Mishtar Indiaji,

Wah...Wah...

Kya Ishtyle hai aapka!!

Geet Gata hoon main
Gungunata hoon main
Maine hansne ka vaada kiya tha kabhi
Isliye ab sada muskurata hoon main....

(ise hi jhel lo..aur to kuchh yaad nahin aa raha tha....)

Rgds

Disclaimer: These are purely personal experiences and comments based on personal liking. Readers might have different experiences or different priorities/value systems, and so their views on the points mentioned below may be different, and therefore are NOT debatable.

Also, these comparisons are based on Canada vis a vis India (those parts that I have lived in). They might not hold good for any other country/ies.

The reason to migrate to any country is mostly on personal choice and sometimes forced upon due to various reasons. The people who are thinking of migrating, or have recently landed in Canada can look forward to various advantages/benefits, some of which are mentioned hereunder:

1. The factor of multiplication is a big benefit – 35 to 1. Due to this factor, a person doing similar job for same no of hours back home can get make roughly 4-5 times the money in Indian Rupee terms.
2. For many, if not all, a social status back home that “vo to phoren main rahta hai”
3. On landing in Canada, you stand in a carpeted or very clean lobby, with working toilets if someone needs to “go” and an officer who greets you with “welcome to canada”.
4. After clearing the airport, you find working trolleys, which can take big bags, and not something that looks to be designed for keeping an overnighter.
5. When you come out, whether the first time, or nth time, taxi drivers, hotel reps etc. etc. don’t crowd on you to make you feel you wanna go back inside!
6. A very clean air immediately hits you – and suddenly you start feeling it was the first time you were breathing.

Life In Canada

1. First and foremost – you have constant supply of electricity and water, and blackouts are rare. You do not have to wake up early in the morning to fill up your buckets, tubs, tankees or take a shower. Similarly, you do not have to sweat in heat or live under candlelight in summers, or be disturbed by the noise and smoke of mini generators.
2. No visible pollution! You breathe better and your shirt collar does not become black by lunchtime. Infact, you can wear one set of clothes for 2-3 days without feeling bad.
3. The roads you travel on are good, infact great and you do not have to be on constant alert that someone might just decide to jump in front of you. In India, you might be driving a Honda or Lancer or Merc, but you have to drive on road full of pits, speed breakers and various sorts of vehicles. Here a motorcycle has right to the same space as a car, and it is illegal to overtake a mobike in the same lane.
4. The buses you commute on are cleaner, air-conditioned and the driver many a times greets you. For disabled persons, the bus lowers down, puts out a ramp on which you can place the wheelchair and lifts it back to sitting level. So a wheelchair bound person can easily commute on most of the routes without any help.
5. The roads have sidewalks – so people wanting to walk can do so without worrying for traffic. Similarly, a pedestrian’s right of way is given due regard. You don’t have to dash to the other side of the road to avoid a car hitting you on pedestrians crossing.
6. Govt offices – the ultimate ‘sunvayi’ might be better or worse than India – but you get to wait in a nice and clean office mostly. And rarely would you find any “sarkari mulajim” talking to you as if he owned the place and did not have enough sleep at home (exceptions can be there – but rare!)
7. The roads and sidewalks are clean – mostly – without any garbage on the road. If garbage is there, it is mostly packed in big plastic bags and kept there to be picked up by the municipality truck, sooner rather than later.
8. There are fines for traffic violations –and applied too. If it is green light, you can safely speed up, without worrying that another vehicle might come from your right or left beating the red light (sometimes that happens, but unlike India, you do not have to be on the lookout for that!)
9. Coming from Gandhi’s land, we actually do what he preached, here in Canada. We do our own dishes, we vacuum our floors and we also clean our toilets ourselves. For those who are idealistic about society and human rights, this has great meaning.
10. We do not work or live in buildings that are smothered with ‘paan ki peek’ and other types of body wastes lying on floor which are so common in India. Nor do we come across graffiti on staircases/elevators in the office or residential buildings (exceptions are there), or on boundary walls (“Prof Arora – rishte hi rishte”.
11. Eve-teasing in public is absent or rare – I hear there is, though I have not seen it. Buses are safe from that point of view
12. Weather – that is the greatest thing. Summers are absolutely great with everything so lush green, the fields look like thick green carpet and flowers look extremely beautiful. Fall / Autumn is amazingly colourful – it seems some painter has actually painted the trees with wonderful imagination. Winters are harsh, but the snowfall is wonderful to watch and great for children to play. In Delhi, a +1 temperature might be killing with no proper heating – but here one can easily survive in –30 degrees with proper clothing, and enjoy the snow too. Spring – really brings the springs live in you. The temperatures are great and you feel so energetic.
13. For an Indian, all kinds of Indian food is available – and at most of the places, in a cleaner surrounding and with better ingredients than in India, because of strict laws. Vegetarians need not fear – unlike many other places on the globe where finding vegetarian food is like looking for a needle in bundle of hay, all kinds of veggie food is available and in abundance.
14. I have never seen my phone line go dead – even when they were laying new pipelines/cables in the surrounding areas!

The above points about life in Canada makes me live in Canada with all its difficulties – because though individually they might be small things, collectively they become the “quality of life”, and I value them more than other luxuries of life. I do not compare politics and politicians, because they are beyond me and do not directly affect my daily living. Nor does corruption or lack or more of it.

These are just some of the reasons why I feel one should want to migrate to Canada from India, or South Asia – but as I said earlier, they are my views and values.

And yes!!!
15. An advantage for being coloured and not good looking – when commuting by bus or train, I get a full seat unless it is difficult for the whites to find a better person to share it with!

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Chandresh

Advice is free – lessons I charge for!!

your experience is no diferent than any other professional immigrant, not just from india but many other countries.

however the unity is something u highlighted and our south asian brethern does not have it. we tend to behave like anglo degenerates once we come up and bigin kiss their as*ses even more. there was guy name raj anand, minister for ministry of human rights, and this guy took a stance for the anglo majority and forgot that his real job was defend the rights of minorities.

we can not learn a lesson from the jewish community. they stick together. they will hire the jewish person first, then anglo sax and then the immigrant in a white collar and even blue collar position. do i need to write about our very "desi anglos" who are in better position?

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hate blaster

I've been reading some of the problems for finding job for new immigrants, which is scaring and casting doubts and fear in the mind of prospective immigrants like me.

Can any local person ,residing in toronto & an immigrant actually guide me on the ground reality?

Is it so finding job is difficult? You cannot get job without any referrals?

Please reply


mayur

Hey Mayur

Where are u located and what job are you looking for ?

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We will find a way or we will make one

How are the job prospects in Tononto and its neighbourhood for 45+. Generally in India employers prefer employing people in their 30s. Do the advertisements generally mention applicants who are below ..... should only apply ?

Mr. Kuwait,

If you are 45 plus, then getting a job in Canada seems a distant dream.

Since you are in Kuwait, you are supposed to have enough money. For your info, I am in Dubai. I have seen a lot of Canada in 2002. With 12 yrs exp working in Oil co. as Senior Engineer, you will find nothing in Canada.

This is not because there are no jobs.....unfortunately with my qual+exp I belonged to a category of payscale $ 70k plus. which the Canadians are not willing to accept.

For a person coming from India, everything looks bright and new in Canada because they have not seen luxuries of life / Western life style in India. This makes them work for pea nuts / labor jobs bacause they are fancied by the land and want to make life there.

But for a person like me after seeing all luxuries of life in Dubai I am not surprised to see Canada. I was actually disappointed when i landed ....I was under the impression that it would be something like heaven...what you see in Hindi movies, but that is not reality.

Ground rule is that ..the more qualified you are the more difficult it is to get jobs....the same applies if you are in senior position. 95% chances are that nobody will give you Managerial / Senior level jobs in Canada. At 45 you are not supposed to work as an assitant to a 24 year old...am I right?

If you can sacrifice dignity and are ready to do any labor / low level job, you can manage in Canada. I dont know your educational background.....so just corelate as required.

I have another story to tell..........

This is regarding my driving test. I just practiced few hours with an Indian chap before going for test.

Inspector was a Canadian white lady. 15 minutes of test was done so beautifully by me that she congratulated after test and shook hands with me........and told YOU REALLY DRIVE VERY WELL !!!!!!!!!!! and she signed my papers and told you have passed the test.

After that she asked me..you are from India? I said..yes Madam...but I was driving last 10 years in a place called Dubai where roads and bridges are better that what you see in Canada.......and for your info I drive BMW.

She was shocked...her expressions revealed that she did not agree that she belived that there are other places on Earth where roads are better than Canada.

Moral of the story is.............a qualified person worked in American and British companies in Dubai having driven latest cars and had 5 course dinner in 7 Star hotels..........would be treated the same way as Mr XYZ B.A. from the village Bhagalpur goes to Canada, because we are all Asians.

Hence work out your priorities......If you have money.....buy a house in Canada...send your kids to school.....by the time they are 18 they will have Canadian accent.....if they go to College its a bonus......thats enough for your kids to get a good job in Canada and they will have brighter future.

My experience says.....I dont see any career/future for you.......but for your kids YES /OF COURSE......... The world respects a DEGREE from a third rate American/Canadian College...But not from a highly reputed Indian University........

Go with the flow.........My 2 cents for you.


Deep


U win some, loose some, evrything is not justified in this world......

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U win some...lose some...everything is not justified in this world.