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Limits on numbers. Welcoming you as a tourist and welcoming you indefinitely are not the same thing. It's not a big population so wouldn't take a very large num
by throwaway049 4y ago
Limits on numbers. Welcoming you as a tourist and welcoming you indefinitely are not the same thing. It's not a big population so wouldn't take a very large number of arrivals to impact public services like healthcare and schools.
- mrleinad 4y agoWhich in order to grow, you'd need more people. And they're not canadians, they don't have an easy immigration path for people that want to move in. In a way, they're pretty japanese.
- version_five 4y agoWhy would they want to grow their population?
- mrleinad 4y agoIf you don't have population growth, you can't replace the old generation fast enough. Eventually your retirement system will crumble. Not tomorrow, not next year, but maybe a couple decades from now. And it's not something you can fix in a year or two.
- throwaway049 4y agoIceland population is about 0.3M. perhaps they're happy with that?