How are countries like Norway and Switzerland not so densely populated considering the fact that they are portrayed as nearly heaven in all aspects?
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People crap on US immigration policies, saying the US keeps people out…but people forget that the US is actually relatively easy to get into compared to other parts of the world. Go ahead, try to get citizenship or even long term access to places like Switzerland (you probably cant).
Plenty of countries like having strict control over who is allowed to live within them. There are costs to doing this, like not having access to cheap labor (since its usually a bit easier to get access when you have high quality skills to offer like engineering, medicine, etc) that can often come with immigration. But some places actually value culture and similar, less tangible, goals that can be significantly changed by mixing in large amount of people from different backgrounds.
Think of language; some Nordic countries supposedly have languages that are so complex, kids might not grasp them until much later in life (compared to other languages). If the language identity is very important, that is just something the population will put up with. But what if you mix in a bunch of people who couldnt really care what language they use, so long as they are able to communicate? Now there isnt as much an impetus to learn the more difficult language. Over time, that language might get spoken less and less, until it is more a relic than something that is part of the identify of those people.
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