If you are an American then a good Caribbean Med school could most definitely work out well for you, with a lot of hard work of course.

If you are Canadian, then it is much much more difficult process. But the only main upside is that you will be able to leave Canada and go to the U.S. Read my:


Top Six Reasons to leave Canada


6. Health Care disaster.

Doctors in Canada are in a shortage, 1 in 4 Canadians cannot get a family doctor.
Canadian doctors are leaving to move permanently to the U.S.
Statistics Canada and the Canadian Medical Association both have identified that for every
1 American doctor that moves to Canada, 19 (nineteen) Canadian doctors move to the United States!
Doctors in Canada are overworked and underpaid.

5. Very high taxes.

Yes, you have the GST, the PST on practically everything you purchase and many other taxes
taken out of our weekly paycheck. You have to pay a whopping amount to the government, out
of your hard earned salary, so that the government can turn around and give it to beer
drinking, hockey watching welfare bums. Fair? It does not matter, it's Canada.


4. Crooked Government.

From Prime Minister Jean Chretian to former Ontario Premier Ernie Eves, you have politicians
that say one thing, but do another. Empty promises, false hope, no action, no progress. Canadian embassies
all over the globe, lie to foreigners, telling them to immigrate to Canada, promising them
a life here that can never be obtained.


3. No culture.

Unlike almost every other country in the world, Canada has no culture. What does it even
mean to call yourself a 'Canadian'. . .nothing really. Every one in Canada, still identifies
themselves as to where they 'originally' came from.


2. Worst weather.

Yes, Canada has the worst weather conditions of any country in the world. Freezing cold tempertatures,
snow, ice, hail, winds, storms etc From the Prairie provinces to the Maritimes, from the Territories to southern Ontario, the weather is so horrific and disgusting that many Canadians leave Canada simply because of this reason alone.

1. No Jobs.

Yes, from coast to coast, there are no jobs. People are highly qualified (MD's, PhD's, Lawyers,
Engineers etc) but they are driving taxi cabs, delivering pizza's or working in factories. This is the
tragedy associated with immigration to Canada. I feel sorry for those immigrants who are stuck
in Canada for the rest of their lives. It is indeed a very sad and hopeless future.

As a canadain...I would agree with all of your points exccept for the one about no culture...I would have to say that is definitely not true...Canada is a diverse place and we are proud of it !

After reading this message, one thought comes to mind...

If you feel so strongly please just leave.... I'm sure no one would miss you.

Ouch!

Trust me my friend, I am doing everything I can to leave this hell hole.
I see that you are from NS, congratulations on being from poorest, stupidest, drunkest province in Confederation . . . or wait, I think that title belongs to NFLD.
Cheers!


Top Ten Reasons to Live in Nova Scotia (where?)

1. The only place in North America to get bombed in the war: by a moron who set a munitions ship on fire

2. Your province is shaped like male genitalia

3. Everyone is a fiddle player

4. If someone asks if you're a Newfie, you are allowed to kick their ***

5. The local hero is an insane, fiddle playing, sexual pervert

6. The province that produced Rita MacNeil, the world's largest land mammal

7. You are the reason Anne Murray makes money

8. You can pretend you have Scottish heritage as an excuse to wear a kilt

9. The economy is based on fish, lobster, and fiddle music

10. Even though it smells like dead sea animals, Halifax is considered Canada's most beautiful city

Canada's pretty good..it's a pretty safe palce to live!

Canada is safe for two reasons:

reason one) Nobody lives in Canada. It's a land of 10 million square km. Second largest country in the world! But a population of only 32 million. Look at all these countries that have more people:

1 World 6,302,309,691 July 2003 est.
2 China 1,286,975,468 July 2003 est.
3 India 1,049,700,118 July 2003 est.
4 United States 290,342,554 July 2003 est.
5 Indonesia 234,893,453 July 2003 est.
6 Brazil 182,032,604 July 2003 est.
7 Pakistan 150,694,740 July 2003 est.
8 Russia 144,526,278 July 2003 est.
9 Bangladesh 138,448,210 July 2003 est.
10 Nigeria 133,881,703 July 2003 est.
11 Japan 127,214,499 July 2003 est.
12 Mexico 104,907,991 July 2003 est.
13 Philippines 84,619,974 July 2003 est.
14 Germany 82,398,326 July 2003 est.
15 Vietnam 81,624,716 July 2003 est.
16 Egypt 74,718,797 July 2003 est.
17 Iran 68,278,826 July 2003 est.
18 Turkey 68,109,469 July 2003 est.
19 Ethiopia 66,557,553 July 2003 est.
20 Thailand 64,265,276 July 2003 est.
21 France 60,180,529 July 2003 est.
22 United Kingdom 60,094,648 July 2003 est.
23 Italy 57,998,353 July 2003 est.
24 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 56,625,039 July 2003 est.
25 Korea, South 48,289,037 July 2003 est.
26 Ukraine 48,055,439 July 2003 est.
27 South Africa 42,768,678 July 2003 est.
28 Burma 42,510,537 July 2003 est.
29 Colombia 41,662,073 July 2003 est.
30 Spain 40,217,413 July 2003 est.
31 Argentina 38,740,807 July 2003 est.
32 Poland 38,622,660 July 2003 est.
33 Sudan 38,114,160 July 2003 est.
34 Tanzania 35,922,454 July 2003 est.
35 Algeria 32,818,500 July 2003 est.



reason two) If a crime does happen in Canada, nobody reports it and nobody cares.

Did you all see the Fraser Report on the health care system in Canada released last week? If not, here it is:
http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared...sNav=nr&id=602


I can see where all the frustration is coming from.

Nothing here.

Let me make it clear that insulting other users or slurs in general are not acceptable on VMD and you can get a formal warning or even be banned for doing so. This fourm is not a place to debate US versus Canada. Aside from that, do you have the vaguest clue how pathetic it looks for folks who want to be doctors (or who have passed their 13th birthday for that matter) to be insulting a country?

Proof, like the previous thread, that there are those who will have an opion regarding any point you put in front of them, and who will actually think its worth arguing. Which is in fact as good a debate topic as the one above.

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