Education and work opportunities. Most of higher education across the world is done in imperial languages because the WBG and IMF tend to hate when a vernacular is used. So college undergrad and graduate education can demand going abroad.

Further, the discourse surrounding the US as a "third world country" is quite problematic, reinforcing fallacies of progress and modernity as normative while also fear mongering that the civilized subject has become a degenerate barbarian, something that can only make sense for fascists and colonizers.

[–] trabpukcip@hexbear.net 16 points 4 weeks ago

I was talking to my Lyft driver the other day. He was from Eritrea and I asked him, out of all the countries on earth to emigrate to, why did he pick the US, and not one of the emirate states, Europe, South America, etc?

He said he knows people who've gone to work in those countries, and at best, you earn enough to survive and that's it. He said in America, even the lowest wage jobs (gig work driving) pays so much better - he can afford to live and send money home.

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 7 points 4 weeks ago

US salaries are significantly higher then most other places, the dollar is strong (which benefits sending money back home), and the education is very well respected across the globe.