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I think it's their crazy common law system.

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[โ€“] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 days ago (10 children)

The other way you could interpret this is that so many people want to live in these amazing countries that it's outpacing home construction. I would like to see this compared to net migration and/or population growth.

[โ€“] polysexualstick@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Net migration rate is 3 per 1000 people in the US and 3.2 in the UK. Germany has a net migration rate of 1.8 per 1000, France 1.1, and every other Western European country has at least 3.5. Also Germany and France both have a higher percentage of their population being immigrants than both the US and UK. So that's definitively not it.

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