What has changed in 20 years in Canada?
Find out if the grass used to be greener.
Every time someone who wants to immigrate to Canada seeks advice from the community of immigrant compatriots, there are serious passions and verbal battles under the post. Some of the old-timers are of the opinion that Canada is no longer the same, and there is nothing to catch there anymore. Newcomers reply that life in the country is great, and their opponents are just getting greedy.
Why so?
This is how psychology and human nature work. In the first years after moving a person constantly compares their homeland with Canada in favor of the latter. Thay are in a state of immigration euphoria — everything around seems better, more comfortable, and more interesting. It seems that in Canada "everything is for the people" and there are many opportunities everywhere.
Then the rapture wears off, and after a dozen years of living in the country a person begins to be critical of Canada and more often notices the shortcomings. They have not been in their homeland for a long time and have a poor idea of how it lives, so they compare the current country of residence not with the previous one, but with some ideal state.
Also, it used to be better, because we were younger, more energetic, and happier. It's a scientifically proven fact: one is happiest when one is young, then the level of happiness gradually drops until the age of 50, and then increases again. That's why you will be as happy at 80 as you were at 12. And that's why Canadian retirees are very happy in their country.
But let's not get carried away with lyrical digressions. We have analyzed the opinions of immigrants in Canada who have lived there for a long time, and we tried to put together an objective analysis for you.
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