I was on a road trip this week, and I ended up stopping off at a few really small cities. Kenora, Dryden, Ignace.
Everywhere we stopped, it was east Indians.
Now, I've got no problem with those folks. I know that there's lots of stereotypes, but the ones that I know are fine. I've lived with them and I've worked with them.
But here's the thing: this is something that just happened in the past 15 or 20 years. People who aren't aware of northwestern ontario, it's been facing the same issues as rust-belt america. When I graduated from high school in Dryden in 2001, it took me 8 months to find any kind of job at all because the paper mill had just laid off 2/3 of its workers, and over the past 15 to 20 years that has continued to be the trend. I'm still in touch with one of my teachers, and the city hasn't been thriving. It's been slowly turning into a place where tax money gets deposited.
Everyone's had to leave. So why on the planet Earth would a bunch of new migrants end up in those cities and towns? It isn't like either one of those places has any particular School systems, you're not moving to Ignace or kenora to go to university. I don't know, who told them that filling out these dying cities is a good idea?
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