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"The tourism office for Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada\u2014the place where a new website encouraged U.S. citizens to move if Donald Trump is elected president\u2014has seen an unprecedented surge of interest since the site launched on Monday.\nThe island\u2019s official tourism agency wasn\u2019t responsible for the creation of the website, but Mary Tulle, CEO of Destination Cape Breton, embraced the positive attention it has brought to the island. She brought in five seasonal employees this week to help field the unusual flood of off-season phone calls from prospective residents and visitors.\n\u201CWe have pretty much done our entire year of [web] traffic in about five days,\u201D Tulle said of the tourism agency\u2019s official website. She said she was surprised, and pleased, to see the open invitation to prospective residents \u201Cexplode the way it has.\u201D\nRob Calabrese, a 39-year-old resident of the island, created the website to promote Cape Breton and said he never expected it would get this much attention, but his offer was serious.\n\u201CI already told people, \u2018If you move here, you\u2019re going to have a great barbecue in my backyard this summer with lobster tails, scallops and the whole thing,\u2019\u201D said Calabrese, who said the island has suffered population loss in recent years partly due to declining coal and manufacturing industries that put many out of work. \u201CWe\u2019ll find a bigger venue if need be. We need more people here.\u201D\n\u201CDon\u2019t wait until Donald Trump is elected president to find somewhere else to live!\u201D the website\u2019s home page originally read. \u201CStart now, that way, on election day, you just hop on a bus to start your new life in Cape Breton, where women are legally able to choose an abortion, Muslim people can roam freely, and the only \u2018walls\u2019 are holding up the roofs of our extremely affordable houses.\u201D\nCalabrese said he saw an opportunity to capitalize on the inevitable election-year pledges by some Americans to leave the country if a candidate they oppose becomes president. And although he\u2019s Canadian, he said can\u2019t get enough of the 2016 presidential race. He watches every debate for both parties and follows the results of each voting contest.\n\u201CThe truth is I just love the show. This American election is way better for the number of actors on the stage, the storyline,\u201D he said. \u201CIt\u2019s better than the last four Star Wars movies combined.\u201D\nCalabrese, who received more than 2,000 responses from mostly Americans this week, said he was surprised by the number of genuine inquiries about starting a life on the island. He made changes to the site on Friday, toning down the references to specific policies.\n\u201CThe truth is, we welcome all, no matter who you support, be it Democrat, Republican or Donald Trump,\u201D the homepage now says. He also removed the contact form.\n\u201CPeople are writing in and asking, like, if they can bring their snake to live, and it\u2019s just we\u2019re not equipped to answer questions like that,\u201D he said.\nCalabrese said he thinks Trump is an \u201Cinteresting character,\u201D and he disagrees with some of his opinions, but he knew Trump\u2019s name on the website would garner the most attention\n\u201CI mean he\u2019s the most famous person in the universe,\u201D Calabrese said. \u201CHe inflames people either in support or against him.\u201D\nThis article was originally published on Time.com."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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