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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • The stereotype is always a coal mining town. There used to be a mine employing many people, but now it’s automated or the mine played out

    The town I grew up in was a bustling town with one dominant employer. When that employer moved out it left a big gap and an entire generation of younger people moved away

    The town my father grew up in was never bustling. However it was a significant center of a rural area with many family farms. By the time I was growing up, those farms were no longer economical, so people moved away and there’s no need for a population center

    A small town I used to visit all the time was once a bustling tourist town, but no one goes there anymore. It’s really just regional now, instead of the busy season drawing people from anywhere between Montreal and NYC. It’s probably cheap flying as much as anything else: who wants to vacation on a cold beach when you can hop a flight down south for the same cost













  • A migrant worker is not undocumented. Many are here in a legitimate work visa and it’s heavily used in farming.

    Undocumented aliens comprise several subgroups and I suppose you can say “I really meant ….”.

    For example the most common illegal is a formerly legal visiting student or worker who overstays their visa. And as you said, this is an area subject to human rights violation and discrimination: an employer can treat someone as poorly as they want, when someone is subject to deportation if they lose their job