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Originally Posted by blankall
Very few Americans are moving here for the simple reason that it's way too expensive to live in Canada now.
While many recent migrants to the USA or former Canadians residents are moving to Canada, almost no US born citizens move to Canada now. This is part of a trend that started around 2010.
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I don't know, those changes look a bit too dramatic to be organic. Particularly given that "U.S. Residents Born in the US" and "U.S. Citizens, former temporary residents of Canada" aren't mutually exclusive categories, yet the latter seems to have almost totally replaced the former. What about a US-born person who is a former temporary resident of Canada?
Just as an example, pre-2012 there was an average of 45 "U.S. Citizens, former temporary residents of Canada" becoming permanent residents but by 2014 that number was 100x higher at 5,000 a year? That doesn't seem plausible unless the numbers are an artifact of changes in how immigrants are classified or processed.