[Handro]

Originally Posted by Capsicum

One thing that's a striking contrast to the US is that in Canada, all of the cities (above a certain size, like the ones making the list) aren't declining in population.

In the US, inter-city mobility means some lose, some gain. But in Canada, it's like all the cities are gaining.

I wonder why that is? It can't only be international migration (which indeed props up the growth of bigger cities) because even small cities that are not known for being super major international/interprovincial migrant destinations aren't dropping (they are all keeping steady and growing, even if slowly).

There's no equivalent of something like a city of a million (or even half million or quarter million) or more bleeding population and another city elsewhere in the same or different part of the country picking up or gaining that loss, the way the Rust Belt loses to the Sunbelt.

What's up -- just that Canada doesn't really get the dynamic city-to-city movement that the US gets (or all the growth is small town to big city?).

Fewer optoins, perhaps. The US has four times the number of cities with populations over 500k than Canada--that's a lot of economic clusters vying for people and jobs.