Canada offers the chance for immigrants to have a positive economic impact and contribute to a thriving society in cities like Vancouver (pictured).
We all have that person in our family: the gregarious relative who slaps you on the back, laughs too loudly, and somehow takes up all the space in whatever room (s)he happens to inhabit. In the world order, that relation is the United States.
I live in Canada, the soft-spoken, more respectful, more tactful cousin, with whom you have a surprisingly great conversation and can't wait to see again.
Before anyone assumes that I fled the US due to the recent political strife, I've been gone for a decade.