And that\u2019s just his experience as an agent. He says home sales are up across the region in the last few years \u2013 many of them bought by people moving into the region from somewhere else.<\/p>\n

He says the mayor is just expressing what many people know to be true already.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been an increasingly significant flow of buyers from Alberta, B.C., and Ontario over the past three years,\u201d said McVicar. \u201cThe numbers really work for retirees especially. In the beginning, the idea was one of those \u2018it sounds too good to be true\u2019 things. Now there\u2019s a community of [Come From Aways]. Most of this was very quiet. The mayor has blown the doors off.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dec 8, 2017\u00a0by\u00a0\u00a0Mark Leger SAINT JOHN \u2013 Last week Mayor Don Darling made a plea to the residents of Toronto and Vancouver on Facebook. \u201cHey Toronto and Vancouver, move to Saint John NB, we have jobs, you can buy a house for well under 200k and our commutes are measured in minutes,\u201d he wrote. \u201cContact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-community"],"yoast_head":"\n