Anyone thinking of retiring abroad?

[DealorNoDeal]

I have one villa with smallholding and a nearby vineyard in Bulgaria.

Sunny Beach?

[Paddy]

Sunny Beach?

No, much better.

[DealorNoDeal]

No, much better.

Not if you're young and after sun, sea and sand. Oh yes, and cheap booze and casual sex.

[d000hg]

If you can get in then Canada but for the USA its all woke tulip or the opposite and medical costs will kill you as you get older

There are a lot of moderates in the US still but you don't see them because you rarely get radical moderate activists It does seem a country in turmoil but then I suppose that's on the large scale, if you can find the right town it could still be great.

I like Canada but surely that's at least as 'woke' - quite a progressive government? Canada just seems like USA turned down a couple of notches to me.

[PCTNN]

No, much better.

An overcrowded swamp? Wow. What a great retirement.

[wattaj]

I like Canada but surely that's at least as 'woke' - quite a progressive government? Canada just seems like USA turned down a couple of notches to me.

Canada's equality laws are some of the most illiberal in the world. Best avoided until there is an outbreak of common sense.

[SimonMac]

There is a reason I have a house in Spain and an EU passport

[d000hg]

Canada's equality laws are some of the most illiberal in the world. Best avoided until there is an outbreak of common sense.

What sort of things?

[wattaj]

What sort of things?

Bill C-16 amended the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Canadian Criminal Code to include “gender identity or expression” under the list of classifications protected from discrimination. In doing so it effectively criminalised objective reality and freedom of expression (i.e. it is now a criminal offence to call a bloke in a frock a man if he says that he is a woman).

C-16 is contentious for many reasons; not least the underhand way that the consultation process and passage through Parliament was managed.

Obviously, opinions will differ as to whether or not C-16 is "a bad thing"^TM, but it is very clear that it leaves the women and girls of Canada woefully unprotected.

Google, as always, is your friend should you wish to dig any deeper.

[d000hg]

Bill C-16 amended the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Canadian Criminal Code to include “gender identity or expression” under the list of classifications protected from discrimination. In doing so it effectively criminalised objective reality and freedom of expression (i.e. it is now a criminal offence to call a bloke in a frock a man if he says that he is a woman).

C-16 is contentious for many reasons; not least the underhand way that the consultation process and passage through Parliament was managed.

Obviously, opinions will differ as to whether or not C-16 is "a bad thing"^TM, but it is very clear that it leaves the women and girls of Canada woefully unprotected.

Google, as always, is your friend should you wish to dig any deeper.

Well that's exactly the sort of stuff I meant by saying Canada was woke and 'progressive' - in line with states like CA and OR basically was my impression based on legalising weed, etc and this all seems in line with that.

Last time I was in Portland, OR I heard a parent tell their young child off for asking "what is that man [me] doing?" - not for being nosy but for assuming my gender!