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A bit Survivor bias? Recent six years about half of my friends went back. I’m biased as well since many of them got green card and/or coming from Tier-1 city
by whoevercares 6y ago
A bit Survivor bias? Recent six years about half of my friends went back. I’m biased as well since many of them got green card and/or coming from Tier-1 city
- nmfisher 6y agoAs I admitted, it's purely anecdotal - I'm not denying that there are a lot of Chinese who do in fact return. But net migration is still negative, meaning there's more people leaving China than returning. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CHN/china/net-migration#:~:text=The%20current%20net%20migration%20rate,a%201.66%25%20increase%20from%202017 https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CHN/china/net-migratio.... I'm not sure how that figure is calculated, but I also wonder if it under-represents "pseudo-migrants" who claim to be living/holidaying temporarily in (say) Australia, but who seem to stay indefinitely.
- lookACamel 6y agoChina literally has a billion more humans than the US. Is it really "freedom of expression" they want or just the lack of competition and the increase in living space?
- nmfisher 6y agoAlso very possible.
- pmontra 6y agoAnecdotally, when I came back to my 1+ million people city in Europe from a vacation in China I immediately noticed the silence, the few people around, the short lines and the open sky. Of course my city is renowned /s in the rest of the country for the noise, the crowd, the long lines and the tall buildings covering the sky.