Moving to a different country, with a different language, political structure, culture, history etc. cannot be compared with migration within a country.
Furthermore, distance travelled doesn’t necessarily reflect larger changes, eg California stretches over 1600km from North to South, yet you are still in the same state, speaking the same language etc. Traveling 200 km, which is roughly the distance between LA and San Diego, in Switzerland or Belgium will make you end up not only in a different subnational administrative division (i.e a different state) but also in a completely different language region.
curiossceptic t1_j112iwg wrote
Reply to comment by RareCodeMonkey in [OC] Percentage of International Migrants Per Country by andyprendy
Why is that a weird comparison?
Moving to a different country, with a different language, political structure, culture, history etc. cannot be compared with migration within a country.
Furthermore, distance travelled doesn’t necessarily reflect larger changes, eg California stretches over 1600km from North to South, yet you are still in the same state, speaking the same language etc. Traveling 200 km, which is roughly the distance between LA and San Diego, in Switzerland or Belgium will make you end up not only in a different subnational administrative division (i.e a different state) but also in a completely different language region.