“Words Can’t convey”: trucker from Russia about life in Canada
Alex Shturman works in one of the Canadian transport companies as a truck driver. But he became famous thanks to his hobby: Alex is known as a Russian-language video blogger from Canada.
He has been in this country for many years. This man lives here with his wife and adult daughter. At the same time, he regrets that he once left Russia. And although Canada is considered one of the most popular countries among migrants, Alex does not feel comfortable and free here, calling it a concentration camp.
Concentration camp country
He believes that this definition most accurately describes the reality that surrounds him. This is not even a prison, everything is much worse. Words can not convey. If in prison a person is guaranteed a warm cell, bunks and chowder, then there are no guarantees. It’s just that you don’t have any rights, they can do what they see fit with you. Here you can humiliate and deprive everything. And you cannot leave the perimeter of your camp.
Of course, he knows many immigrants from Russia who came to Canada, got a good job here and do not need anything. But Alex is sure that sooner or later, each of them will experience the feeling that he experienced. He realized that the better a migrant in Canada feels, the greater the risk that he will be created problems here.
Feel like a stranger
Alex believes that the “Canadians,” as he calls the locals, are very envious and unfriendly people. They are always pleased with your troubles and afflict success.
When his life began to improve here, relations with neighbors began to deteriorate. From time to time they even called the police to him. Police officers, seeing in front of themselves adequate and even pleasant people, eventually ceased to respond to such challenges.
In passing, he mentions that he opened some kind of business, but he was not allowed to turn around and was made bankrupt.
And when he was already working as a trucker, the policeman who stopped him drew attention to the fact that a driver with twenty years of experience had not a single comment. The mess. And then he wrote him at once three small fines by Canadian standards so that life would not seem to be honey.
Because of this, Alex began serious troubles. It even got to the point that he nearly lost his job. Of course, Native Canadians have fines, but for them this is not a problem. But for a visitor, everything can turn out very differently.
If before he did not have to stand idle, now he receives the most disadvantageous orders, and, having delivered the goods, he can wait a day or two in the cold cabin of his truck until he receives a new order. And at the same time, he should smile and not show his displeasure in any way.
His daughter, applying for a mortgage, was surprised to learn about her bad credit history. It turns out that when she was just starting to work, she overdue the payment for the phone. More precisely, she paid on time, but did not take into account that the amount is credited in a few days. The price of the issue is $ 20. She was told that it’s okay, they didn’t take a penalty, they just recommended paying a little earlier.
As a result, this case became the reason that the girl now has no right to take housing in a mortgage for six years. You just have to take it off.
By the way, Alex says that the owners of the apartment have the right to come to you for rented housing with a check twice a month, even in your absence.
You're nobody here
Alex realized that even if you have an apartment, a car, a family, a business here, you can lose all this at once. And then you will become an ordinary disempowered slave who must obey the master and overseers in everything. After all, if you fall into disgrace, you will barely make ends meet, working for food and paying for housing and communal services.
The man is already thinking about returning to Russia, but this is also not so simple. He says that earned money is enough only from paycheck to paycheck, so he is not even able to buy a ticket to his homeland.
Perhaps here he is a little disingenuous. I do not think that he is not able to buy a plane ticket. Simply, having arrived in Russia, he will also have to start everything from scratch, and yet he, Alex, is far from 16 years old. He will arrive in his native country, where he has no home, no job.
Therefore, most likely, he will not leave anywhere in Canada. Alex will simply take his soul away, sharing thoughts with visitors to his video blog, and continue, with his teeth gritting, to put up with the surrounding reality.
He has been in this country for many years. This man lives here with his wife and adult daughter. At the same time, he regrets that he once left Russia. And although Canada is considered one of the most popular countries among migrants, Alex does not feel comfortable and free here, calling it a concentration camp.
Concentration camp country
He believes that this definition most accurately describes the reality that surrounds him. This is not even a prison, everything is much worse. Words can not convey. If in prison a person is guaranteed a warm cell, bunks and chowder, then there are no guarantees. It’s just that you don’t have any rights, they can do what they see fit with you. Here you can humiliate and deprive everything. And you cannot leave the perimeter of your camp.
Of course, he knows many immigrants from Russia who came to Canada, got a good job here and do not need anything. But Alex is sure that sooner or later, each of them will experience the feeling that he experienced. He realized that the better a migrant in Canada feels, the greater the risk that he will be created problems here.
Feel like a stranger
Alex believes that the “Canadians,” as he calls the locals, are very envious and unfriendly people. They are always pleased with your troubles and afflict success.
When his life began to improve here, relations with neighbors began to deteriorate. From time to time they even called the police to him. Police officers, seeing in front of themselves adequate and even pleasant people, eventually ceased to respond to such challenges.
In passing, he mentions that he opened some kind of business, but he was not allowed to turn around and was made bankrupt.
And when he was already working as a trucker, the policeman who stopped him drew attention to the fact that a driver with twenty years of experience had not a single comment. The mess. And then he wrote him at once three small fines by Canadian standards so that life would not seem to be honey.
Because of this, Alex began serious troubles. It even got to the point that he nearly lost his job. Of course, Native Canadians have fines, but for them this is not a problem. But for a visitor, everything can turn out very differently.
If before he did not have to stand idle, now he receives the most disadvantageous orders, and, having delivered the goods, he can wait a day or two in the cold cabin of his truck until he receives a new order. And at the same time, he should smile and not show his displeasure in any way.
His daughter, applying for a mortgage, was surprised to learn about her bad credit history. It turns out that when she was just starting to work, she overdue the payment for the phone. More precisely, she paid on time, but did not take into account that the amount is credited in a few days. The price of the issue is $ 20. She was told that it’s okay, they didn’t take a penalty, they just recommended paying a little earlier.
As a result, this case became the reason that the girl now has no right to take housing in a mortgage for six years. You just have to take it off.
By the way, Alex says that the owners of the apartment have the right to come to you for rented housing with a check twice a month, even in your absence.
You're nobody here
Alex realized that even if you have an apartment, a car, a family, a business here, you can lose all this at once. And then you will become an ordinary disempowered slave who must obey the master and overseers in everything. After all, if you fall into disgrace, you will barely make ends meet, working for food and paying for housing and communal services.
The man is already thinking about returning to Russia, but this is also not so simple. He says that earned money is enough only from paycheck to paycheck, so he is not even able to buy a ticket to his homeland.
Perhaps here he is a little disingenuous. I do not think that he is not able to buy a plane ticket. Simply, having arrived in Russia, he will also have to start everything from scratch, and yet he, Alex, is far from 16 years old. He will arrive in his native country, where he has no home, no job.
Therefore, most likely, he will not leave anywhere in Canada. Alex will simply take his soul away, sharing thoughts with visitors to his video blog, and continue, with his teeth gritting, to put up with the surrounding reality.
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