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Originally posted by MagiK:
So you are saying that the majority of the people you know want to leave the country? Perhaps that is more endemic of your social circle?
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Yeah, I live in New York City Magik. Ever heard of a thing called 9/11?? We're still on Orange alert. Kinda makes my "social circle" jumpy.
Additionally New York has a 60% immigrancy rate. 60% were not born in New York. That number includes a huge number of "satisfied Americans" Magik. Satisfied with wherever they were born, enough to want to leave it for the big apple.
As I said, people leave where they're from for a myriad of reasons. Some of it is simple curiosity. "How the other half live" is a saying about that Magik.
Australia has curbed it's immigration by choice, not because people stopped wanting to go there. We are not able to support a huge population given the way things are with our land at the moment. And yes, I encounter countless Americans who wish to emmigrate to Australia. The more times they've been there the higher the desire to go to a land with gun banning, public smoking restrictions, lowerblood alcohol for drivers, and impossibly less crime.
This is not an argument about which nation is better. That's futile and beside the point. I'm pointing out that things are NOT as black and white as you are claiming they are.
[ 05-28-2003, 10:27 PM: Message edited by: Yorick ]