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My parents were also born in households that were living far below the poverty line. My father built his wealth through working his *** off in Saudi Arabia for more than 40 years, he moved to KSA when he was only 18. My parents also migrated for a better life. My point still stands, had we been born in the post-1600s Ottoman, we too would have tried everything in our power to move to an industrialized and successful empire if possible. The Arabs were 100% correct in revolting.You took a dig at my family and I responded. Read your own post.
My family moved from our ancestoral lands when faced with the Indian army and it's RSS hordes. Once the women and children were safe, the men went back to fight, some where martyred too.
We moved to the UK to escape abject poverty - the same for all people in our region of Mirpur/AJK. The kind of poverty our people faced you middle class city dwellers can never imagine. The first electric bulb in our village was in mid late 80's. The first road to our village was build around the same time. Our ill would be carried to hospital through the mountains, multiple KM on charpai's before they could get to a road and get the bus to the nearest city.
There are still villages in Pakistan today where there is no electricity, there is no road, there is no healthcare.
To pass judgement on such people is easy say in DHA or Bharia in an AC room, speaking perfect English from your expensive private education. May Allah swt bless you with more, but you can't understand the decisions people make to migrate without being in their shoes. When our people's elders migrated it was to escape famine, to escape sleeping in the same rooms as their cattle, it wasn't freelancers and doctors looking for a new challenge and upgrading their Honda Civic to an Audi.
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