Because it costs lots of money to leave, and people don't like leaving their family /friends even though they hate the country

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For all of the other reasons, AND, some people criticize America so much because they love it, and believe it could be better.

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“If people hate not being able to afford things, why don’t they just make more money?”

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have all their family here. emigrating is hard. they only know english. plenty of valid reasons.

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Because we don’t just want to up and leave we want our country to be better not just ditch the situation!! If a parent’s child becomes a drunk or a druggie, does the parent just abandon their kid even if they’re an adult already? No right they stick by them even if it’s hard and try to help them and guide them and help them make changes in their life. It’s the same situation. Right now this country is an absolute mess and for those of us who care about it for whatever reason it may be don’t want

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Because, even if we wanted to, we’re stuck in crippling debt and can’t get to better places — biggest reason is we want to stay and make it better.

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because moving to europe is difficult and expensive and i'd miss my mom and my city. trust me if i could easily be living in spain or hungary right now i would

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RIGHT!!?!? JUST FUCKING LEAVE

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