The sentiment is Canada/west use to be golden ticket/easy mode for privileged immigrants who were top of their respective societies, i.e. one was better off dri

The sentiment is Canada/west use to be golden ticket/easy mode for privileged immigrants who were top of their respective societies, i.e. one was better off driving taxis in Canada than be a doctor in China. But over the last 10-20 years, QoL of even high-income in west is feeling more and more inferior than staying in the "old country". Caveat being which "old country". If your from Italy that's stuck in it's own western devolution cycle, you won't feel it. But if you're Chinese, Indian, or from some other rapidly developing economy, and see their peers get wealthy back home, live like kings due to purchase power and income disparity, without all the racial drama of multicultural societies - there is serious FOMO. Meanwhile 2nd gen PoC kids raised in western societies are grinding through 6 figure jobs like a chump while dealing with intersectional drama * . Right now, the feeling is being top in PRC or India affords better life on multi-generational scale than being high-income (6 figure) in the west which still won't guarantee your kids won't be grinding. * It's hard to emphasis the value of not dealing with being a PoC / feeling like an outsider. It's a kind of "freedom" available back home that for many outweighs western liberal values like free speech etc.