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The biggest negative about Canada is that there no place warm all year round (70+ degrees), but, if that's a priority, you could always snow-bird in Florida.
Other than that, it offers the best of North America, including English as the global language of business, but with significant and still thriving contributions from Europe and Asia, great opportunities for in-depth study of just about anything, deep financial markets, and access to even deeper ones, social freedoms and a little bit less caught up in childish social ideologies, a rational immigration policy, and probably a less cumbersome bureaucracy than a European country, even if Germany is among the best managed.
Not too sure about the long-term fiscal solvency of Canada's pension and health care finance systems, but that is something you should also take into consideration when comparing the three.
To be sure, Germany is your best bet in Europe, but certainly, in addition to whatever long-term fiscal problems of its own that it may be facing, it is also at risk of exposure to instability and unpredictability among some of its major economic partners like Italy and Russia and oil-producing countries of the so-called middle east: the North Sea doesn't seem to be enough, not sure what fracking opportunities Europe has, so-called alternative energy by itself will not be enough for the foreseeable future even if they stand on their heads and spin around, and some European CEOs are already pointing to some of the energy cost advantages enjoyed by companies who set up industrial operations nowadays in North America, believe it or not.
Canada by itself seems to be a (half) continent of stability, it is energy self-sufficient and also a major grains producer.
I think that the US is still best if your main goal is starting your own business or managing a big corporation and becoming financially wealthy - it is a relative tax haven, and there are relative tax havens within the US - plus some US regions offer ideal climates.
The biggest negative about Canada is that there no place warm all year round (70+ degrees), but, if that's a priority, you could always snow-bird in Florida.
Other than that, it offers the best of North America, including English as the global language of business, but with significant and still thriving contributions from Europe and Asia, great opportunities for in-depth study of just about anything, deep financial markets, and access to even deeper ones, social freedoms and a little bit less caught up in childish social ideologies, a rational immigration policy, and probably a less cumbersome bureaucracy than a European country, even if Germany is among the best managed.
Not too sure about the long-term fiscal solvency of Canada's pension and health care finance systems, but that is something you should also take into consideration when comparing the three.
To be sure, Germany is your best bet in Europe, but certainly, in addition to whatever long-term fiscal problems of its own that it may be facing, it is also at risk of exposure to instability and unpredictability among some of its major economic partners like Italy and Russia and oil-producing countries of the so-called middle east: the North Sea doesn't seem to be enough, not sure what fracking opportunities Europe has, so-called alternative energy by itself will not be enough for the foreseeable future even if they stand on their heads and spin around, and some European CEOs are already pointing to some of the energy cost advantages enjoyed by companies who set up industrial operations nowadays in North America, believe it or not.
Canada by itself seems to be a (half) continent of stability, it is energy self-sufficient and also a major grains producer.
I think that the US is still best if your main goal is starting your own business or managing a big corporation and becoming financially wealthy - it is a relative tax haven, and there are relative tax havens within the US - plus some US regions offer ideal climates.
A LOT can change in the next 60 years, just in the last 10 years a ton has changed...to hard to compare, for the next ten years i will say the USA will still be the superpower, i think Germany will defiantly get higher up in the status, I do believe to less tension in the middle east and higher prices in china that America will start booming again...
I can say without a doubt that there is no country in the world that I would rather live in than Canada. The only flaws that Canada has as a country are very minor compared to those facing every other country in the world, and are for the most part, on their way to being fixed. Canada is the closest thing to paradise that the world has to offer.
Canada tends to be unstable politically and economically (although it is in much better shape then the US these days). I've seen too many flips and flops in that country in the last 50 years, and it now has an ever changing population that makes its future even more unclear (example - their love of Carribees didn't do them well - been to Toronto lately?). Simply put - Canada's future is unpredictable. One plus: lots of natural resources.
Germany, on the other hand has been quite stable for decades despite all the other stuff going on in the European Union. Absorbing East Germany and its desperate economy and second rate infrastructure did not really do much to Germany's economic progress. It is an ethnically homogenous country, and looks like it will stay that way - which in the next 60 years will be very important. I predict, based on what has transpired in the last 40 years, and based on history, both recent and past (we're talking 60 years from now), that Germany will do quite weil and perhaps emerge pretty much on top. I wouldn't go there if I was a Jew, though. And that goes for other non-Euro whites. Just saying. Germany is Germany. It is not France, nor is it the UK - and they are glad they aren't - and would like it to stay that way. One minus: German is hard to learn (I think).
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It is an ethnically homogenous country, and looks like it will stay that way - which in the next 60 years will be very important. I predict, based on what has transpired in the last 40 years, and based on history, both recent and past (we're talking 60 years from now), that Germany will do quite weil and perhaps emerge pretty much on top. I wouldn't go there if I was a Jew, though. And that goes for other non-Euro whites. Just saying. Germany is Germany. It is not France, nor is it the UK - and they are glad they aren't - and would like it to stay that way. One minus: German is hard to learn (I think).
Germany isn't exactly homogenous. And I dare you to justify your supposed importance of homo-ethnic within the next 60 years. Try to use facts.
Germany extremely homogenous and xenophobic?- Oh boy
It's not the U.S. or Canada but just take a ride on the Berlin/Frankfurt/Hamburg etc. underground and play the game "find ze Kraut".
I would say either Canada or Germany as they have the best social benefits for their residents/citizens (better than the USA).
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