Many people choose to work or live abroad because of the higher standards of living they can find outside their home country. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
It is true that high living standards in foreign countries lure many people to them, and they move there in search of better quality of life and employment prospects. While this trend can bring about some positives, I am of the view that they are far outweighed by the drawbacks of immigration.
Life in foreign countries does present people with some benefits that their home country lacks. Firstly, it becomes a lot easier for individuals to meet their materialistic needs, such as driving a luxurious car or dwelling in a beautiful house with all needed amenities, if they emigrate to foreign countries since they can earn and afford more than they used to. This is attributed to higher average wages overseas, usually developed, countries. Secondly, individuals want to move to foreign countries because of far more advanced educational systems. For either immigrants themselves or their children it is a valuable opportunity to acquire knowledge in reputable universities and colleges, gain qualifications, take their dream job and move up the career ladder, in the long run.
However, I believe that the drawbacks of immigration are more significant than the advantages discussed. One of the common issues that immigrants tend to face in their destination countries is culture shock, which is brought about by differences in climate, lifestyles and other differences alike. While the side effects of culture fade away after a while for some people, it takes years for others negatively influencing their lives. In addition, there are things in life that money and high living standards cannot buy, two of which are family and a sense of belonging. It seems impossible for one to immigrate with their extended family, including parents, grandparents and relatives. From my personal experience, I realized this feeling of connectedness to my own people, country and culture having spent 4 months in the US, and decided to spend life in the surroundings of my close people and homeland. In fact, most immigrants are likely to approve of this argument when asked.
While the advantages of earning more money and high quality of education attract most people to emigrate, I think that the disadvantages of immigration much outweigh them. This is because life in foreign countries might not be as easy as it seems, and that certain feelings and values cannot be replaced by anything, from my perspective.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, well, while, i think, in addition, in fact, such as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 24.0651302605 179% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 41.998997996 136% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2025.0 1615.20841683 125% => OK
No of words: 391.0 315.596192385 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17902813299 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44676510885 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89279002292 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.547314578005 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 632.7 506.74238477 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 5.43587174349 184% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.3827580672 49.4020404114 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.5625 106.682146367 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4375 20.7667163134 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.4375 7.06120827912 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.238718928867 0.244688304435 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0716873202186 0.084324248473 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0540018198846 0.0667982634062 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150255647328 0.151304729494 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0502524455333 0.056905535591 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.0946893788 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 50.2224549098 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 78.4519038076 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, well, while, i think, in addition, in fact, such as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 24.0651302605 179% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 41.998997996 136% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2025.0 1615.20841683 125% => OK
No of words: 391.0 315.596192385 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17902813299 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44676510885 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89279002292 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.547314578005 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 632.7 506.74238477 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 5.43587174349 184% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.3827580672 49.4020404114 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.5625 106.682146367 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4375 20.7667163134 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.4375 7.06120827912 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.238718928867 0.244688304435 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0716873202186 0.084324248473 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0540018198846 0.0667982634062 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150255647328 0.151304729494 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0502524455333 0.056905535591 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.0946893788 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 50.2224549098 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 78.4519038076 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.