• The Pantser@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Why include CA but not Mexico? Canada should have been excluded since they are a boarder country too.

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      8 days ago

      Canada has roughly the same HDI ranking as the US, whereas Mexico is somewhat lower. So from the “looking for a better life” perspective, Canadians don’t have an incentive to move to the US (other way around actually, from HDI).

      Just a guess though.

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          8 days ago

          Well yes, but so is Canada, which has a higher HDI than the US.

          Parent was asking why Mexico is excluded from the list while Canada is not.

          By “don’t have incentive” I’m just referring to an on-paper incentive from an HDI ranking.

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      8 days ago

      I’m going to guess that if you include Mexico, pretty much every state has the same flag. Whereas you don’t have the problem by including Canada.