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.

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 🍁

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.

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.

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.