On Saturday, March 29, 2025 at 6:29:15 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote:
I don't need to become a citizen. And in any case, if I sell my real estate in CA I'm sure Canada will welcome me. I haven't checked Canada but I looked into New Zealand which I'd probably like better, but it's too far from my relatives. At 85 I'm not much for fighting. Brent In some countries, like Thailand, one needs substantial financial assets just to be a permanent resident. AG On 3/29/2025 3:39 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Friday, March 28, 2025 at 11:15:26 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: I'm trying to talk my children and grandchildren into moving to Canada so I can move too. Brent You ought to check the financial requirements to become a citizen of Canada. They could be rather onerous. Also, FWIW, the nobler path IMO, is to remain here and fight to save our imperfect democracy. AG On 3/28/2025 4:56 AM, John Clark wrote: *For decades Asians and Europeans have complained about a "brain drain" where all there smartest scientists and technicians are moving to the USA, but now the two leading scientific journals in the world, Nature and Science, have published articles about a reverse brain drain where the smartest American scientists want to move to Europe or Asia because of the Trump administration's aggressive anti-scientific policies. * *This is from the March 27, 2025 issue of the Journal Nature: * *75% of US scientists in Nature poll consider leaving <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=06ad1f325c-nature-briefing-daily-20250327&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-06ad1f325c-50169436> * *This is from the March 17, 2025 issue of the Journal Science * *Overseas universities see opportunity in U.S. ‘brain drain’* <https://www.science.org/content/article/overseas-universities-see-opportunity-u-s-brain-drain> *The **Aix Marseilles University in France recently set aside about €15 million to entice American scientists to come to them. * *A Safe Place For Science <https://www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/actualites/safe-place-science-aix-marseille-universite-ready-welcome-american-scientists> * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/9b53985f-6517-4429-9a67-4fd177b2e181n%40googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/9b53985f-6517-4429-9a67-4fd177b2e181n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/a6c3a316-4080-419c-9800-8e4f208132fcn%40googlegroups.com.
