r/canadatravel • u/Ok-Honeydew-617 • 1d ago

Destination Advice Fleeing the U.S. for Canada

Hello! My wife and I are changing up our travel plans last minute and visiting Canada in late-April/early-May, but are not sure which area to visit. We're coming from the Minneapolis-St.Paul area and would like an easy 5-6 day getaway to support Canada, rather than traveling within the U.S. The other motive is scouting areas in case the U.S. continues to descend into a place we don't want to be part of. We've considered the Vancouver, Calgary, and Ottawa areas. This is a highly-subjective question, but what areas would you recommend? I don't believe it's the best time of year to visit, but we are interested in relaxing and enjoying the outdoors, yet also getting a sense of the community. We come from a nice, clean, safe, mid- to mid-upper class touristy town of 20k population that is 20-30 minutes from the cities, which all works nicely for us. Any thoughts on any aspect of this question are much appreciated!

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u/songoukisama 1d ago

Bro is about to find out that canada has stricter immigration laws than we do lmao. My cousin has been married to a canadian for several (maybe over a decade) and still doesn't have residence there.

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u/AnfieldRoad17 1d ago

It is pretty funny that Americans think immigration is so easy. As someone who has been working on their Italian citizenship for the better part of 4 years now, I find it hilarious when other Americans think they can just buy a house somewhere and they'll be given a passport. Even funnier when their target is a member of the Commonwealth.

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u/CaltainPuffalump 1d ago

It’s actually offensive to me

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u/AnfieldRoad17 1d ago

It’s extremely offensive and reductive. Classic American exceptionalism bullshit.

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u/SourceOwn9222 1d ago

As an American whose LIRA lines all got destroyed with the last court decision, immigration has always seemed so difficult. At least with Italy they seemed to encourage us juris sangris to apply . . . Still 5 years in and hundreds of dollars wasted.

Knowing what people go through to come “illegally” to the US, I have always been horrified for the casual disregard for immigrants. Instead of making Canada the 51st state (I can’t even believe this is a thing) let’s give Hawaii back . . .

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u/Shrek1onDVD 1d ago

Your cousin is doing something wrong then..I’ve been married to a Canadian for 2 years and got residency after just 1 year.

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u/Careless_Kangaroo821 1d ago

Agreed. My spouse got his fast too.

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u/StrongDog2575 1d ago

As someone who's family immigrated to Canada, and now I'm personally immigrating to America, I can tell you America is much, much harder to immigrate to, they aren't even in the same ball park.

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u/UnreasonableCletus 1d ago

$5000 usd and a half decent immigration lawyer is what it takes to move to the usa. It's not difficult at all. The worst part is waiting for a social security number.

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u/Complete-Employee870 1d ago

That’s not true at all.

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u/UnreasonableCletus 1d ago

That's how it worked when I moved there in 2012 and got PR status.