The study found the number of Canadians living abroad relative to the national population was five times higher than the U.S.
The study found the number of Canadians living abroad relative to the national population was five times higher than the U.S.
More than one in ten people in a single year?
I don’t think I know a single person in all my life who moved out of Canada.
Are they all movie stars or millionaires?
The rest of the article seems to be talking about Canadians living abroad. So only a few tens of thousands have to leave annually to get to that total amount. I think that first sentence is just poorly written.
Thinking of the number folks I know who went to the US for retirement, work, or to get married, it seems possible.
Seriously. Moving to a new country is GD EXPENSIVE. This is not something you can just do on a whim unless you are quite well to do. That is assuming that the other country even wants you.
I have met a large number of Canadians who have left the country, and they were not super well off. But no where near 1 in 10
They were mostly people who became citizens, then returned to the place they were born for one reason or another.
Sometimes it’s realizing that the grass isn’t greener, sometimes it someone “back home” gets sick, sometimes it a relationship they have in Canada goes away for one reason or another.
This sounds really sus.
Yeah, the only people I know who have permanently left Canada had some tax-related issues they didn’t want to deal with, so moved to Central America. The only other Canadians I know who moved to Europe were people who came from Europe, had their kids here, then went back.
You’d be surprised how many people working in tech have moved to the US. And I can assume other professionals as well. You get MUCH better pay and cheaper cost of living than in Canada.