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by crakenzak 1355 days ago
No need for the aggressive tone, but maybe what the comment you’re replying to isn’t saying that the country is overpopulated, but they’re saying that the infrastructure available isn’t capable of sustaining this type of population influx (regardless of where they’re from) and leads to a lower quality of life for the people already in the country.

You and OP can probably agree that infrastructure needs to improve to support more people, but until that happens, there shouldn’t be such availability of immigrant visas.
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chrischen 1355 days ago
But demand has to happen first followed by infrastructure. Nobody is going to spend the money on infrastructure first then hope demand and tax receipts catch up.

The correct solution is yo say hey we need to build better infrastructure now because our tax receipts are up.

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bombcar 1355 days ago
Some infrastructure can be built first - for example a train line with planned stations that aren’t active yet.

Can help direct development.

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3qz 1355 days ago
> the infrastructure available isn’t capable of sustaining this type of population influx (regardless of where they’re from) and leads to a lower quality of life for the people already in the country.

This is exactly the problem.

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