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| Netherlands: Emigration increasing |
| 2008-02-24 |
| Emigration from the Netherlands is now at a historic high. 132,470 residents left the country in 2006, according to a study of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), 'Away from the Netherlands, immigration at the beginning of the 21st century'. The top reason for leaving the Netherlands is the lack of room and tranquility and social problems through pollution, crime and the multicultural society. The number of people who emigrated has gone up by 67% since 2000. About two thirds are of immigrant origin (about 88,000) and a third are ethnic Dutch (about 44,000). The emigrants are especially young, single men who make a good living. Source: AD (Dutch) |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #9 You won't be getting me coming to America if you get "socialized meds". It's the main reason I'm thinking of leaving Brownistan! |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-02-24 18:08 |
| #8 I've thought the same thing, Nimble: expand the visa program for every educated European under age 40 who wants to come to America. It would greatly upset the Euro elites (I see that as a feature), but it would create a number of political problems at home given the nasty immigration debate. Oh well. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-02-24 14:14 |
| #7 We are missing the boat by not having an aggressive program to attract these people to the U. S. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-02-24 12:48 |
| #6 The top reason for leaving the Netherlands is the lack of room and tranquility and social problems through pollution, crime and the multicultural society. The emigrants are especially young, single men who make a good living. ....and don't want to pay the high taxes that support a socialist, entitlements based state. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-02-24 12:42 |
| #5 Interesting point lotp, I'd always wondered why the Muslims didn't all migrate to a handful of nations and tip them over, but perhaps that takes too much planning or it's too soon ad would warn others. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-02-24 12:40 |
| #4 Europe is pretty much what our original founders created with the articles of confederation. Europe's system will suffer the same fate too. They want to create a constitution and create one nation, the EU ... a United States of Europe. So moving from Holland to France should be about like moving from New Jersey to Maryland. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2008-02-24 12:39 |
| #3 Where did they go - the immigrants emmigrating? |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble 2008-02-24 12:39 |
| #2 Note that with Dutch citizenship they can move to any country in the EU without further screening. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-02-24 12:09 |
| #1 What the hell? Immigrants are leaving? Maybe they're just going home to study at madrassa. I can't imagine them giving up Dutch citizenship, ever. |
| Posted by: gromky 2008-02-24 11:58 |