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Old Posted Oct 8, 2019, 8:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Docere View Post
Since when is Minneapolis rural or small town?
Maybe a better phrasing than rural or small town is "not a big, huge city".

The US is still better at getting refugees/immigrants to stay in a Minneapolis sized city (let alone a Lowell-sized one or even smaller) and not leave for the nearest Chicago-sized city or bi-coastal metro area than say, Canada would be at getting refugees/immigrants to stay in Halifax, Thunder Bay, or Saskatoon and not leave for Toronto or Vancouver.

US-bound immigrants seem more comfortable in a 100 000-something people city, or 10, 000-something one, even one not that diverse, than Canadian-bound immigrants. This applies even for non-refugees. Despite the perception that Americans are super mobile and will pack up more readily than Canadians for greener pastures in another state/province at the drop of a hat. So many more South Asian hotel owners or engineers far from any big city in the US because they initially settled there, so few in Canadian small towns far from Brampton or Surrey.

I'm wondering about this phenomenon. Is it willingness on the part of the immigrants themselves or the town to be super good at welcoming/settling them.
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