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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Incredibly expensive but without salaries to match, bad weather, hard to actually get in as an immigrant, and most of all an incredibly insular culture.
You will never fit in as a foreigner. It will be incredibly difficult nigh impossible to make friendships with the depth you are used to.
People who call the U.S racist have no idea what their own insular and homogenous culture is like to any outsiders, even when skin color is the same let alone different
Incredibly expensive but without salaries to match, bad weather, hard to actually get in as an immigrant, and most of all an incredibly insular culture.
You will never fit in as a foreigner. It will be incredibly difficult nigh impossible to make friendships with the depth you are used to.
People who call the U.S racist have no idea what their own insular and homogenous culture is like to any outsiders, even when skin color is the same let alone different
Incredibly expensive but without salaries to match, bad weather, hard to actually get in as an immigrant, and most of all an incredibly insular culture.
You will never fit in as a foreigner. It will be incredibly difficult nigh impossible to make friendships with the depth you are used to.
People who call the U.S racist have no idea what their own insular and homogenous culture is like to any outsiders, even when skin color is the same let alone different
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As other posters have said, those countries have huge geographical issues which historically preventing large population growth.
Now that food isn’t a problem, the biggest challenges to immigration are economic and cultural. Economic and that those nations have an extremely high cost of living meaning you need a good income to live, plus strong labour laws which discourage businesses using cheap non-native labour. Culturally, very few people looking for a new home are likely to learn Norwegian. It’s a completely useless langauge in much of the world, unlike England or French for instance.
In terms of local population growth, as a highly education and wealthy society, families are generally small, limiting growth.
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