I've only been out of school 5 or 6 years now and I didn't think much of emigration as the mass exodus I was hearing about until last year or so but it's becoming ridiculous.

A chunk of my friend-population did the gap year or 2 working years etc with just 2 or 3 digging in over there. Now that everyone in our little age-group is getting over that step of studying something or gaining some decent employment experience there are more and more empty spots in our social circles.
Everyone has their excuses:
(It's the crime, it's where the money is, it's safer, it's the gateway to travelling the world etc. etc.)
It is a huge percentage, I'd guess at least 60% of my friends and peers are gone or going...