The US, even Seattle, can be a culture shock for many Canadians.  It is a very different country.  I know of several people who have fled the US after only a couple years.  It generally boils down to race, religion and guns, all of which are radically different on either side of the boarder.  It&#x27;s not that one is better than the other, but that a person raised in one environment can be taken aback by the immediacy of the change.