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MB7ArtThemia® is not only about Blogging For a Living, about embracing new trends, looking for new opportunities and discussing them here in my blog. Sometimes I am thinking how it is possible for Jeremy Schoemaker [shoeMoney.com] to go from not accepting any advertising in 2007 to earning almost 500k in 2008? So, what is “Blogging For A Living?” Is it fact or fiction? I will give myself one year to find it out and occasionally to write about my personal blogging experiment, my interests in Art, Literature, Poetry, History, Miracles & Mysteries of Life.
And, yes, I do have money for my MB7ArtThemia® Blogging Start Up. Hey, as of January 1st, 2009 I’ve got an estimated $5.88 in my Reserve Hopper at Squidoo ( for the month of October, 2008 ) where I am a member since August 9, 2006, and where I’ve rated 102 lenses, favorited 191, and have created 47 lenses from scratch for just 50 bucks. I hope I can do better with blogging. Let’s check it out together! Thank you all my visitors!
Peace, Love & Joy to All of You!
Michael B
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February 2, 2009 at 9:40 pm
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Many US citizens now are seeking the American dream outside the USA. These people want what other Americans want: safe streets, good schools, friendly neighbors, rewarding work. The difference is that they are finding them in Canada, New Zealand, Mexico, Israel, Taiwan, and a growing list of other countries that are attracting record numbers of immigrants from the United States.
The United States has long been a promised land of opportunity, attracting more than 900,000 immigrants last year from all corners of the globe.
The flow of people is now no longer exclusively inward. An increasing number of Americans are looking abroad for the chance to live the kind of life they do not believe is possible in the US. Experts estimate that roughly 250,000 to 300,000 Americans move overseas each year. Of these, most are former immigrants returning to their native countries, but as many as 100,000 are native-born. Why are they leaving? The globalization of the world’s economy and the breakdown of national barriers have facilitated a freer flow of goods, ideas, and people. Analysts view it as a major emerging trend of the 21st century.
Worldwide travel is faster, easier, and cheaper than at any time in human history. Telecommunications are rapidly improving, with advances in satellite technology and the growth of the Internet. Financial networks crisscross the globe. International opportunities for businesses and other endeavors are limited only by the scope of one’s imagination. One sociologist who has studied Americans who leave the US has noted that the land of opportunity has now lost its borders.
Who is leaving? Students, employees, recent college graduates, businessmen, retirees, teachers, and entrepreneurs. Their ranks include most social categories, but the majority tend to be college-educated professionals. Why are they leaving? Some are looking for a slower, more peaceful pace of life. Others are seeking economic opportunities, fame, or adventure and believe it will be easier to obtain overseas. Some just want to get away. A small number of wealthy Americans leave to obtain a tax advantage. Others decide to move on because of what they view as the declining quality of life in the US. People applying to foreign embassies cite fear of crime, racial tensions, and the lack of morality in the US as reasons for their desire to leave the country. But the most important thing that all Americans would like to have is control and many people in the US feel they have lost control of their lives according to one expert who has studied the phenomenon of US citizens going abroad.
Currently, 3.2 million Americans are living abroad, up by more than 1 million in the 1990s alone, US State Department estimates show. The most popular destinations are also the closest. There are an estimated 627,000 Americans living in Canada and 550,000 Americans in Mexico. American emigration is not just confined to the Western Hemisphere. Countries ranging from Britain to Israel to Japan all boast large and growing numbers of Americans as year-round residents. The few exceptions to the trend include countries such as Iran and Libya, which are places where Americans feel less than welcome.
Aside from annual estimates by State Department personnel stationed around the world, there is no systematic US government effort to identify which and how many Americans are leaving the US. The State Department estimates are designed more to identify Americans who may need to be quickly evacuated from a country during an emergency, rather than to track the movements of US citizens. Americans are free to come and go from the US as they please and are not obligated to notify the government of their intentions.
Some observers are worried about the recent trend and warn that America may be in danger of losing its most productive and promising citizens in a US-version of the brain drain Britain experienced in the 1960s. Thirty years ago, many British scientists quit their homeland in favor of higher paying and better-equipped research jobs in the US. The same kind of economic migration of highly skilled Americans may now be under way, according to some analysts. According to one prominent university economist, it is the best and brightest, the innovators, who leave.
In the 21st century, countries will increasingly compete for the world’s top talent. But many analysts argue the US has cornered the market and will continue to attract enough talented immigrants to more than compensate for any loss of American citizens. Other analysts point out that global migration will have another benefit as it will become a catalyst for international unity and peace. The kind of world we are moving toward is going to be shaped by a number of economic and political forces that will lead to a diminution of national borders and it is likely to offer more for the good than the bad.
One observer of the phenomenon of international immigration believes it will reduce hostilities and lessen the possibility of conflicts to have people of other societies enriching the society in which they move. This is the vanguard for the trend of the 21st century in the developed world.
March 3, 2009 at 6:32 am
Tusitala
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