Back in 2015, Chancellor Angela Merkel went onto the Sunday night public forum show....the Anne Will Show....to say that 70-percent of Syrians in Germany....want to return to their homeland as soon as the war is over.
A fair number of Germans remember this, and occasionally it comes up....in a negative way.
Around this time.....2015/2016....I was taking German language classes...with most classes filled with 30-to-50 percent Syrians.
It came to be a interesting topic in the class...with the majority of Syrians over the age of forty....absolutely set on leaving Germany and returning home (probably 90-percent of them). But the crowd under age 30? Well....it was probably 90-percent set staying.
Logic to this? No matter how you sold living Damascus....Wiesbaden won out on safety, transportation, job-potential, and living standards.
My gut feeling at the time? The civil conflict would likely continue, and you'd be looking at five to ten years before it ended. The longer it took....the more likely they'd stay.
Merkel wasn't wrong.....she probably saw the war ending in a year or two. She simply judged all Syrians feeling home-sick and wanting to return.
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