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The Pros And Cons Of Puerto Rican Migration

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Are the professionals of our little island leaving because of money or just because they’re tired of trying and just leave to a better life there in the states? .Puerto Ricans are leaving the island at an alarming rate. More people are leaving the island and while a lot of people don’t know why, the statistics says it all: they’re leaving because of the economy, the bad payment and for a better quality of life. Puerto Ricans are tired of sitting, waiting for things to get better, they cannot risk going bankrupt for the love they have for their island. They leave and if things don’t get better soon, more will continue to leave. Puerto Rico is suffering a major crisis of emigration and this not only affects the economy but the people too, Puerto …show more content…

What is left to do when there are no jobs for the career you studied for? You leave. Luis Miguel Soto (26 years) Puerto Rican, moved to Georgia right after college after studying electrical engineer. On an interview he told CNN that he recalled some of his classmates (which stayed in Puerto Rico) didn’t find job and are now working in something else that wasn’t what they studied because there weren’t any jobs. In 2014, 41% of the workers and students in Puerto Rico left the island mostly to Texas and Florida. People are leaving looking for good payment, life and somewhere where they don’t have to worry about getting out of college to be unemployed for a long period of time and then having to work in something they didn’t even studied for because there are no …show more content…

The quality of life is something very important for every person because it doesn’t matter if you have the job you always dreamed of, the money you wanted and the family if also there is criminality by day and night, 24/7. People not only leave the island because of money, they also leave it for the security the states give them. Every day on the news they see death after death and every day closer to their home, so they leave to a place that promises them security and stability. Puerto Rico has been marked as one of the most violent countries in Latin America going over Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, and Bolivia. Cassandra Jimenez, 24, left Puerto Rico in 2014 and moved to Marietta, Georgia, to pursue a chiropractic degree, after being asked if she’ll go back to Puerto Rico, she told CNN: “I'm not 100% sure yet, but I find the quality of life here better, so I'm more likely to stay than go back". Also her boyfriend, previously mentioned, Luis Miguel Soto, after being asked the same question he said: “The longer I'm here, the harder it is to leave," he said, making reference to growing wages. "And the more I'd have to leave behind”. People find better quality of life up in the states, they find more money, stability, security and also

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