Reasons for people going to the USA? (living/ working/ studying)?
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To get out of poverty.\n\nTo study abroad and get a better perspective on their own country.\n\nTo escape genocide.\n\nTo seek political asylum.
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there are certain legalities to working and living in the United States.  It's not about keeping families apart, it's about doing it properly so that families can be together and live in the USA.
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Canada shares many aspects of the US's culture, and thanks to NAFTA and physical distances it's much cheaper to emigrate. You still have to prove that you're not going to be a drain on the state and you'll still have to apply for emigration, but it's easier there.
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People migrate for economic reasons, better livelihood, better healthcare, better education, basically progression in life.\n\nThe advantage is that people send money home and people develop new skills abroad that may better the people
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The study abroad program. Well, it would take money, a working student visa so that I can work when not in class,\na place to stay other than in a dorm and a gurantee that\nI'll be able to get back to my country. Plus it would have to be a school and country in which everyone spoke and understood my language.
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I am of course biassed being from the UK, but I would recommend London for these reasons:\n- Many colleges and Universities, so finding exactly the right course should be simple\n- History and reputation - our colleges and the certificates are internationally recognised and would find making a job easier\n- Culture, away from your studies there is so much to see and discover\n- Cosmopolitan, you'll find people here from all over the world, so finding new friends is easy, especially as a student.\n\nDrawbacks:\n- Weather, unpredictable but not totally terrible! Today is really nice for instance\n- Cost, London is expensive, but then so is a lot of Europe.\n\nHope that helps!
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I live in America, and have been to the other places that you mention.\n\nThe US is the best place to live in terms of cost of living and quality of life with great amenities. France is ridiculously expensive, and I can think of few people living in a place like Manhattan or Los Angeles moving to Ireland. \n\nImran
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You could try to apply for a tourist visa -- but I'm assuming you would like to stay in the US for a longer period of time.\n\nAnother way could be to apply for a student visa. If you have an undergraduate degree, you could try to get accepted in a graduate program, preferably one that offers teaching assistantships or fellowships so that you will receive funding. This would allow you to stay in the US as long as it takes you to complete your degree, and you would have the chance to apply for a job in the US once you're done. If you don't get a job in the US, you'd have to return to your country, though.
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My brother in law is British and loves it here.  He doesn't want to go back except visit his family once a year.  He hasn't really faced too many problems.  Just some jobs he couldn't get until he became a citizen.
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That's a great question.  I don't know but my guess is maybe they know they have a better chance of changing America than the country they came from. Most immigrants leave their country for economic, religious, or safety reasons.
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1. Many of the World's best universities\n2. Opportunity\n3. Easy access into the U.S. (by easy I mean relatively easy....easier than some other countries)\n4. Full paid fellowships.....\n5. Some can't make it into the good schools in their home country...\n\n\nIt's interesting though...because I went to a large, diverse, university on the East Coast.  I met a lot of wonderful people from all over the world.  The international students that do come to the U.S. to study are very bright, good people!  I learned a lot from them!\n\nNick Name - U.S. schools are easy to get into because we offer a higher level of social mobility than many other countries.
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To everyone who answered yes ,or indicated they would like to leave,or if there was a better place they would, please go now.Don't let the door hit you in the butt.\nThe United States of America is the greatest nation the civilized world has ever known.\nMy guess is most of the negative mouthy individuals popping off,have never lived in another country or seen how the rest of the world has it, or you would be on your knees everyday thanking whatever God you pray to ,for the privilege of living in the USA.
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Get a job in the US and stay safe.
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To get their college tuition paid for, or to have the Army pay off their student loans (up to $65,000 worth), for travel; to get out of their boring, dead end home towns and see the world a bit, for a steady paycheck and 30-days paid vacation each year, for good training, for a kick-ass resumé, to be able to retire after working only 20 years (vs 40-60 years in the civilian field) with full health benefits and a retirement check until the day you die, or for patriotism and pride in serving their country.\n\nThere are many reasons, but each person has their own. I, for one, am joining to get out of my dead end home town and have a little pride in what I do. Plus, it will let me pay off my entire student loan debt and get training in some pretty neat, high-tech stuff.
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♡I would definitely rather stay in America♡, but an education is important, so stay in school and get a good education. You can always come back to America for holidays...♡
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Because of greener pastures...US is the richest and most powerful country...The other reason is open culture which accepts people from other culture to live and work here. But most importantly it's money honey....
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If you are talking about the US there are a few major reasons. \n\nFirst outsourcing is killing the US economy. The top growing job from what I understand is in outsourcing companies. \n\nWage scale has created a situation where white collar workers cannot retreat to trades or labor without suffering a dramatic loss in lifestyle. Ilegals have taken over whole industries. Trying to get a job as a framer for example in an area that has a large number of ilegals is almost impossible for a non-hispanic or even a Hispanic who does not speak Spanish.  By working for far less than most American's can afford to work the pay scale on such jobs has  dropped considerably. \n\nA sluggish economy and collapsing credit means there are fewer oppotunities to start a new biz and fewer new businesses are surviving. \n\nWe are falling behind on innovation. Education is getting more difficult to aquire, especially in math and sciences. Research budgets are being slashed or elimanated completely. \n\nTaxes are too high. My taxes two years ago would have paid for my car brand new. What I paid out in taxes over a five year period would have bought my house. How can anyone save when taxed to death like that? \n\nA 2 income family is a must today. Women cannot choose to work they must. This means a large number of families that might be a one income family are forced to be two income famiilies taking jobs from singles and lower income brackets that also need the same jobs. \n\nOther nations are finding their competitive edges. China and India in partuler are blooming economies that would compete with us even if we were not stupid enough to just ship our industry over to them. So the export market is getting tighter each year. \n\nThe US has for years traded favorable access to our markets in exchange for political concessions. We do not have the wealth to do this any more. \n\nNAFTA has left a trail of destruction in both the US and Mexico. It was designed for trade between the US and Canada and purely to not appear racist Mexico was included to the detriment of all. Both the US and Mexico has lost jobs over it. US highways are now less safe just to add insult to injury. \n\nUnions have made it economically cheaper to move many industries overseas. This takes away the factory and management jobs. It takes away maintence and building jobs. It also takes away service industry jobs that these people would have generated. \n\nCorporate stupidity. The obession over this quarter's bottom line is the biggest culprit. It has led major companies coming apart at the seems as little as five years later when a company chooses to make a profit this quarter ignoring the implications down the road. This is by far the biggest reason. Take outsourcing for example. Once you outsource enough of the IT jobs the next generation of software will be written over there not here. Who needs managers when all the jobs are over there? Would it not make more sense to hire managers who live close to where the actual work was being done. What exactly is going to prevent these workers from hijacking the knowledge they gained working for a US company and starting a competing company based over there? Nothing, this company will have a sudden huge edge over the stupid US company that gave it's ability to compete away. \n\nCompanies make deffective products, products which have engineered obsolescence. Companies feel like they can shove whatever they want down the consumer's throat and that the consumer will take it. Big Corps who are laying off workers then paying exec multi-million dollar bonous and other what amouts to theft from the company payments. The simple attitude that the consumer is somehow an enemy assures so many stupid decisions on the part of corporations. \n\nFixing this will be a difficult task as so many people will scream the second you try to make a real change. Big Biz and special interst groups have bought legislation to assure this outcome without