Yeah my dad is a European immigrant and he was making almost $7,000/month working a skilled trade. And this was back when housing and rent was way cheaper. A lot of browns and blacks have never seen a Canada like that. Unless they have lived in Canada for like 25+ years. If you're not a young urban professional, the GTA is a shit hole now.
I dated a hot brown girl (whose family came from Guyana. Her ancestors were Indian coolies brought to Guyana as indentured servants) whose dad was an engineer working in Canada clearing six figures. But he came here in 1995. He immigrated from Guyana to the United States in the 80s, my then-gf was born in Brooklyn and she is an American citizen and then they immigrated to Canada when she was a toddler. Good luck getting an engineer job in the USA or Canada straight out of Guyana or India in 2020. We had a recession in 1995 and yet immigrants could actually get skilled jobs fresh off the boat then.
I remember in the early 2000s when I was a kid my neighbour was a youngish Mexican engineer that moved here and got a good job at a popular engineering company. The company was paying for his masters at UofT. He had a Canadian wife and they just bought the house next door and moved in and had a kid. They moved out 5 years later to a nicer house. Something tells me the same couldn't happen today.
Yeah my dad is a European immigrant and he was making almost $7,000/month working a skilled trade. And this was back when housing and rent was way cheaper. A lot of browns and blacks have never seen a Canada like that. Unless they have lived in Canada for like 25+ years. If you're not a young urban professional, the GTA is a shit hole now.
I dated a hot brown girl (whose family came from Guyana. Her ancestors were Indian coolies brought to Guyana as indentured servants) whose dad was an engineer working in Canada clearing six figures. But he came here in 1995. He immigrated from Guyana to the United States in the 80s, my then-gf was born in Brooklyn and she is an American citizen and then they immigrated to Canada when she was a toddler. Good luck getting an engineer job in the USA or Canada straight out of Guyana or India in 2020. We had a recession in 1995 and yet immigrants could actually get skilled jobs fresh off the boat then.
I remember in the early 2000s when I was a kid my neighbour was a youngish Mexican engineer that moved here and got a good job at a popular engineering company. The company was paying for his masters at UofT. He had a Canadian wife and they just bought the house next door and moved in and had a kid. They moved out 5 years later to a nicer house. Something tells me the same couldn't happen today.
I'm in my mid 30s, and the change over the last 10-15 years is remarkable. I can see how the 21 year olds don't understand though.