Unhappy with U.S., some think Canada offers better future

Houston Chronicle ^ | July 26, 2003 | AP

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....they agree the United States is growing too conservative and believe Canada offers a more inclusive, less selfish society.

Sounds to me like they're into freeloading off their fellow man.

[Hildy]

For me, it's a no-brainer," said Mollie Ingebrand, a puppeteer from Minneapolis

A PUPPETEER? Good...and please do us a favor and take all the mimes with you too.

[bybybill]

I have only one thing to sday.....BY BY

[DB]

Great news!

I hope they change their citizenship.

Major disappoint lies in their future ;-)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

LOL!

[MJY1288]

They deserve Canada, If Cananda isn't good enough, France would be a great second choice.

[nopardons]

If only more of these types would leave, maybe, the USA would be better off. LOL

[Rainbow Rising]

"I've been there and done that," she said. "I don't want to stay and fight anymore. I can have that bittersweet love for my country from somewhere else."

Buh-bye, Mollie. Don't let the door hit you in the buttocks on the way out.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Venezuelans seize the day***Community leaders contend there could be as many as 20,000 Venezuelans living here, although the 2000 census puts the number at 4,000 -- four times as many as in 1990. The census, they point out, does not account for all the people who left during the past two years of political turmoil.

Many Venezuelans moving to Central Florida came here first as tourists. Back in the '70s and '80s, it was cheaper to catch a flight to Florida than to stay in Venezuela for vacations; cheaper to fly to Miami for a shopping trip than to buy the same goods in Caracas; cheaper to purchase a vacation home in Orlando than a second house in their homeland.

Back then, the Venezuelan motto was Está barato; dame dos -- "It's cheap; give me two."

It's that level of affluence and the pride Venezuelans have in their country -- beautiful beaches, beautiful mountains, beautiful women -- that contributed to the perception of Venezuelans as the most arrogant of Latin Americans. And it's their recent history -- soaring crime, inflation, poverty, a crippling strike, a failed coup -- which has deflated that conceit.

"We were the paradise of Latin America. Now we're just another third-world country struggling economically and politically," Rodriguez said. "It's very hard for Venezuelans to deal with that."

………..For the expatriate community of Venezuelans in Orlando, paradise became a prison under Hugo Chavez.

"You don't feel safe in the streets. You don't want your kids playing in the streets or they might get kidnapped," Roche said.

About a fifth of the nation is unemployed. An estimated 80 percent are poor. In the first quarter of the year, the economy shrank 29 percent. Inflation is approaching 35 percent.

And so they come here, a place where Venezuelans can earn a living, raise their children, walk the streets without fear, and live inside houses with glass doors.***

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I'll take "arrogant, conceited" contributors over "what's in it for me" bloodsuckers any day. Given time, it can only improve Florida.

[Hildy]

This fits in perfectly with another thread that was going today: What Money Buys In U.S. - Civility

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Like any welfare state, the influx of these people will be it's downfall. You don't attract doers but you're flooded with takers. I wonder, have these people taken note of how many are flocking to the U.S. from Canada?

[narses]

100 Canadians come here for every brain dead lib that goes there. Bu-bye!

[Pikamax]

"But every year since 1977, more Canadians have emigrated to the United States than vice versa -- the 2001 figures were 5,894 Americans moving north, 30,203 Canadians moving south. "


Darn it.. they are onto the American takeover.. SECURE THE BORDERS!!!!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Buh-bye, Mollie.

Hopefully, she'll be taking her whiny, liberal parents with her.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Out with the bad, in with the good.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

From your LINK:

Whether the care I received in the United States was medically better, I cannot judge. But I did buy something you can't buy here: Civility.

In Wednesday's Star, Joe Fiorito recounted his experience renewing his Ontario health card: a senseless bureaucracy making him shuffle about the city; rude bureaucrats; stupid rules.

His story rings uncomfortably true. Health-care workers I've met in Toronto don't care.

Bump!

[RLK]

"For me, it's a no-brainer," said Mollie Ingebrand, a puppeteer from Minneapolis who plans to go to Vancouver with her lawyer husband and 2-year-old son. "It's the most amazing opportunity I can imagine. To live in a society where there are different priorities in caring for your fellow citizens."

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It's a society where she can play at life and play with puppets and still be supported.

[zarf]

Zarf beats the crap out of puppeteer Mollie Ingebrand before showing her the door.

[nopardons]

Liberals are blinkered AND nuts. You expect them to be " aware " ? LOL

[Jeff Gordon]

the 2001 figures were 5,894 Americans moving north, 30,203 Canadians moving south.

If the article title reflect the content, it should have said:

Neo conservative America is attracting five times as many people from Canada then Americans to the super liberal Canada.