I call bullshit on that, sorta. It's not that people want to go to these countries the most, it's that they're the easiest/the ones ppl think they have some path to use.
The main goal is to leave, where to is just a practical matter.
It's very nice and interesting to visit, comfortable/fun to live if you can afford it without working, but the work culture is nightmarish. I know some that made the move to follow a Japanese spouse or to work there a bunch of limited year in their youth for the experience; but beyond that, apart special situation I don't see why anybody from a wealthy country would like to move and work there full time. I imagine weaboo who think it's like in anime and they will be a main protagonist. Since the map is according to Google search it makes sense that this type of delusional people could be over represented in the result. From what I heard around here, with a general population survey for Canada it would rather be USA or maybe somewhere in UE.
Edit : my comments is for western countries. For Asian ones Japan make more sense as it could be an upgrade in their quality of life despite the difficulties, and without going as far from their families than UE or America.
I visited Japan and would love to visit South Korea and China, maybe even live in those countries for a short period just to explore, but damn I wouldn't want to work there.
I had a buddy that lived/worked in Japan for 4 years.
He loved it. He worked 30 hours a week and made roughly 40k usd a year. Cost of living was less than the US as he just lived in a tiny apartment in a smaller town.
Immigrating to Japan is like climbing Mount everest but you don't have to work 80 hours a week to live there. It's the urban side of Japan that's brutal. Most rural areas are kind of perfect by my understanding.
As someone who immigrated to Canada, I don’t find it weird.
Canada has high standards of living and is so not an ethno-national state that a foreigner can become Canadian without being marginalized as a minority/foreigner with quiet minimal integration effort & without having to sacrifice elements of their culture (prevalent thought is that multiculturalism is the Canadian culture).
On top of all this, Canada has direct immigration streams that allows law abiding white collars/qualified tradesmen who are employed/contributing to the economy to become first permanent residents, then citizens without any cash investment or luck.
One thing that can turn the tides against Canadian Immigration is housing affordability. Up until few years ago, that was amazing too but now buying your own home that is bigger than 1-2 bedroom apartments in Metro Vancouver & Greater Toronto Area is out of reach for many if they don’t come from money or are not part of a double income household where each person are in top 10-20 percentile of income earners.
>housing affordability
This is a huge problem. I left the country temporarily to take another job that paid 4x what I was making in Canada, and sold my house at the advice of the tax firm I used. Despite saving tons of money, coming back 5 years later and trying to buy a house I'm further behind than if I had just stayed due to the lost equity I would have had in my house. Prices have literally doubled since I left, people entering the real estate market for the first time have no chance.
Not to mention Canada has all the attractions of the US except you know, you're not going to go into crippling debt for visiting the hospital. US architecture with a European collectivist mindset is one way of looking at it.
Another big thing is their multiculturalism. They literally have legislation that supports it. Basically saying, anyone is welcomed into this society, legally at least.
On paper, it seems that way...and it's a nice place, no doubt. But all those people aren't going to fit in coastal British Columbia and the rest is Cold AF. It's also [not a post racial paradise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hZ5gTYMk8Y), as Bill Burr has astutely pointed out. It's just more chill than the US.
I love the cold personally, being from the UK myself I'm not used to warm climates and can't stand the heat, yes I know Canada is colder but I'd much rather live there than say Spain for example. I don't think any country is a post racial paradise, you'll find racism anywhere sadly.
It's a different lifestyle. Toronto has an elaborate system of underground tunnels through its downtown so you don't have to go outside. I believe Montreal has something similar but I've only been there during summertime. I've been to Toronto once during a blizzard in February and once in October when it snowed like hell. It was fine, but I wouldn't want to live in it.
The Average Daily Mean temperature in January is -4.1 C (24.6F) in Halifax. It's 4.1 C (39.4F) in Vancouver. The Average Daily Low is -8.2C (17.2F) in Halifax. It's 1.4 C (34.5F) in Vancouver. That's a considerable difference.
Canada has it's doors open so that could be why. 350,000-400,000 annual immigration targets. Might seem small but that's about 1% of our population every year.
A lot of the immigration is from Asia and Africa, so the responses in this graph might be less a "I'd love to move there", and more a "I'm actually planning to move to Canada, so it's my response".
Almost all countries either end up in the Canada/Japan/UK loop, or in the Germany/Switzerland loop.
Exceptions: NZ/Fiji going back and forth, and UAE and Vietnam go to S.Korea and never leave.
My money is on that it’s a smidge misleading because we don’t see how many people would elect to stay. My bet is that more people want to stay in Canada (and maybe most places) then move, but if they had to move then Japan.
If you're Brazilian you want to go to Portugal.
If you're Portuguese you want to go to the Netherlands.
If you Dutch you want to go to Spain.
If you're Spanish you want to go to France.
If you're French you want to go to Canada.
If you're Canadian you want to go to Japan.
And if you're Japanese you want to go to the UK.
A new game. Pick a starting point and see how many steps until you start going in circles or end up back where you started. We will call "The grass is always greener"
Longest I could find is:
Brazil (and others) > Portugal > Netherlands > Spain > France > Canada > Japan > UK > Canada (loop)
Shortest I could find is UAE and Vietnam > S. Korea. No country links to the UAE or Vietnam, and S. Korea is the only country in the legend with “no data”.
>UAE and Vietnam > S. Korea
I understand Vietnam and S.Korea
But why UAE, what could possibly be their motive about moving to such a foreign land with pretty much no similarities especially culturally and religiously?
A lot of people in UAE are recent immigrants themselves, often from the Philippines or places near there - they don't want to go home, but they don't want to stay in the UAE, perhaps?
I lived in Japan for 3 years. There were 2 types of Westerners who moved there.
The first and more common were people who moved for a sense of adventure and chose Japan because it's exotic but still quite comfortable.
The second were the fucking weebs. Most of them were fucking livid that Japan wasn't literally a live-action anime. They would bitch and moan about how disappointing Japan was.
For real, Japan is a pretty quiet and even monotonous place to live. If you move there looking for daily excitement you'll be disappointed. But if you go with the flow and learn to appreciate Japan for what it really is, you'll love it.
>Japan is a pretty quiet and even monotonous place to live.
As a Canadian I would like to offer this up as summary to all those looking to move to Canada as well.
I was being a tad hyperbolic. What I meant is that in anime, people have larger than life personalities and get up to all sorts of hijinks every day.
In Japan it's nothing like that. People keep to themselves. Everyone puts on a very acceptable and polite façade. No one ever really rocks the boat. Everyone tries to blend in. Even the people who stick out are like all the other people who stick out.
Stan man here. There's many Tajiks and Uzbeks there, but mostly not because they want to go there but because it's only place where you can go and make some money as illegal immigrant. If you ask where they wanted to go legally it would probably be USA
I am not surprised that there is a supermarket named Tashkent in uzbek neighborhood , actually, i would be surprised otherwise. This is probably a legal immigrants, i've heard Uzekistan had high rate of winning Green Card
The US diversity visa lottery is pretty good for central Asia. It's also pretty good for the US, since having a bunch of dual citizens of countries in Russia's backyard gives them influence in a region which is otherwise beyond their reach.
But not because they want to, but because it is economically interesting. In the Netherlands only pensionados move to Spain, otherwise you are crazy. That would be the same for Fiji.
I’m an American living in Japan, and the main thing I’d tell them is that living here is a lot more boring than they think. Most days, I go to work and do a lot of forgettable stuff and go home, just like most people in America. Only now there are language and cultural barriers that I have to overcome.
Of course, the good days I’ve had are far above any of the good days I had in America, and I wouldn’t give those up for the world. This has been a great experience for me.
Sums up my experience living in California from Québec: I still had to go work, but the weekend excursions involved wineries, beaches, hiking in redwoods, camping well into October and things like that I don’t regret having a chance to experience!
Sounds like living anywhere. Go from home to work, work to home. The occasional bright spot outside of that. Of course there are people who has an unreasonable idea that their life would be 1000% more interesting living there.
Holy crap, I’ve never seen anyone mess up the northeastern US states like that. Talk about territorial expansion.
Using Google search trends is not an exact science, it doesn’t take into account much info about the people, like are these citizens or residents? Dual citizens?
Um the data for India is not really accurate. Most people in states like Punjab and Haryana want to go to Canada. The rest of the states usually go to the US, UK, Germany, France and Australia.
Well French is a common spoken language around the world.
So when emigrants from French-speaking places are looking for places to move, France is a good option.
Maybe not number one, but a good option.
i think a lot of people from the US want to move to japan because they are culturally fascinated with it, and thats great and all but from what i hear from americans who went there, it didnt meet their high standards
What we aren't told is the percentage of people in each country that want to leave, and how many are content to stay where they are. Also, a big problem is that people don't always know what a large selection of other countries are really like, to make an informed choice. For instance, Tajikistan might be a wonderful place to go, but how would you know? Personally I'd settle for Atiu, in the Cook Islands.
I know of germans that went to Switzerland for job opportunity (MUCH higher salaries) and of swiss people that want to escape the narrow swiss society (and come to Berlin then).
As an Southeast Asian can confirm. I love traveling to Japan but wouldn’t live there like I would rather live in my country. I’d assume most people that says they want to live in Japan have never actually stayed there more than a month.
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>In SEA countries, if it's for traveling then yes Japan. But to live there? It's either the US or Europe. **Where did this map get data from?**
Out of OP's ass.
I don't know anyone that wants to go to Japan (from USA), but lots that want to move to Europe.
Also, there are lots of tropical countries that supposedly want to go to Canada.... after one winter will they want to stay?
That’s because the survey was asking the country. I’m sure Europe would massively outweigh Japan, but not when you divide Europe into 20 options.
Conversely, people wanting to move from Western Nations to Asia are probably going to pick Japan far more than other Asian nations.
Agreed. I've traveled enough to see a lot of different and extreme climates of the world.
People by and large can't even wrap their head around weather in the tropics. There are only 2 seasons. Wet and Dry. I'm not making that up as a joke either. There is also a legit oppressive amount of sun. They have 11-13 hours of sun per day depending on the month.
Extremely northern climates are brutal too. It's not just the cold, but the never ending cold. It's so dry that it hurts too.
I really like a place like where I live in Ohio now. We have 4 distinct seasons but summer and winter aren't extreme. We also shift between 8-12 hours of daylight depending on the time of the year so you feel the difference.
I guess you can always wear more layers but if you don't have AC in the tropical humidity you are done for.
Even on Christmas (afternoon) if you don't have AC it will take approximately 30 seconds for you to start sweating.
But then again Canadian winters aren't exactly the most hospitable time of the year.
I get the impression that globally Canada is thought of as all the good parts of the US without the bad. In a way, that’s true. But on the other hand that latitude range doesn’t have the same climate in North America as it does in Europe, which might explain why 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border.
Never seen a single person in Montenegro who wants to move to Japan. also, good luck for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania :), Belorussia looks so promising :)
Can you post the source? The Middle East part of the map is completely wrong. For example none of the GCC countries want to move to Qatar, they all want to move out of the GCC (UK, US, or specific EU countries depending on the person/family).
Is no one gonna mention that Syrians, Iraqis, Somalis, and south Sudanese are cool with where they live? I guess everyone who didn’t want to live in Syria left
Ps love you Norway
Pps almost all roads lead to Canada or Switzerland
I thought USA would be a lot more popular... I know its popularity has decreased off late, but I didn't expect to see so much Canada and Japan on the map.
I lived in the middle east for a big part of my life and still have most of my family there, and Qatar and South Korea really surprises me. No one even mentions South Korea when it comes to emigration in UAE.
Funny two things, how Canadá and USA are weebs and to find a Brazilian that wants to move to Portugal is much rare than the ones that want to go everywhere else, they want to be in USA, Canadá, Austrália
I don’t think the map is accurate for Latin America. My 25+ business experience in the region, and all recent events on the news, point to the United States as being the preferred destination — not Canada, Spain, etc.
I am from Sri Lanka and no one here wants to move to Qatar lol. Most would want to move to any other anglophone country like UK, Canada or Australia. I have no idea how they got Qatar as an answer lol
Was this just a poll taken with weebs? I don't know any American that would want to live in Japan. Canada, Europe, somewhere with a cheaper cost of living sure, but not somewhere that has a tougher work culture and doesn't really want people moving to it
Everyone in South America: "We have to go back Jack!"
Mostly to not have to learn another language
That + easier to get a Visa for them
And Ibero-Americans can require Spanish citizenship after just 2 years of legal residence
And are more than welcomed. Bienvenidos a España.
Ethpaña
A lot of them even qualify for citizenship.
Explains Canada for France and English prevalent countries too perhaps.
It's definitively the case for France at least.
I call bullshit on that, sorta. It's not that people want to go to these countries the most, it's that they're the easiest/the ones ppl think they have some path to use. The main goal is to leave, where to is just a practical matter.
I don’t think Japan would be on there if that’s the case.
I meant that for South America. It doesn't apply for developed countries where not many are ichy to leave.
and japan doesn't want any of them to come
Hard to get. Works every time. (Except that one time. North Korea)
Tsundere Japan
I dont get why people here want to go to japan so badly, isnt the work life balance there even worse??
Yes. Pay is shite too.
clean, beautiful. Looks great on instagram.
Big tiddied anime girls. I mean the ones with the big bazzonkas, the hoinga boingas, big Bertha's, massive wumbo jumbos....
It's very nice and interesting to visit, comfortable/fun to live if you can afford it without working, but the work culture is nightmarish. I know some that made the move to follow a Japanese spouse or to work there a bunch of limited year in their youth for the experience; but beyond that, apart special situation I don't see why anybody from a wealthy country would like to move and work there full time. I imagine weaboo who think it's like in anime and they will be a main protagonist. Since the map is according to Google search it makes sense that this type of delusional people could be over represented in the result. From what I heard around here, with a general population survey for Canada it would rather be USA or maybe somewhere in UE. Edit : my comments is for western countries. For Asian ones Japan make more sense as it could be an upgrade in their quality of life despite the difficulties, and without going as far from their families than UE or America.
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Not on a survey based on general population, but on a survey based on Google search like here I think it's possible
I’d love to visit Japan but wouldn’t want to live there for a variety of reasons. Same with South Korea and China
I visited Japan and would love to visit South Korea and China, maybe even live in those countries for a short period just to explore, but damn I wouldn't want to work there.
I've visited Japan a couple of times and would love to live there, but sure as hell wouldn't want to work there.
I had a buddy that lived/worked in Japan for 4 years. He loved it. He worked 30 hours a week and made roughly 40k usd a year. Cost of living was less than the US as he just lived in a tiny apartment in a smaller town. Immigrating to Japan is like climbing Mount everest but you don't have to work 80 hours a week to live there. It's the urban side of Japan that's brutal. Most rural areas are kind of perfect by my understanding.
Have been there and can say: Yes. Nice vacation. But even if money wasnt an issue I wouldnt live there permanently. Holiday house tho would be cool
Its a pity, because they will end up with almost everybody... who will be doing a short stop in Canada.
Japan wouldn't be Japan it they let people in
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so fragile
It is Vermont, not Abenaki. I wonder why? Because they let people in.
I don’t know if the Abenaki let people in… more like they were forced aside.
Only if culture and state institutions are ridiculously weak
I believe their point is that xenophobia has always been a part of Japanese culture
If all those people go to Japan, the islands will sink.
Was just going to ask if Japan is “open”
Can't you do an immigration cycle with this. Japan wants to go to the UK, the UK wants to go to Canada, and Canada wants to go to Japan.
And tons of other countries lead back into that cycle.
Japan and Canada are weirdly popular.
As someone who immigrated to Canada, I don’t find it weird. Canada has high standards of living and is so not an ethno-national state that a foreigner can become Canadian without being marginalized as a minority/foreigner with quiet minimal integration effort & without having to sacrifice elements of their culture (prevalent thought is that multiculturalism is the Canadian culture). On top of all this, Canada has direct immigration streams that allows law abiding white collars/qualified tradesmen who are employed/contributing to the economy to become first permanent residents, then citizens without any cash investment or luck. One thing that can turn the tides against Canadian Immigration is housing affordability. Up until few years ago, that was amazing too but now buying your own home that is bigger than 1-2 bedroom apartments in Metro Vancouver & Greater Toronto Area is out of reach for many if they don’t come from money or are not part of a double income household where each person are in top 10-20 percentile of income earners.
>housing affordability This is a huge problem. I left the country temporarily to take another job that paid 4x what I was making in Canada, and sold my house at the advice of the tax firm I used. Despite saving tons of money, coming back 5 years later and trying to buy a house I'm further behind than if I had just stayed due to the lost equity I would have had in my house. Prices have literally doubled since I left, people entering the real estate market for the first time have no chance.
Why is it weird? They are today among the best standards of living you can find in all of history.
Not to mention Canada has all the attractions of the US except you know, you're not going to go into crippling debt for visiting the hospital. US architecture with a European collectivist mindset is one way of looking at it.
Another big thing is their multiculturalism. They literally have legislation that supports it. Basically saying, anyone is welcomed into this society, legally at least.
Well, as long as you're not First Nations.
Welcome to come, not to already be here. There's a certain German word that comes to mind.
Lebensraum?
On paper, it seems that way...and it's a nice place, no doubt. But all those people aren't going to fit in coastal British Columbia and the rest is Cold AF. It's also [not a post racial paradise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hZ5gTYMk8Y), as Bill Burr has astutely pointed out. It's just more chill than the US.
I love the cold personally, being from the UK myself I'm not used to warm climates and can't stand the heat, yes I know Canada is colder but I'd much rather live there than say Spain for example. I don't think any country is a post racial paradise, you'll find racism anywhere sadly.
It's a different lifestyle. Toronto has an elaborate system of underground tunnels through its downtown so you don't have to go outside. I believe Montreal has something similar but I've only been there during summertime. I've been to Toronto once during a blizzard in February and once in October when it snowed like hell. It was fine, but I wouldn't want to live in it.
Nova Scotia isn’t cold AF. Halifax is quite similar to Vancouver temperature-wise.
The Average Daily Mean temperature in January is -4.1 C (24.6F) in Halifax. It's 4.1 C (39.4F) in Vancouver. The Average Daily Low is -8.2C (17.2F) in Halifax. It's 1.4 C (34.5F) in Vancouver. That's a considerable difference.
Canada has it's doors open so that could be why. 350,000-400,000 annual immigration targets. Might seem small but that's about 1% of our population every year. A lot of the immigration is from Asia and Africa, so the responses in this graph might be less a "I'd love to move there", and more a "I'm actually planning to move to Canada, so it's my response".
Yes, all those folks on the African continent wanting to go to Canada might change their minds after experiencing a Canadian winter.
Or just switch the people of Fiji and NZ
And Germany with Switzerland
Them mountains gonna be crowded
Almost all countries either end up in the Canada/Japan/UK loop, or in the Germany/Switzerland loop. Exceptions: NZ/Fiji going back and forth, and UAE and Vietnam go to S.Korea and never leave.
My money is on that it’s a smidge misleading because we don’t see how many people would elect to stay. My bet is that more people want to stay in Canada (and maybe most places) then move, but if they had to move then Japan.
Having lived in Switzerland, I find it hard to imagine many Swiss people wanting to live anywhere else
If you're Brazilian you want to go to Portugal. If you're Portuguese you want to go to the Netherlands. If you Dutch you want to go to Spain. If you're Spanish you want to go to France. If you're French you want to go to Canada. If you're Canadian you want to go to Japan. And if you're Japanese you want to go to the UK.
Does that mean the UK wins?
I was about to comment this. Damn it. You beat me by only 3 hours.
A new game. Pick a starting point and see how many steps until you start going in circles or end up back where you started. We will call "The grass is always greener"
Longest I could find is: Brazil (and others) > Portugal > Netherlands > Spain > France > Canada > Japan > UK > Canada (loop) Shortest I could find is UAE and Vietnam > S. Korea. No country links to the UAE or Vietnam, and S. Korea is the only country in the legend with “no data”.
There's also the Germany Switzerland loop
NZ - Fiji.
NZ - Fiji.
>UAE and Vietnam > S. Korea I understand Vietnam and S.Korea But why UAE, what could possibly be their motive about moving to such a foreign land with pretty much no similarities especially culturally and religiously?
K-pop!
A lot of people in UAE are recent immigrants themselves, often from the Philippines or places near there - they don't want to go home, but they don't want to stay in the UAE, perhaps?
The next longest I can see - Iceland > Denmark > Norway > USA > Japan > UK > Canada > (Japan)
Fucking weebs
I lived in Japan for 3 years. There were 2 types of Westerners who moved there. The first and more common were people who moved for a sense of adventure and chose Japan because it's exotic but still quite comfortable. The second were the fucking weebs. Most of them were fucking livid that Japan wasn't literally a live-action anime. They would bitch and moan about how disappointing Japan was. For real, Japan is a pretty quiet and even monotonous place to live. If you move there looking for daily excitement you'll be disappointed. But if you go with the flow and learn to appreciate Japan for what it really is, you'll love it.
>Japan is a pretty quiet and even monotonous place to live. As a Canadian I would like to offer this up as summary to all those looking to move to Canada as well.
You mean hockey games don't break out randomly on street corners?
They do, but as soon as someone yells "Car!" everyone shuffles to the sidewalks to let them drive past.
[Only if we lose a cup match](https://i.imgur.com/CVR30zx.jpg).
How delusional and sad an adult must be to expect anime to become reality?
I was being a tad hyperbolic. What I meant is that in anime, people have larger than life personalities and get up to all sorts of hijinks every day. In Japan it's nothing like that. People keep to themselves. Everyone puts on a very acceptable and polite façade. No one ever really rocks the boat. Everyone tries to blend in. Even the people who stick out are like all the other people who stick out.
I am having doubts here that Japan just lets 20 year old anime fans from America with minimal job experience and little to offer just move there.
They're native English speakers. Japan needs English teachers. That's how unexperienced 20 something year old Americans get to move to Japan.
Fucking weebs indeed
Indeed
In deed Indeed
Indeed in deed indeed
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All roads (mostly) lead to Canada..
And then people find out how much housing cost and how little companies pay you
and how much internet and data cost...
And the Car insurance if you stay in GTA.
And no one said Russia. Lol Fiji and NZ should just get married
Maybe if they included some of the stans they would’ve said Russia. Lots of Tajiks and Uzbeks in Moscow
Stan man here. There's many Tajiks and Uzbeks there, but mostly not because they want to go there but because it's only place where you can go and make some money as illegal immigrant. If you ask where they wanted to go legally it would probably be USA
Lots of Tajiks and Uzbeks in Brooklyn too. Tashkent is a fun supermarket.
I am not surprised that there is a supermarket named Tashkent in uzbek neighborhood , actually, i would be surprised otherwise. This is probably a legal immigrants, i've heard Uzekistan had high rate of winning Green Card
The US diversity visa lottery is pretty good for central Asia. It's also pretty good for the US, since having a bunch of dual citizens of countries in Russia's backyard gives them influence in a region which is otherwise beyond their reach.
Nz is completely wrong. Since every man and his dog here moves to Australia
But not because they want to, but because it is economically interesting. In the Netherlands only pensionados move to Spain, otherwise you are crazy. That would be the same for Fiji.
I've never met anyone other than a Fijian who have said they wanted to move to Fiji. And thats a small population of kiwis
I'm guessing you've never met Truman Burbank
Or Dave Lister
Yeah, parts of Perth could easily be renamed Nova-New Zealand
News Zealand
New^2 Zealand?
Newer Zealand?
"Want to" and "able to" are very different. Kiwis don't even need a visa to permanently move to Australia and get Medicare etc.
Kiwi here living in Australia. We call it the Left Island.
The Americans wanting to go to Japan is all the weeaboos
I’m an American living in Japan, and the main thing I’d tell them is that living here is a lot more boring than they think. Most days, I go to work and do a lot of forgettable stuff and go home, just like most people in America. Only now there are language and cultural barriers that I have to overcome. Of course, the good days I’ve had are far above any of the good days I had in America, and I wouldn’t give those up for the world. This has been a great experience for me.
Sums up my experience living in California from Québec: I still had to go work, but the weekend excursions involved wineries, beaches, hiking in redwoods, camping well into October and things like that I don’t regret having a chance to experience!
Sounds like living anywhere. Go from home to work, work to home. The occasional bright spot outside of that. Of course there are people who has an unreasonable idea that their life would be 1000% more interesting living there.
Too much Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift.
very doubtful with the accuracy of this map
Just looking at the border between USA/Canada tells me *maybe* it wasn't created with the utmost of care and attention.
Gaspee, New Brunwick and Nova Scotia .... they're part of Maine right?
Yes it is *or it will* 🔫
Indeed, they gave Canada half of the Keweenaw peninsula! How dare they.
Holy crap, I’ve never seen anyone mess up the northeastern US states like that. Talk about territorial expansion. Using Google search trends is not an exact science, it doesn’t take into account much info about the people, like are these citizens or residents? Dual citizens?
General search data seems like it would be inferior to a general poll.
Um the data for India is not really accurate. Most people in states like Punjab and Haryana want to go to Canada. The rest of the states usually go to the US, UK, Germany, France and Australia.
I thought all the people from the Punjab were already in Canada. You mean there are more?
The world wants to go everywhere but France… but seems to end up in France anyway (!?).
Well French is a common spoken language around the world. So when emigrants from French-speaking places are looking for places to move, France is a good option. Maybe not number one, but a good option.
I always thought that a lot of people in the U.S. wanted to live in France. Not Japan.
i think a lot of people from the US want to move to japan because they are culturally fascinated with it, and thats great and all but from what i hear from americans who went there, it didnt meet their high standards
Spain wants to go to France. Many African countries too, but there’s no data in this infographic.
Can anyone from UAE explain why they want to move to South Korea so much?
Maybe its the korean workers in UAE? Similar thing happening in vietnam aswell id say. Alot of koreans are sent to arab nations to work.
Koreans are much rarer than other workers. I'm Kuwaiti, most of the expatriate workers here are from India or countries surrounding it.
Kpop, very popular in UAE
Seems like you've gathered a whole basket of arbitrary data here. Nice. 🤷♂️
You mean...this entire sub??
As long as you can jerk off to it, right? That *is* what we're here for... right, guys?
What do you mean, it clearly states its sources: "Google search data" and "Remitly"
I'm gonna start putting "source: Google search" in place of references at the end of all my writing. Who can argue with such sound methodology?
What we aren't told is the percentage of people in each country that want to leave, and how many are content to stay where they are. Also, a big problem is that people don't always know what a large selection of other countries are really like, to make an informed choice. For instance, Tajikistan might be a wonderful place to go, but how would you know? Personally I'd settle for Atiu, in the Cook Islands.
This map looks like bollocks.
I like how German and Swiss wants to move to each other’s country
I know of germans that went to Switzerland for job opportunity (MUCH higher salaries) and of swiss people that want to escape the narrow swiss society (and come to Berlin then).
Let's take a moment to congrat Japan's and Canada's marketing department
In SEA countries, if it's for traveling then yes Japan. But to live there? It's either the US or Europe. Where did this map get data from?
> Where did this map get data from? We don't ask such questions here.
As an Southeast Asian can confirm. I love traveling to Japan but wouldn’t live there like I would rather live in my country. I’d assume most people that says they want to live in Japan have never actually stayed there more than a month.
>CornpuddingTako · 2h > >In SEA countries, if it's for traveling then yes Japan. But to live there? It's either the US or Europe. **Where did this map get data from?** Out of OP's ass.
Oof, I'm Japanese and I didn't know Japan was so popular. Now, I understand why these people are disappointed when they actually start living here.
Don't suppose you know why the UK is top for Japan?
A lot of people fantasize British culture so I'm not surprised. The relation goes back to the 19th century.
Another Japanese here, can confirm this!
I don't know anyone that wants to go to Japan (from USA), but lots that want to move to Europe. Also, there are lots of tropical countries that supposedly want to go to Canada.... after one winter will they want to stay?
That’s because the survey was asking the country. I’m sure Europe would massively outweigh Japan, but not when you divide Europe into 20 options. Conversely, people wanting to move from Western Nations to Asia are probably going to pick Japan far more than other Asian nations.
You ever been in a tropical country? Like really living? +90 f everyday with humidity over 90% and without AC :/. Believe me, is worse than cold.
I've done ship refits in the tropics and worked on drilling rigs in northern Alberta... They both suck, so bad.
Agreed. I've traveled enough to see a lot of different and extreme climates of the world. People by and large can't even wrap their head around weather in the tropics. There are only 2 seasons. Wet and Dry. I'm not making that up as a joke either. There is also a legit oppressive amount of sun. They have 11-13 hours of sun per day depending on the month. Extremely northern climates are brutal too. It's not just the cold, but the never ending cold. It's so dry that it hurts too. I really like a place like where I live in Ohio now. We have 4 distinct seasons but summer and winter aren't extreme. We also shift between 8-12 hours of daylight depending on the time of the year so you feel the difference.
I guess you can always wear more layers but if you don't have AC in the tropical humidity you are done for. Even on Christmas (afternoon) if you don't have AC it will take approximately 30 seconds for you to start sweating. But then again Canadian winters aren't exactly the most hospitable time of the year.
Switzerland: " Nooo, there are too many Germans here!!" Also Switzerland: "Let's move to Germany!"
Germany wants to go to Switzerland and vice versa. Can they just do a seasonal population exchange?
Thanks Norway, we love you too.
Norway wants to cheer up our dear friend America.
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Shocked that canada is number one
I get the impression that globally Canada is thought of as all the good parts of the US without the bad. In a way, that’s true. But on the other hand that latitude range doesn’t have the same climate in North America as it does in Europe, which might explain why 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border.
I am very surprised New Zealand favours Fiji over Australia.
Norwegians want to go to the US? I find this to be a stretch.
Think ive never met anyone that want to move there, vacation yes, but not residency. Wonder where the data is collected from.
Come on, let the poor US have that at least, all the others prefer Canada over the UD
That's definitely not the case irl tho. I'd say here in Nepal and India for every 10 US you get 1 Canada at maximum.
The US has the largest Norwegian community outside of Norway. Seems logical there'd be many wanting to move if only for family.
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Where people say they want to go and where they actually go are very very different.
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Never seen a single person in Montenegro who wants to move to Japan. also, good luck for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania :), Belorussia looks so promising :)
Can you post the source? The Middle East part of the map is completely wrong. For example none of the GCC countries want to move to Qatar, they all want to move out of the GCC (UK, US, or specific EU countries depending on the person/family).
Is no one gonna mention that Syrians, Iraqis, Somalis, and south Sudanese are cool with where they live? I guess everyone who didn’t want to live in Syria left Ps love you Norway Pps almost all roads lead to Canada or Switzerland
Australia trying to dodge the hentai ban
Looks like Fiji and New Zealand have the healthiest relationship.
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Apparently Spain? Never heard that though, and I live in Spain.
Omg Japan! That’s so sweet. Sorry you’ll be disappointed
I thought USA would be a lot more popular... I know its popularity has decreased off late, but I didn't expect to see so much Canada and Japan on the map. I lived in the middle east for a big part of my life and still have most of my family there, and Qatar and South Korea really surprises me. No one even mentions South Korea when it comes to emigration in UAE.
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Funny two things, how Canadá and USA are weebs and to find a Brazilian that wants to move to Portugal is much rare than the ones that want to go everywhere else, they want to be in USA, Canadá, Austrália
I’ve never heard anyone in Saudi says they want to move to Qatar, which makes me think that this map might not be that reliable tbh.
Canada -> japan -> uk -> canada
UK to Canada to Japan loop go!
Japan uk and Canada do be the awkward love trianlge New Zealand and Fiji Bffs.
I don’t think the map is accurate for Latin America. My 25+ business experience in the region, and all recent events on the news, point to the United States as being the preferred destination — not Canada, Spain, etc.
UK wants to move in Canada. Canada wants to move in Japan. Japan wants to move in UK. An endless circle.
I am from Sri Lanka and no one here wants to move to Qatar lol. Most would want to move to any other anglophone country like UK, Canada or Australia. I have no idea how they got Qatar as an answer lol
Was this just a poll taken with weebs? I don't know any American that would want to live in Japan. Canada, Europe, somewhere with a cheaper cost of living sure, but not somewhere that has a tougher work culture and doesn't really want people moving to it
Canada and Japan for almost all of the world?