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Originally Posted by flamesfever
I am curious to know what you would use as positive selling points to get them to move up here.
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1) Affordable cost of living
a $350k condo in Calgary is 242k USD. Some of these people could completely get out of their mortgages on similar sized places like SF / Seattle that are over $1M and use the equity to buy a home full stop. I paid $30USD for two tacos last time I was in Seattle. I saw a pecan pie for $49 last time I was in SF. Taxes in most parts of USA are actually higher than Taxes in Canada when you factor in municipal income taxes and municipal sales taxes. While their jobs pay well, their standard of living isn't really all that special.
2) Mild summers. Invite them to come experience July anywhere on this country. Too much is made about our cold winters (as if elite professionals don't spend a lot of time indoors anyways) and too little is
3) The possibility of growing some of these industries in some of our most underutilized (and underpriced) land, which we have in abundance. Imagine if a place like Black Diamond was the research lab for a pharmaceutical company. It's ####ing gorgeous out there, yet only a ~twenty minute drive from Okotoks which itself is not far from Calgary. I was out in Hartel for work last year and it was just lovely.
4) Regulations that are actually favourable to the upper middle class. Clean air you don't get in Los Angeles. Food without preservatives.
5) Make crown corporations in the right industries. An EV manufacturer in Ontario?
6) Safety from school shootings for their kids
At the end of the day though, it can only happen if Canadians don't fail our country by voting Conservative. Not much of an escape from a fascist regime if you're coming to a fascist regime.
Canada has corporate investment issues, I don't pretend to have a ton of answers. And our cold winters are indeed a tough sell on anyone. But if someone is on the fence, I think inviting them to see the better parts of this wonderful country is a no-brainer.