and it's a public hospital
I think I'm ready to have another baby
Hi everyone and welcome to another video on my channel my name is Busi and this is a space where
I talk all things life abroad as a South African living in Canada as well as self-care on today's
video i am talking about the advantages of moving to Canada i'm going to be mentioning six things
that were the biggest highlight for me and things that i consider advantages and really good things
for moving to Canada and if you are looking to move to Canada and you're wondering what are
some of the benefits or some of the really great awesome things that I could potentially be looking
forward to this video is for you and I'm in no way saying you know every single little thing is 100
perfect every single place on this earth I think has its things but these six things that i'm gonna
be highlighting today and there's a whole lot more but the six that i'm highlighting today
are really at the top of my list so number one at the top of my list is safety safety is so high
here in Canada something that really took a very long time for me to get used to
is not having any fence around my house so there's no fence around the house that we live
there's literally no barrier between the street you walking past the street or a car driving
past the street to the front door of our house and the front door of our house is literally
like it has glass on it and you put um you'll put something over it so people are not just
seeing you directly when you're inside the house but a huge portion of our front door is glass
and there's no barrier there's nothing no fence there's no burglar doors there's there's nothing
between us and the streets it's the craziest thing but safety is is super high it's something that
I really really really really really love and is the biggest benefit and advantage
number two is the schooling system the public schooling system in Canada is really good and
it's funded by taxpayers we can't really say it's free because people do work and pay tax we work
we pay tax and school is free because it's funded by the taxpayers money when we were back in South
Africa my oldest was in Grade R and he was in a private school he was in a private school doing
grade r and when we moved to Canada he started grade one here in Canada and i'm telling you
the way that the school even looks like from a facility's perspective it's right up there
with the private schools in South Africa not the public schools the private schools in South Africa
it's right up there and the education system is really really good and the fact that we don't have
to spend an arm and a leg on top of paying tax and all of the other things that money has to go
towards it's a really big advantage I went through the public schooling system and i mean it works it
works to a certain extent but there's a lot of things that also just don't work and you have to
put in so much extra effort just to get the bare minimums of certain things in South Africa even
if you are in a public school there's still some school fees that you have to pay you still have
to pay school fees and here it's not like that public school is fully funded by taxpayers and
you don't have to pay anything as a parent and the level of education is really high as well if you
have kids or you plan to have kids I think it's a really great place to come and raise your babies
so number three at the top of my list is services i'm talking water electricity heat like all of the
things the basic services that you need just to live just to get by in this day and age and
looking back at times where i lived in South Africa and i had to be working from home as
an example i never knew when electricity would just decide to go away and it was very costly
it was very costly to try keep up paying data here in Canada i will tell you we have only had
power cuts i think two times we've only had power cuts two times and that is in this new house that
we're staying in and it is because there's houses that are still being built around us and our line
got interrupted through whatever else is happening around us but it was sorted out literally
within like two hours those two times two or three times i can't remember I think it's two times
where we had that power interruption are the only times that we've ever had power cuts ever
ever had power cuts since um we've lived in Canada and we've been here for a bit over two years now
those are the only two times we've had power cuts and those power cuts were sorted out
in the quickest time ever I've never not had running water in the house ever since we've
stayed here everything works when you're expecting it to work when you need it to be working it works
and I think in a nutshell basically your tax money works for you you pay tax you work you
pay tax and you see where the money is going I think that's the biggest thing whether it's
from a schooling perspective it's from a services perspective it's from a safety perspective
your money does work for you and that leads me to my number four point my number four is healthcare
healthcare basic healthcare here in Canada and i've mentioned this in videos previously
is also funded by taxpayers money so you don't have to be paying high amounts on medical aid just
for really basic things and i will tell you again the public hospitals here oh my gosh they're so
different to the private hospitals in South Africa it's crazy once I had to take my oldest to the
hospital he was throwing up at school and he just couldn't keep anything down we took him to the
physician so a general practitioner what you call a general practitioner in South Africa and they
had to write him a letter that he needs to go and get more tests done at the hospital and that was
the first time I actually went inside a hospital I've always just driven past and they look pretty
decent even on outside on the outside but the inside of that hospital i was like I have been in
a number of private hospitals in South Africa and i've never seen not one of them look the way that
hospital looked and it's a public hospital I'm like i think I'm ready to have another baby
yoh, but yes the hospitals here look really great and the basic health care is covered
so your tax money really really works for you and that leads me to number five number five is
the public transport public transport here is also really good really good public transport
it depends also I'll say where you live how you have the bus stop set up because I've heard of
people saying they have to walk maybe I don't know 20 minutes before or even more than 20 minutes
before they reach a bus stop if they need to be using public transport so on that point I would
say if you know that you you're not going to be buying a car very soon if you're moving to Canada
make sure that wherever you're deciding to stay there's a bus stop very close to that house just
make sure that it's something that you take for me personally I was not very far from a bus stop like
literally the bus stop from my house the previous house that we stayed in when I was using public
transport it was probably like a two-minute walk for me it was a two-minute walk and there's a time
where i've used the buses so i've used the buses to get around go to work and that was when i was
working in Mississauga for a company that was in Mississauga and when I worked in Toronto I had a
car then but i still use the public transport so i use the go train which is similar to the how
train in South Africa and the reason for that is that traffic is just too crazy in downtown
Toronto it's so crazy it does not make sense to drive to the office i drove to the office once
and I was like not doing that again so it just makes sense to go park your car at the go station
park your car and then go and ride the go train or if you're living next to an area that has a bus um
park and ride type of vibe you park there take the bus go to the go station and then go to wherever
you need to be going downtown Toronto if you are living in one of the neighbouring towns
like I am so that is another super big advantage and benefit according to me because having lived
in South Africa oh my word thinking about using the public transportation system to get
around I mean it's something that you would do if you really really really have to do it
but I've found that there's a lot of people who will just prefer to Uber to places or use Taxify
instead of using the traditional taxis that exist in South Africa because yeah I I've used taxis for
a very long time in South Africa growing up going to school from primary school all the
way to high school and for a short period during my university days I was using taxis and yeah
it's not it's not the greatest of systems to be moving around but you use what you have right
so if you would need to use public transport to get to work to get maybe to wherever it is
that you need to be getting it is really really good it's really good and i would just advise
that wherever it is that you end up looking to live just make sure if you're gonna have
to use public transport that you have a bus stop very close to wherever your house is number six
saving the best for last well all of them are best really like it's all very
important things that are very high on my list of important things if i'm living in a place
that just make that experience that much nicer but in Canada if you have lived in Canada for three
years you can apply for citizenship if you've lived and you have your permanent residence you
can then apply for citizenship after just three years of living in Canada like how many countries
can you say you can do that around the world some countries you can live there I know people who've
stayed in certain parts of the world where they have been there for like 12 years there's one
couple they have a nine-year-old who was born in that country but they will never be able to
get citizenship there if they would stop working if they'd ever for whatever reason not have jobs
they would literally have to pack up and move back to South Africa
and I'm just like this poor child who's only ever known life in this country is
not even recognized by that country as one of the country's own it's the craziest thing
but that's one of the benefits in Canada if it is something that you're looking for
you can apply for citizenship after three years of staying in the country if you have permanent
residence and if you're wondering what the process might look like or what process
I followed me and my family followed if this is the first video that you're watching on my channel
I do have a video on my channel where i talk about the immigration process that we followed and you
can check that video out if that's something that you would like to know let me know in the comments
section if there's any advantage that jumped up at you let me know if there's something else that you
would like to know that is very important to you for moving to another country and
I will gladly consider making a video about it if it's something that I can speak on I look forward
to hearing from you and I will see you on the next video. Thank you for watching. 20 minutes
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maybe like chilling like
let's come closer and chill like this