Here are my thoughts.
Job wise in canada its limited, you either have to live in TO or Montreal (need to know french) or vancouver and now they are getting good jobs in alberta. Other than that there is no jobs period but here in US almost every city has better oppertunity compare to what they have to offer for the city listed above except TO.

Living expenses: Lived down south paid 300/month for one bedroom appt, Moved to TO and paid 1000 dollars for 2 bedroom basement appt.
Weather: no spring (they call it winter break for spring break here in US)
Auto Insurence: Was paying 25/month for a car and moved to TO and ended up paying 175/month for the same car.
Gas price: 3.77/gallon here now and in TO its 1.29/liter now (3.8 liter/gallon)
Booze: Govt sales them and its double compare to here (that includes beer as well)
Sales Tax: 6.75% sales tax here now and it was 15% GST and PST in TO
Had a career job in TO but paid way less than what I was making here.

Savings wise Now you all do the math...:)

Good thing about canada: If you are female you get one year maternity leave in canada, where in US its not even a month.

  If you have a career job in US who offers you insurence (which all of them does) you still can't compare .its almost the same.

Tired of srilankans trying to act like they are kale's...:)