[Mogger]

I recently read a interview with an illegal alien from an African country. He had spent his life savings, $9,000 to get here. He now realizes the USA is not like what he saw on TV and in movies. Everybody doesn't magically have a nice house and car. Now he just wants to go home as he was better off there, but he can't afford it.

I was wondering if sitcoms and movies were one of the reasons a lot of people become illegal aliens.

In most of the movies and TV shows, almost everybody is magically at least upper middle class or higher, no matter how stupid they are.

Everybody living in a nice house or apartment, driving a new car or SUV.

Someone on the outside, looking in would figure that is just the way it is in the USA for everybody and do anything possible to get here.

We need to interview him and others like him from the various countries the are coming from and get those interviews on TV there.

[Bubba_Leroy]

We need to interview him and others like him from the various countries the are coming from and get those interviews on TV there.

We need to send them home to spread the news in person.

[Nea Wood]

I think you're right. I've seen so many TV shows where someone with a non-fancy job has a huge house or fabulous apartment that would probably cost thousands of dollars a month. I always wonder what people in other countries think. In real life, I know people in their 30s and even 40s who work full time but can't afford to move out of their parents' homes. That's what it's really like.

[b4me]

yup, the man from Africa learned what everyone else running from one state to another needs to learn:

the grass is greenest where your roll up your sleeves and get to work nourishing the roots. Anywhere else that looks greener is because someone there took the time and effort and nourished the roots.

too many people think they can just move and enjoy elsewhere instead of staying put and fixing what they been neglecting at home. you bring your bad and your good habits where ever you go.