>>>I live about 50 miles from the Canadian border and there are so many foreign looking/speaking people here shopping that it is amazing. Well it turns out that there are so many things that are cheaper to buy in the US than Canada that it pays them to come over and spend a day or two and shop. Bellingham WA Costco can’t keep milk on the shelves. Milk is a big one. Eggs. Gasoline. I see obviously Asian and Indian & Muslim folks with huge shopping carts at Ross, buying upwards of $1000 of stuff.
What I’m saying is that Canadians may be coming to your area to shop and not all the immigrants are living in US.<<<
A lot of these people has come from Canada. They have much more immigrants which makes up to a fifth of their population and yes, shopping in Canada is much more expensive and it makes perfect sense to drive 100 miles into US to buy stuff. There are a lot of non-immigrant Canucks in that crowd but not everyone can tell them from Americans.
They drive by Detroit area for obvious reason.
No they don’t drive by Detroit. Why would they? They could stop in at any one of the dozens of Wal-Marts between Detroit and The west side suburbs of Cleveland.
Look on a map, There are eight million people between Detroit and Cleveland including some of the most wealthy and poorest areas of the country. They could stop at any of the stores in the Detroit Metro go to Ann Arbor, Toledo, any of the stores in NW Ohio.
No One is driving 3 to 4 hours OR MORE past dozens of Wal-Marts to shop at a non descript one in a Western Suburb of Cleveland. A place no one twenty miles from Cleveland has ever heard of. They are LOCAL inhabitants that are foreign.