Was there a specific age or year when you started to hate this country?
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By 2014 I was realizing there were many concerns about Canada that I had never considered. I knew there were many potential downsides for Canada, but still optimistic.
2015 things really changed quickly under Trudeau, but I still felt that we were one election away from normalcy, and most of the changes would be reversible. I went from owning 100% Canadian assets, to about 70%.
2016 - Starting to become concerned about a permeant and irreversible decline; became way more political; started talking to friends openly about concerns and realizing i'm not at all alone.
2017 - It was become clear by this point that Canada was going to be leading the SJW revolution and there were going to permanent negative changes. At this point in time I firstly started researching other countries to live in, but primarily was looking for retirement destinations where I could retire early. This is when I made dramatic shifts to my portfolio and sold off most canadian equities; started investing heavily in bullion, but ignored crypto due to the spike in prices.
2018 - It was very clear that Canada had a limited lifespan left. I predicted it would be about 10-20 years before our quality of life would decline to a standard of, for example, Mexico. This was no issue as I was making good money, and saving well. I still had like 10-15% CAD assets.
2019 - Continued the same gradual decline noticed in 2017-2018, becoming increasingly more pessimistic.
2020 - By early 2020, I was constantly seeking out other countries to move to where I could work (i'm a lawyer) and doing cost benefit analysis. By June, seeing how we were handling covid, my 10-20 year horizon for a collapse got pushed up to 1-5 years, and it became clear that there was simply no other alternative. By March i had sold all canadian assets. From March-June I maxed out all loans available to me and used this to buy mostly cryptocurrency and foreign equities. on the assumption that the CAD would eventually inflate to nothing.
By November, I am putting all my money in crypto, while constantly researching the best countries to buy investment properties in, with the hope of potentially buying citizenship. I had taken steps to open a bank account in a tax haven, but hadn't moved anything over yet.
Early 2021 - Waiting for fucking travel restrictions to end so I can buy investment properties in certain countries. My paycheque instantly gets converted to crypto, and I only use CAD for my immediate expenses.
By mid 2021 there should be a break in travel restrictions so i can finally open my tax haven acct, as well as buy 1 or 2 properties abroad. I intend on continuing to invest in crypto, while buying foreign properties, for as long as possible until A: currency deflates to nothing or B: Rapid increase in tax rates. Both of these have the effect of eroding savings and making it impossible to get ahead, so by that point, I hope to have enough foreign capital that I can book a one way flight out of this shithole country.
And that is my plan. I plan on leaving, because unlike many users in this forum, I realize that this is hopeless and the only good thing you can do is leave.