I tended to agree until one astute reader reminded me there was a whole country north of Williston: Canada.
How interesting, then to read that Canada is the fastest growing country in the G8. I thought the growth would have been in the urban centers along the US-Canadian border on the east. It turns out I was wrong.
The growth in Canada has been in its remote, cold, and desolate regions: the Yukon and Alberta.
And I don't need to remind folks that too many families with children have now moved to Williston despite being too remote, too cold, too desolate.
(By the way, I blogged about the "family issue" maybe two years ago based on my 30+ year career in the US Air Force.)
The lede in the linked article:
Canada's population rose at a faster rate than any other G8 nation over the past decade, thanks to a wave of immigration and slightly higher fertility, census data showed on Wednesday.
The population of Canada increased 5.9 percent between the 2006 and 2011 censuses to 33,476,688 people, compared with a 5.4 percent increase during the previous five-year period.
Statistics Canada attributed two-thirds of the gains to immigration and the rest to a rise in the number of births.
The largest increases were in gold-rich Yukon and Alberta, which boasts the third largest oil reserve in the world. Populations in the two regions increased more than 10 percent over the past five years.
