My wife and I are thinking about moving our family to Canada and planning a trip to visit some cities in about a month. I was hoping the slap community could help share some insights. Below I've shared a bit about our motivation and lifestyle to give context to anyone who is generous enough to share some insights.
Motivation
we are getting frustrated with the overall trajectory of the country especially with things like violent crime. we the recent changes in the supreme court and political climate will take a generation or more to correct and we feel that if we stay here someone we are close to will eventually be a victim of gun violence. we've kind of given up on the political system at this point as it feels broken and neither party is appealing to us so no matter who wins we fear we will loose in the long run. the extremes are killing it for us. our kids being just before high school we feel now is the time to move if we ever move as we would still have a chance of resettling the whole family and not having all our kids move away right after high school.
Current Life Style
I own and run a software company in Austin which allows me great flexibly on my time as I work from home and lifestyle as it's a decently successful company. We currently live close to downtown Austin in the hills with lots of animals, we have a bunch of chickens, several little gardens, etc... Our neighborhood is full of wildlife, like deers, foxes, etc... and there are lots of hiking trails with nice creeks and cliffs and all that. My wife likes to paddle board and take care of animals, plants and kids. I'm into obviously into skateboarding but also mountain biking and pretty much board type sports (surfing, snowboarding, wake boarding, ect...). Our kids are really into surfing and snowboarding, neither we get to do too often. We also home school because of the shit combination of liberal and conservative politics in Austin. You get the worst of both worlds here and the schools are terrible with no discipline and bullying from the liberal side but then you have to worry about your kids getting shot up from the republican side and everything is watered down again thanks to the republicans. we own a beach house so we spend about 1/3 of our time at the beach on the gulf coast. I run my business from home and the whole family hangs out most days working together and then playing and cooking together. We like a nice meal but also enjoy cooking at home. Really having fun casual places for the family, a few healthy good options for food and few epic date spots would hit it for us.