You can’t always compare dollar to dollar. You have to see what cost of living and social services are. America is stupidly inflated as I found as I’ve looked overseas.
Some things simply have no dollar value.
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Not getting disappeared for being the ‘wrong’ colour
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Not worrying about your kid being shot at school (or even thinking about guns in general)
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Not having to avoid food containing chemicals or made with processes banned everywhere but the USA for health reasons.
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Only have to use imperial for bodyweight and height
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Little to no anti-piracy enforcement (YAR)
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Being smug about not being American
Being smug about not being American.
About 7.6 billion people can do that, not just Canadians.
Not living in a country that sees women, legally and culturally, as subhuman.
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It is true for the most part but US still pays professions disproportionately high. I looked into moving to Europe as a physician. I can speak…could …speak Norwegian decently. I thought about moving there and relearning the language, but the salary for my specialty is what nurses get here. I know it isn’t all about salary alone but I could work in the US for 5-10 more years and move to Europe and not work ever again and be about even.
I moved and I’m making less. I also cry less.
Hmm, shitty dictatorship whose government hates your guts or friendly democracy with healthcare for all?
🍁True North Strong and Free 🍁
I (US prof) would 100% take a job at a Canadian university, even if we weren’t sliding headlong into ur-fascism. The corporatization, anti-labor policies, constant erosion of faculty autonomy in how and what to teach, and the general aggressive conversion of US higher ed into a collection of anti-inrellectual authoritarian hierarchies has turned what used to be a respected and satisfying (if difficult, underpaid, and frequently organizarionally insane) profession I into a Kafkaesque parody of Office Space.
I loved my job for years. I fucking hate it now, and there are hundreds of thousands of us in this situation.
If I offered you $1M/yr to live in a septic tank, would you do it? Same applies here.
Pasquerella agreed that Canadian institutions face their own challenges to academic freedom as long as right-wing populist movements remain a global force. Still, she said her association is tracking increased interest among American researchers looking to Canada and to other countries like the U.K., Germany and Australia.
It’s not so much moving to Canada, as moving out of the US. It’s been a building problem for decades now.
Don’t worry, our government will keep them out.
Funny thing about senior academics - salaries aren’t close to their top priority, even though the ivory tower pays less and less every year.
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