Posted on 03/09/2016 9:15:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Rosie O’Donnell, Samuel L. Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Whoopi Goldberg are just a few of the celebrities who promise to leave the U.S. if Donald Trump wins the White House in November.
The New York Daily News published “The Complete Guide to Fleeing President Donald Trump’s America” the morning after the billionaire celebrated his Super Tuesday primary wins.
Singapore, Ecuador, Mexico, and Austria were given positions of prominence in the Daily News guide. But what about Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia?
The people who call the 3,981-square-mile island located east-northeast of the mainland home are actively recruiting American expats who might be so disgusted by The Donald they are ready to pack their bags for Canada.
There are plenty of U.S. residents responding to the Cape Breton Island invitation.
More than 650,000 unique visitors have clicked on the “Cape Breton if Donald Trump Wins” website since it went live Feb. 16.
It was a local radio show host who thought of offering Cape Breton to Trump haters in the U.S.
Rob Calabrese told USA Today he showed the concept to a couple of friends in Cape Breton and the response was so positive his wife urged him to build the website to funnel the Trump outrage into Canadian dollars.
"We just thought, 'Let's get out in front and say if you're going to move to Canada, look at this beautiful little option,'” Calabrese said.
The "Cape Breton if Donald Trump Wins" fever quickly spread to the Destination Cape Breton Association website.
Mary Tulle, the CEO of the private tourism group, said their website had received more than 380,000 unique visits since Calabrese launched his website. The increase from the 12,000 unique visits during the same time last year prompted Tulle to call in reinforcements to handle the online action.
She said many of the Americans inquiring about relocating are serious. They have asked about housing, employment, and immigration.
There was such an outpouring of serious interest, Canadian immigration attorney Damien Barry called Calabrese and Tulle with an offer to advise Americans who might be interesting in fleeing a Trump presidency to Cape Breton Island.
It's not as easy as an American dreaming of life with a decidedly liberal prime minister might believe. Barry told the CBC Cape Breton “Information Morning” show that Americans might, ironically, have trouble getting into Canada to escape the man who wants Mexico to pay for a wall to keep illegal immigrants out of the United States.
"Unless you have a specific application ongoing with Immigration Canada, they really won't offer you any general advice on the phone," he said. "It might be better to move here on the basis of a work permit or study permit, and then in time look to gain permanent residency from that.”
However, if the soon-to-be expat from the USA is thinking about starting up a business, that could help. Barry said Cape Breton and Nova Scotia are very open to entrepreneurs.
It’s not like Cape Breton couldn’t use a few new hardy souls. Even though it always ranks high in the travel magazines as a wonderful place to visit, not many people want to live there. Fewer than 150,000 people live there now, down about 30,000 from the past 50 years.
Procreation doesn't seem to be high on the Cape Breton priority list.
“The graduating class in our school system is double the size of the kindergarten class,” Calabrese said.
Calabrese made it clear on the welcome page of the Cape Breton if Donald Trump Wins website that all are welcome, no matter if they are Republican, Democrat, or independent. And it is not necessary to officially hate Donald Trump.
“We are experiencing a bit of a population problem at the moment,” Calabrese wrote. “We need people. We need you!”
The website also heralds the diversity of Cape Breton, something Trump haters might find especially attractive.
“In Cape Breton, we value diversity! Here you can hear a number of other languages, like French and Mi’kmaq, even Gaelic,” Calabrese wrote. “But everybody also speaks English, just like you.”
Beautiful photos of the people of Cape Breton, its cuisine, and its scenery are also posted on the website, to entice those who might be looking for a happier place to live than the U.S. under Donald Trump.
The climate is not as extreme as one might think. Just because it is in Canada, as Calabrese points out on the website, it doesn't follow that Cape Breton is frozen over all year round.
“The summers are delightful, with highs in the 80-degree range,” website visitors are assured. “Winters here are very similar to the Northeast USA.”
This is another plus: maybe it is a result of oversupply and weak demand, but Calabrese said Cape Breton’s housing market is the most affordable in North America.
Cape Breton tourism promoters assert their golf course, Cabot Cliffs, known as the “Pebble Beach of Canada,” was ranked as the Best New Course in the World 2015 – and, coincidentally, ranked ahead of Trump Golf Links in Ferry Point, N.Y.
All that, and no Donald Trump -- but there has to be a downside, right?
Well, yes. Conservatives who are thinking of bolting north to escape The Donald need to realize that they would be moving to Canada, a nation that offers socialized medicine and severe gun laws.
Cape Breton might not be perfect for everyone. Calabrese said Donald Trump might also have trouble feeling at home.
“The things that he says on the campaign trail,” Calabrese said, “that way of thinking is pretty much the opposite of here.”
Sure they leave, for business or vacations, and then they come back.
Maybe we can get michael moore on the list and hope he doesn’t “sink the island”.
Wow, dat place is really up dere, eh?
Those Hollyweird Lefties will never leave the warm and sunny skies of SoCal for Canada, but at least MM would be used to the weather, being from Michigan........................
While they may or may not get a whole lot of snow, I have to believe that because they're on the Atlantic coast line, fall and winter are probably miserably windy, cold and wet.........
My mother’s family was among the early Irish settlers-—she lived on the southern shore of Cape Breton and taught for several years in their one-room schoolhouse before she came to the U.S.in the 1920s.
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Gimme Dats wanting more Gimme Dats to come in to gibem dat. Cape Bretton will get what it deserves so I hope they have a plan for buyer’s remorse.
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
Grandpa, I gotta pee........LOL!
“Lots of water. I doubt Rosie, Al, Whoopie or Sammy...swim.”
Or bathe.
We saw Scottish settlements in that southern shore as well.
The French Acadian were prior to and separate from the Quebec French. For centuries it was not acknowledged what the British authorities had done. It was such an early case of ethnic cleansing that the first good histories of the events approached it on that basis.
The Scottish, Massachusetts, Irish and other British settlers were brought in to supplant the previous Acadian settlers. The Mi’kmaq indians of Nova Scotia and the Acadian french were the earliest good example of european and native peoples in harmony to the point that after the initial generations there was significant inter-marriage.
All the better that it's Cape Breton Island - really, any of Nova Scotia coastline. Halifax and Yarmouth have some of the most bitterly cold winter weather that I've seen in my life, and I grew up in Maine. It's just brutal. The wind comes right in off the North Atlantic, and bites through whatever gear you're wearing. Nothing worse than a cold, wet, driven, icy wind to take the starch out of you.
So liberals leaving, and being miserable? I call this a win-win.
But, I think that Cape Breton will regret their decision. Certainly, they'll get the worst of it.
These Sociopath’s have a total lack of self-awareness.
They TRULY believe by saying things like this people will suddenly “come to their senses”.....I LOVE watching these animals squirm!
See my post #72, for my opinion, at least.
Perhaps they can rename it ‘Snowflake Island’...
I remember reading “Evangeline” when I was in school-—and the Cajun history also.
Those Brits were tough-—my father in law,born in Ireland in the late 1880s,despised them.
This island must be wealthy.
The chicks swim in the lake with golden btassiers.
That’s a great question!
Oh how I pray they up and leave, taking all their angry rants with them.
My ancestors came to the New World via Sydney, Cape Breton Island. Lots of hardy Scots came through this area after fleeing oppression in Scotland, some settling in the area and others disbursing to points far and wide.
I went back for a family reunion in 2000. It is stunningly beautiful and the people were very nice. Thomas Alva Edison had a large mansion nearby, and there’s lots of other history afoot, like the plight of the Acadians and the French fort that France had to abandon and turn over to England, which I toured.
If not for all the filthy subhuman Canadians, I’d consider moving there.
tell them all borders will be closed immediately after taking the oath of office and all banking transactions as well. Get them out of town as quickly as possible.
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