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How Would the World Change if Everyone Could Live Where They Wanted?
Slate ^ | Jan. 23 2014 6:22 PM | Joshua Keating

Posted on 01/30/2014 8:50:24 AM PST by Pan_Yan

Gallup’s Potential Net Migration Index is an estimation of how countries’ populations would change if everyone in the world could live where they wanted. After roughly 520,000 interviews in 154 countries, they subtract the number of people who would want to leave each country from the number of people who want to move there.

Here are the results of this year’s index by region:

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Canada’s population would increase by 120 percent in a borderless world, America’s by 45 percent. Worryingly, that number’s down significantly from 60 percent in 2009. It’s still an extra 141 million people, though, or roughly the equivalent of bringing everyone in Russia into America. The old Russia, that is. Russia would decline by 9 percent in this scenario.)

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: immigration; migration
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I can't post the chart because it is a picture so it can't be excerpted.
1 posted on 01/30/2014 8:50:24 AM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan
Here's the direct link to the Gallup data.
2 posted on 01/30/2014 8:52:42 AM PST by Pan_Yan (Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
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To: Pan_Yan

***America’s by 45 percent. Worryingly, that number’s down significantly from 60 percent in 2009.***

Gee, I can’t imagine why that would be...


3 posted on 01/30/2014 8:54:53 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Pan_Yan

I would go to the Falklands.


4 posted on 01/30/2014 9:00:50 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Pan_Yan

I’d go to Uganda. Beautiful country, magnificent scenery, and seeing as how by looking at the chart, there will be practically no one there - they’ll have all moved elsewhere - I’ll have lots of wide-open spaces!

As long as that Ugandan cutie who I’ve known for a few years now is still down there, that is.....

I’ll take Kampala!!


5 posted on 01/30/2014 9:08:24 AM PST by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: Pan_Yan

No evidence of any interest in Cuba or North Korea.


6 posted on 01/30/2014 9:09:44 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: MichaelCorleone
Canada’s population would increase by 120 percent in a borderless world, America’s by 45 percent. Worryingly, that number’s down significantly from 60 percent in 2009.

Since Canada's population is a lot smaller than ours, this means a great many more people still want to come here than to Canada.

7 posted on 01/30/2014 9:10:02 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: MichaelCorleone
Canada’s population would increase by 120 percent in a borderless world, America’s by 45 percent. Worryingly, that number’s down significantly from 60 percent in 2009.

Since Canada's population is a lot smaller than ours, this means a great many more people still want to come here than to Canada.

8 posted on 01/30/2014 9:10:32 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

I certainly would be tempted to go to the Banff/Lake Louise area.


9 posted on 01/30/2014 9:10:48 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Sherman Logan

I mentioned nothing about Canada. What happens there is irrelevant to my point. Nice try genius.


10 posted on 01/30/2014 9:15:05 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Pan_Yan

I do live where I want.


11 posted on 01/30/2014 9:19:07 AM PST by discostu (I don't meme well.)
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To: Pan_Yan

Very nice, but as soon as all the Algerians and palestinians move to Switzerland, it’s no longer Switzerland, but a third world hell hole where Christians and Jews have their heads chopped off, gays are hanged, and women are stoned.

Let this article be a warning - there is intense pressure from the third world to leave the third world and go infest thriving civilized countries, (and turn them to dirt.)


13 posted on 01/30/2014 9:20:45 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: I want the USA back

And then it will be like Yogi Berra says, “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.”


14 posted on 01/30/2014 9:21:39 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: MichaelCorleone; Marcella; JRandomFreeper; Redcitizen; blam; Old Sarge; Iron Munro; Lazamataz; ...
I am living in the only country I wish to live in. True I wish I could live in a different part of it though. To me even dying in the United States of America is far better than what goes as living in a large potion of the world It gets me when this expat FReepers start bragging on how good they have it somewhere else, but they fail to realize that many if not most live there so well because of the money and the life that the U.S. gave them. They also admittedly maybe not as strong as it used to be, they have a certain amount of safety that even some natives don’t have simple because they are Americans.

I really gets me when I read these post by supposedly ‘Conservatives’ and ‘Americans’ about how they keep a passport and money available so that they can skip out of the U.S. in a hurry if the SHTF here.

Have bad things happened to out great nation over these past years? Yes. Is it anything we can’t fix? No. Has anyone ever in the history of the world ever got anything that was truly worth a damn that they did have to work for or fight for? NO!

I have said this before and I now say it again; I would rather die standing shoulder to should with friends and family protecting our own on the soil that my forefathers bleed and died to protect than to live out my life old, alone, and more than likely broke in some third world rat trap. Yes I might die under the heel of some tin pot despot or over whelmed by his zombies, but I will at least be able to look those family members in the eye when I hopefully meet them in the next life and more importantly I will be able to say to my God:

"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith"
2 Timothy 4:7

But I can not abide the thought of dying a foreigner among strangers, who do not understand or have knowledge of my ancestors, my history or my culture and there living out my days on earth like a shadow, without hope or a land of my own.
15 posted on 01/30/2014 9:29:16 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer
And now the frontier gibberish version:

"I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin' bushwackin', hornswagglin' cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter."

Now who can argue with that?

16 posted on 01/30/2014 9:32:55 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Pan_Yan

That is the illuminati plan you know...North American Union, South American Union, Central American Union, European Union, etc...10 Unions I believe all are on that NWO map a woman found in an antique shop in Philly in 1940s.

Did you not know that is reason the Mexico border will never be closed or illegal immigration stopped. There is a map of the transport highway going from Mexico to Canada right through the USA online. If people did the research they would know that this has been intention all along, and all the screaming about border issues will continue to go unheaded.....check it out.


17 posted on 01/30/2014 9:40:03 AM PST by Kackikat
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To: dfwgator

Who can even understand it?


18 posted on 01/30/2014 9:43:56 AM PST by discostu (I don't meme well.)
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To: Pan_Yan

Iceland for me. I’d love to exit the bankstersphere. But that’ll never happen.

“The plan” remains same as it ever was. Flood the US with undesirables from all over the globe, meanwhile making it impossible for us to go elsewhere.

Penal colony to the world.


19 posted on 01/30/2014 9:54:27 AM PST by CowboyJay (Cruz'-ing in 2016!)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad
I’d go to Uganda. Beautiful country, magnificent scenery.....

Admit it, it just isn't quite as colorful and exciting since His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular left the country.

20 posted on 01/30/2014 9:57:57 AM PST by Jed Eckert (Wolverines!!)
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