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On election night in 2016, Google searches for “move to Canada” spiked so aggressively that the Canadian Citizenship and Immigration website crashed, marking the first of many, many things that broke after Donald Trump was elected. Well, Canada, we hope you upgraded your servers, because 2020 already has a lot of people gazing northward toward a land with cleaner skies, calmer discourse, flatten curves, and publicly funded health—and election day is a few weeks out. Last election’s “welp, time to move to Canada” refrain felt a lot more jokey. Today, it’s aspirational. Maybe you’ve heard about all the reasons to fall in love with Toronto, or discovered that the Canadian Rockies are in fact superior to our own Rockies. Perhaps you’re drawn to Saskatchewan’s river valleys or British Columbia’s indigenous wine country. Maybe you really love hockey, or want to put that semester of French to use. Or maybe you just want to get the hell out of the US but want life to feel at least relatively...