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@cankosker You have similar issues re: immigrating and working. Traveling and working are very different things. None of the above should dissuade you, by the way. If you want to leave Canada, you should - it's a big world! And as a software engineer, there are lots of remote work options...

@cankosker Pricing in the USA, UK, AU, NZ all up dramatically in the past several years. Where are you going to go that isn't gambling? As far as I can tell, everyone - including you - is just guessing.

@cankosker Where? You can get detached homes in Calgary and Edmonton for well under $500k. If you're stuck tot he GTA or GVA, then sure, you've got a problem. But in the rest of the country there is lots of affordable houses out there. A million in Calgary is buying you one helluva house...

@cankosker In your examples, the employer sponsored your friends to move there using an H-1B or something, which is the route you'd have to take as well. Lots of Canadians mention moving to the US like it's a trivial exercise. It isn't: if an employer there won't hire/sponsor you, good luck...

@cankosker Where would you go, and who would sponsor you? You can't just walk into the US or EU and live there, for example.