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Originally Posted by opendoor
Yes, you are all correct. I had misread a chart from Alberta showing net migration by province which showed a small negative for BC. I misinterpreted it thinking it represented Alberta's net migration with each province, rather than each province's own total.
Still, an Alberta/BC net migration of 1,000 people in a couple of provinces with over 5 million people each is essentially meaningless. And to Cliff's point, I'm not sure given the disparate unemployment rates (8.4% in Alberta vs. 6.2% in BC) that there would be a big movement of working age people from BC to Alberta right now.
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Agreed. 1000 people is a pretty meaningless number when the provinces have a combined population of about 11,000,000 with many transitory people in both provinces to start with.
Anecdotally, I do think people are less likely to settle down in BC, as the cost of raising a family is very prohibitive. I'd like to see stats on it, but, from what I've observed, many people aged 20-35ish move to BC but then many people 35+ move out to settle down in more affordable pastures. While in Alberta, many people 20-30 move out, but often come back, and more people 30+ move to Alberta from BC.