What do you propose people do for employment in those places? Most of the mining, forestry, milling, etc., that brought those towns to life has gone away. People aren't moving to the cities because they necessarily want to live in cities, they are moving there because the industries that kept people more rural have dried up in many cases due to cheap foreign labour, automation, and regulation.
Maybe that's the problem. No imagination. There's lots people can do to make money.
Nobody is guaranteed their dream job. Sometimes, you just gotta finally stop demanding and asking questions. Sometimes, you have to do research and use your imagination. Sometimes, you need to buckle down, create some finances so you can gain a foothold. You do that by doing what is hard and not being afraid to do something you may not want to. Tough. If you need to start somewhere, start by believing, you can do whatever you need to, and get moving. Or you can beat the pavement in Toronto. I'm sure, eventually after doing that for a decade or so, you will land your middle management, $90,000 job with benefits. Or not. That's a recipe for ending up with a career packing boxes at an Amazon hub.
Private entrepreneurs have been around forever, offering things others don't and providing services. Individual opportunity and drive to do the hard, unpopular thing, built this country. Maybe they can take a marketing class to get started.
Life is hard. Everyone knows the rest. I won't finish the phrase as it doesn't apply. I won't hang a 'stupid' moniker on people stuck in a bad situation. Sometimes you have to make hard choices. If you can't, you'll never be successful in life as someone able to make their own direction in the world. You will just be another worker bee and have other people tell you what to do after all. Accepting whatever wage they decide to give you and being unsatisfied your whole life.
I am not offering any more opinion or solutions. Or answering questions that start with yabut. If you want discussion you'll have to start the conversation. It's easy. Give me one good solid idea how Millennials, et al, can make their way in the world and how they can do it individually, without leaning on or blaming someone else. How they can stand on their own two feet and become a hard charger with guts and gumption to take the bull by the horns. We can discuss your solution. We've offered enough suggestions and the reasons for our points. The other side just keeps blowing them off, because they didn't like the option offered.
Let us Boomers here know, what you are planning to do, individually. What can the individual do, to make it in life instead of asking us what we can give/owe you or offering excuses. The only thing anyone in this country, is entitled to is whatever is in the Constitution and Charter. Although that has been questionable lately.
So, no more questions or blame. You tell us, how you are going to solve the problem. You have to end your solution with the person making a living wage themselves. No social financing.
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