Rural Boom: Why more millennials are flocking to small town Canada 

The typical millennials parents bought their house in the 80's & 90's for around $150K, its now worth $1 million. A millennial makes more than their parents did back then yet still can't buy a house...but rent is more than their parents mortgage was.

The developers moving in and making houses that are 1 inch apart. You might as well stay in the city b/c you are getting no privacy in that community either! Developers are the devil.

All the boomers are so mad, and for what? We can’t afford to survive in the city any longer. We deserve to live our best lives in peace

Turning a small town into suburbia, defeats the purpose of living in a small town

The only change I don't like are the hideous suburbs they are allowed to build. Greed and corruption that are developers hallmarks are spoiling all what is attractive in small towns.

Leave the city for a small town. Turn the small town into a small city. The cycle continues.

I am a blind individual who has lived in big cities his entire life. From Toronto, to Vancouver, never spent much time out of the city. As of a year and a half ago, I moved to a small town of less than 5000 people where there is a 0% homeless rate. One of the main reasons I moved out of a big city, was for safety. I can travel with my dog and not have to worry about what street I’m on. I also got a 3 Bedroom place with a backyard for $1200 a month. I really wish the media didn’t publicize this, because now that everyone has seen that it’s possible, lots of people are gonna start flocking in the direction of small towns. This is one of those things in life that are best kept secret.

Not sure what this segment accomplished. Interviews should have been given to long time residents not newbies that just moved here and literally have no idea about what goes on in our small town. I've been living here 25 yrs since I was a child. I've seen some change however much of it not for the better. Stores are closed and what they didn't show on TV was all the "for rent" store fronts. Markdale is sadly still a ghost town. Yes we have 2 stop lights, tim hortons and a Dollarama. That's great but we need more progress. We have 2 cannabis stores but hardly anywhere to eat thst is affordable. It's pretty pathetic actually. The cost of houses is insane while wages here are low. So really only city people can afford. They are buying the homes here, driving the prices up, making it impossible for most people to ever buy or even rent a place.

No wonder the houses in small towns in bc are triple the price of what they were 4 years ago! Very sad

Global is so cringe 😬

The title isn’t finished, you forgot “… and regretting it.”

Nothing in the world stays constant. So get over your griping about small towns being taking over by city folk. You're here on this planet for a blink of an eye. Do something useful for the world, make a lot of money and then you can live wherever the hell you want to.

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if it cost 900k what is the point ?

Nice to see young people coming to our small communities...welcome I left Toronto in 1974 and moved to Markdale ...tho I have since been reallocated to a different nearby town I never looked back ....retired now and love living here ...best wishes to all!

What kinda propaganda is this lol

two girls of course

Ya and the country and small town locals wish they wouldn't..

I moved much further, to Colombia. I'm much happier here.

Everything and every where is expensive !

If everywhere is expensive no body will leave the big cities if that is their goals.

the narration is so slow and monotone

Trailer cost 2800 dollars plus utilities in my town that's an expensive shed

This is gentrification spreading out from cities that are full! It’s kind of sad although there are positives for some opportunists.

Of course they are. For better health. But I hope they won't take the pollution, vehicles, technology, over population, fast food and greed along.

Wait until they have an accident, or need emergency services. Everyone needs to be within a reasonable distance from hospitals.

That is wonderful , CELESTE , PLEASE CALL YOUR GRANDMA , I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU SO MUCH .

my family moved back to the comox valley in 1999 and in 2021 that town is going the best it ever has, a gun fight from 2018 is still big news, its stills super nice place. biggest difference now is that the small businesses are run by young innovative people and the drunks cant afford apartments. take the good and the bad.

This is such good news, Irelands small towns suffer from younger people leaving. Nice to hear some good news!

Calgary is the only major affordable city in Canada for current and future generations Canadians and Immigrants

BEFORE YOU KNOW IT ,HONEY MOON IS OVER. SPLITSVILLE .

The cost of living for a population of 40 million people with the second largest country land-wise has the level of impossibility. They should make another James Bond mission about “mission impossible”; the mission- impossible of getting paid less while everything cost a lot.

My town has Vancouver prices without being in van

There's no Chinese drywall

I’m 19 yr old and I wanna live in a small town and maybe own a farm in the future to raise my kids in

Step 1, shut down the Timmies

I love rural Canada

Chapmans does not pay high wages and internet isn't as big as an issue as it was 3-5 years ago. Listen up Chapmans and start paying your employees better, vaxed and non-vaxed!

Sizemick shift!!

Out of all the millials moving to small town they chose two lgbt women.

Here comes the indians

Because we are tired of all the f@ckery that's why.

Is the reporter the DeGrassi girl?

So your jobs and worth the cost. Why not more to an even cheaper place ?

This is not a growth of property 'values' - its a hike in property 'cost'.

Yup, left Vancouver BC ( born and raised) for small town sask. I finally can feel like I'm able to post down roots, have more economic and business opportunities and more. Now when I visit home I can do all the fun things Vancouver has to offer vs living in Vancouver paycheck to paycheck and unable to do anything fun or enjoy the cities beauty. Hope I can one day retire back in BC (but probably not $$$$$$). At least a dollar goes further out here, better quality of life now.

it sucks that the locals are being forced out

As a millennial with three GenZ adult sons, how is it possible other millennials are just starting now?

Thumbs down +1

stay in the city. don't ruin rural communities

All will be ok until they find out property tax 🤣

You've turned us into peasants. Its not really shocking.

Why they always choose the gay couple. Lol

Unfortunately, the cell towers come with them.

White flight! That's why I moved away from Toronto.

This little town will be overrun by Starbucks mamas with their baby joggers and SUV’s.

Heads up, disclaimer, grandpa's euthanasia camps located mere two farm south. Find strange stench in the air late evenings much? Just bodies getting dumped inside incinerators. Nothing alarming. Enjoy your stay.

lol gays in rural Canada, GOOD LUCK

very selfish

lol

Most of these people who are working from home and think that means they can move 500 km into nowhere will regret it. It's not that easy. These are the same people who voted for JT, whose favourite past time is pricing out vulnerable Canadian women out of the domestic Canadian shelter market and causing them to move in with abusive partners just to be able to have a roof over their head. For neoliberal bourgeois JT this is worth it as long as it means his foreign billionaire champagne buddies bring their questionable offshore money and park it in Canada by treating the Canadian domestic shelter market as their personal stock market playground. But JT correct a question asker once and said "teehee we prefer to say humankind not mankind." So there you go, he is pro-women. That seals the deal of course. Last time I checked minorities were also Canadians, and Canadian minorities are also being price out of the market by JTs international billionaire buddies. How can you be pro-woman and pro-minority if you are doing this to them? But I guess it is working, 30% of the country voted for him yet again. And again he obviously lied, he said he would ban foreign ownership (even though he had 6 years to do so and willingly chose not to do it). Instead his policies are making even more difficult for hard working Canadians (including women and minorities) to buy for the first time. He put a mortgage stress test. Meanwhile the issue is foreign billionaire buying with cash and not even taking on a mortgage. A recent report unsurprisingly revealed 30 billion dollars worth of GTA properties in the past decade was bought by questionable offshore money. But if you are Canadian: Needed an 80k income and 100k down to buy a shoe box in the sky? Too bad, Justin will now require you to have at least a 130k salary and save 150k down with his mortgage stress test aimed at making you even more likely to lose to his international billionaire buddies. Tough luck if you didn't get a 50k raise in past past year. Justin loves you though, he called you humankind and stood up for you when someone made the crime against humanity of using the term "mankind." Priorities.

Apparently getting into politics feeds you well at all levels.

Shove your "New Reality".

Where are your husbands and children, do they like it too?

Small towns rule.

I was lucky my parents helped me buy a 3.2 million dollar home in Vancouver now it went up to almost 4 million in assessed value but likely wont sell any time soon given our great rate environment and low supply of homes. Great long term investment overall canadian real estate one of the best commodities

Millenials simply realised that all that fancy bike lanes, cafes and festivals are paid from their taxes.