Among their reasons for residing overseas there is the old one of poverty at home driving people away to seek a new life elsewhere and then being forced to remain abroad despite a longing to return home one day, while today people usually go abroad because they have "something up their sleeve" and have every intention of putting down roots in their chosen homeland.
在移居海外的原因裡，有以前的貧無立錐才出外打天下，仍存「落葉歸根」之念，無奈留在當地的；到現在也有不少人是「有辦法」就出去，一心「落地生根」。