More Americans Live in Which Canadian City Than Any Other in the World

[whatnext]

Any guesses? No googling

[logan5]

Umm. Windsor.

[Rico Rommheim]

Vancouver, or somewhere in the Lower Mainland.

[Razor]

Without Googling, my guess is also Vancouver.

[whatnext]

Actually Vancouver is correct. I was surprised I thought for sure it would be Toronto.
http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vanco...pat-population

[yaletown_fella]

Interesting. I read somewhere that at one point more Canadians lived in L.A than Winnipeg.

[Andy6]

Quebec City is 5% Americans? What's the story there?

These numbers sound fishy.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Andy6

Quebec City is 5% Americans? What's the story there?

These numbers sound fishy.

I suspect many "Americans" living in Quebec City and also Montreal have names like Pierre Tremblay and Marjolaine Pelletier. They're likely senior citizens born in industrial cities of New England to Québécois parents who migrated there 100 years ago or so. Then the family moved to Quebec at one point.

I know a number of people like this.

[flipv]

Why is this a thread?

Methinks given the unewsworthiness this could go in the stats thread.

[WhipperSnapper]

Where's Calgary?

[dleung]

"The report by the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) estimates that Canada’s third largest urban region is home to 183,155 eligible US voters, more than any other international city outside of the United States. Three other Canadian cities made the top 10 list of international cities: Toronto comes in at third largest with 78,371

Vancouver’s voting rate was just 2% in the 2014 election, just a tiny fraction of the 54% that was expected. The voting rate in Toronto was slightly higher at 5%..."

If the turnout stays the same, Toronto will still have slightly more influence over the election

[Dalreg]

Detroit?

[craner]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Where's Calgary?

I've heard that Calgary has the highest level of US citizens in Canada as a percentage of the total population (due largely to the oil industry) so it would be interesting to see what the actual headcount in the city is.

[ue]

Originally Posted by craner

I've heard that Calgary has the highest level of US citizens in Canada as a percentage of the total population (due largely to the oil industry) so it would be interesting to see what the actual headcount in the city is.

It's funny that this has come up a couple times recently. Myself personally, I've seen the historic lineages many Albertans (moreso in Southern Alberta, not so much up here) have to the US, but in terms of actual contemporary American citizens, I really don't come across that many. Sure, there's some, but it's never as much as on the coasts or in Toronto/Montreal.

[SpongeG]

from the article info cities world wide with most us citizens or expats...

10 cities outside of the United States with the largest population of American overseas citizens

Vancouver, Canada: 183,155
Tel Aviv, Israel: 102,442
Toronto, Canada: 78,371
London, United Kingdom: 61,490
Montreal, Canada: 44,597
San Jose, Costa Rica: 44,191
Quebec City, Canada: 37,002
Tokyo, Japan: 34,302
Hong Kong, China: 34,042
Melbourne, Australia: 27,709

...


anyway something i have always wondered is how common is dating across the border in the rest of the country?

I worked in an office and I worked with 2 american guys who moved to Vancouver to be with their Canadian wives, one of the guys was from texas and met his wife online, they ended up divorcing before he became a citizen and he moved back to texas, the other was from seattle area and they met down in seattle, she lived there a while and then they moved up here and they too also ended up getting divorced and he too moved back to seattle, another girl met a guy in mexico and they dated a few years and got married and she moved down there, i think they were in chicago and then washington DC areas, but while they dated he moved to seattle area to be closer to her

anyway cross border dating seems to be a pretty regular thing here in the Vancouver area since the two cities are so close

in the same office 3 of the people i worked with all owned homes in the same resort area at mt baker in washington state and said most of the owners were from Canada

I know a number of friends who cross the border regularly as their boyfriends live in seattle, i have 2 friends who moved to seattle and worked under the table to live with their partners, all have since broken up etc and moved back here to Canada

[giallo]

I'm perplexed as to why the Vancouver number is so much higher than everywhere else in the world. Even second place Tel Aviv is almost half of Vancouver's number. I would have put Vancouver third after Toronto and Calgary.

[Acajack]

I would have thought London UK would have been a lot higher.

[Villaggio]

That Quebec City number makes no sense.

The 2011 National Household Survey indicates that 1,545 people in the Quebec City CMA were born in the États-Unis. 37,000 c'est du gros n'importe quoi.

Source: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/...D4=0&D5=0&D6=0

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Villaggio

That Quebec City number makes no sense.

The 2011 National Household Survey indicates that 1,545 people in the Quebec City CMA were born in the États-Unis. 37,000 c'est du gros n'importe quoi.

Source: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/...D4=0&D5=0&D6=0

The article does not say born in the USA though. It says people who have American citizenship and the right to vote in American elections. Though the
jump from 1500 (born in the US) to 37000 (American citizens) does seem like a huge one.

[jmt18325]

I'm just surprised it's not Toronto