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yuiyoshida

(41,867 posts) Tue May 10, 2016, 04:33 PM May 2016

Dating site matches Americans fleeing Trump with Canadians

TORONTO: A dating website is pledging to match Americans who can't live with a Donald Trump presidency to Canadians looking for love, facilitating the pledge often made by U.S. voters to move to Canada if the real estate billionaire is elected.

"Maple Match makes it easy for Americans to find the ideal Canadian partner to save them from the unfathomable horror of a Trump presidency," the Maple Match website reads, before offering a waiting list for interested singles.

Trump's bombastic campaign to lead the Republican Party to the November presidential election has alarmed some Americans, both liberals and those in his own party, and the pledge by some to move to Canada if he is elected has gathered steam.

In February, the island of Cape Breton on Canada's Atlantic coast marketed itself as a tranquil refuge for Americans seeking to escape should Trump capture the White House.

The Maple Match website allows users to add their name to a waitlist matching dismayed U.S. voters with interested single Canadians, adding "We'll let you know the next steps soon!"

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/lifestyle/dating-site-matches-ameri/2774090.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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Dating site matches Americans fleeing Trump with Canadians (Original Post) yuiyoshida May 2016 OP

"more than 10,000 singles and about 2,500 Canadians had signed up for the website's waiting list" KamaAina May 2016 #1

Even worse, he might make us pay to build a wall, after we espcape to Canada Jeffersons Ghost May 2016 #4

Dual taxation Baobab May 2016 #10

It's a scam... Blue_Tires May 2016 #11

I seem to recall something similar in 2004, but it was a hoax bbgrunt May 2016 #2

Would I get bonus points for being from Minnesota, so not having much accent in Canada? Thor_MN May 2016 #3

Couldn't you instead set up a profitable business, sneaking Americans across the border? Jim Lane May 2016 #5

I did cross the border a couple times without checking in with Customs... Thor_MN May 2016 #12

I am also guessing Canadian companies have seen an increase of job applications from Americans iandhr May 2016 #6

Wish I had the money and or some sort of in demand tradeskill to leave the country if that cstanleytech May 2016 #7

The problem is that if Trump becomes BlueMTexpat May 2016 #8

Hey, what about American families cannabis_flower May 2016 #9

They can trade places with Syrian families. eppur_se_muova May 2016 #14

Dumb Idea 132nd Last Angry Man May 2016 #13

+1 moriah May 2016 #16

Start learning French? Califonz May 2016 #15

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

1. "more than 10,000 singles and about 2,500 Canadians had signed up for the website's waiting list"

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Tue May 10, 2016, 04:40 PM

May 2016

So it's four to one against us.

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)

4. Even worse, he might make us pay to build a wall, after we espcape to Canada

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #1)

Tue May 10, 2016, 09:19 PM

May 2016

It will be like dodging the draft, during Vietnam.

Baobab

(4,667 posts)

10. Dual taxation

Reply to Jeffersons Ghost (Reply #4)

Thu May 12, 2016, 07:36 PM

May 2016

they do that now.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

11. It's a scam...

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #1)

Thu May 12, 2016, 07:41 PM

May 2016

If it's anything like every other dating site I've ever used, it'll have a 95% male/5% female split, and half of those women's ads will be fake...

I'd have better luck dealing with the thieves, murders, sex workers, rapists, druggies and con artists on Craigslist

bbgrunt

(5,281 posts)

2. I seem to recall something similar in 2004, but it was a hoax

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Tue May 10, 2016, 05:36 PM

May 2016

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)

3. Would I get bonus points for being from Minnesota, so not having much accent in Canada?

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Tue May 10, 2016, 09:08 PM

May 2016

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)

5. Couldn't you instead set up a profitable business, sneaking Americans across the border?

Reply to Thor_MN (Reply #3)

Wed May 11, 2016, 04:13 AM

May 2016

The people like that in Mexico are called coyotes, so maybe you'd be a timberwolf (even if you're not a basketball fan).

As a cancer survivor, I can't be granted "landed immigrant" status in Canada. I'm sure I'm not the only American who can't get in legally. We're your market.

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)

12. I did cross the border a couple times without checking in with Customs...

Reply to Jim Lane (Reply #5)

Sat May 14, 2016, 07:51 AM

May 2016

But only because the station was empty and dark. Back in the day, apparently, they sometimes didn't have a night shift running and if you returned from Canada after dark, you paused at the border, looked around, gave them a 5 count, shrugged and kept driving.

I suppose I could take my boat up to Rainy Lake and ferry people across. Or the people could wait until winter and just walk.