I have never been to Canada or USA and between them where do you think it would be more sensible to emigrate to?
With the assumption that the quality of education would be mostly similar, here's a gist of the comparison.
- Canada offers an easier path to PR and then Citizenship. I also have friends there.
- USA offers more and high paying SWE jobs and the duration of a MS course can be 1 to 1.5yr which would mean I wouldn't have to take a big education loan.
However, OPT only guarantees 3 years of life in states. H1B is a lottery. Green card is not possible.
America is a very stressful, angry, violent place. Aside from what's heard in the news, violent crime is extremely common.
If you want to know everything wrong with America in one story, look here.
>MADISON, ALA. — A grandfather from India who was slammed to the ground by a police officer in a northern Alabama suburb had been singled out by police after a caller said a "skinny black guy" with a toboggan hat was walking in the neighborhood and peering into garages, recordings show.
The man, Sureshbhai Patel, 57, doesn't speak English and was slammed to the ground face-first by an officer when he didn't respond to commands. But he had committed no crime, the Madison police chief said.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/chi-alabama-indi...
Canada has its own legacy of mistreating First Peoples, but it's phenomenally safer. Go to Canada, hang with your friends. And let me know how I can immigrate too