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Comment by jelliclesfarm | Hacker News Reader

Population is 5 million...that seems to be the magic number.

Finland is also more homogeneous and less diverse than the USA.

I don’t think the comparisons are fair unless we divide USA into 80-100 Finland sized chunks and deposit 5 million people there.

And yet: When people want to migrate, no one has Finland on top of their wish list. It’s America. Always America. Why is this?

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> It’s America. Always America. Why is this?

Though it may not be Finland, the EU is an extremely popular migration destination, as is Australia. It's a very very long way from "always America", not least because America has some very visible and unique problems that put some off.

   > And yet: When people want 
   > to migrate, no one has Finland 
   > on top of their wish list. 
   > It’s America. Always America. 
   > Why is this?

Because Finland is cold.

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