"My brother in law and sister recently moved from Vancouver back to Ontario due to the cost of housing."

“My brother in law and sister recently moved back to Ontario due to [the cost of housing]. He makes about $90k a year which doesn’t even get him in the door for a mortgage. The real kicker is that he still works in BC.
He flies here every 2 weeks, stays with my brother and then go back cheque in hand. That is a huge drain on the economy as he gets his wages here but spends it in Ontario and that reinforces it’s economy not ours. The biggest impact is that that is where he pays his income and sales taxes as income taxes are deducted on where you live not on where you earn the money.
If I was in that position I wouldn’t think twice about doing the exact same thing.”
- ssiguy at city-data.com/forum/vancouver  7 Jun 2011  [hat-tip Polly]