Nope Brigade | Ph.D. Candidate (@nopebrigade0) | TikTok
Some who fled the US – in this case to Canada – discover the housing situation is worse and Canada enforces its immigration laws – such that this individual is only there on a six month visitor visa and is running out of money (not permitted to work on a visitor visa).
She is a Ph.D. candidate (means a grad student) studying the extreme right, she says and identifies as a “political refugee”. She was unaware that housing costs in Canada are higher than in the U.S., especially in parts of British Columbia and is pleading for someone to give her “free” or “below market rate” housing, as a guest in Canada – so she can have the convenience of staying near family in the US, presumably in the PNW. She complains she is “shut out” of Canadian services such as health care. Seems to be self-centered privilege seeking going on here, doesn’t it?
Apparently, she had not researched this before moving. It seems likely she and her partner will have to return to the U.S.
As a commenter suggests, she left the U.S. because the U.S. is awful, moved to Canada, where costs and access to services are awful, and now expects Canadians to offer her free or reduce price housing.
Related: How many Americans who move abroad – move back to the U.S.? – Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking – up to 50% of those who move abroad eventually return to the U.S. And a reminder that very few Americans actually move abroad – about 1.6-2% are living abroad, and about 1+/-% of retirees move abroad, with about half of those already having permanent residency or dual citizenship in their destination country.