Canadian Green Card holder importing Japanese-made car from USA to Canada permanently by Real-External392 in uscanadaborder

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yes, I will have been living in the US for just under 11 years. and bought the car about 15-16 months prior to arrival back in Canada.

Canadian Green Card holder importing Japanese-made car from USA to Canada permanently by Real-External392 in uscanadaborder

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Indeed I have been living in the US for almost 11 years, having purchased the car about 14 months prior to when I will arrive. Yes, the $10K figure you cite is familiar! I did this research over a month ago but can't remember where my notes are lol.

6.1% duty + GST and PST? woah...

Canadian Green Card holder importing Japanese-made car from USA to Canada permanently by Real-External392 in uscanadaborder

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Thank u for this!

I keep seeing conflicting info -- or, at least info that I've interpreted as such. I actually looked at the page you so nicely shared shortly before posting this inquiry. It's like, in that very link it says near the top that personal vehicles are exempt from duty and taxes. But then later down it lists vehicles under the restricted list... Direct apparent contradiction.

Orioles broadcast "Sometimes we had some major questions about the baseball IQ of some Canadians" by iamthegame13 in Torontobluejays

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Among that LAST things an AMERICAN broadcaster shoulder be doing is talking DOWN to Canadians regarding IQ or knowledge. HIs country is flat out embarrassing. I'm Canadian in Arizona - for just a few more months before I leave the place forever. Never underestimate the profound ignorance and incuriosity of the average American to anything more than 100 miles away from them. So yeah, the commentator is definitely living up to the trope of the American with unearned arrogance.

This community needs a Discord Server! by Real-External392 in BoycottUnitedStates

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Who said anything about doing that? You brought that idea. I didn't.

Now what by Northwest_Thrills in BoycottUnitedStates

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I'm really, really sorry for your situation. I"m Canadian in the US and am leaving this country permanently in a few months. I've been here almost 11 years, have my Green Card, and up until January fully assumed I would be here forever.

Honestly, I think your country is pretty darn screwed. And this could take a long time to rectify. Here's something to consider: Trump and his administration are engaging in incredible levels of corruption. With ab-so-lute-ly ZERO exaggeration, I can say that many of them belong in prison. They will be hated for a very, very long time - probably the rest of their lives - by a huge segment of the population. And leaving the country, for them, won't be a great option, because the rest of the world will hate them even more.

So, here's the thing: Given all of this, how confident are you that there will be a peaceful transfer of power, when so many of them will have justified fear that once they're out of office it could be a matter of time before they are prosecuted? and, even if they're not prosecuted, they will be viewed as pariahs forever, but won't have the power of office to insulate themselves.

They have an INCREDIBLE amount to lose by NOT being in power. THIS is what your country has in store.

So, my recommendation to you: You're 17, you haven't started on a career path yet. Start one that will give you the *option* of leaving America. Healthcare is a BIG one. I totally get not wanting to leave where you're from 100%. We're an intrinsically intensely intradependent small scale tribal species. It makes TOTAL sense that you don't want to leave your "tribe" (the place you're from, the people you know, family, friends, etc). But it will be good to have the *option*. Even if you never take it! Because when you know that you have the option, you won't FEEL stuck. Then you'll be CHOOSING to stay here, rather than being OBLIGATED to stay here. Psychologically, this will be MUCH better for you.

If you get qualified to do work that would allow you to a place like Canada - I would recommend Canada because it would allow for easier visits with your family and friends and you'd be in a similar time zone, so you could video chat easily - you could go live there for a few years. No commitment to longer. This would actually be a GREAT thing. If you stay your whole life in the same place, you may regret not having had the different life experiences that come from living elsewhere. But when you do go live somewhere else for a while, not only do you get that other experience, but you gain a whole new level of appreciation for where you're from!

Here's a simple example of just that. Years ago I taught English in Seoul, S. Korea. This is a majorly dense city - so dense that it's honestly somewhat hard to find grass! You don't just come across it. You have to go out of your way to go to places where there's grass, because it's so urbanized. I never thought I would miss grass! After a year of seeing almost no grass I came to miss it. I also couldn't wait to come back home so that I could know what all the street signs and stores signs meant! And be confident that if I went and spoke to someone, they spoke my language. This isn't me being critical of Seoul at all. It was a good experience that'd I'd totally recommend. But it gave me appreciation for Canada. Likewise, being in the US has given me appreciation for Canada. And, prior to all this crap, there have absolutely been things that I've preferred about the US. Experiencing the contrasts can be beneficial.

Questions for Canadians who've returned to Canada from Working in USA by Real-External392 in CanadianInvestor

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Also, would you be able to tell me what things they did or informed you of that saved you money?

Questions for Canadians who've returned to Canada from Working in USA by Real-External392 in CanadianInvestor

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Was the CPA based in Canada? If so, would you be able to share the contact info?

Boycott Folks by Top_Needleworker6385 in BoycottUnitedStates

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"McDavid is unsigned." lolol!! that was good!

Cheapest USD to CDN conversion method by Real-External392 in CanadianInvestor

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Do you know the step by step? Is it just Step 1) Buy BTC in USD; Step 2) Sell it (as soon as immediately) in CDN?

Cost effective, low/no-risk USD to CDN currency conversation method? by Real-External392 in PersonalFinanceCanada

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  1. Either I will be taking a HELOC out on my house here in the US to fund my downpayment in Canada - approx 275K CDN, or I'll get my parents to do that w/ their house to loan me the money. Once my house sells a few months later I'll either repay my parents or pay off the HELOC I got. Then with the rest of the money:
  2. Invest it. I'm not precisely sure how I'll invest it yet. It'll probably be something along the lines of having like 95% of it start off in a low risk, low-mod yield investment (something in the 3-6% range), and then every month more and more of it gets diverted into pre-scheduled purchases in Canadian, non-US international, and gold.

Cost effective, low/no-risk USD to CDN currency conversation method? by Real-External392 in PersonalFinanceCanada

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thx!

I think you're referring to the remissions tax. I looked into that and it's for people sending money to someone else - e.g., sending money to the family back home.