To Germany's credit, they are the second biggest receiver of international immigrants, only behind the US which take in almost a full fifth of all. But between Germans and Americans, the net gainer was the US for the past 30 years[0], though with the gap narrowing in recent years.
Granted, those are small absolute numbers and may not indicate much, but still, if Germany is that much better than the US, why are consistently more Germans choosing to live in the US than the other way around?
If I had to chose one factor I'd say lack of language skills.
It doesn't really change the fact that America is squandering its many advantages and seems unaware of how poorly it's doing compared with what it could be doing.
You could make a reasonable case today for wanting to be born in China rather than the US. That should embarrass the US but instead they've recently latched on to a very convenient belief that China will implode in the next five years. And they've been saying that for decades because it's been obvious for that long how embarrassing it is to be caught up so fast and need an excuse that isn't just them at fault for their own problems.
"Oh China only did so well because we gave them all this stuff and they cheated and copied us, not at all like how we ripped of IP from Europe in our own history".
No instead were celebrating well known, tragic failure Mississippi because it has a number higher than another number if you carefully avoid all context.
Granted, those are small absolute numbers and may not indicate much, but still, if Germany is that much better than the US, why are consistently more Germans choosing to live in the US than the other way around?
[0]: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Press/2020/10/PE20_N068_12411.htm...