America Really Mustn't Be That Bad

To hear the pundits talk, America is the worst place in the world to live. If that is so, then how do you explain the fact that 35.2 million people (just under 1/8 of the population), counting both legal and illegal immigration, born outside the USA live in the United States. I don't hear of people trying to move to Cuba, Venezuela, or North Korea; if leftist ideology creates the best places to live, why aren't people rushing to get there.

They don't! They come to America. Like that old Neil Diamond song.

Read this in USA Today to see statistics and implications.

A few do go to Canada, but that is very much a two way street. I would like to see the ratio of people coming to America vs people leaving America. I have done a half-hearted search, and have found some things on American expatriates, this page being the best I have seen. What strikes me is how many of the people who leave America are either artists or involved in the arts.