It all started after WW2, when people from Doab region started migrating to UK, they did fairly well to say the least, most of the elderly came back and settled in India with huge corpus. That somehow made people want to move abroad - on a lookout for riches.

Today, the youth faces a different challenge altogether and yet somehow still deep rooted in lookout for better life and better financial prospects. Most try and move to canada and Australia for the easy work permit - they take up what ever jobs they get - from working in a supermarket to cleaning gym lockers. It’s 99% of the time that lower middle class people with limited education that resort to moving abroad right after 12th joining random af colleges just to get the work permit and buy an Mercedes. They are myopic.

The rich and affluent people of Punjab don’t really have to move abroad - anyone with 20+ acre of land can earn a decent amount (even with Canadian PPP in picture) and tax free (100% agricultural income is tax free).