Got that right Dirty. Investigated moving up there but your gov. immigration bastids want most all of my retirement check for the privilege. Same for Down Under. Financially tough to do it legally. :nuts:
It's a pretty screwy system. Basically, if you're either employable, have money (and want to spend it), or are white, they really aren't interested in having you. I don't have anything against minorities, however, they really go out of their way to allow a lot of people with no useful skills or assets into the country.
As an example, my brother is a university graduate (with a real engineering degree, no 'fine arts' crap), and picked up a GF that was a foreign student while he was there. She's Russian born (speaks fluently), spent 8 years in Japan (speaks fluently, went through their :nuts: school system too), and attended university here (thus, her English is fluent, and she can write better than me too) to obtain a degree and payed a LOT for it. Were they interested in allowing her to immigrate once she had her degree? Nope, not really. After all, she actually would be an employable immigrant! Anyways, she's got some extended work visa/greencard or something now (after a lot of fighting with the .gov), but I'm not sure if they're yet interested in allowing anything to be permanent. :doh:
Maybe she's a terrorist. ;)