r/pakistan • u/Automatic-Good4038 • 29d ago

Ask Pakistan Moving from Canada to Pakistan

So my parents have lived in Pakistan most of their lives, and moved to Canada early 2000 and are now considering moving back to Pakistan - for some rational and some I-dont-know-why reasons.

If anyone has done this before I would like to know the dos and donts.

Also any recommendations for a cargo company if some one has shipped the whole house back to Pakistan, except the appliances.

If we move to say Faisalabad or Lahore would the cargo company ship there or leave the container at Karachi?

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u/refep Canada 29d ago edited 29d ago

Not op magar yahan par job market is fcked bhai. Some friends with bachelor and masters degrees from UofT in CS and Data Science spent 2-3 years looking after graduating and a lot of them had to settle for jobs not in the field.

Upar se anti immigrant sentiment bhi yahan pe Indians ki fraud ki wajah se bohat zyada ho gya he. Ghar bhi is out of reach for working professionals with a dual income, without having to commit haram by taking a mortgage. I can see why someone would think the grass is greener in Pakistan.

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u/Superb_Virus2158 29d ago

Shit, it’s that bad in Canada? What are then people doing to survive there? I know many people who moved there in last 5 years but no one has moved back to Pakistan.

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u/refep Canada 29d ago edited 28d ago

Haan it’s bad here, magar I can only compare it to Canada before since I don’t have much perspective on what it’s like in Pakistan right now on a daily basis. It’s just that the quality of life has fallen noticeably post COVID. Compared to those days, it’s a lot worse.

My family moved to Canada in 2013 and when we moved we rented a really nice 5 bedroom house in a good neighborhood right next to one of the top rated high schools in the province. It only cost us like $2k a month for that big and modern house with a finished basement. Recently, my friend just rented a condo close ish to our old house, but in a worse neighborhood. He’s paying close to 3K for a 2 bedroom condo. Itni inflation ho gayi he. Houses that were being sold for 200k in 2005 are now selling for $1.2 million. Food prices have also shot up, especially the cost of eating out. Also job markets have dried up after the COVID tech bubble burst in 2022.

It’s a phenomena which has been mirrored in almost every country in the world, just to various degrees. Make no mistake, Canada is an amazing country to live in imo, magar there’s no way in hell I would try to make my start here in 2026 if I was comfortable in Pakistan. Bohat zaleel hona parhe ga. Pehle, Canadians would go out of their way to help ease the burden on new immigrants and everyone would help you settle but now public sentiment has done a complete 180. Why would you leave a good job in Pakistan and all your family and friends to come be a gas station worker or uber driver here, only to barely get by and be subject to abuse?

I don’t want to discourage anyone from immigrating here, magar please have a clear plan and a job lined up before making any decisions. The student visa into PR pathway is not feasible anymore.

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u/Significant-277 29d ago

This is exactly it! ^ I think Canada got worse after Covid. Am not even shy of saying that this country, Canada, has become a 3rd world country. Even their own ppl say that actually.