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Re:The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than M... by wil421 on Monday August 26, 2019 @03:32PM (#20802911)
If Europe has such a better quality of life than the US then why are the immigration stats so skewed in the US’s favor?

About 3x as many Europeans immigrate to the US than the other way around.[1] These numbers only look at Western Europe, if you added the whole continent it would be a much larger gap. It would be 2 million more if you add Eastern Europe.

[1]https://mises.org/wire/3-times-many-europeans-move-us-other-...

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Re:The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than M... by TheCoelacanth on Monday August 26, 2019 @04:26PM (#20803412)
1. Western Europeans mostly speak the language in the US, so they have an easy time living there, while most Americans only speak English so would have a harder time living in most of Europe.

2. The US is great for people in upper income brackets who can actually manage to migrate, not so much for the lower income people who can't.

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Re:The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than M... by pbreit on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:52PM (#20813200)
More immigration-friendly and better marketing.
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