Best cities for migrants.
 

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Calgary, Waterloo, Ottawa, Vancouver, St. John's, and Richmond Hill, Ont., top the Conference Board of Canada ranking of the country's most attractive cities to migrants.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repor...ntent=My+Yahoo

Re: Best cities for migrants.
 

I bet there are just thousands of people in India and the Phillipines dreaming of Richmond Hill, Ont.

Re: Best cities for migrants.
 

Judging by the ethnic makeup of north RH and the proliferation of take-out curry emporia, I think so too. The Philipines, not so much.

Re: Best cities for migrants.
 

If only for the shagging potential.

Re: Best cities for migrants.
 

Har har. I see the Dark Side got a C.

Re: Best cities for migrants.
 

“what migrants are looking for when choosing where to locate,”


What a load of bollox. If nothing else the threads here tend to demonstrate that we are all looking for slightly different things.

I dont think immigrants are really much different to those already living here in terms of what we want. However they are probably more likely to head to somewhere they have heard off, or which has a ready made cultural support network, or where they can land a job in their field.

Re: Best cities for migrants.
 

Agreed. Which is why half of them go to Toronto.

Note, however, that the G&M survey wasn't just talking about new immigrants, but rather "migrants, both Canadian and from abroad".

Re: Best cities for migrants.
 

True. There are really only two reasons to move here. One is to find work with the Feds (generally not open to immigrants). The other is being posted to National Defence HQ.