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[owlectomy]

The fee for legal permanent residency is going up from $325-ish to $1000-ish.

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They had damn well better use that money to hire more people, and people who are actually competent, people who won't do something like rip out your re-entry permit into Japan. (That was so much fun). That agency is stupidly underfunded. And this is the solution?

And the same fee to renew your green card; mine expires in 2012, so I've got time, but.

I don't know if I can see myself paying that to stay in the US.

I like Canada, I would as soon go back there as anything else, but I don't think it could be Montreal, and the possibility of relocating to an almost completely unfamiliar city--Toronto's the only one I've spent more than a day in the last decade--people tell me that Canadian libraries are underfunded, too. I'm not sure how true that is. What library isn't underfunded, really? Certainly the job listings I've seen may not be numerous, but neither are they paying $23000 a year for a full-time librarian position (which is the most extreme example I've seen).

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[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Come ye back, you British sailor, come ye back to Mandalaaaay....

only come back to somewhere generally friendlier than TO, is my advice. (And if it *is* a city you may well not need a car, remember.)

be a librarian in Canada

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Emily...it's Brenda in Regina. You can always move to the birthplace of Medicare in a province governed by a social democratic party with the lowest housing prices of any major city in Canada. Here is a link to the Job Opportunities at the Regina Public Library, which, incidentally, has the highest per capita usership in North America.

http://hermes.reginalibrary.ca/about/jobs.html