Jamaican Woman Talks About Leaving Canada..

[Givethanks]

They would leave in a heartbeat if finding a livable wage consistently was easy in Jamaica. The average net salary is really low, which makes it difficult to cover expenses like rent, utilities(Jamaica has one of the highest electricity prices globally because of its Japanese and Korea ownership) and food. The Jamaican economy has faced many difficulties like high unemployment rates, limited job opportunities, particularly for skilled workers. Remittance being such a large chunk of the economy epitomizes this fact.​

I understand all of that, my fam is also from yaad, the ones still on the island tell me how hard life is there and my family here that was born there make it their life's mission to tell me how blessed I am to be born here and live here.

It doesn't make sense to me. It's not perfect but you can't live somewhere and speak down on it while benefiting from the privileges. You'd lol at how many Jamaicans people I know that benefit from Canada's social service system, but will swear up and down that Canada is the worst place in the world to live.

Especially the ones who complain but don't help improve the system at all. One of my guys said he found a way to cheat the system by working enough to get money from welly, it's an on and off system

 

[DaRealness]

A lot of people aren't happy most places in the west at this point...

 

[tuckgod]

They would leave in a heartbeat if finding a livable wage consistently was easy in Jamaica. The average net salary is really low, which makes it difficult to cover expenses like rent, utilities(Jamaica has one of the highest electricity prices globally because of its Japanese and Korea ownership) and food. The Jamaican economy has faced many difficulties like high unemployment rates, limited job opportunities, particularly for skilled workers. Remittance being such a large chunk of the economy epitomizes this fact.​

Who gives a flying fukk.

Jamaica is supposed to be its own nation.

Fix your own economy, create jobs for your own people and stop sending their goofy ass everywhere else trying to tell everyone else how to do what they’ve never demonstrated they’re capable of doing for themselves.

 

[Phitz]

America is 1000000 times better than canada
I don’t care if American healthcare will put you in debt..atleast you will see a doc

Canada you will in the waiting room

ya'll are right and wrong at the same time

I think Canada is less social stress but more financial stress

America is less financial stress(than Canada) but more social stress

It's a pick your poison thing.

America is good if you're a boomer with a good pension/Canada slightly better if you're a boomer with a good pension living OUTSIDE of GTA

If you're a millenial or gen z they both suck bad, GTA and London(UK) are socially the worst on the planet modern cities to live as a straight black man, but they dont represent their entire countries as most people complaining live in these areas. I dont see people living outside these cities complain as much, but they do complain as their areas were more sweeter and got transplants from these cities and abroad.

Educated gen Z and millenials, and some gen xers with decent retirements are better off being nomads while keeping their status up to date in North America

 

[Brolic]

Where will she flee to next?

 

[CopiousX]

100%.

I knew it was game over when the stories came out of people dying in the ER waiting room

Don't even bother having kids in Canada either.
In America you can get a pediatrician who is trained to deal with kids. In Canada a child can only go to the pediatrician if they have disabilities.

It is barely a first world nation.

Question for you. What stops you from going to a private hospital?


Surely the government doesn't own every clinic , doctor office, and surgical center?

 

[tuckgod]

Where will she flee to next?

You should host her in your Accra romance village

 

[WIA20XX]

Auntie doesn't understand why the grass isn't green in Jamaica.



When you have a handful is families that own every economic engine for wealth creation - people have to leave.

Same scenario of colonizer/descendents controlling the wealth and thus the politics, (and low-key the education and history), is all over the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, Southeast Asia... (In Asia, most of the top families are of Chinese descent. Thailand, Philippines, etc)

The US keeps these families in power in Latin America and the Caribbean - by aggressively going against any sort of govt that would distribute wealth more fairly. Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia to some extent, and countless coups and influence over the centuries.

So the US creates its own refugee "problem". Same how trying to keep control in that Middle East created the migrant problem for Europeans..

But Auntie only can see what's in front of her. If she stayed in Jamaica, she would have all the "riches" of the culture - and be dirt poor. She'd be one of those people scrambling for washed up chicken....

 

[Illuminatos]

A lot of those foreigners have this idea that all they need to do it just move to Canada or America and you're living the life. Nah, you still need to put in the work.
"Carribbean people are rich in love, help and kindness." Straight nonsensical babble.

 

[Sir Jebbi]

A lot of those foreigners have this idea that all they need to do it just move to Canada or America and you're living the life. Nah, you still need to put in the work.
"Carribbean people are rich in love, help and kindness." Straight nonsensical babble.

She'll stay in Canada

Jamaica is a wicked ass nation

Today I woke up to my family home in Jamaica being burned to the ground down by some fakkit. My grandma and grandpa built that house (rest their soul) and are buried on that land. And now everything is gone, all the photos, the heirlooms all their belongings everything. One dinky ass fire...

www.thecoli.com

 

[Bushmaster69]

A lot of those foreigners have this idea that all they need to do it just move to Canada or America and you're living the life. Nah, you still need to put in the work.
"Carribbean people are rich in love, help and kindness." Straight nonsensical babble.

Jamaicans do put in work in America and out perform a lot of other groups. In Canada I don't think they perform at the same rate. I haven't looked into it.

@Box Factory don't be a p*ssy and state publicly what i said that was wrong? I have spoken to Canadian GPs and they can get in trouble with the college for referring a child to a pediatrician without a disability or serious problem. Something that is standard almost everywhere else in the world. Even developing countries. Also, you are 1 Google click away from seeing the stories of people dying in the waiting rooms because we have a shortage of doctors.

 

[Phitz]

Jamaicans do put in work in America and out perform a lot of other groups. In Canada I don't think they perform at the same rate. I haven't looked into it.

@Box Factory don't be a p*ssy and state publicly what i said that was wrong? I have spoken to Canadian GPs and they can get in trouble with the college for referring a child to a pediatrician without a disability or serious problem. Something that is standard almost everywhere else in the world. Even developing countries. Also, you are 1 Google click away from seeing the stories of people dying in the waiting rooms because we have a shortage of doctors.

A Jamaican from NY said the Jamaicans who go to Canada(Toronto and in UK) and US are from 2 different classes. He said the ones in Toronto are mostly laborites(he said it's like a political affiliation in Jamaica)? Does that play a difference into who they perform in each country?

 

[WIA20XX]

Jamaicans do put in work in America and out perform a lot of other groups. In Canada I don't think they perform at the same rate. I haven't looked into it.

Jamaicans are usually at the bottom of the scale (in every thing that people measure - grades, income, education, incarceration, etc) in Canada (and in the UK). Malcolm Gladwell (Half Jamaican, Half Canadian) has a whole chapter on it in one of his books.

That said, PLENTY OF JAMAICANS (and other Caribbeans, and Africans..and Asians) aren't doing well in the US. Just looking at my family alone, there's tons of fu ckery.

 

[yardman]

Who gives a flying fukk.

Jamaica is supposed to be its own nation.

Fix your own economy, create jobs for your own people and stop sending their goofy ass everywhere else trying to tell everyone else how to do what they’ve never demonstrated they’re capable of doing.​

I don’t give a fukk about anything you find significance in. You’re one of the loudest imbeciles on this forum who speaks so matter-of-factly about things you aren’t able to fully comprehend. Go choke on a phallus you fukking nincompoop.​

 

[Bushmaster69]

Jamaicans are usually at the bottom of the scale (in every thing that people measure - grades, income, education, incarceration, etc) in Canada (and in the UK). Malcolm Gladwell (Half Jamaican, Half Canadian) has a whole chapter on it in one of his books.

That said, PLENTY OF JAMAICANS (and other Caribbeans, and Africans..and Asians) aren't doing well in the US. Just looking at my family alone, there's tons of fu ckery.

I can't agree entirely on the last part you just said. Maybe in Canada Jamaicans are fukking up, but not in the US en masse. My family is out in Florida HEAVY and they are well off. Educated, high paying careers, and business owners. They are surrounded by well off Jamaicans too. They have a lot of ambition and are hard workers.

In Canada I don't know what is wrong with Carribbean people. It's like there is no fire under them. I do well for myself here, but I can't stay. I rather be around my family in the states, so I can raise kids around successful Jamaicans. They need to see it, not just from me, in order to know it is very possible.