Jack Jedwab
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But people who are leaving are generally people who are better equipped to do so.
They're
better off economically.
They're in professional positions.
Many of them are working remotely, right?
That's sort of almost a transnational phenomenon.
I can sort of live somewhere else and work with my remotely equipped stuff, you know?
So there's a lot of that going on, but Canada does not seem to be one of the top five destinations according to surveys done by Americans.
Now, to be fair, we haven't gone to this part yet, but amongst the Canadians moving to the U.S., and I've done a fair bit of research on that, you've got a disproportionate group that are 55 and over, about half of them.
55 and over.
Is it snowbirds going to Florida?
Yeah, they're moving there.
They're retirees who are, you know, again, got the ability to do so.
They've got their economic situation is good.
So you'll hear a lot of Canadians, I was telling some of this yesterday, who will say, you know, I'm thinking of moving to some sort of sunny spot, either in Florida or in California or in Arizona.
But you don't hear a lot of Americans currently say in Florida saying, you know what?
I hear the weather's really good up in Canada.
I'm thinking of sort of leaving my sort of
nearby the beach place to go out to, say, Toronto so I can sort of bring my beach chair out on the Great Lakes.
I mean, you don't hear a lot of that.