MarylandNed

Not "the" major employer.

http://livework.kingstoncanada.com/e...remployers.asp

The following all employ more people than Correctional Services:

- CFB Kingston (includes Royal Military College)
- Queen´s University
- Kingston General Hospital
- Limestone District School Board

And unless Kingston General Hospital is full of old people paying each other to look after each other, I suspect that there are doctors, nurses, techs, etc. employed there.

In addition there are other sectors (made up of multiple employers) that employ more people in Kingston than Correctional Services.

dbd33

Surely these aren't relevant to an immigrant and are not a reason to move to a town. The military is for citizens, an immigrant wanting to go and dominate the population of the middle east could more easily join his or her own armed forces. Education is a difficult sector to break into, people who work in that trade have to go where a specific job is so there's no point in choosing a town. Doctoring, ok, it's relatively easier to convert to being a doctor in Canada than it is to gain work in the other sectors, but I believe you have to first go to wherever a residency is available.

I don't think there's a case for making Kingston, or any other small town, your target destination. If a job comes up and it happens to be in Kingston then maybe it's worth looking at, just as it would be anywhere else.

Tangram

Job to go to, or potential of having one, has to make up more than 50% of anyone's decision. As the old BE adage goes - you can't eat mountains.