"To be eligible for the new status, applicants must have an annual income equivalent to 10 million yen ($68,000) or more"
which means the newly created Digital Nomad class needs to have 2x the average GDP/capita in income?
or is this just a concern about “crab mentality”?
The tl;dr is if you drop 5000 people earning 2x the average salary into a neighborhood, the prices of everything goes way up. Rent, food, entertainment, locals get priced out very quickly.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65485908
seems like a tourism issue? that and extremely low wages compared to cost of living. If the government functioned for the people, i imagine it would be trivial to place severe limits on short term tourism rentals, but they have chosen not to do so.
And this particular visa is aimed at people that are employed overseas, so they're not even gonna take any high paying jobs from the population
For example the German city of Düsseldorf is very welcome to Japanese business, and it resulted in a lot of infrastructure like Japanese schools, kindergardens, cultural institutions , Japanese chamber of commerce, restaurants, doctors with Japanese translators, a temple, as well as a huge yearly Japanese festival.
In the 90s almost all of the Japanese living in Düsseldorf were managers, i.e. paid well.
There is no crime, they cause no trouble, they usually just don’t speak German because they live after a 1-4 year business stint. They are very liked among the local citizens.
Meanwhile when Turks try to build a mosque chaos ensues. But the Turkish population is not a bunch of rich nomads.
Many nations have high standards for immigration relating to income, wealth and professional qualifications. There is absolutely nothing hush hush about it, not even remotely.
Here's a half-decent list: https://www.globalcitizensolutions.com/citizenship-by-invest...
I have no strong opinions immigration which is a hot topic currently but I do want to clarify that your assertion is incorrect.
Other paths to immigration exist as well.
You definitely don't live in the progressive parts of Europe. You're not allowed to say here you only want certain kinds of well off immigrant at the expense of other less well off migrants, otherwise you might be called a N*zi.
All I can say as a white Polish immigrant in Germany is that I was hit by the “Nazi club” as it’s called here a hundred times in my lifetime. No matter how mild your statement might be the Nazi insinuation comes fast. My superpower is that I can actually defend myself by saying that my ancestors were killed by Nazis, while native Germans can’t, but such a defense shouldn’t be necessary to begin with.
Not out loud, anyway. The Dutch have an immigration system that very much benefits well off immigrants (see the 30% rule vs agricultural immigration schemes), but yeah Wilders is considered ultra-right wing for wanting to kick out all the lower class immigrants (saying that they are all "Moroccans" doesn't help matters). Unfortunately despite him saying the quiet part out loud he got 25% of the Dutch voters to agree with him in November.
As for a digital nomad, if you're business is secure enough that you're comfortable traveling full time or as a standard aspect of your life, you're likely making more than $68,000 Pre-Tax.
I don't think this is an incredibly high dollar amount, seeing as several major cities in the US have a minimum wage of nearly $41,000 a year.
https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/preparing-...
I think that's a deliberate misinterpretation. It obviously means 'low functioning' autism rather than someone who's awkward in adulthood but otherwise leads a normal life.
Unless you qualify for asylum, then all bets are off and these rules are waived.