A new research tool that tracks cell phone activity has found a 42% drop in visitors from Canada to big metropolitan areas in the US that is much higher than official border-crossing data, suggesting Canadians during the second Trump administration are avoiding US cities in particular.
Researchers from the University of Toronto said the tool showed a “year-over-year median decline of approximately 42% in Canadian visits to US metropolitan areas – significantly higher than official border-crossing data, which showed a roughly 25% decline”.
I’m surprised it’s that low. Who are those people who just don’t care?
I know people in the queer community who constantly visit the states for whatever reason. It’s always fucking Florida too.
I get traveling in the winter but why fucking Florida?
In my social circles the only people traveling are doing it to see family split across the border. The vacations are now in Mexico and the Dominican but I know people that have gone to weddings and funerals there.
They don’t feel safe but they still feel obligated to go. I don’t condone it but I get it.
I mean, the managers at my company are often traveling back and forth from our CAN-US shop an offices. Some people simply don’t have a choice and don’t believe they’ll run into issues.
I got asked to go train folks in the US shop right after ICE started cracking down, I refused and told HR if that’s a requirement of my new position I’d rather go back to what I was doing previously.