Why does everyone want to immigrate?

Question

I am 15 and i go to a school in London. Everybodies dream is to live in the USA. Do you think that in 10 years time, there will be no-one living in the U.K?

Answer 1

one thing is what you dream, but another completely different thing is the reality. And that applies in this case.

Answer 2

There are about  60,943,912 people living in the UK by July 2008. Birth rate is at 10.65 births per/1000. So there will be approximately 649,052.66 births for 2008.

For 2007, total legal immigrants to the US was at 1,052,415 people from all over the world. Of that only 14,545 came from the UK. Even if we double the number of immigrants to the US, there will still be more births than migrants. Unless there will be a life event for the UK in the coming 10 years, you will be fine.**

Answer 3

Not at all.  People are constantly moving around from place to place.  Even if many leave the UK, there will be plenty of others that come in to fill the void.  As populations fluctuate, there are changes in supply & demand... put simply, people will go where there are jobs and economic oppurtunities... or any other quality that thier home does not have (weather, laws, policies, freedoms, education, terrain, etc.)

And, not everyone who says they are going actually follows through.  There are lots of places I just want to visit, that I never seem to get around to visiting.

Answer 4

Apparently they aren't bright enough to recognize marketing propaganda.

Answer 5

nah, it's all subjective. just because people say they want to immigrate doesn't mean they all will. also, all the market industries will have more influence on immigration than pure desire.