If you bother to look around there is a huge movement away from the old days. Especially where you are, Wisconsin has a lot small farm sourced food. I was just there and the changes have been dramatic.
Well, he never said he planned to get a student visa.
In any case, I don't see how it could work dealing with an employer directly whether a work visa or a student visa. You run up against some combination of practicalities, university ethics, and immigration legalities blocking the way.
Well, my good friend just went through the process to bring his wife to Canada. Almost three years to process the application and he is a resourceful cheapskate, did all the paperwork himself, close to $5 K later, she arrived. Now, not all that money went to Canadian authorities, so that may be what you are thinking. Application fees and many others are non-refundable, though, so you spend whether you are successful or not.
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I don't disagree (I'm vegan, so my diet is atypical in this part of the world, but I'm well aware that local produce can be excellent). Of course, "small farm sourced" is not a prophylactic - it may still include significant contributors to heart disease, which is in turn the major killer.
Whatever the direction of the trend, I think my statement stands. Statistically, Americans are orders of magnitude more likely to be carried off by our guts than our guns.
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others have written about some of restrictions on immigration - you'll need to look into that as this is going to be the main obstacle. If you can arrange an exchange program through your current university that would be best.
are you a young guy, no wife or kids? - if so, my advice would be different than if you had a family already ?
Perhaps you could check out the Canada-EU Free Trade Agreement terms (it is ratified and currently in force by both parties). With a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, you may qualify for a Professional exemption.
Broadly speaking certain accredited professions can obtain work permits without the usual restrictions with most of the FTAs Canada is a party to. Worth the effort, anyway, to know one way or the other.
Broadly speaking certain accredited professions can obtain work permits without the usual restrictions with most of the FTAs Canada is a party to. Worth the effort, anyway, to know one way or the other.
If Oz becomes the preference then Perth is a good spot , climate is not too extreme for Europeans and once you get used to the fact that virtually every animal wants to eat or hurt you it's a beautiful country .
One creature to avoid is the Drop Bear but attacks are relatively rare in WA .
One creature to avoid is the Drop Bear but attacks are relatively rare in WA .
The food and the drunk drivers ARE far more likely to do you in than a gun. When I lived in south Florida I quit watching the TV news because it became the "murder of the day" show. Seriously there was an average of 5 murders a week on mentioned on the TV news. In an area of almost 7 million people far more than that die from DUI and food related diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
Here in small town (about 7000 people) West Virginia the stats are probably worse than average for overweight people. Every weekday morning around 7 AM I get in my car and drive to the gym. I am usually the only person turning into that parking lot, which will have 5 to 10 cars in it. On the way, I pass a McDonalds. The large parking lot is full, BOTH drive thru lanes are backed up out on to the main road, and there is a line waiting to turn in.......coincidence?
Come to New Zealand! The climate is fair, the breweries plentiful and healthcare is free for anyone living here.
Ah, I see. I did the paperwork for PR visas for my wife and mother-in-law, and I would put the all-in cost at about $1.5K each, but that was for China, and probably cheaper than in many other countries.
The US is a place that people from other countries don't quite understand.
We were basically formed from people that are a bit rebellious and
we have never really trusted the government has our best interest.
We like our guns, always have and always will,
they are part of our history and culture.
We are loud and boisterous at times
(stay out of NY if you can't handle that).
I honestly believe the OP would Not like living in the USA.
I have been to Canada and Australia and I believe the OP
would be happier in either one of those two countries.
We were basically formed from people that are a bit rebellious and
we have never really trusted the government has our best interest.
We like our guns, always have and always will,
they are part of our history and culture.
We are loud and boisterous at times
(stay out of NY if you can't handle that).
I honestly believe the OP would Not like living in the USA.
I have been to Canada and Australia and I believe the OP
would be happier in either one of those two countries.
I am an electrical engineer studied in Australia , never got a good opportunity to get a proper engineer job and moved to Asia working as a consultant. Most of my mates who graduate the same year was fortunate enough to get an engineering job (in city rail, Siemens, etc) but all left Australia and went to US. Some of them due to the property boom, some decide to become real estate agent instead.
So point of advice is go to the country were you will have a higher opportunity to get the job that you are looking for and only engineers (like Nelson Pass, Douglass, Rob Watts etc) at the cream of the top will stay become engineers working on high end stuff.
So point of advice is go to the country were you will have a higher opportunity to get the job that you are looking for and only engineers (like Nelson Pass, Douglass, Rob Watts etc) at the cream of the top will stay become engineers working on high end stuff.
Don’t wait too long; AU won’t take you if you are on the dark side of 43, I think it is.
My cousin moved to an island in British Columbia sometime during the Bush years, likes it, have always liked Canada myself.
My cousin moved to an island in British Columbia sometime during the Bush years, likes it, have always liked Canada myself.
The USA's image might be a bit tarnished, and plenty of stupid and bad things happen every day, and there are too many people living on the streets. But for the most part, it works. And conservatives and liberals can generally get along in day-to-day life just fine just as long as no one insists on talking about politics.
Here's the thing about the USA: You may think you have an idea what it's like, but you probably don't. Even I don't, and I've lived here all my life! Geographically, it encompasses the tropics, the tundra and everything in between. Sure, try California, you could spend years just exploring the greater San Francisco Bay Area alone.
If you'd like a quick tour of much of the USA's West Coast, may I suggest riding this train from end-to-end? I'd recommend being on the side which faces the ocean:
Coast Starlight Train | Amtrak
Here's the thing about the USA: You may think you have an idea what it's like, but you probably don't. Even I don't, and I've lived here all my life! Geographically, it encompasses the tropics, the tundra and everything in between. Sure, try California, you could spend years just exploring the greater San Francisco Bay Area alone.
If you'd like a quick tour of much of the USA's West Coast, may I suggest riding this train from end-to-end? I'd recommend being on the side which faces the ocean:
Coast Starlight Train | Amtrak
See i find those numbers extremely scary.
I live in the West Midlands region, population about 6 million and over the last couple of years it has earned the dubious distinction of 'gun crime capital of England'!
We had 4 deadly shootings in the entire year and that was during a 'worrying spike in gun crime' according to the police.
Note that gun crime is anything including being found in possession of a handgun since they are illegal here.
Still more people got shot dead than stabbed despite knives being legal.
Part of the problem is the TV news, and the media in general. They live and die by their advertising revenue. TV channels with higher ratings make more money. It seems that a slow unfortunate shift started in the 70's whereby the more dramatic or sensational the event, and the TV coverage, the better the ratings. At least that was the case for the Miami channels.
What you see on the TV and other media is the worst side of humanity. Something good that happens rarely gets any media coverage because it doesn't generate any ratings / revenue.
Our cable system here carries the two local TV channels (Wheeling West Virginia and Steubenville Ohio), and the 4 major network channels from the closest big city (Pittsburgh Pennsylvania). There is a stark difference between the news broadcasts from the two different markets.
My face had been shown on the local TV news here twice in 3 years. Once while pushing two grandkids in a stroller at a "back to school fair" and again while running in an "Obstacle Course Race" event for charity. Neither of these would even get mentioned in big city TV news.
I´m an (online) BBC radio listener, and just a couple Months ago they were making a BIG fuss about the "knife killing spree/peak/epidemic in UK" and it stuck (that´s what catastrophe headlines are designed to do).
So on reading the above posts I got curious and checked.
Well, there IS an increase in crimes in general, knife crime in particular ... but we are talking between 9% and 11% ... which is bad, definitely, but does not justify DOOM headlines implying the World is coming to an end or something, or that bloody blades are mowing down population.
So, when in doubt about something being pushed by the media, it does not hurt checking the real Statistics.
So on reading the above posts I got curious and checked.
Well, there IS an increase in crimes in general, knife crime in particular ... but we are talking between 9% and 11% ... which is bad, definitely, but does not justify DOOM headlines implying the World is coming to an end or something, or that bloody blades are mowing down population.
So, when in doubt about something being pushed by the media, it does not hurt checking the real Statistics.
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