The motive was wages and accessibility to products and services. East Germany was the most prosperous of the Warsaw Pct countries, but it was run by an authoritarian state with secret police: like the Shitshizpants wants to impose on Americans, with concentration camps, ICE goons, and incompetent MAGA morons running everything.
This year, more people are leaving the US than are entering it. This has not happened in all of US history. People are FLEEING Shitshizpants.