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Originally posted by FATPad
One question...if we are so bad, and everyone else so advanced, why DOES everyone come here for their education or to improve their standard of living?
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not everyone does.
you should see the india to england flights at manchester airport... holy fuck, everytime, it is like a mass pilgrimage.
one reason for immigrating to america is because of glamourisation by the movie theatres.
another... usa is a HUGE country, and there has to be opportunity in there somewhere. you can fit a lot of people into the usa. nobody wants to move from a tiny crowded country, to another tiny crowded country.
usa is a place where a person can smoke for 30 years, ingnore doctors' warnings, develop lung cancer, then sue the cigarette manufacturers for a billion dollars.
of course, it is only natural that cubans or mexicans may come to the usa, just the same as a lot of immigrants from europe go to germany or france or the uk.
you've got to also consider that the usa is cheaper than most, if not all, european countries. not all immigrants can afford to live well in europe, but it is much easier in the usa. take this, for example:
1 litre of petrol, or "gas"
UK Price: £0.82 (£0.62 tax)
USA Price: £0.26 (£0.06 tax)
insane. i for one am planning to move out to the costa blanca, as are a few of my friends.