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Originally Posted by esquire
^ Admittedly I don't have numbers to back it up, but I'm sure it has probably been this way since the last boom era of the early 20th century. Seems that for a century now the tendency has been for people to arrive in Manitoba from abroad, and for their children move elsewhere.
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If you look at the data on the Stats Can website, which dates back to 1962, we've had net negative interprovincial migration every year except 82,83 and 84. As a percentage of population, the trendline (just eyeballing the data) appears to be going down (that is, this number is generally a smaller and smaller percentage of our overall population).
In other words, some people leave, but it's no big deal. We're a smaller province and can't provide the same opportunities or variety of opportunities that larger provinces can offer. These days, people tend to leave small places for larger places because of the opportunities larger places provide. This is not a Manitoba phenomenon, it is universal in the Western world. It is simply a function of living in a smaller place.