I have many friends who've gone farther than me, lived in stranger places. Those friends are extraordinarily brave and go to other countries without being fluent in anything other than English. Some only stay a year, others stay for the rest of their lives.

I'm not that brave. I've only moved to Canada. From the US, Canada looks about the same. The majority of the country speaks English, we face similar economic, immigration, food, and living problems. Much of the northern US empathizes with C...