Princedriss
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Can we say that the actual immigration to USA is not only owned by the citizen of the third world countries ?
why immigration to US ?
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alindragos
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Well good question Princedriss. And of course a lot of different answers around here....
Before starting to write down reasons I will like to kindly ask Kazore and Lazder to stop trowing words like this. This is a forum were people are talking in a civilized way and questions like 'reason to immigrate' may have some lines about ones country or way of living...because mainly those are the reasons that one immigrate to other country(or part of the world)....so gents please behave!
My reasons and believes? Well...as can be seen in my profile, I come from a Eastern European country as well (Romania) and I departed to another destination because of the opportunities for a better way of life, more opportunities on developing my professional and social level and a way to better understand the global culture and way of living.I am living now in the West part of the EU (since 2008). I've always looked at US as a dream-country. And yes I know that they have their economic, social or political problems from time to time. And yes I know that they have a different way of life or different politics on social security. But I remained attracted to US and I became more attracted when good friends of mine moved to US, when US citizens came from there to my Uni on a student exchange and we became friends and talked about ones way of life. They are excited about some EU way of life and things as we are about them and their ways. But as I see it , US is better on putting many ideas at work, is better on helping those who need more space and better opportunities to development.And maybe some people are waking up on their homeland believing that they will never immigrate to other country in their life. Maybe others are legal residents of a Western EU country with more possibilities and they are feeling fine there. I am not saying that I don't like my actual 'home', Madrid. Is a beautiful city and I invite you all to visit! And Spain has a particular good way of life with many things to offer to their working class and residents, though they are crossing a big crisis like most of world's countries. But I feel that Spain was just a stop in this road we call LIFE. And US will be a good step ahead in a way of life that attracts me more and more each day. And I hope I will feel US like my home and I will belong there like any other resident or citizen. Only time will say and I will surely post in here.
Before starting to write down reasons I will like to kindly ask Kazore and Lazder to stop trowing words like this. This is a forum were people are talking in a civilized way and questions like 'reason to immigrate' may have some lines about ones country or way of living...because mainly those are the reasons that one immigrate to other country(or part of the world)....so gents please behave!
My reasons and believes? Well...as can be seen in my profile, I come from a Eastern European country as well (Romania) and I departed to another destination because of the opportunities for a better way of life, more opportunities on developing my professional and social level and a way to better understand the global culture and way of living.I am living now in the West part of the EU (since 2008). I've always looked at US as a dream-country. And yes I know that they have their economic, social or political problems from time to time. And yes I know that they have a different way of life or different politics on social security. But I remained attracted to US and I became more attracted when good friends of mine moved to US, when US citizens came from there to my Uni on a student exchange and we became friends and talked about ones way of life. They are excited about some EU way of life and things as we are about them and their ways. But as I see it , US is better on putting many ideas at work, is better on helping those who need more space and better opportunities to development.And maybe some people are waking up on their homeland believing that they will never immigrate to other country in their life. Maybe others are legal residents of a Western EU country with more possibilities and they are feeling fine there. I am not saying that I don't like my actual 'home', Madrid. Is a beautiful city and I invite you all to visit! And Spain has a particular good way of life with many things to offer to their working class and residents, though they are crossing a big crisis like most of world's countries. But I feel that Spain was just a stop in this road we call LIFE. And US will be a good step ahead in a way of life that attracts me more and more each day. And I hope I will feel US like my home and I will belong there like any other resident or citizen. Only time will say and I will surely post in here.
Princedriss
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Thanks Alindragos for ur reply, as i can notice, most of people are looking for more "freedome" and more "space". and the word space is commun in the US, because it is huge country , and sometimes u need to drive 45 minutes in highway to arrive at ur work, it is really country of space with everything is far.
Thank you for your very elaborate response. It's quite insightful to some of us. You spoke about the houses, lol, i do have a close friend who stays in London and she has been to the US to visit too, she tells me the houses in UK are small while those in US are much bigger and cheaper. Thanks again for your piece.So which countries are you talking about?? Theoretically you cant get more developed countries than Western Europe and Scandinavia, especially Scandinavia, rich Arabian countries are still developing.
We are from UK ourselves, the bottom line is that for our professions there is larger pool of work and better pay in USA and even if we got our pay equivalent in US dollars to our pounds, we could lead a slightly better life-style due to the fact that your property prices are much much cheaper, fuel, cars... If you are a young driver you dont have to pay insurance worth 3 times of the car just for 1 year and sometimes it can even be up to x10 times.
We have great social security, our NHS is "free" I mean we do have to pay it out of our income with no choice, but at the end of the day no one will ask you for a credit card in the hospital or at GP`s. Problem is that, if you are not on death-bed they dont do anything and many are forced to buy private insurances.
UK social security is so great that some unemployed immigrant families that dont speak english but have 10 kids live in central London next to richest people in the UK or maybe the world, with houses in the neighborhood going for about 20-30m pounds, great if you are a benefitter, bad if you have to pay for this, while working full time and living in some tiny house on the edge of London.
Our public transport prices are ridiculous, we have to pay nearly 30 pounds a week for a bus pass that goes 10 miles outside of the city... Still seen as a good value since single cost around 5.40. Still not as bad as dishing out 30 euros in low end Pub in Sweden for a Pint and small meal for 1.
The whole atmosphere is very depressing, the houses in UK are ugly and all grey "to preserve character" coupled with fog,rain and drizzle gives a truly great atmosphere. No wonder so many UK expats in Spain just leaving uk to actually get some cheeriness in their life. Every time we can, we always book a holiday to the Mediterranean or somewhere else sunny to get away from this "character" at first we thought we were the only ones, but pretty much every hotel we went was full of Britons or Germans.
Overall the reason we are looking to go to the USA is just because we are not English born and its just hard to live here and deal with the English way of life, we see it as degrading and depressing, true fact is that we dont know whether USA will be even worse because it will probably take 5 years to understand, but maybe once we understand that USA is bad place to live we will come back to Europe with big smiles on our faces.
Another reason we dont mind going to the usa is that we are experienced Immigrants who pretty much dont have a "home" we have nothing to loose. If I could go back 10 years when we moved to UK, I wouldnt do it. But now, no more damage can be done to us, so why not explore something in this life, while its not too late?We never applied for GC to win, it was our first time and just for a bit of fun, now that we got this opportunity it would be wrong not to take it and end up living in regrets.