Five Biggest Immigrant Groups by Country #2

No. My best time on the countries of the world quiz is 9 minutes. My high score on this is 33. I'm sure I could have aced it with another 30 seconds or so. But like I said, it's fine as is.

Yeah Canadian healthcare is notorious for its wait time, and Americans really don't want to have to experience that, although Canada still is a really nice country, just not a reason to move out of America.

According to Wikipedia: "A 2014 sociological study concluded that: 'Australia and Canada are the most receptive to immigration among western nations'." Not only that, but when it comes to refugee claims, Canada does not discriminate based on nationality -- Canada will accept refugee applicants of any nationality (so for example, you can make a refugee claim regardless if you are from the US, Rwanda or anywhere). According to 2011 stats on Wikipedia, US immigrants are listed as 4th. /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Canada> For the year of 2011, here are the stats (Country of origin, number of individuals admitted, percentage of total) 1) Philippines 34,991 (14.1%) 2) China 28,696 (11.5%) 3) India 24,965 (10%) 4) United States 8,829 (3.5%) 5) Iran 6,840 (2.7%) [BTW I'm Canadian.] Not to say that good income doesn't help immigrating to Canada, like many countries. And there are certainly some crappy aspects of our immigration policy to be sure. But not really what you've pointed out.

Oh, and contrary to American legend, the winters are warmer than lots of the USA in Canadian cities like Vancouver and Victoria :P Think Amsterdam, Seattle, London climate. Today was 13 degrees C in Vancouver and Victoria (that's over 50 degrees F).

It's very cold (yes, Toronto is warmer than Fargo, but it's still not Miami and nowhere in Canada is)... there's a reason 90+% of Canada's population is huddled along the southern border with the US. And Americans do not migrate anywhere in large numbers because most of them are perfectly happy living in the United States. Though I personally know a couple Americans who have moved north, most don't see a point. If they're going to make an effort to immigrate somewhere they would choose to go somewhere else.

Actually... let me amend this comment.

This quiz, also by reless, which I had forgotten existed, is interesting. It shows that Canada is actually the #1 destination for American expats easily beating out most of the rest of the world, and Mexico does not even make the top 20.

So, I supposed that the reason is not so much that Americans don't want to go to Canada, as it is nobody wants to go to Mexico. Canada is a much more desirable destination for other people from around the world and those people immigrate in numbers larger than Americans, pushing the USA out of the top 5.

Also, it's cold.

Actually it seems according to this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_diaspora based on unofficial state dept figures) there are around 4 times the number of US citizens abroad than shown in relessness' quiz, and Mexico is number one. While 9M is certainly still a minority it is clear that there is a lot of moving going on. Also the wiki page suggests some link keeping people tied to the US is due to tax regulations. Tax is probably one issue but I'd expect there would be many other factors.

Might depend on the year, kogatora. For a while a lot of immigrants from Mexico in the United States were going back.

I actually wouldn't be surprised if there were more Canadians coming to the US than Americans going to Canada. As a college student, I've met a lot of professors, grad students, etc. who are from Canada. Also, I have a cousin in Canada who struggled for a while to get into med school, not because he was a bad student but quite simply because there aren't many med schools in Canada. The one advantage the US has over Canada is higher education--we quite simply have way more universities and educational centers available. Not that this is Canada's fault given their smaller population, but I definitely think academia and graduate degrees are big factors that draw Canadians to the US.

Also consider it requires the people to be foreign born, not just of a different nationality, so those who remained after their ancestors moved don’t count. More likely is A: Italians who returned to Italy going back to Argentina, and B: Italians moving because of the already existing community in the area.

Not exactly

Conspirator? Did you mean to ask if devantilya is a conspiracy theorist? Unlike Hitler who offed himself in his bunker, at least 300 Nazi war criminals escaped to Argentina and other places after the war via 'ratlines.' Adolf Eichmann comes to mind. Such smuggling was actively facilitated by Juan Peron and the Vatican. There were ratlines for Italian fascists and Vichy collaborators as well. There are some excellent historiographies tracing this stuff if you are interested. The Argentine government wasn't too crazy about anybody getting extradited either. (Oh, and lest we non-Argentinians feel too smug, they certainly weren't the only country to welcome Nazis postwar, e.g. the USSR and USA.)