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You are in touch with extreme part of their society, i.e. people adventurous enough to move abroad taking much higher risks; the comfortable ones likely stay at home and vote as their low-risk strategy leads them to. You probably also aren't interfacing with people that were literally pushed out of the country for survival reasons, forced to take menial jobs abroad and experience "2nd class citizen" at full scale either; those might vote against liberal values as well and would prefer stronger state to take care of them.