girls, cleaning the apartment and do the grocery shopping. I was attending night school every evening to learn French. When shopping I would ask people on the street where is the bakery, butcher, etc. but because my accent was bad people would just look at me and then turn and walk away. I have never experienced this bad behaviour in any other country I have visited.
That's because you were in Paris... a city which I have visited twice and loathed both times. However, I believe that this rudeness may not be true in the rest of France.
@@heatherhoward2513 I lived in Lille for 2 years, Aix en Provence for 1 and Strasbourg for 2 and frequently visit France because ... I taught French at University level. Paris is not France. You are quite right. What is true is that the French if such a generalization is possible, don't make superficial friends but once you know someone you have a friend for life. That is real. They aren't across the board rude so much as that they say exactly what they think so there is less hypocrisy. And it's also common in large groups for people to become animated and all talk at once, a habit I have myself and am mindful in anglo environments. I thought this feed was idiotic and was making lunch and laughing but pissed off but tx for your great comment.
@@heatherhoward2513 The French expect you to speak perfect French…even if you are a 5=day visitor and your native language is Swahili. In the USA we are more interested in what you can cook that we may not have tried..
I got revenge. I lived in SF and when I got some rude French customers, I told them we hated them and they should just go back to Paris. They actually shut up and ate.
Once you've learned the language well, that problem disappears. When I was in Paris, I spoke French all the time, everywhere I went, and I was always met with friendliness and warmth. The only rude people I saw were tourists who thought "the locals" should have learned English, just to accommodate THEM. (BTW, try speaking mangled English in London or New York and see how well you are received.)
This video is complete bullshit.I have lived in Japan for over 21 years, and I moved there from the UK. In the UK I was working as a customer service agent for DHL international and I hated my job and i never got on with my Family. I moved to Japan in 2003 and I worked as a Junior high school English teacher and loved the culture, lifestyle and work. I met a beautiful Japanese lady and got married in 2006 and have never looked back. I am happy to live in Japan for the rest of my life, until the day I die.
Congratulations!
You have a responsibility to learn the language before you live in different countries
Absolutely true
My Dad spoke 9 languages. He used to say each language you speak makes the world that much bigger. A wonderful inspiring father.
We could learn a lot from the Japanese about how to be a quick learner when you get a corporate transfer. Or from the Mormons, who send missionaries all over the world…after intensive study in their needed language…
That SHOULD go without saying. Even for tourists, it's extremely rude to expect that "the locals" should have learned English just to accommodate YOU. You're in their country, why should they?
In the case of voluntary emigration, I totally agree. The exception would be INVOLUNTARY emigration....like, when you are scrambling to grab your kids and escape murderous violence with just the shirt on your back....like my ex's family had to do with the fall of the Shah.....and as my great-aunt had to do in 1930s Germany. My ex's family was vocally PRO-America and that was a death sentence for them.
Who moves to Canada and is surprised that winter is cold?
@@bdc1960 You’d be amazed. San Francisco’s famously foggy, chilly summers were written about by Mark Twain, who has been dead for a long time…and tourists still come dressed for a day at the beach in San Diego…or Miami.
@@bdc1960 Or Toronto and Vancouver are not near each other…
💔😭
@@liannebedard5521what u mean I can’t take a subway from NY to LA 😮 😆
@@bdc1960 People who move to British Columbia but wanted a deep freeze?
Moved from Germany to Mexico 26 years ago. Never regretted it.
Warmer weather.
better be in a country which sends migrants than in one which collects them, specially when muslim...
Thank you
Go back
@@jurgenlauterbach7226 Congratulations!
Who decides to move to another country and not bother to at least get a rudimentary ability to speak the language
Guess who , tip here : English speaking people 😅
@ble971
You're right! All English speaking ppl know no foreign word, and know zero about foreign cultures. I live in Perth, Western Australia and they live in a bubble, totally clueless about other ppl. They are most isolated & inward looking and show zero interest in other ppl's languages & cultures. They don't know one foreigner from another. Ridiculous in this day & age 😂😂😂😂
Lots of people do.
@ParisianThinker then loud off people are dumb. Even if it's an unexpected opportunity at least buy Rosetta Stone . Good grief.
Winter temperature in Winnipeg and Vancouver can drop to -40 C? Winnipeg perhaps.... Vancouver, absolutely not!!!
And the comment about healthcare cost is not correct. The housing issue varies from province to province as well.
Yes agree. Canada became a sheer Hell by the liberal gang leading by dictator Trudeau
Vancouver does not get that cold,
Vancouver gets to vote about −8 in the winter or warmer and every several years, maybe −15. celsius
Wpg +40 in summer
Squad toilets in Japan?
I moved to Japan from San Francisco in 2017, and ever since then, all I see are Western-style and I rarely see squad toilets.
Also, the Japanese don't work excessively anymore. According to colleagues, Japan’s labor laws are extremely strict and the penalties are harsh. Employers don't want employees to work more than 40 hours a week.
I think you've got outdated info.
Besides that, I found out that most Japanese are party people and it was surprising for me.
Affordable living costs, great foods, cleanliness, kind personalities, and rich cultures. It was a good decision for me to move here.👍
Pochans, squat toilets, were what I saw mostly, in older housing, older buildings, especially out in the country.
The word you wanted is "squat" not "squad." Squatting is hunkering down on your haunches. A "squad" is a group, a collection of people, men, soldiers, etc.
@@melissastreeter22
Yes, you’re right! My apology!
Yeah, am also surprised to find this country on spot no. 1
Suprising it's number one. Good fresh food, clean, ppl are mindful respectful, and the number one thing I felt was that I've never felt so safe in my life until I came to Japan.
You’re talking about France and showing photos of Italy and Switzerland
picked that up? Brilliant. I gave up half way through but stayed to the end.
YES!!!
Maybe you spotted something I didn’t, but all images appeared to be France.
Just what exactly makes you think it was Italy or Switzerland?
Or were you confusing the Arena of Nîmes (shown) with the Colosseum?
Please also feature top 10 or top 5 countries where expats are happy moving to next.🙏 New sub here. Thanks. 🙂
These countries probably don't exist. There are always people who are unhappy no matter where they move to due to unrealistic expectations
Having been a professional artist, brother-in-law an wife are HAPPY 2 years in retired to an AMERICAN "ex pat artists colony" on northern coast of Mexico close enough to fly back to Los Angeles on a regular basis for his major medical issues for doctor visits.
@@mijas-rus2715 The fact that these people have emigrated illustrates that they were dissatisfied with their country of origin so it is unlikely that they will be happy in the new one. I say this as a Brit who emigrated to South Africa 20 years ago. I am not very happy here but would not return to the UK.
The average housing cost in the U.S. is $48,000 ??? Really ??? Where ???
8:51
What was the narrator smoking when he said this???
@@KoguryoKid I don't think ChatGPT smokes. It just makes up bullshit naturally.
It's more like "when"... In the early 70's my father-in-law bought a house in Chicago for $50,000 give take.
Housing price on national average is $360,000, not $48K.
I was wondering that too.
Why do immigrants expect people to speak their language in another country?!
I'll remain in Puerto Rico, USA living free and happy
Not any freeer than in so many other countries , only less affordable. Happy that finally someone stays home.
México contrasted with North America? México is *in* North America.
Indeed. Beginning I think with the NAFTA treaty.
@EvelynBaron No, beginning with the shape of the Continent plate, whether anybody likes it or not.
Seeing as the other two are also on this list, it's very North American. 😆 Seriously though, I think the implication here is that people from Europe or El Norte expect Mexico to be cheaper to live than it is.
Vancouver B.C Canada never gets to -40 c. Ever
Born and raised in Vancouver.You are correct. It doesn't even get too half that cold
-5c at worst in an average year.
Oh yes , especially in the context of vacuous strangely self enamored sterile Vanecouverites...Hopeeelessly overrated and meanwhile out of global attention bc in the end it is a real estate repository only
I would never move to a crowded city anywhere.
I'm 57, born in Geneva, Switzerland and happily living in Mar del Plata, Argentina since 1984
Richard (Swissarg 🇨🇭🇦🇷)
Good for you amigo! Cheers 😎
Fine , but predicated on Swiss profiteering or just a statistic outlier .
I live in the Tokyo area so I can tell with 100% assurity that the work / life balance sucks here but restuarants seldom allow smoking & regular western toilets are easy to find here but 30 years ago, it was a different story.
Since April 2020 smoking is only allowed in designated areas of restaurants & bars. It's not allowed to smoke in the street outdoors, or at a bus or train station outdoors.
I wasn't aware that there was hospitality in Paris, facade or otherwise.
And yes, mastering a language is difficult if you are not already fluent.🙄🙄🙄
I want the 38 thousand house. Hell I'll take 2.
Le minimum syndical quand vous allez à l'étranger c'est d'apprendre les bases de la langue du pays. Le reportage est biaisé car vous ne parlez que des capitales en général.
Compris. Vous avez tout a fait raison.
We moved to France in 1996, when my husband retired, and I took an opportunity for 'voluntary redundancy'. We have never regretted it, but then, we both speak reasonable French, and live in a small village: I never want to live in a big town again! I've been there, done that, my whole life, and hubby was looking for the tranquillity of his early roots in the UK countryside. Yes, French bureaucracy is a nightmare, and if WE are struggling, I can't imagine how you would cope if your French is not good. However, we live opposite the village 'mairie', where they know us, and are always tremendously helpful, despite not speaking any English at all. And as for eating out in France being expensive, that's nonsense! It's ALWAYS been cheaper than the UK, except in big towns and 'let's rip off the tourist' places (same as everywhere else): there are still hundreds of small restaurants where you can get a 3 course meal with wine for 15 euros or less. And houses are still WAY cheaper than the UK. In fact, the only problem is that the vast majority of French people do NOT speak much English, though many of them can understand a fair bit. Americans expect everyone else to speak English; Brits hope they will; and the French resent the fact that English is now the dominant language!!!
Also you forget that for non natives English suxx and is an effort that logically people in their own house only want to use so far. You have to live with that. As much as they are put up with your claiming .
English is the international language, not French. Basically, more people speak French in Africa.
And yes, the French do resent Americans, their success, money and their language.
Do NOT move to the UK. People are cold and aggressive. There are no jobs and housing is an absolute nightmare.
I can't wait to leave.
I'm an American from New England who has been to the UK 3 times (most recently November-December of last year) and that has not been my experience with the people at all. My first two visits were to London, Sunbury-on-Thames, and Oxford, then most recently I visited Manchester, Liverpool, and Chesterfield. Over all visits I found people to be very welcoming, helpful, cheerful, and friendly. Manchester made 2 lists of "top places to be worldwide in 2023" and as far as I'm concerned it lived up to the ranking. As a solo female traveler I felt very safe and "at home" there, even in the seedy areas. Everyone was positive, confident, and outgoing. I realize that there is a huge difference between visiting and living in a place as I have experienced living abroad, but I just found that what I experienced does not match the reports of gloom and doom from the UK.
I'd rather say that people are stressed out and sad. At least that was my experience when I visited Chepstow in May 2024.
The average price for housing in the US is not $48,000. Maybe in the 1950's.
I recently visited Japan and really liked it.
Who moves to Belarus?
Have seen many Americans move there,as well as Russia with Russian wives.We all need to reunite,wars must stop.🎉🎉
😅😂🎉🎉
No one in right mind would move to Belarus
Maybe Russians! That's it. No one watching this video is split between Belarus and anywhere on Earth.
Yeah who, Putin's kids?
Average minimum temp in Vancouver BC is about 32F or 0C.
Who will move to china? and why.
Shanghai - loved it.. Beautiful, clean city with friendly ppl. In retirement, so that's where I would go.
@@placidwaters2415 And live as a communist? Give it a few more years in US and it will be communist
I think he meant $480,000 for a house in the US, not $48,000.
I would have never expected to see Canada on this list.
That visuals of Belarus... all those red & white flags are actually Polish.
I couldn't see the rest of the sign at 2x speed but someone was holding a sign with "Polska (something)".
I know. They're on the brink of civil war. It's like moving to the former Yugoslavia in the '90s when Milosovitch was busy committing genocide.
I actually expected Canada lol
What comes as a shock to many of us Canadians is the number of recent immigrants who have decided not to stay because Canada is not what they expected. The weather (very cold winters & increasingly hot summers) isn't the problem. Principally, the outrageous cost of housing in most popular urban centres makes home ownership unattainable and rents unaffordable. If they have educational & professional credentials, it is difficult and time-consuming to have them recognised in Canada. Even though the national health service is short of doctors, credentialed staff arriving from foreign countries are forced into scrambling for alternative employment. The cost of living is high, and the current federal government is oblivious to the problems.
A note about the need for a car. The video got it wrong. Increasingly, residents in major cities no longer buy cars because public transportation is pretty good. It is in smaller or rural areas where a car becomes a necessity, or if you're trying to travel between urban centres.
🚷Don't move! Stay where you are!🚳
I hope you do the same, one must move around and learn to live with each others
The United Indian Tribes of North America?! Sure, why not?I would now be speaking perfect French …and living in Brittany…
That's the
Lesson. Here
@@louiseleite3866
I lived in the UK for a few years. I found it overpriced, overcrowded and sidewise it is small for all the ppl living there. I felt quite claustrophobic. Crowded buses, the underground a nightmare and London's pavements so crowded, I couldn't move. It was like that back in 1980 & even worse over a decade later.
One of the biggest complaints that Americans have when living in Costa Rica is that the ketchup is runny...
I’m thinking about moving there
@@WL-xb3iv I've been visiting 2 -3 times per year for the last 18 .. taught myself spanish, have many tico friends yet still enjoy the best of both worlds ... Canada/Costa Rica
The biggest problem is the scams and bugs.
Why doesn't them Frenchies learn to speaking Inklitch like the west of us?? That wood mek em nicer & more like fredlee. Rilly. OK?
If you aren’t FLUENT in the new language DON’T MOVE
I have lived in Bulgaria for 13 years with few problems!
Ridiculous advice. France will help you learn French and integrate.
@@OG1323 buffoon!
That's BS about Mexico there's thousands that move to Mexico every year from the US and very few hundred only return and the price of living is a lot cheaper and crime is only hyped up by videos like yours in the US government.
Can you live there without eating tacos? I can't eat them or fried meat.
Do your homework before moving to another country. For example, if you move to Canada and you don't know that it gets cold in winter you are in for a big surprise.
Belerus was a surprise.....a surprise that anyone would consider moving there in the first place.
Actually it is a very safe country.
You actually made these statements in the video (I’m paraphrasing): 1)French is a difficult language to master, particularly if you’re not already fluent in it. Huh? 2) Public transportation in Canada is not only inadequate, it doesn’t cover all areas. You don’t say, doh! 3) The cost of living is high in the US, so that expats have a hard time adjusting to lower living standards than the lifestyle they were accustomed to. Really? Are these expats millionaires or royalty? Because the US is a developed country and the majority of immigrants come from third world countries, I highly doubt they have to lower their standards of living, buddy.
So do you see any problem in the logics of the above statements? They’re clear examples of what’s called muddled thinking.
People I know from third world countries have housekeepers, drivers, cooks with what would be considered middle class jobs in the USA. Nurses that I worked with from third world countries described the housekeeping/gardening support they had at home on their third world wages, but find unaffordable in the US.
They're clear examples of AI-generated crap, I think you mean.
It was a joke so pathetic. Who are expats? White Americans. They can't be French because the Vietnamese actually speak French. They were under French rule between the 1880s and 1954 .. France got the US into the Korean war it was a former colony. I was laughing and crying making lunch and listening to this bs. The real criminals in Brazil, a country I know well because my best friend forever whom I met at school was born there and still there ... were the obscenely rich kids riding around the streets of Sao Paolo gunning down the homeless. It even got as far as 60 minutes. Fuck.
@@huubvermeulen7320 That's what I said. AI said that racism is the major problem in the US. I've been around and Americans are amongst the least racist.
He didnt mentioned and used the word french are arrogant something stuck up their ass problem so he is being nice
You’re describing negative conditions of Mexico’s crime, cleanliness, etc showing images of China.
yup.
that's an AI video I assume - so there are always mistakes in there
I'm not 100% sure, but it looked like they were showing drone shots of the Colosseum when talking about france
And spain- the police car is from policía nacional
You forgot Australia!
Maybe Australia should have a 1 hour dedicated special as the new number 1 worst regrets 😂
Sorry but I don't think so
The word mateship defines Australia the most
New comers never feel isolated
Majour key word fair go and living together also define aus
People never suffer from racism
Eng pronunciation is much more clearer than US
But...
sad to say things are expensive especially in Sydney
It wasn't mentioned here, but Australia is always the number one country that Americans would relocate to. (But don't tell anyone.)
@@abtrdg
Try living in Perth. I have no friends at all here. I've been here several years & I can tell you I've never seen or experienced mateship here. You are living in la la land. You say no one is isolated here. I call your BS! The Aussie way of life is living & dying alone. Bad neighbours who build walls around them & who wouldn't dream of inviting you over. If you invite them over, they take great offence & snub you forever. There's no small talk here either when in public. If they see someone who wants small talk, they turn their faces the other way. Friendly ppl here? My arse they are. They just stay within their family, if they have one. Nobody visits anyone here as friends are impossible to make. They are inward looking & xenophobic. Thank God for the few foreigners here who do show kindness. Perth is like Australia in the 1950s. They are paranoid about outsiders and secretive too. They share nothing with anyone. Most individualistic lot. Btw, it is dead boring here too. Quite rough as well .
Certainly don't tell anyone of the Island off the bottom of main land Australia.
I suspect probaganda for US citizens to stay. Me, I'm happy where I am in Denmark.
@@Marianne-k4uCanada loves for Americans to visit, within legal limits. Residency depends on whether you have a skill Canada NEEDS.
Viva Danmark! 🇩🇰
Too bad about Mexico … It would be great living there if not for all the corruption and gangs … 😞😞
I never regretted moving to Mexico. Live in central Highlands though
@@seamusseamus1202 where is that?
I moved from The UK to New Zealand (lived in Australia for a while) & absolutely hate It, Big Mistake, Moving back to Austalia soon.
New Zealand's too rough. I didn't like it either. I found it a most dangerous destination. Been there long ago. Once was enough.
From the fat into the fire.
I moved to Australia on the day I was born. 🤣 I’m definitely not moving.
Und Lucky!Rest of us struggling.Blessings
Yes
Australia lucky country
You mean the country of Covid Camps?
Im American. Australia seems like a good country to live.
@@pnp3894the COVID camps meant we avoided over flowing funeral homes like in New York. We only lost a few old people that were past their use by date.
I don't knnow where they got their cost of housing figures from, but the average cost of a house in the U.S. was $48,000 in the 1980s maybe--today that amount will get you a shack in Appalachia.
If you want to move to a country for a long time, of course you have to learn their language... duh #japan
I moved to Canada and regretted it. I have travelled and lived in countries on four continents and nowhere have I encountered a country as culturally boring as Canada. I live in the capital, ottawa. It is known as the city where fun came to die. I am moving soon because I can't stand its dullness for much longer.
Why on earth did you move to Ottawa?
@@supermash1 It's a long story. Prior to coming to this disaster of a place, I had lived alone or with my Canadian husband in the UK, the Canary Islands, Spain, Costa Rica, Iran, and Morocco. He basically whined about not having lived in Canada for many years and persuaded me to come here for just "two years". Even though I cannot stand North America north of the Mexican border, I agreed but it turned out that he had no intention of ever leaving again. He lied. We had one baby of two years old and another on the way, and he refused to move, so I was stuck. At least I resisted his original intention to move to "California North" (Vancouver, British Columbia) where he is from. We ended up in Ottawa, which is around half way between the UK and Vancouver, and he got a government job at a time when one in five jobs in Ottawa were federal, provincial, National Capital Commission and local government jobs - hence its very boring nature. At least I have been fortunate enough to have been able to escape from Canada for three months or so every year. Every time I return I start planning my next escape. It makes life here bearable. No 'staycationing' for me. I've travelled in every province and with the exception of Newfoundland and cities in Quebec such as Montreal and Quebec City, and found that Canada is pretty much the same as far as being culturally boring is concerned, and all of the remoter places I would like to visit are inaccessible by public transport. Canada is a car culture and some provinces don't even have trains or buses, so I go to culturally interesting countries where I can travel by public transport.
@@AAC2446 I moved to Canada Ontario Mississauga back in the 90's and I can tell you this country is considered very boring for English speaking people. With the influx of immigrants from different nations hopefully in the next few years things will change HOPEFULLY
@@supermash1 Partisan northwestern USA citizen here…you picked the wrong region. But sadly, even lovely Vancouver has been hit by the cartels and is awash in fentanyl. We know too much about this scourge…
I moved to the Canary Islands for four years from 1990-1994 and regretted it. Once I realised my error I gave notice at my job, bought my return air ticket and racked off out of there. I would never go back to Spain (or Europe) again. Never again.
Seriously, bro, Japan as No. 1??? Squat toilets are being replaced, smoking is restricted in most restaurants. China is much, much worse 🙄
Canada is a cold country, but minus 40 degrees C in Vancouver! You are misleading people! Vancouver is rainy, dump, humid, yes and sunny once in a while to take the pictures they advertise! For minus 40 go to Winnipeg! Anyway, coming to Canada you have to know French, English or both! When you move to a different country you have to learn the local language. Right? Some day they may ask you to know one or more of the many "first nations" languages! Ahahah!...
I know, the French can be something. I was raised by parents of French descent. I can't and won't say this of all French, but they can be judgmental and "better than everybody else ". It took me a while to shake that. I have met other French people that are like that
Whoever wrote this junk should go back and do their homework. The greater Toronto and Vancouver areas are the last places where you absolutely must have a car. And if you're moving to another country, the first thing you need to look at is the cost of living, so if you find Canada so awful, go home. We do have airports here and the planes fly both ways.
And our Healthcare system is one of the main reasons people want to come here
You're delusional. Every major Canadian city has become a cesspool of crime and poverty. Healthcare is absolutely broken. We packed up, sold the house, and left 4 years ago and moved to Europe. Couldn't justify raising the kids there, there is no future.
Dude Expats? Seriously? Just say immigrant, and let's be sincere. What the hell?!
I love my country Sunny South Africa ❤❤❤
I loved living in SA for 6 months long ago. But now, I am not sure how it would be.
In Vietnam so many scammers and rude people. Japan is so lovable country, this content is wrong about Japan 🎉
Who put his garbage together?
China should be number 1. After 8 years I am finally getting out of this hell hole
I so regret moving to Canada! It has been a huge mistake. The healthcare, the systemic racism, the passive aggressiveness of people here, the cost of living and many more make it impossible to thrive in this country. I am not materialistic even though I am an ambitious person in the sense that I always set goals such as learning new skills and improving myself. Most things in this country run around materialism and competition with the johnses. This life is quite miserable.
What part of Canada did you move to?
If you tell me the name of the city where you live in Canada, I can give you the address of the nearest airport so that you can return to your country as soon as possible and stop suffering...in fact, I will even pay for your airplane ticket.
Si me dices el nombre de la ciudad donde vives en Canada, te puedo dar la direccion del aeropuerto mas cercano para que te tomes un avion y regreses a tu pais lo mas pronto posible asi dejas de sufrir.....es mas, ...hasta te pago el pasaje.
In terms of passive aggressiveness only rivalled by sucking Sweden and noxious New Zealand. Typically all those mellifluous anglo-tilting coercive societies. Btw , NZ sucks most , cold damp irrationally expensive , no future for people who dont like gumboots and the lowlife of rugby.
Look you made a wrong a choice. this is not even immigration. this is the deception of western imperialism. so the richest people from china, middle east, Africa and India and eastern Europe move there. so there is huge propaganda about western countries. all the main stream medias, all the institutions, everything belong to them. so they rate their own countries as the happiest, safest, best countries around the world and then rate other countries like Kazakhstan or Russia or ... as shittiest places in the world 🤣🤣🤣
I was born here in Canada; and have travelled around the world quite a bit. I can honestly say there's no place like home. There's excellent healthcare, no racism or passive aggressiveness of people here. I own my own home on a large property and there's no materialism or competition with the Jones' anywhere. Life is awesome living here! So josieramirez9483 the above person who regrets having moved to Canada and calls it a huge mistake and she actually mentions our healthcare as being miserable. So she isn't happy living here but i've got to wonder why she finds life to be so miserable and yet she's still here......and for what reason is it that she hasn't moved back to somewhere she'd like better in the U.S.? So many of these people are trashing us while they're living here! We don't do that to our American neighbors! Most people who complain will stay because of our FREE healthcare and they're battling something that would cost them big bucks in the U.S. so some will likely never move away and yet never praise the country they're living in. So, why all the hate remarks and yet still stay here Josieamirez9483? ? If you hate Canada that much why don't you move back to where you want to be and pay for your own medical issues there in support of your own country. But NO, she wants free medical and will get it here and she'll never admit that's what it was all about. It was awful when i read what she said including racism and passive aggressiveness of the Canadian people because none of us are like that and we'll never trash someone elses country! She's a liar and won't admit that she's never going to move back to wherever it was that she came from. We don't use those kinds of words bashing our system. We are PROUD CANADIANS and if you don't like it Josie then lump it and PLEASE go back to your home wherever it is in this world and good luck to you.
It would be helpful to hear numbers behind the information.
Yeah, I'd hate to live in a country where politeness is the norm and the crime rate is low like in Japan. You must be crazy.
😂
They have a such humorless language and still want everyone to speak it after a week + They can't even speak one more language than French themselves.
a bit like native english/americans that only speak 1 language
I live in the US; in fact I am native born... I was born in Peekskill, NY. Forgive me but I find this video INCREDIBLY flawed when talking about the US. 1) I just returned this last April from living in Poland for seven months, and one thing Poles don't understand about living in the US vs. living in Poland is that you CANNOT just generalize about specific topics and talk about ANY one topic as if it is a NATION WIDE thing.... Cost of living is different from state to state... NOT just the difference between major cities like NYC and L.A. in CA. You ABSOLUTELY NEED to specify between EACH STATE. Even our addresses are a lot different as you absolutely need to include the name of the state when writing or saying your address here; partly because we have a lot of city names that are REPEATED in multiple states... Like the name Salem, or Portland, there are EVEN TWO Las Vegases here in the US... one in Nevada and one in New Mexico... 2) I would like to know WHERE you found houses for $48k.. MAYBE $90k is possible, but I would be HARD PRESSED to find $48k... and yes again....depending on the STATE we are talking about; it IS possible for houses to go into the millions.... 3) Even health care depends on multiple factors since each state may or may not have services for people dealing with limited income.... You really need to check your facts...
Who moves to Belarus?
I don't know where to move. Elon Musk was supposed to colonize Mars, and I would probably move there, but it seems it's not going to work out soon.
Need to carry oxygen tank with you.😊
Coming soon. Number 1 planet that people regret moving to.
As a saying goes, it is good there where we are not.
😂
This is probably one of the worst video I have seen in years. The images are mixed up and some of the fact are wrong and the dialogue seems to have been created by a not properly trained chatbot.
Honestly, the main issue for most people moving to Canada is the cost of living - housing, utilities, food, general items. They are all much more expensive than how they are priced in the US and most of Europe. And then on top of that more than a third of your paycheck goes to taxes. So people are struggling. And its compounded by the issue that Canadians don't protest for things to get better. They just grumble about it, while corporations and government continues to do their worst.
you mean immigrants surly
You're right, #1 is shocking. And it's surprising to know smoking is still allowed in restaurants.
Smoking is prohibited in almost all restaurants nowadays.
Please come to Japan and see . We will welcome you♪
I do not go to French restaurants do to all the smoking.
중국보다 일본이 높은건 의외네.
언어적 문제는 똑같을텐데
When I visited Paris I found the people very friendly. I have first cousins in Paris but I never met them - they were always on vacation. And I spoke the language somewhgat - I could speak French clearly and people understood me. But in most cases I could not understand what they said.
I am bilingual. Sounds like you were half way there! Also having family contacts must have helped.
@@EvelynBaron yes, family helped. I stayed at my cousin's apartment in the 18th and the bneighbors were friendly, often leaviung little gifts at my door. This cousin from Ireland converted tio Judaism for mnarraige. Noi problem with Catholic parents or relatives. SAnother cosusin, heiress to a fortune in today;s money about 50-60 million dollars, attended a posh convent school in paris. She became a nun to work among the poorest of the poor in mExico. I met her as a child in NYC as she was on her way back to Irelaqand toi settle her estate, overseeing how it was to be given to the poor.
I live in Australia. A relative married a Frenchman. We were invited over & went to visit them one day and he had his family there too. Not one of them even glanced in our direction. They only spoke & communicated with each other. We never went back there! What disrespectful & rude brutes.😮😮
@@johanna5688 One instance. I stayed in Paris for month and had many encounters with different people. I lived and shopped in a French neighborhood, the only American there. Everyonme was either friendly or courteous. BTW, I fell in with a diverse young crowb my own age-all Europeans except for 2 Algerians.. One was Australian. All could speak English. But I had to translathe Australian English for the otrhers. They could not understand it. Admittedly the Australian had a severe accent and many Australians have an accent but their Engish is pperfectly clear.
I don't know why, but I now find the word "expatriate" fucken annoying 😂😂😂
I think this is a very biased video. You don't realise how annoying it is to hearing the word "ex-patriates" constantly.
Why Americans, so proud of their GREAT country, move abroad? Just because it is more affordable? Not interest on adapting to the new place? Nor make the 'sacrifice' of learning a new language?...Instead of complaining, change your country and make it to an unselfish one, where people count as human beings, where they don't get sucked out of money for basic rights like healthcare and education...Then you won't have the urge to move to another country and have all those unpleasant experiences!
Who in the world would move to a mexican border town?
Never wanted to move to any of these countries!!!
This video misleads people about Canada ,
I have been living in Canada for more than 15 years and it is not accurate information about some of aspects of life .
First - Why should one use English as the defacto language that one is expected to speak as a criteria
Second - Why should the Anglo-Saxon value or lifestyle be the yardstick as the de facto standard
Third - How much of what you mention are still current, e.g. your narrative of Vietnam, China or even Mexico (associated a Chinese visual as corruption in Mexico, etc).
Do you have a secondary agenda when preparing this clip.
You're right of course. I think it's the danger of AI riffing off the internet which is dominated by English, and American English at that. Troubling.
Whether you like it or not, English is the international language.
Whether you like it or not, third world countries are rife with corruption. Lucky if you get to leave, and in your underwear too.
Because English is THE amazing language which everybody should learn as a second language....VC
Horrendous approach to this topic with a mostly subjective assessment.
Weird how the part about Canada is clearly Toronto centric. Car insurance prices vary wildly from one province to another. Ontario costs more than 2x Quebec because in Quebec there is a collective insurance system.
この類のランキングは殆どなんの役にも立たないどころか誤解を招くことさえあります。あなたが外国のリアルな日常生活を知りたいと思うなら、その外国に長く住む貴方の同胞のリアルな投稿を複数チェックする事をお勧めします。因みに現代の日本で古いタイプのトイレを探すのは非常に難しいです。またほとんどのレストランは禁煙です。
Belarus is amazing country, i never regret about moving here
Go be cannon fodder for putin then
Seriously?
Oh yeah, great dictatorship, hosting the Russian army, low human rights, severe limitations on travel, it’s great!
A person with just Social Security benefits could live comfortably in Belarus.
Belarus has real winter and their own language. Imagine that.
You lost me when you talked about racism in america
The grass is not greener on the other side, it’s where you water it ,think first before moving to another country
Vancouver does not get to -40 C in winter. Winnipeg, yes.
Canada is the new India 🇨🇦
Namaste 🙏
Oh please. Have you lived in Mumbai? The worst thing about Canada, .... as a Canadian is the small mindedness.
@@EvelynBaron
I live in Australia and have never met a friendly Canadian. They are grumpy sourpusses. Not a friendly lot.😮😮
My god.. if you ask typical Americans... well bad idea.
Average house in America 48K Where the F**K is that? maybe in very rural town in the southern part or maybe slums of Pennsylvania (No offence intended PA.), Average cost here is probably closer to 500K that's realistic price. I live is Reno Nevada and home prices here start around 480K and that's Reno
I guess he means an annual rent.
In my neighborhood (Charlotte NC) a one bedroom apt goes for 1700 + (20,400 annual rent) and 2 bedroom is 2500 (30,000 annual rent)
And just across the street from my home the new luxury townhouses were built with units leasing from 8 to 10,000 per month (96,000 -120,000 annual payment).
So for a family of 4 an average annual rent for a decent apt might be close to 50,000. Home price here is around 400-450 K. Depends, you know.
Expatriots? IMIGRANTS 😂
One of the reason locals are not friendly and lacking warmth is mainly the way Americans behave in overseas.
Oh my god? Really
@@Westpark16 Not all o us are like that. I am watching (them) destroy my country
Who would wanna move to china
What’s with a photo of the Colosseum while talking about France?
Wasn't the colosseum.
Expatriates? You mean immigrants
U.K. the work life balance?😂😂😂 we got more than bloody usa that’s for sure
Most countries would.
Canada should be #1
No place in the Globe is perfect or ideal for retirement or relocation ,mainly because abuse of language and cultural ,value difference,
It takes great courage ,sacrifice ,compromise to move out of your home country ,thank you for the nice and fair reporting
Thank you for a heart felt comment reflecting your belief in human nature. As for reporting, no.
This is the wisest statement made.
Very surprised that Spain is not on the list? Totally regretted moving there…..a very unwelcoming nation. Not to mention their ‘mañana’ mentality. How does this country survive in the modern world?
Same in SE Asia. It's all manana. I went to open a bank account and had to wait for the young woman to tidy her desk first. She moved at a snail's pace. Their retail staff is like something from a farce. Shop girls sleeping on the floor behind the counters. Other retail staff go missing when a foreigner turns up. Being followed round the store as if a wanted thief walked in. Supermarket girls doing each other's hair instead of helping customers & doing a little work. Get the picture? A lot of very stupid service there.
They dont survive but enjoy life by being NOT LIKE YOU .
You don’t know me!! And you have no idea about the miserable experience we had in Spain. So please don’t be so defensive….it is a VERY unwelcoming nation…..FACT!!
You can only move to Spain if you have little money. They will tax you to death there.
The info concerning canada is not honest and far from the truth
That's true that the info about Canada in this video is not true, as well as the info on all the other countries too. But having said that the only advice I would give about living in Canada is don't move there, or if you're already there get the heck out now! 😮😅
🤔🙄 Actually, if you move cities , depending on where you moce, if you've spent Thousands on a Moving Van, Thousands on Bond, Thousands on Rent & depending on how nany in your fam, possibly THOUSANDS on Transport plus THOUSANDS on Storge ... You CAN'T AFFORD to move "back home" either! 😢😂
Yes, that had happened to me - but I guess I would not be going back but....VC
I'm surprised they didn't mention the Philippines, though me and my wife enjoy living here. More affordable that when we lived in the US.
You regret moving here in the Philippines? Then just move back to where you came from.
The video is entitled "10 Countries people regret moving to" so why should he mention the Philippines?