Here's your big reveal, the choice between uprooting oneself from where you've lived all your life versus sticking it out in the hope that things would get bett

Here's your big reveal, the choice between uprooting oneself from where you've lived all your life versus sticking it out in the hope that things would get better existed through all generations, including your grandparents and mine... Irrespective of where they were. The US simply had one extra generation of a buffer where Americans didn't have to really think hard and long about these matters... But trust me, the risk assessment you allude to, that was real and hard for every immigrant, irrespective of the country of origin.