Hello Pete!

Were you trying to make a point, with your observation that many Canadians own property in other countries?

See, thing is, there are two points you do not mention.

First, Canadians who own a winter place in Florida, they do not disrupt the environment there for local workers by over-competing with them for houses. An American who works in the Tampa and Miami and Orlando regions can still afford to buy a place to raise a family in. Hundreds of houses for sale there in the range of 250k to 450k.

Second, Canadians in Florida do not plant parachute families there that suck resources from state taxpayers. Canadians there have to pay full cost for health care insurance for family. Canadian families there do not get cheap college and university on the taxpayer dime.

And so you offer no compelling argument. Canadians buying a winter place in Florida does not disrupt the American dream of local Americans there to buy a house for their American family near their local job.