Why don't people in poor countries just move?

Question

I really don't want to sound rude or like mean or dumb or something, but I never really understood it... I think if you are really suffering, wouldn't you try to find a better place to live where there is clean water, lots of food, good hospitals and good paying jobs? You could move to just about anywhere in Europe, North America, or for certain countries, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Japan, United States, Canada, South Korea, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Spain, Taiwan, and probably about 15 more places... With all of those flourishing countries, why don't they just move there?

Answer 1

you have a remarkably shoddy idea of what poor is. most people in sub Saharan Africa's income is less than a dollar a day. how to you suggest they move?  they can't afford medical attention or food   for their families but that flight to France is a top priority.. WTF?? not to mention that most countries wont let them in. oh and by the way you do sound rude, mean and dumb also uninformed , insensitive and privileged.

Answer 2

because their poor... they have no money to go anywhere...

Answer 3

People with no money cannot afford passports, visas etc to get into a country never mind a house/flat. In some places a loaf of bread can cost £100 and that will be more important than a ticket to a country. Also most countries have a immagration control in place. In australia no one can live there unless they can benfit the enconomy even the british. It is up to the governments to help those in poverty as thats what they are there to do.

Answer 4

they do, but have you read some of the posts in the immigration section of this site?

Answer 5

They try

Take all the money out of your pocket and go 100 miles find a job and place to stay before starving to death,

We are talking poor, not America style of poor

Answer 6

uh....those places are already ....occupied.

Read Grapes of Wrath and get back to me.

Answer 7

They don't have the money.  You already said poor, how do you expect them to move and rent a place in the city?

I want to move to a larger apartment, but I have to come up with the money to pay rent every month.  So unless people in some way have the money or find a better job.  It's hard for them to move.

Answer 8

Their old 37 ford stake bed truck needs new tars cause the ones onit are so thin you can see the air inside'em. they don't have two dimes they can rub together and you want'em to move 4000 miles away, how they gonna do that??

Answer 9

( Example ) It is rather difficult for a mother with three children , no food, no money, to just pick up and move her tiny family across a desert perhaps...or raging rivers to a place where there or may not be hope for them.   If a plane ticket to Australia from Zimbabwe costs $1000 per  person, how is such a mother with nothing  and no hope of work or education supposed to earn enough money to move?  

Think.  

I know you mean well, but it is important to think things all the way through, ok?

Answer 10

Your questions provides the answer: poor.  It takes money to move anywhere, especially another country.  Then, legally, one needs a passport, visa, and a sponsor (from that country) to  immigrate.  Of course, illegals don't worry about it, except for the money problem.

Answer 11

They do.    They move to the US.    As a result, our poverty numbers go up, causing people who don't consider the immigration factor to scratch their heads and ask "how have so many people missed out on the growth over the last 25 years" - - they missed out because they weren't HERE.