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And expensive. In many cases if you were poor you needed to be hardworking or already semi successful at business to afford emigration. Plus you'd really get cu

by vasco 3y ago

And expensive. In many cases if you were poor you needed to be hardworking or already semi successful at business to afford emigration. Plus you'd really get cut off from everything you left behind. Has nothing to do with today's emigration that probably equates to moving to a different town in the same country back then.

chucke1992 3y ago
Yeah. It is basically coming to streets paved with gold - "I will come here and will have access to more services and things to do. There are lot of friends and compatriots".