A highly educated, white, affluent coddled professional had already left the U.S. in 2023, and now works as a law professor in Canada. He thinks the US has descended into a hell hole and is a shitty country where most people want to leave.
Like nearly all of these stories, he had privileges that enabled him to leave the U.S. – referring to the U.S. as a “dystopian nightmare”. He argues from a position of smug arrogance and snobbishness – the smart people have left or will (if they can) – meaning those who don’t have immigration privileges are the worthless who deserve what they have coming.
(These privileged people are self-absorbed and rude – more here: I no longer read “I moved abroad” stories. Their arrogance and smugness is a huge turn off.)
At least he notes most Americans cannot just pack up and move somewhere else – on that point, he is a realist.
The bottom line is that no country would ever maintain a large enough stock of empty homes and public infrastructure to deal with more than a minor blip in net in-migration. Yes, every individual potential entrant could check online real estate information and see that there seem always to be houses for sale, but all of that changes when the numbers go up even a little bit.
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Some number of Americans will leave their country and never come back, but most everyone will have to end up staying.
No countries are capable of importing lots of people all at once – and the reality is that almost no Americans will end up moving, despite the media bullshit stories – and the non-step hate spewed by the media, interested in emotional click-bait rather than actually solving problems.