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So, You Want To Move, Do You?
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Rob - 10:11am on 11/04/2004
As Rob alluded to in this recent post, some partisans wish to leave our great nation, as I would contemplate should Hillary, decidedly, win in '08. But now I know that my options are limited. I knew this already, where in the world can I go that is better than the USA? Canada? Well, the health care is free (for the cost of 55% of your income) but you have to wait for a year to see a doctor. France? Who would want to live there? And you should see the rules that they have to become a citizen, it makes us look like we have open boarders or something...

Anyway, check out this column by Bryant Urstadt.
Heading to Canada or Mexico

In your search for alternate citizenship, you might naturally think first of Canada and Mexico. But despite the generous terms of NAFTA, our neighbors to the north and south are, like us, far more interested in the flow of money than of persons. Canada, in particular, is no longer a paradise awaiting American dissidents: whereas in 1970 roughly 20,000 Americans became permanent residents of Canada, that number has dropped over the last decade to an average of just about 5,000. Today it takes an average of twenty-five months to be accepted as a permanent resident, and this is only the first step in what is likely to be a five-year process of becoming a citizen. At that point the gesture of expatriation may already be moot, particularly if a sympathetic political party has since resumed power.

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