The number of B.C. residents who think their children will stay in the province is dropping.
A new Insights West poll asked British Columbians how they felt about the future of the province, and found confidence dropping.
More than three quarters of respondents to the survey, who Insight West says are a representative sample of the province, said they would stay in B.C. the rest of their lives.
Those are fairly strong numbers, but still represent a six-point drop from a similar survey conducted in 2014.
Even though 78 per cent of people say they would stay, only 56 per cent thought their children would. That’s a significant drop: 10 percentage points in two years.
“British Columbians remain proud of what the province is and represents, however, the most significant shift in this tracking survey relates to their children, at a time when housing, homelessness and poverty has become the most important issue facing the province,” says Mario Canseco, Insights West’s vice president of public affairs, referring to the companies May poll that showed housing, poverty and homelessness was the top issue facing the province.
Despite those worries, Insight West points out 87 per cent of B.C. respondents still said they were proud of where they lived.
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