I'm not going to assume things haven't changed from 30 years ago. Things in the States have degraded a lot in that time. There are plenty of lifers on welfare in the States. I don't know how that works, but the people who do are generational welfare recipients.
At the time I was working closely with some Canadians, I had people bragging to me that they only had to work a couple more months to go back on unemployment. One guy had only been with the company a few months, and had spent something like the previous 18 months living in a cabin in the Georgian Bay area, drinking, fishing, and chasing girls (he had the beer gut to prove the drinking part). I seem to recall he had a mix of unemployment and welfare.
Me, being who I am, asked a lot of questions. I was surprised at how easy it was for some people to game the system. I don't recall all the details anymore.
Honestly, I loved most of the people I knew from Canada. Most were fairly conservative. Had a couple different families come down and stay with us, and made a couple trips up to visit them. Sadly, lost touch with them over the years.
I'm not going to assume things haven't changed from 30 years ago. Things in the States have degraded a lot in that time. There are plenty of lifers on welfare in the States. I don't know how that works, but the people who do are generational welfare recipients.
At the time I was working closely with some Canadians, I had people bragging to me that they only had to work a couple more months to go back on unemployment. One guy had only been with the company a few months, and had spent something like the previous 18 months living in a cabin in the Georgian Bay area, drinking, fishing, and chasing girls (he had the beer gut to prove the drinking part). I seem to recall he had a mix of unemployment and welfare.
Me, being who I am, asked a lot of questions. I was surprised at how easy it was for some people to game the system. I don't recall all the details anymore.
Honestly, I loved most of the people I knew from Canada. Most were fairly conservative. Had a couple different families come down and stay with us, and made a couple trips up to visit them. Sadly, lost touch with them over the years.