The auto, healthcare, and education sectors employs a lot of people in the area that you can provide a quality rental to. 

We are both in the healthcare industry.My first and only personal experience with RE investing was my first home, 15 years ago, which I bought with the intention of having a place to live for a couple of years, then moving on and keeping it as a rental.

Healthcare employment is a major driver in the St Cloud market as it houses the regional hospital and medical facilities, people travel in from far around to receive medical services, which powers a niche STR market in the area.

The majority of my spaces are occupied by tenants in the Healthcare business.

But since he has dual citizenship, he was confused should he move to U.S for settlement considering the following points:1) In general, houses are more expensive in Canada compared to U.S comparing 'similar type' cities.2) Taxes in Canada compared to U.S (*Again varies from state to state but in general)3) Overall number of deals (residential/commercial) are more in U.S compared to Canada.4) For someone looking to settle permanently in one particular country, we need to compare other factors too such as Cost of living, Healthcare (Facilities and Cost), Insurance, Crime rate etc. 5) Again weather is an important factor because many may not like the harsh Canadian winters.

Currently, I use 4% as my postulated personal rate of inflation (and 8% for my personal rate of health care inflation) because if I can survive that level of inflation, I can survive a lower rate of inflation even better.I enjoy the IF-THEN-ELSE function of spreadsheets for strategy simulations.

I currently have insurance client that has over $3M in healthcare costs due to a slip and fall and the court case is going on it's 6th year. 

Where I worked, each "assistive" animal was required to have an "assistive animal verification request" form filled out by the applicant's healthcare provider.

I wonder, we consider healthcare for poor and old people "government assistance" down here and everyone else has to pay their way, do you feel your doctors in Canada are indirectly perpetuating a system that encourages people to be leeches on society, because healthcare is even provided to the "able" up there?

Major farming economy, bio-medical, aerospace engineering, healthcare, finance and the list goes on and on.