- I've emigrated myself (to Canada, founded a company there)
- I know quite a few people who have done the same thing
- I'm generalizing across my personal experience because I am me. Feel free to do the same thing, this is a comment on a forum, not a peer-reviewed study on the subject matter. Funny enough, your experience seems to be the same, which strengthens my 'not being surprised' by this.
- People in the US with 'nothing to lose' don't typically decide to have nothing to lose. An immigrant is deciding to go onto a risky path in life fairly consciously which would explain the difference in outcome.
I, nor the person before you, weren't questioning your ability to empathize with the original story. I'm not sure why you chose to highlight facts that back that up.
Feel free to do the same thing
I don't want to. You have influence on this site and it's very likely someone will read your original comment and take your conclusion to be true because "someone influential said it on the internet". Your generalization is consistent with mine, but the conclusion is unfounded.
An immigrant is deciding to go onto a risky path in life fairly consciously which would explain the difference in outcome.
But immigration in of itself, does not constitute a risky path. Hence my example of Americans in the UK.
I agree with you that an American moving to the UK is not taking a risky path. But that is not the general case for immigration, it is rather an outlier.
- I know quite a few people who have done the same thing
- I'm generalizing across my personal experience because I am me. Feel free to do the same thing, this is a comment on a forum, not a peer-reviewed study on the subject matter. Funny enough, your experience seems to be the same, which strengthens my 'not being surprised' by this.
- People in the US with 'nothing to lose' don't typically decide to have nothing to lose. An immigrant is deciding to go onto a risky path in life fairly consciously which would explain the difference in outcome.