That only makes sense unless you take into account how people are living in Singapore. 5 people to an apartment is not an exception there. Couples that don't ha

That only makes sense unless you take into account how people are living in Singapore. 5 people to an apartment is not an exception there. Couples that don't have the money and have to share the SAME ROOM with other people is not rare. Just imagine building a future with someone you care about, or having a child, or just even finding someone at all in that environment. I for one would consider it a very positive trait of a city to NOT be like Singapore. I do not want to live like that, and when prices hit a certain level you have no choice left. "most immigrants are not unskilled, minimum wage workers" - I can only respond with "visit Brussels". They have a very positive trait - they're much more likely to start a business (though almost always either an eatery or a food store). Enough is enough though. After a certain amount of stores - everything just starts to fail, and everyone moves to welfare. And yes, a small amount of immigrants is definitely enriching. The way it is happening in Brussels it brings zero diversity (there's only 99% morrocan, 99% turkish, 99% dutch 99% french quarters with zero interaction between them - aside from crime. Kids go to separate schools, and in the few cases they do go to similar schools - they still don't interact - everyone knows why but it's politically incorrect - it's violence-enforced racism by a particular non-white religious group, although ethnicity also plays). The way it is now, immigration in Brussels is nothing but a massive drag on a city that just can't take it. I heard about one study claiming that the average economic benefit for the EU of one immigrant is about MINUS 10k euros per year. I think that's probably pretty accurate.