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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Bob was able to get a Canadian citizenship because his mother's Canadian. But there was a window he had to do that in. And his mother had to be born during a certain time period (& it had to be his mother, not his father).
I can't imagine leaving if I can't bring my folks with me.
It's sobering to think about how many millions of people don't have the means to leave, even if they wanted to.
I'm so heartbroken at what this country has become.
I think my most recent ancestral connection to Canada would've been in the 18th century, and that was more in the way of people living in a part of upstate NY that was actually across the border rather than purposeful being Canadian citizens.
I suppose there might be some possibility of claiming Russian citizenship, my dad recently met some distant relative online who is still there, but that seems like a pretty bad idea.
My friend in Wales is moving to Spain before Brexit fully closes things. She is really fed up with Johnson.
msbelle, if your friend is on FB, if she hasn't joined the group Plan B Lounge already, I recommend that she do so - she'll get a lot of advice from folks who've already made the move.
I have no familial ties to Canada. alas. Even if any of the countries my ancestors came from were places I'd want to live, I'm at least third generation American on both sides.
There's no place else I want to live, not really. I'm an American, and I always will be no matter where else I might end up. I just want my country to become a place I feel safe and proud to be in.
I have no familial ties to Canada. alas. Even if any of the countries my ancestors came from were places I'd want to live, I'm at least third generation American on both.
Same. The most recent immigrants in my family were Dad's Finnish grandparents. And while Finland is lovely and seems to be run by sensible people, I'm too distant, generationally, to have a claim.
No family for either of us in Canada, either. Tempting, though, given we're 20 miles from the border and have crossed often for day trips. We can't do that now, of course. But as I say, we have no family anchor there, and I doubt they'd welcome us on our own merit.
If you told someone a decade ago that a President would be facing reelection with double-digit unemployment and 170,000 dead from a mishandled pandemic while he was working to destroy the Postal Service, they would probably think that they didn't have a chance at a second term. And yet it's starting to tighten and will very likely be a very close election.