Immigration research

[matsuki]

Worst Korea isn't even on the map?

LOL, China and NZ....when you population is insanely huge/small

[wagyl]

The Irish and the Kiwis just moved to the big city, bigger opportunities. It just so happens that the big city happens to be in another country.

[inflames]

The Irish and the Kiwis just moved to the big city, bigger opportunities. It just so happens that the big city happens to be in another country.

Irish economy has been shit since 2008.

Would be interesting to see those percentages, but with the percentages for EU members excluding the percent living in other EU members.

[kurogane]

A very good point. I would also like to know just how few are represented by that accompanying image of a YOLO panted backpacker with his retro gay walking pole. I bet most expatriates pull a wheely bin bag and carry telescoping hiking poles.

[Samurai_Jerk]

A very good point. I would also like to know just how few are represented by that accompanying image of a YOLO panted backpacker with his retro gay walking pole. I bet most expatriates pull a wheely bin bag and carry telescoping hiking poles.

Either way, I'm not sure why they'd use a backpacker or any other kind of traveler to represent people living abroad. I guess it's harder to come up with a graphic of someone just living life.

I was wondering the same thing about EU members. Also, Kiwis not living in Australia.

[kurogane]

Also, Kiwis not living in Australia.

Oooh, Oooh, Mistah Kottah!! good point. Don't they have a EU style right of residence?

That might be it about that image, but it certainly feeds the YOLO pants image way too many people love to foster, even actual working expats themselves. It's a pretty good one to put away in the People are Really Stupid file.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Maybe it's just coincidence that the two countries at the top of the list are next to larger countries with more robust economies that speak the same language, are culturally nearly identical, and allow them to work without too much hassle. I'm sure the number of Canadians abroad would be a lot higher if they had a right to work in the US.

[kurogane]

Trying to pick a fight, eh!!????

Yes, very much. Especially from the parts where they envy them even more than they admit they like them (even though they are like them), like the Ontario/NY area and Alberta. I always hear stuff about that Wet Coast Cascadia thing, but I am not sure how many would move from Vancouver to Seattle or vice versa; we seem to prefer being nice neighbours and just visiting.

[Mike Oxlong]

Trying to pick a fight, eh!!????

Yes, very much. Especially from the parts where they envy them even more than they admit they like them (even though they are like them), like the Ontario/NY area and Alberta. I always hear stuff about that Wet Coast Cascadia thing, but I am not sure how many would move from Vancouver to Seattle or vice versa; we seem to prefer being nice neighbours and just visiting.

I personally know someone who did move from the Vancouver area to the Seattle area, and claims that he could never live the lifestyle he enjoys in Seattle if he had remained in Vancouver. Especially regarding property values. The homes in Vancouver are apparently crazy expensive relative to their southern counterparts.

[wagyl]

Also, Kiwis not living in Australia.

Oooh, Oooh, Mistah Kottah!! good point. Don't they have a EU style right of residence?

No. The EU has an Australasian style right of residence.

The Australian and New Zealand Governments have had arrangements in place since the 1920s to facilitate a free flow of people between the two countries.

https://www.border.gov.au/about/corpora ... heets/17nz

Tatauranga Aotearoa estimates that of New Zealanders living outside New Zealand, about 75% of them are in Australia, so 14.1% becomes 3.5%, if you consider Australia and New Zealand as one region (just don't do it in hearing of a Kiwi, eh, bro? Sweet as!)

[Samurai_Jerk]

Trying to pick a fight, eh!!????

Yes, very much. Especially from the parts where they envy them even more than they admit they like them (even though they are like them), like the Ontario/NY area and Alberta. I always hear stuff about that Wet Coast Cascadia thing, but I am not sure how many would move from Vancouver to Seattle or vice versa; we seem to prefer being nice neighbours and just visiting.

I personally know someone who did move from the Vancouver area to the Seattle area, and claims that he could never live the lifestyle he enjoys in Seattle if he had remained in Vancouver. Especially regarding property values. The homes in Vancouver are apparently crazy expensive relative to their southern counterparts.

KG, I was thinking about Alberta when I wrote that. Those rednecks envy our right wing and Jesus freaks.

MOx, How long ago was that? I hear Seattle's been getting pretty crazy lately too but I guess it's all relative.

[Mike Oxlong]

Trying to pick a fight, eh!!????

Yes, very much. Especially from the parts where they envy them even more than they admit they like them (even though they are like them), like the Ontario/NY area and Alberta. I always hear stuff about that Wet Coast Cascadia thing, but I am not sure how many would move from Vancouver to Seattle or vice versa; we seem to prefer being nice neighbours and just visiting.

I personally know someone who did move from the Vancouver area to the Seattle area, and claims that he could never live the lifestyle he enjoys in Seattle if he had remained in Vancouver. Especially regarding property values. The homes in Vancouver are apparently crazy expensive relative to their southern counterparts.

KG, I was thinking about Alberta when I wrote that. Those rednecks envy our right wing and Jesus freaks.

MOx, How long ago was that? I hear Seattle's been getting pretty crazy lately too but I guess it's all relative.

Him and his wife moved there I think seven or eight years ago. As for Alberta, they don't envy the US, they wanna join (a certain breed of them do, anyways). There was the WCC political party back when I were a lad, which was a separatist party with the platform of joining their Reaganite buddies down south. IIRC, Southern Alberta was originally colonized by Mormon settlers branching out from Utah.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Him and his wife moved there I think seven or eight years ago.

Sounds like great timing for Canadians buying a house in the States. I've heard from friends that now I'd be lucky to get the studio I was renting in '05 for double what I was paying then.