Hold on. Are you saying you didn’t move to the great white north for financial gain because you could not find an adequate job in your field in south Louisiana?
No. I moved here because I got accepted into a PhD program at a Top 3 university program in North America in my field. And while I had other offers of acceptance to other places, no other place came close to offering the funding package that the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT) offered me.