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Re:Canada's surging cost of living fuels reverse immigration by tempestn on Sunday December 10, 2023 @12:27AM (#38589368)
Afaik Australia is neither far wealthier nor does it have far fewer people, at least as I would define "far".

Let me check.. GDP per capita at purchasing power parity was 62k for Australia VS 58k for Canada last year. Pretty comparable. Population is 40M vs 26M. I guess you could argue that's far fewer people, but in the range of countries those are in the same general vicinity.

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Re:Canada's surging cost of living fuels reverse immigration by ganeshkrishnan on Sunday December 10, 2023 @02:22AM (#38589785)
https://wid.world/document/whats-new-about-inequality-in-aus...

Income inequality (when I was there in 2010's) for Canada was twice that of Australia.

It (was/is) extremely rare to see homeless people in Australia while in most places in Toronto downtown its impossible to NOT see homeless.

If you spend few years in both countries you can clearly see the standard of living difference between both countries. Canadian infrastructure is much more poorer and worse off (my observation, not my complaint)

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