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RE: Illegal: a true story of love, revolution and crossing borders [Ch.35]
Without borders would you not get people migrating to more well off countries, of course you would now if this continued for many years where would you house them.
Take Britain for example we already have a shortage of houses and yes we could build more but how many years could this go on for before we totally change Britain for ever.
I think our population is about 80 million ish I don’t believe over many years increasing the population to say 200 million would make it a better place to live.
Thanks mike
I agree with you that greater freedom of movement would lead to migration to nations with better job prospects. I don't think that's a bad thing though. Within England, different cities are better or worse off in terms of their economies. Cities doing better may attract people from distant cities within England, though this has a limit as the opportunity would have to be great enough for someone to leave their home. Overall, England is better off because of this. That same concept and logic could work for the whole world. It would probably lessen (though not eliminate) economic disparity between nations--but I think that's a good thing. The UK population has grown as the EU has expanded but by small measures that are very manageable. This is obviously a controversial topic with a variety of valid opinions with England going forward with Brexit, but as you may imagine I was pro-Remain. (I did my MA at UEA in Norwich a few years back).