Voting with their Feet or These Clogs are Made for Walking

Pieter Dorsman's has a provocative and eye-opening piece at Pajamas Media today. Entitled "Time to Get Out", Dorsman discusses Holland's "largest net outflow of people since the post-war emigration boom of the 1950s." He attributes the exodus of "young, affluent, well-educated, entrepreneurial" and English-speaking Dutch to several factors including "high population density, an over-regulated society, a significant tax burden, soaring crime rates, a general sense of ‘dilapidation’ and a huge unintegrated pool of Muslim immigrants." These factors have origins, he asserts, in the social and cultural liberalization of the 1960's and have been exacerbated by a feckless bureaucracy.
