Well....on average....somewhere between 250,000 to 450,000 people arrive in Germany each year. But also.....around 200,000 to 250,000 (on average) Germans leave Germany each year.
Permanently? Yeah.
This got brought up via N-24 news today.
Reasons? Some cases are simply job-offers that required movement. Some relate to changing desires or different weather situations. Some revolve around capitalistic opportunities. And some revolve around disenchantment with mandates or politics.
People moving a great distance? You can laugh, but roughly one-quarter of the folks only moved to Switzerland or Austria. France will get one out of twenty folks. The US gets similar numbers. Roughly 3-percent of the group run off to New Zealand.....probably thinking that isolation is fantastic adventure priority.
This leave-thing being curious? I had a German (older guy) present the case in the 1980s that Germans for the most part.....never move more than 100 km where they grew up. His persuasion here....was that people wanted a constant format and regimented life-style. Screw that 'change' business....was what came to my mind at the time.
What's happened in the past thirty years to change things? I would offer four things:
1. You have a lot of Germans who travel and feel some affection to some place that they claim is 'enchanted'. Just in my village of 4,000 residents....there's probably a hundred who've made a trip to Australia. There's probably 400 who've made multiple trips to Turkey.
2. I would suggest that urbanization and over-crowding in some cities in Germany....have managed to peeve some people off, and they want a less urbanized atmosphere. Yes, perhaps even accepting some remote region of Canada or New Zealand as the perfect answer.
3. Political motivation? For a handful of Germans who leave....there's probably some frustration with the past decade or two, and the disgruntlement has led to a desire with less politicization involved.
4. Finally, I would offer that there are more Germans today in existence....who seem willing to take on adventure and change. I'm not saying the willing nature to move to Siberia or El Salvador....but they are willing to consider some radical moves in their life.
What this means? For each person leaving.....you need to find at least one person to arrive and take their place.
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