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jknutson was right about what I meant by kinship, in that there's relatively strong concentration of Aussies who come here for the mountains, presumably as sort of a right of a passage and end up staying if they can (easy PR I think), but also that B.C people tend to want to visit Australia for no other reason than it seems like a bit of a different world and most of us probably know some Aussies, but also don't tend to digest much if any Aussie media. I'd expect the desire to come here is the result more of word of mouth than advertising, but that's just a hunch.