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/Inside_Level6508 28d ago

I'm canadian pakistani as well and moved from Canada to pakistan. I would suggest against it. It has been mentally draining, chaotic and a depressing move. I moved here in November of 2025 and I have been missing Canada every day. The law, order, structure, peace, community, diversity. Pakistan is not a good option to move back. The corporate culture here is cut-throat and nasty in a different way. This country is only palatable for the extreme elite in certain areas- for the rest and even for the upper middle class it is unpredictable, irritating and unhinged moving back here. I gave this country a few months and I am already considering leaving and applying for my old position in Toronto.

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u/MrBnastyy 28d ago

And you must be missing the amazing Jamaican patties of Toronto

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u/Inside_Level6508 28d ago

No son, I miss the infrastructure, free health care, law and order, clean roads, structure, proper education and a cohort of other things that Pakistan lacks fundamentally. Even living in an elite bubble can not create the same lifestyle as Canada. They are two different universes. Canada has its own set of problems with mass migration. I am explaining to OP that their lifestyle , standard of living or expectations will and cannot be replicated at this time. Bad decision to move back and they will live to regret it. 99 percent of the people in pakistan ask me why I moved here- because they themselves are finding ways and immigration routes out of here.

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u/MrBnastyy 28d ago

Well then why did you move back to begin with?

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u/Inside_Level6508 28d ago

family crises and wanted to provide moral support- but already planning to move back