People pulling up roots

[email removed] (Steve Higginbotham) writes:
>
> And I am sure that the number of people who will be willing to move away
> from their homeworlds are not appreciably greater than the number of
> people today who leave their home countries to seek better
> opportunities.  Some do, for sure, but if they all did, then Germany
> would have been depopulated after WW2.  VERY few people can pull up
> their roots and walk away from everything they've ever known for the
> CHANCE of better times elsewhere.

Make that East Germany, and then guess why the Berlin Wall went up.  In
1989, the people of East Germany finally figured out, in large numbers,
how to get out without crossing the Wall.  I'd say that it was more than
"VERY few people" that did indeed pull up their roots and head for the
West for the chance of better times.

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