China, unlike Japan, isn’t a democracy so they don’t have to keep bailing out old people and selfish small businesspeople and small farmers who vote for their own selfish interests. Making this comparison is lazy.
I Make 75k CAD as a software dev in Quebec, I lose like half my income in taxes and what not.
And after that everyday expenses are extremly high, fuck any protein gets super expensive, rent, insurances, phone/internet. Buy a video game? hey pay another 15% tax!
If you're an economic net to the country you're taxed to hell and up, I don't spend much and barely go out. yet I cant see myself buying a house anytime soon here.
Now That content creation income is rising up I get taxed even more, I see now reason to stay in canada where its starting to look like the sand wars in my neighbourhood.
I could withdraw from all my savings and investments accounts ( and get taxed to shit on withdrawing too..) put a down payment on a US house and have a bigger QOL