Census 2011: More RFD'ers heading west.

[mrperfect]

Interesting facts from the 2011 Census stastistics released an hour ago.

- More people from the eastern provinces are heading west, particularly from Ontario. That means that out of stock and price matching is going to be harder, before it was relatively easy to find deals here now the dynamics is going to change.

- Canada is the fastest growing nation and more immigrants are migrating here than ever before.

- Small towns are on the decline while population moves to urban areas.

- Fertility rates are higher in the western cities. (Now I cannot wrap my head around this).

- Fastest growing city is Calgary.

Moving everything and starting over new is a daring decision. I wonder what is driving people to relocate considering cost of living is so much higher here, so wouldnt they be spending more and life becoming harder?

[iEyeCaptain]

Finding a job in the east is pretty tough right now (ask Mark77).

Perhaps many people are moving to Alberta on the promise of ample oil and gas jobs, cheap gas and good steak.

[FrogPrince]

So you have to be an RDFer to move west?

[mrperfect]

Finding a job in the east is pretty tough right now (ask Mark77).

Perhaps many people are moving to Alberta on the promise of ample oil and gas jobs, cheap gas and good steak.

Im not sure how bad it is, but pretty gutsy to leave everything behind, especially if you are close to your families/friends. You could be right, the oil sands, and then the natural gas fields in AB/BC could be the reason of this boom. I really doubt it has anything to do with nicer weather?

[Drew87]

At my job ( I work in retail ) there was this guy who was born in Toronto but grew up in Alberta. He's around 23-24 years old.

He worked for the same company that I work for in Alberta for 3-4 years and then transferred and moved back to Toronto around a year and a half ago.....

He worked at the same store as me for about a year and this past December he moved back to Alberta because he was guaranteed his job back...

The reasons he moved back are:

The job he was doing here was way more demanding - overall on his team they had to do triple the work here then the same team would do in Alberta...He also said that customers and employees in general were ruder, and in his eyes dumber... He would always call customers and people "savages"

He couldn't adjust to the Toronto lifestyle and the attitude he came across on a daily basis.

He earned only around $12-13 here. It's a full time job but remember this is retail). Back in Alberta for the same job he earned $16-17....

[calgaryhhr]

This is not good to hear. Migrants from Ontario (especially the GTA region) are ruining the quality of life that us Calgarians have enjoyed for many years. They don't seem to have the same sense of living a relaxed and easy going lifestyle. They can't adapt to a slower pace of life and are always bitching, complaining and possess a rude nature.

If only we could impose a way of keeping them out.

[CantMissADeal]

So you have to be an RDFer to move west?

Yes, the prices are so high here that you can't afford to live unless you get deals on everything you buy

[bman77]

I'm stuck in Winnipeg for a while, staying here at least til the end of my undergrad, and I have to still finish high school first, want to move to BC eventually.

[Swarez99]

A lot of my friends from university have ended up in Sask/Alberta/BC doing white collar, office jobs. The reason they left was better money than in the GTA and lower taxes/cost of living (Sask/Alberta) or for just a better quality of life in there eyes (BC). Most have no real desire to come back, most want to go as West as possible (BC). I have thought about it lately to get out of the GTA just to try something different.

I would want to know the age group that are going out west, and education. I could see more and more new grads leaving for Western jobs, as they will pay well and cost of living will be lower, and in your 20's its easy to get up and go.

[jcon]

I'm stuck in Winnipeg for a while, staying here at least til the end of my undergrad, and I have to still finish high school first, want to move to BC eventually.

You're in the west.

[bman77]

You're in the west.

I consider it central, even though it is considered west. I feel like to be west you have to be east the praries, that's just me.

[gomyone]

The media somewhat distorts the Census info. While its true that the West is growing faster than central and eastern Canada - the fastest growing place in Canada is not in the West, its Milton in the GTA. If we are talking larger cities (ie., CMA) than its definitely in the west (ie., Calgary, Edmonton and Saskatoon)

[mrperfect]

The media somewhat distorts the Census info. While its true that the West is growing faster than central and eastern Canada - the fastest growing city in Canada is not in the West, its Milton in the GTA.

Really? I never heard about that, I thought it was a close race between Calgary and Edmonton. I know Windsor is losing more people than anywhere else, but never heard about that city being the fastest growing. How large is it? Is it similar to Surrey or Abbotsford in BC?

[jcon]

I consider it central, even though it is considered west. I feel like to be west you have to be oast tge praries, that's just me.

I assure you, we're in the west.

[hdom]

The media somewhat distorts the Census info. While its true that the West is growing faster than central and eastern Canada - the fastest growing place in Canada is not in the West, its Milton in the GTA. If we are talking larger cities (ie., CMA) than its definitely in the west (ie., Calgary, Edmonton and Saskatoon)

Yeah, I agree, but it really needs on your point of view. Since at the same time, they concluded - "10 of the fastest growing census agglomerations (communities or groups of communities between 50,000 and 100,000 people) were in Alberta."

"Milton, Ont., 30 kilometres west of Toronto, led the country by growing its population by 56.5 per cent between 2006 and 2011 up to 84,362."

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02...a-census-2011/