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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
I was thinking about that this morning and it also occurred to me that many people of working age have moved away from Hyndburn either with their job or to find a job or in search of a better job or just simply emmigrated to areas and countries where there are better prospects for their future and the families' futures which leaves behind the people who for whatever reason cannot or will not move, or do not need to. That puts a different slant on it rather than giving the impression that more and more people don't want to work it's because they DO want to work that they have left here in search of work.
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This is quite common. In Eire, for example, now that they are experiencing and economic boom, they have immigration, rather than emmigration. But it is not only the people who are leaving for sunnier climes, it is jobs. The people leave to look for jobs, the jobs leave looking for people who will do them for less money. If the jobs stay in England, people will fill them; but only for a decent wage, not for peanuts.
But it is becoming more difficult for people to emmigrate. The places where people wish to go are no longer as welcoming as they used to be. In Canada, particularly in booming Alberta and soon to boom Saskatchewan, the labour shortage is being solved by accepting contract workers, who work on a permit for a year or two and then go home. In the near future ... it is starting even now ... it will be very difficult to get Canadian citizenship. Those who have enough money to start a business, some doctors, engineers, and highly skilled tradesmen can still make it. But for every one else, the signs are going up: Go Home, Canada is Full.