The Albanian town that TikTok emptied
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The Albanian town that TikTok emptied
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#2The curse of Eastern Europe, to die and empty out. It's the same in my country. Life in the UK and Germany > at home.
And it's an exponential process, for every 1 person, 5 probably leave. My hometown was nearly 100k in the 80s, down to 50k if that by now. And it's mostly elderly, children, who grow up, go to the capital or just immigrate.
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#3Yet we're repeatedly told that every single migrant entering the UK illegally is a desparate refugee fleeing war or persecution?
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The fall of communism was one of the largest drops in quality of life and lifespan ever recorded, IIRC.
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#6Yet we're repeatedly told that every single migrant entering the UK illegally is a desparate refugee fleeing war or persecution?
If you are being told that you are following the wrong sources.
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#7Yet we're repeatedly told that every single migrant entering the UK illegally is a desparate refugee fleeing war or persecution?
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Its almost as if complex social and economic systems aren't magic and you can't just yell 'capitalism' and turn into the Belgium. Its almost as if just talking about complex social and economic system as a binary isn't a smart thing to do.
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#9People will read this article and draw possibly misleading conclusions about the entire country. Emigration is certainly a problem everywhere in Albania, but northeastern Albania where the town in question is located, is a special case. It has always been, for centuries, the poorest, most backward part of the country, unable to benefit from trade and intellectual exchange with more prosperous neighbors like other regions of Albania could. Even within the country people were moving en masse from there to Shkodër near the coast, or Tirana.
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You propose returning to communism because they had less freedom of movement and didn't have any choice tommovd somewhere in search of a better life?