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In NH we leave new comers alone, but if a bad weather event comes along we are in your face fixing what ever it is that is wrong. You will get the driveway cleared of ice snow and even trees for nothing, and maybe not get asked.
I don't like what's become of NH since the mid 80's much, and in 05/06 for 10 months toured the USA hitting 40 states and couldn't find a better place to be so I came back. Moving to Canada because a woman gets pregnant seems totally wacho to me. Labor isn't exactly a rocket science these days and kinda hasn't been for the last several thousand years.
First off, she's not just a "woman," she's my wife, and when she got pregnant we were already barely scraping by because she wasn't yet legal to work. The immigration process was ridiculously difficult for her and when we consulted an immigration lawyer he suggested she stay illegally as a result of her circumstances, which is something we didn't want to do.
When I wrote my initial post I oversimplified my story to make a point. I won't go into all the details because it's very complicated, but suffice to say that we're doing far better here than there in an economic sense (my wife did prove me right on that point), but what I was getting at is that we've suffered in the sense that we have to deal with all you get when you move into a city, and not a particularly nice one at that.
We were already paying quite a lot for medical/dental/vision in NH, and we simply would not have been able to afford it should there have been some kind of complication arise with the twin pregnancy. The grand total we paid here, including months of being seen by an OBGYN, 4 days 3 nights in hospital after the babies were born, C-section, breastfeeding support, follow-up appointments, pediatrician visits, etc. is $0. I also had to get a root canal here about a month ago, and 100% of my bill was covered through my supplemental employer-provided dental insurance. There's no way any of that would happen in NH.
Now, if only we had the benefits of being in NH with the generous social provisions that Canada offers, that would be just ideal...
Well meds in NH are never going to amount to $0.00. That's why I fix my own broken bones.
When my son was born I was a foreign car tech, my wife at that time was a hairdresser, I took a beating on the birth, since I didn't know my new born son wasn't covered under my insurance.
Looking back I can sort of understand, since he looked more like a puppy than a human infant.
I am not so sure I could live with 0 dollar fees, but then I have never been a socialist.
Perhaps there could be a bit more honesty in Insurance though.
The only people who claim Canada is "socialist" a.) have no idea how the Canadian economic/social assistance system functions, and b.) have no idea what socialism really is.
Canada is Socialist.. There can be no argument to that. It just IS. I got lots of friends in Cdn, and go there to fight in French and Indian War battle re-enactments. Once I used to write Minister Allen Rock a lot until he got canned. He had some strange notions on things, which I didn't like.
The only people who claim Canada is "socialist" a.) have no idea how the Canadian economic/social assistance system functions, and b.) have no idea what socialism really is.
I agree and wouldn't define Canada as socialist at all.
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