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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As someone who’s emigrated multiple times and traveled the world I can confirm that there is no heaven on Earth. The grass truly is greener on the other side.
New Zealand is beautiful, but then there’s the earthquakes and that nasty wind. Plus it’s so damn far from anywhere.
Then there’s Australia. Beautiful and sunny, except an hour each way to and from work is a good thing. An hour and a half each way is still acceptable. You pay through the nose for everything and if you get there now, good luck ever owning your own place…. Unless you go outside of Melbourne and Sydney, which no one there seems to want to.
Every place has good and bad to it. France and Greece for example aren’t as “well off”, but you work a lot less with way more holidays. The US has by far the best purchasing power meaning that even though plenty of countries offer higher salaries and lower taxes, the sheer price of goods makes it way more affordable. It’s also safer from war, but then there’s more gun violence, if you’re without health insurance, best of luck to you, and the US basically has a monopoly on tornadoes.
There is no place that is ideal. If there was, everyone would end up going there, despite difficult immigration rules many of the higher economic countries put in place.
Oh and none of this is to mention the culture shock and language barrier. Southern Europeans are seen as lazy to the Northern Europeans and Northerners are generally seen as robotic, distant and emotionless, but really productive.
How people perceive certain countries and how they actually are is vastly unique and different. What’s more, there’s a HUGE difference in going somewhere on a holiday and having to live and work there. Go to a tropical island and live there for a few years. You’ll see for yourself what it means.
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